"Harrow is a goth" "Harrow is a prep" "Harrow dresses alt" "Harrow would dress to fit in"
Harrow is the broke homeschooled kid from an isolationist cult that was let out on mission and/or bargained her way into attending a university so she could bring knowledge and funding back to the community. All her clothes are second-, third- or fourth-hand and have been patched and mended to hell and back and are not visually distinctive enough to identifiably belong to any subculture. The only exception to this lack of visual distinctiveness are her Church Robes, which are Church Robes. The only new clothing she owns is, like, underwear, maybe.
She is covered from neck to wrist and ankle because if anyone saw she had a human body under there she would gouge their eyes out. Most of her clothes are home-dyed black because she did it in the bathtub, and they must be black to show she is in permanent mourning. Also because then it's less likely people will notice she wears the same shirt and skirt for three days straight.
She does still have piercings (she is the only one on the Ninth mentioned to have piercings, I do not believe those are sacramental and are fully a Harrow Thing) because she can argue it's holy mortification of the flesh. Otherwise, thinking about what she is wearing is a distraction from more important things, which are a) being Righteous and b) proving she is the smartest person in the room.
Gideon dresses like a bogan
@jennelikejennay - Honestly you're 100% right; I said it in another post, I think I may have phrased myself a little too harshly? This post was partially fuelled by a reaction to someone saying Harrow would wear uggs/dress to 'socially conform' and positing that their position was somehow more correct than people saying Harrow is a goth which like
Harrow loves being dramatic and intimidating people and is quite morbid. There is no universe where she is being quote unquote 'normal'.
Like, I think if you give a modern Harrow like 5-10 years, give her a little crisis of faith, get her out of the cult and diving face-first into the lesbianism of it all and she's going to be wearing bird skull necklaces and doing home taxidermy.
idk, imo Goth Harrow is a step further out from an attempt at a 1-to-1 translation of canon to modern AU but is within general Harrowness.
Normcore Harrow would need a personality transplant.
