#gideon legends

[fruityzari]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Sapphic September 2025

Day: 12

Pairing: Gideon/Zari 2.0

Prompt: Cartography

Summary: "Gideon frown deepens as that, never be perfect? Computers were made to be perfect and if they weren't they were discarded or tweaked until it was. But humans just know they'll never reach that level?"

Gideon's trying to be helpful and instead ends up with an existential crises

[theglockwizard]

Just like I can always trust Superman And Lois to deliver in terms of adapting Superman, I can always trust Legends of Tomorrow to be a good fuckin’ time. Even if there are some season that are weaker than others, tuning in an episode of Legends never feels like a chore for me. Instead, I anticipate the weekly episode each week, waiting to see what shenaningans those screw ups will end up getting into. And boy, does this episode deliver. Listen, I already loved the whole “Evil Robot Legends hunt down the Legends through time.”, but to actually have an episode about them, see their struggles and character development(Even if the centerpieces were Zari and Sara) is a fantastic idea. The second half of the season in fact doesn’t show us what the Legends got up into after the midseason finale, but instead decides to focus on the Robo Legends hunting them down. And to have them believe they are the Legends was a fantastic move. The meta commentary isn’t lost on me. We have the Sara so many longed for, the ruthless assassin straight out of the League of Assassins of the earlier seasons, and to see her speedrun her character development by first questioning if fixing the timeline is the right choise and then deciding “screw history” was fantastic. Props to the writers! Zari is also a fusion between Zari Tomaz and Zari Tarazi. An incredible hacker with a sense of right and wrong, but also the Zari whose ego can be easily flattered and that needs to be the one in control.  The other Legends were one dimensional, and really, that’s fine. This is how Evil Gideon sees the Legends(Further reprogrammed to better do its bidding) so I’m not really surprised to see them as violent trigger happy idiots. They are the chainsaw to fix history. Props for the Doctor Sharpe character, that was truly menacing, by the way! In the end, this episode doesn’t tell us much, and that’s good. I feel this is a breather, a way to get us back into action and the way for the show to ease us back into the wacky madness this season has been. Excited to see where we go from here! Other random considerations:  -Man, do I love the actor somehow selling those characters. The delivery was key to make the episode work, and everyone gave their best game to make this work! -Steel Nate always being “steeled on”(Or as he says, hard.): Was that supposed to be a reference to the comics? In which, if I’m not mistaken, he doesn’t actually steel up and has just stronger endurance as his skin became steel like. Either way, I wouldn’t mind if that became the basis to show Nate’s power from now on(Obviously hoping Nate doesn’t leave for Season 8), if only to save the CGI Budget. -Speaking of the CGI Budget. Holy moly how much money did they spend on making Gary an Alien for the whole duration of the episode? Like, I appreciated it but I also know Legends doesn’t have the best budget right now(Never had it tbh) so oof. -It isn’t Avalance if Sara and Ava don’t threaten each other at least one time while staring each other in the eyes very gayly.

[sharpe-lances]

Nothing to see here - just Gideon being the pure little babie that she is

[rabnerd28]

Gideon and Gary could be cute best friends trying to understand humanity but instead they have them hook up and I will die mad.

[ruuuuuufus]

One of my favorite things we've learned so far in season seven is how much Gideon loves to sing.

As an AI Gideon didn't get to create or enjoy art like a human can. But she did get to participate in art through music and song. Her adorable rendition of "Good Morning" with Stein might have been her first time relating to the legends via art. I like to think singing was her special way of being "human" as an AI.

But now that she is human it is beautiful seeing her get to sing for everyone. Of course when she gets a chance to sing on a mission she takes it. She gets to share her art with Astra and Spooner and have fun while doing it

[she-is-slipping-through-time]

AO3 Fanfics

Looking for some hecka angsty, introspective WLW fanfics? You’ve come to the right place. Check out my fics on AO3 and let me know what you think.

Pre-warning - most of my fics deal with fairly heavy subject matter, but attempt to do so in a way that is first and foremost thoughtful and respectful. Please always take care of yourself first if any topics are triggering. 

