#either doom and utter betrayal or some very okay times of bbq and playing ball with her physically incompetent nerd father

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To pair my last post, but in happier tones.

Part of me thinks Kiriona was so set up on turning John back to mortal, after any Harrowhark intentions that overrule everything else, not because she has lofty plans of ruling over anyone but because if he isn't immortal anymore, he's not god anymore, and if he's not god nor the emperor, he's free to be just her dad.

I want the griddlehark drama and angst and romance for the next book, but I also want to see Gideon experiencing some, at the very least, normal times with an adult figure that doesn't hate her, that feels responsible for her, that might even love her, in an environment that isn't 'headquarters of an empire at war'.

Which alternatively could also be achieved with Pyrrha once they overcome the larger-than-life wall that is Wake between them, but that'd still be different than the father figure of John who, in his best days, has a personality that matches Gideon's so well and could very well offer the tenderness she's never been shown before, tenderness he's very capable of when he's not drunk in his own revenge plots.

#anyway #has anyone guessed which is my favourite dynamic in the books??? #dynamic which i didn't get to see more than two lines of??? #yes yes #hoping for bubble scenarios of him showing her NZ landscapes and the places he grew up in #showing her his family and his people........... #that'd be so extra tho #so you see i can only picture two outcomes for them #either doom and utter betrayal or some very okay times of bbq and playing ball with her physically incompetent nerd father #goth gf. nerd father. uuhhh... paul. psycho bitch bestfriend. dad's eldritch monster chick. ex-cop stepmom??? #it's complicated #tlt #the locked tomb #atn speculation #alecto the ninth #kiriona gaia #gideon nav #john gaius