what i mean is gideon is acting out like an insecure teenager, and blaming other people for stopping her from taking steps that she is, in truth, too afraid to take

she's like, playing out a kid's idea of what a cool independent baddie would be like but she's not independent or much of a baddie she's compensating by going overboard with the esthetic of it and being extra rude, but she's all talk and no bite