2023-02-09 23:09:25 ¶ ● ⬈

shifuaang:

> Do you ever get really fucking emotional about the symbolism of baptismal waters in Gideon and Harrow’s journey? Do you ever contemplate how their relationship was tumultuous from the beginning - from the cradle practically - and how baptism is a sacrament traditionally performed on infants? Do you ever think about how they were able to repurpose a tenant of the religion that had deeply traumatized them both into their own form of purification and regeneration? Do you ever cry over how they went under the water in their customary Ninth face paint and emerged blank and washed clean - no longer burdened by the rituals that both split them apart and held them together - but rather, transformed in their relationship and their very beings?