#we should totally just stab Caesar (Jod)

[poetic-mac-n-cheese]

Ok I need someone smarter than me to be meta about why John changed Gideon’s name in the way he did. Not that he changed it at all, that one I can understand from his perspective, but specifically why he changed it to something with clear gender markers.

Gideon Nav is perfectly neutral bordering on traditionally masculine, but KirionA gaiA is clearly female. Gaia is literally the feminized version of Gaius according to Latin grammar. In a society of John’s own creation that is apparently past most of our current gender and sexuality norms, how and why would he choose that? Is this another way to show that he’s not as progressive as he thinks he is? Is it about him actually not understanding Gideon at all and forcing her into a weird box? Is there some kind of cultural or linguistic aspect I’m not seeing here? Is it nothing and I’m overthinking? What is going on?

[ki-the-iridescent]

i’m agreeing more with the “put her in a box” line of thinking. knowing his character, he probably was like “oh i can totally be your dad/be the person to give you love and this is how i want to do it”.

because, honestly, gideon probably wouldn’t have protested about it too much. she wants to be used, first as a soldier, then as a cavalier/soul food. when harrow didn’t eat her gideon was also quite quite upset about it, and nona describes her as being incredibly sad.

another thing we know about jod is that he looooves control. he met his death-defying, expert-warrior, emotionally wounded daughter at a time when he was needing more pawns, right? gideon has never been fed love from a silver spoon, so she probably saw a nice knife and thought good enough

Ok I need someone smarter than me to be meta about why John changed Gideon’s name in the way he did. Not that he changed it at all, that one I can understand from his perspective, but specifically why he changed it to something with clear gender markers.

Gideon Nav is perfectly neutral bordering on traditionally masculine, but KirionA gaiA is clearly female. Gaia is literally the feminized version of Gaius according to Latin grammar. In a society of John’s own creation that is apparently past most of our current gender and sexuality norms, how and why would he choose that? Is this another way to show that he’s not as progressive as he thinks he is? Is it about him actually not understanding Gideon at all and forcing her into a weird box? Is there some kind of cultural or linguistic aspect I’m not seeing here? Is it nothing and I’m overthinking? What is going on?