tumblr keeps putting posts on my dash about how it’s not “realistic” for Gideon to be fat/buff/fat+buff bc all the Ninth House eats is snow leeks and oatmeal
I’m so sorry, I can’t seem to hear you. I was too busy adding 20 pounds to her, as I do every time I hear this rancid opinion
Not to sidetrack from this, but honestly fat/buff/combo Gideon is also a good way to portray something important about her: she’s the first non-resurrected/non-thanergy-irradiated human born in the Dominicus system in 10k years.
Think about how the other Housers are described. The necros are all “starved” and “raw boned” and even trained military non-adept Marta has a staggeringly average running speed. There is something stunted and sickly about the thanergetic Dominicus system and the impact it has on people.
And then there’s Gideon, the child of an honest to goodness regular human and John who…well, never died and clearly doesn’t have a typical necromancer’s relationship with thanergy. And who is regularly described as seeming more real and more vital than those around him.
Gideon should look fit and fat and compellingly more *alive* than her House compatriots. And her physicality *should* defy natural possibilities - if she can improbably survive nerve gas and blunt force trauma and frostbite, she can build improbable muscle on snow leeks and oatmeal.