But He WANTS TO BE A Good One And Is Actually Working At It - Tumblr Posts

and it's obvious that if the execution of his character was just a tinier bit worse, it would have been easier to equal him to a proper "big evil but a good dad" trope. like anyone outside of the fandom or with bad reading comprehension could just look at his actions towards gideon/kiriona on paper and go "but he's actually good? he's a good dad!"

i'm talking about this only because i don't want to even think about g/k feelings in this situation. like. he's the god. he's the emperor. he is also your depressed cringe dad who fucked admiral sarpedon. he gave you a new name that connects you to his roots and gave you his surname to show that you're family. one of the first thing you saw him do was murdering his lovers. he ordered one of his best friends to kill a girl you have a very important relationship with. he knows how you were conceived and didn't even try to kill you for that? he gave you everything you wanted before and it's rotten. he's not the best but he also is better than your mom who hated you and wanted to kill you and didn't see you as a child at all. like. where do you go from that especially if you are gideon who never had anything even resembling parental love before?

I will laugh so hard if it turns out that John is making a sincere effort at being a decent parent and it's such an awful outcome for Gideon that I feel like it's plausible. He's giving off such man who thinks of himself as a good guy confronted with oops baby vibes.