Alma_Peregrine

Gideon is trained by the both of them in different fighting styles and they work out as a family. She isn’t aware of how good she is compared to others because her parents still put her on the ground regularly.

She’s super embarrassed about them sometimes. Wake will pick fights with anyone ever while Pyrrha’s default setting is flirting with everyone that comes into their path. It doesn’t help that her parents are milfs- she was in more than one fight over boys making gross comments.

The fact that Gideon has literally no game is a source of great controversy with Wake. She switches between thinking that it’s hilarious and just plain sad. Pyrrha tries to be helpful but her advice isn’t helpful. Gideon would love less comments all round.

In every other fandom it's like "ugh, my perfect child. They are so cute and wonderful and I will always protect them."

But in tlt, it's like "oh no, my sopping wet bundle of overused pipe cleaners is in psychosis again. She's sweating blood and hasn't slept in 4 days. And look, over there, it's my traumatized butch lesbian corpse with literal god-tier daddy issues once again fumbling the bag with a beautiful woman. She's a complete gay disaster. They both have never and maybe will never know peace. They desperately need therapy. Shipping them is like standing in the middle of an active nuclear explosion with your mouth open and arms spread. Yes, they are my comfort characters."

Featuring guest appearances by: "There's the gangly pale evil one. Whenever she's present on the page my skin feels too tight on my bones in a really unpleasant way. She's my favorite, and I think she's eating someone's earlobe right now."

Like, without context, it’s easy to miss when you’re reading it for the first time. I just kind of assumed that they had figured out that baby Gideon wasn’t theirs sometime before they shot down Wake’s shuttle, BUT NO. These absolute sadsacks had NO FUCKING CLUE why their batshit girlfriend brought their newborn baby on a suicide mission and were living with that shit for TWENTY YEARS. And their closest friends literally couldn’t give less of a shit. Like, Harrow had good reason to not care, but Mercy and Augustine were fully on board with Harrow murdering Gideon, no questions asked. Gideon was very obviously seriously upset about the whole Wake situation, and they clearly exploited that to get him out of the room during Dios Apate Minor 2.0. THEN, when Wake is infecting Cytherea and Harrow’s bodies and fully tried to murder them, Pyrrha’s only reaction is to stroke her face and ask the question obviously plaguing her for two decades; “Why did you bring along the baby?” 

Like, fuck, man.

AND NOT TO MENTION, poor Gideon the First literally died without ever learning the answer. Pyrrha eventually found out, sure, but the Resurrection Beasts killed Gideon before the whole thing was revealed.

So this poor bitch was walking around fully believing that he had murdered two whole girlfriends and his newborn kid, probably nearing Harrow-levels of insanity due to botching the lyctor process, literally only wanting answers for whatever the fuck is going on in his brain, and his only friends could not give less of a shit. And to top it all off, he died before ever getting those answers.

pyrrha absolutely is wonderful and maternal but this is also the woman who romanced the leader of an enemy faction using the body of her best friend, who she loved enough that she either willingly died for him or continued to love him after he killed her and ate (most of) her soul. if someone told her harrow had so much of gideon’s blood on her hands that she could open the locked tomb when they were preteens she’d probably flash back fondly to the first time wake almost killed her. AU pyrrha would watch kiddie harrow and gideon going absolutely apeshit on each other at the playground and immediately try to coordinate a play date with the reverend parents.