KPop Demon Hunters fics:

These Things, They Take Time (WIP) Attempts to Update Weekly on Fridays or Saturdays

Rumi is trying. Trying to learn how to be comfortable in her skin. Trying to learn how to lean on her friends. Trying to put all those feelings of worthlessness and self-loathing behind her. But it’s not quite as simple as she’d first hoped. When you’re born a mistake and told your entire life that your very existence is wrong, how do you turn away from that belief? How do you learn to love the marks that make you so different from the people you love the most? — or — Mira and Zoey love their friend, and they see her trying and they want to help. But old habits die hard, and they’ll need to relearn Rumi’s past as well as their own to coax their friend out of the hardened shell she constructed around herself after years of emotional neglect and learned self-hatred. But if each girl can reach out a hand in their own way maybe they can create a path toward a new light and a new love together. — or — The girls decide to go on tour again, face their pasts together, and maybe…just maybe fall in love along the way.

Nothing But the Truth Now (Patterns I’m Ashamed Of)  (Complete)

Rumi was trained her entire life to fight demons and keep her treacherous demon marks hidden from her closest friends. After the truth comes out at the idol awards and the dust settles after their battle with Gwi-Ma, Rumi is trying to truly embrace being comfortable in her own skin, but she’s finding it harder than she thought to unlearn all the self-loathing ingrained in her by Celine. — or — One night at the bathhouse after the events of the movie, Mira asks the question that’s been burning a hole in the back of her mind for weeks since the revelation about Rumi’s marks: Why didn’t Rumi ever tell them? — or — My take on how a conversation between the girls about Rumi’s demon marks might have gone at the bathhouse. Full of angst and hurt/comfort because that’s my jam.

Legends of Tomorrow fics:

Fractures  (Complete) -

Sara has been a lot of things in her life: a rebellious teenager, a castaway survivor, a trained assassin, an ex-assassin, dead, resurrected, and most recently the captain of a time ship. Throughout all of these experiences, Sara learned to forge herself into something that’s damn near unbreakable…or at least that’s what she’d like everyone to believe. But when a new Encore with ties to Sara’s past is unleashed in the future, the facade Sara has carefully crafted begins to crack. With Ava by her side, Sara must face one of the most heinous figures from her past, while discovering along the way that sometimes it’s okay to break.   

—or—

Anthony Ivo has been resurrected by Astra as an Encore and sent to the future. In order to right the timeline, Sara must face down one of the darkest figures from her past and return him to Hell, but Ava refuses to let her go alone.

It’s just an Echo (of All the Things I Hate About Me) (Complete) -

Sara Lance counts her time in the League of Assassins as one her greatest sins and most plaguing regrets. While there's no doubt her time spent training with the League has given her an edge as a Legend, it's ultimately a part of her past that she would like to keep buried, but when a young girl's plea for help draws Sara, Ava, and several of the Legends back into the League's influence, Sara will have to come to terms with the League of Assassin's role in shaping her life and who she has decided to make herself into without it.

-or-

When Sara, Ava, Charlie, and Constantine are called upon to save a young girl from the League of Assassin's influence, Sara must come to terms with what it means to re-enter the League and see just how far she's willing to go to escape it again.

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power fic:

What Comes After? (WIP) -

The war is over. Prime stands defeated, Shadow Weaver buried, and the Horde dismantled, but what of the scars and shadows left by these figures and institutions?

As Adora and Catra work together with Glimmer, Bow, and the rest of the Princess Alliance to pick up the broken pieces of the shattered kingdoms across Etheria, they begin to realize that even though the war is over, a long road of redemption and healing still lies ahead of them.

Old wounds fester and rise to the surface as the best friend squad tries to make the most of what comes after the war. Forgiveness isn't easy, healing can sometimes hurt, and finding yourself again after years in the dark can often feel impossible, but at least they have each other to lean on and a (hopefully) brighter future ahead.

[typicalrowena]

If they kill off Gideon and make her an AI again I’m gonna throw hands like— it’s too soon, she has so many things left to experience as a human

[figuring-it-all-out]

Sometimes I’m her, sometimes I’m him.