#i assume my brain drew some l4d connection here bc gideon ended up stealing a white suit from a dusty wedding store which didnt quite

[iamthescalesofjustice]

had a locked tomb dream in which one of gideons lowkey-only-bc-she-glosses-over-it-in-her-narration powers was teleportation as in she fucking kept teleporting and didnt seem to notice or think it was weird and when people called her on it she was like ‘yeah its called flash-stepping i read about it in some ancient-ass comic books i dug up in a back corner of the library on the ninth’ and everyone is like ‘???’ bc she says its not a necromantic technique bc everyone who did in it the ‘comic books’ (only the sixth know what manga is) she read was a warrior and most of them used swords so clearly its a secret advanced cav technique. and, she says, its not like it uses any spooky necro stuff, its ‘just a matter of honing yourself until you can move really fast’ so it might look like ‘teleportation’ to all of them but clearly that just shows that she got really good at it and is better than all of their fancy smancy ‘properly trained’ cavs. anyway, it turns out that using flashstep as the framework is the only reason why its been short line-of-sight bursts for her until now, once the penny drops she can straight up pop between planets. also she at one point mentions how ‘the wind’ roars really loudly in her ears while doing it and it turns out thats the sounds of the feral river ghosts bc she is, and i cannot stress this enough, constantly taking brief dips into the river. 

#also this time canaan house was derailed by a teleportation accident and they all ended up in bayou country #which in my brain was only at like. somewhat apocalyptic levels of having rotted and been reclaimed by nature rather than 10k years worth #i assume my brain drew some l4d connection here bc gideon ended up stealing a white suit from a dusty wedding store which didnt quite #achieve the full tower prince look but which did passably reach 'nick l4d cosplay' a #also yes the rest of the planet was still pretty haunted. not canaan house mad science lab levels of haunted but it was definitely #more active of a haunting by which i mean there were zombies and creatures and ghosts and during the first of the regular possession checks #that the canaan house crew ended up instituting after a few incidents it was discovered that gideon and harrow #were both possessed at least a little by wake and alecto respectively and possibly counted as being lyctors bc like. gideon just by existin #had ended up tying wakes soul to the conglomerate pile of earth-ghost souls that constituted johns lyctorhood with alecto and that by #maing a connection to harrow like she did alecto also tied harrow into the same. when john showed up towards the end he defended his #sabotage of other attempts at lyctorhood outside the technique defined and oushed at canaan house as being bc it gets 'way too complicated #and messy (both necromanticly & in terms of personal drama & trying to keep track of who is where) to allow multiple bodies running around #as part of the same soul network #also to escape the first gids had to take everyone one by one to the ninth #bc its the only other planet shes been on and thus knows how to get to #and 1) everyone is like damn yall live like this? 2) the secrets of the ninth are exposed to the whole canaan crew by this 3) everyone is #severely adversely affected by going through the river like this and gideon is mostly like 'dont be a baby lmao just walk it off' #4) yes its still cytheria and yes she is having the time of her goddamn life. whatever the fuck is going on with *gestures at the ninth* is #both something shes possibly the only one equipped to fully understand how insane it is and also revealing to her so much about potential #ways to kill john that she is just rolling with it despite the fact that dulcie latched ontoher when gideon took her through the river and #is fully attempting to possess her with the full support of the sixth