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Workshopping Pyrrha’s Nicknames for Gideon

We all know that Pyrrha Dve is a serial nicknamer of her kids from Nona, so I’ve been making a running list in my head of nicknames she might use for Gideon. I don’t think she would want to use any of the names she gave Nona (other than all-purpose ones like kid), so she gets an all new set.

Junior- A pretty obvious one, but it feels significant that Pyrrha had two people in her life she loved named Gideon.

Gid/Gid-Kid/Giddo/GG- Again, obvious. Some riffing on names is to be expected.

Sunshine- Starts off ironic and stays that way right up until the moment Pyrrha sees Gideon genuinely smile for the first time.

Romeo/Loverboy/Prince Charming- Obviously reserved for teasing Gideon when she’s mooning over Harrow. She hopes it communicates that she’s rooting for them.

Chickadee- No real reason behind this one I just think it’s really cute. Gideon of course has no idea what a chickadee is.

Baby Girl- For a long time, Pyrrha never says this one aloud. She worries it’s too much, forcing her feelings on a girl whose wounds from life are too big and too raw. But Gideon has been her Baby Girl practically since the moment she first saw her. When she thought she might be hers and when she knew she wasn’t. All those years she grieved for her. When she learned that she lived eighteen years past anyone’s expectations, only to die and become a chewed up cavalier’s soul just like her. When she might have been Nona and when she definitely wasn’t, standing in front of her a living corpse powered by barely contained rage and despair. And finally there’s a moment when her Baby Girl is right there, alive and whole and healing, that she finally dares to say it out loud. And it’s in this moment it finally sinks in for Gideon that she really does have a mother that loves her.