#no shade to the fic writer these books are impossible to directly translate to any modern au

[uglygirlstatus]

I don’t read a lot of fic but when I first finished GtN I decided to try a few and I picked a college au fic because I assumed it wouldn’t spoil me for HtN. Unfortunately it sort of did because it revealed Headmaster John or whatever as Gideon’s dad and I was like damn okay I think that means Griddle is the child of god then. And then when it came to the name situation Gideon was like “yeah and you know what? His lizard was named Gideon. He named me after his damn pet Lizard.” And I was like oh hmm okay I guess in HtN we meet God’s pet or something. Cool. I finished HtN almost two years ago and only just now am I remembering this fic and like. Why did they make Gideon the First a Lizard.