#hello it'S being sad about gideon drake hours :)))

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“For four years Gideon had gotten to have a mostly normal life, but now he was back to… Well, whatever life became, Nico supposed, when you had nowhere to go and a serious case of something a less-informed person might call chronic narcolepsy.”

“People like Gideon, who was not technically a person, were not, by most laws of nature, supposed to exist. [...] They, of course, had not cared that their human-looking child would not be technically anything at all that could be registered, and that while he would have medeian abilities, he would not be afforded the class of species to which all medeians were required by law to belong. Gideon wasn’t entitled to any social services, couldn’t be legally employed, and unfortunately couldn’t spin straw into gold without considerable effort. That Gideon had been educated at all was mostly an accident, along with an instance of wide scale institutional fraud.”

I just think so much about those quotes & what it means for Gideon :))) the way he was always keenly aware of how little he fit in, how little he belonged in this world :)))) even if he tried, the system would never let him forget that he isn’t supposed to exist in the first place :)))