You know maybe we don’t want to go there too much but I think deep down there’s something very cathartic about a lesbian dying to advance someone else’s plot because that’s all she thinks she’s good for and then the next installment in the series being a drawn out agonised scream of loss at the hole her absence leaves in the universe
Gideon the Ninth really went ‘the pinnacle of my existence is sacrificing myself for unrequited love and my reward will be to live forever in her memory and that’s more than enough’ and then Harrow the Ninth (and Harrowhark the First) grabbed her by the collar and shook her like a etch-a-sketch and said ‘no I won’t let you you’re worth so much more than that your life is worth breaking the laws of heaven and earth to preserve’ and I just think that’s neat