thots on an AU where gideon manages to go off to serve in the cohort and, eventually, even manages to earn a few souls for the ninth and harrow is like... 'you know what, gideon is a fucking idiot but she might be onto something with this cohort thing' so as soon as she can manage it, harrow goes off to the cohort as well to start wrecking shit w/ her crazy ass necromancy and gideon is so mAD bc the cohort was her thing and its not fair that they fight so well together bc thats a tHING for her-

Harrow sees a sword slash through Gideon’s armor, hot, familiar blood splashing in an elegant arc, and leaves her safe spot at the back of the regiment, protected by a wall of meat (and bone) shields, to rush to her side—she’s not even a flesh magician, what is she thinking—she stumbles next to Gideon, grabbing her uniform in a white-knuckled grip, but Gideon is already on her feet and shoving Harrow back behind her, shouting something Harrow can’t parse—

And then Gideon and Harrow realize the cohort are a bunch of imperialist asswipes, blow up a spaceship and dip