#gideon meets nona at pretty much the lowest emotional point in her life-slash-death

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Nona the Ninth spoilers!

It’s ungodly late/early but I don’t feel sleep coming on so I wanna ramble about griddlehark and one of my favorite ship tropes, that also involves Nona. Nothing super deep but it’s making my insomniac brain happy

So if you compare Nona and Harrow, they’re almost completely opposite—friendly, innocent, forgiving, trusting, vs. reclusive, jaded, vindictive, prideful. (Though it’s also interesting to think about the things they have in common, like a sense of loyalty and compassion and self-sacrifice but that’s not what this is about). pretty much, there’s one sunshine-y character that’s almost instantly liked by the people she meets and connects with others easily, vs Harrow 1000-Emotional-Walls Nonagesimus.

I’d gamble that if you put both of them at a party and asked all attendees who they preferred after five minutes, Nona would take the W.

But you know who immediately clashes with Nona, and would clearly prefer Harrow in all the ways I listed above—who in fact misses her so desperately that she’s described as “the saddest girl in the whole world”?

#griddlehark #tlt #tlt spoilers #Nona the ninth #Nona the ninth spoilers #hi my name is chromo #I mean to be fair #gideon meets nona at pretty much the lowest emotional point in her life-slash-death #just in an absolutely wretched state of mind by my interpretation #maybe if she met someone like Nona back in GtN #I mean they’d probably get on decently #but I feel like even then she would still so clearly love and adore Harrow’s Harrow-ness in comparison #I just… those times when you feel like a wretched little husk #compared to bubbly sunshine people #but then you find your people that would choose you anyway #hahahaha