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Amethyst being a plant mom ( some HCs ) :

. Okay so I love how a friend of mine calls Amethyst a plant mom. So Imma expand this further

. Growing up, Amethyst loves plants like her biological mom. Then when she was adopted by Ozzie, he would sometimes take her and her 14 adopted siblings to do magical gardening lessons

. And several of the magical plants in Ozzie's garden became her mentors and friends.

. And then fast forward to Amethyst as a young adult. Paimon had a greenhouse in the Ars Goetia Castle as a wedding gift to Amethyst

. Amethyst loves all the plants she took care of - she knows their favorite diets, their sleep schedules, their favorite lullabies, etc

. Unlike most other plant Moms, Amethyst also has a team of professionally trained gardeners to help take care of her plants. She's a Queen after all, ofc she can afford that, as well as babysitters for her 8 kids when they were younger

. She gifted her kids several of her plants as they move out, telling those plants to ' offer them counsel ' when needed

. Fast forward to the War of 7 Rings, and Stella and Andrealphus eventually killed most of those plants given to Stolas

. Amethyst was crestfallen when she hears of it, but relieved that some of then got sent to botanical hospitals in Pride and Lust

. Amethyst gave Stolas and then Via some of her plants in their recovery phases, for their protection and such

. Stella destroying those plants already had her banned from Lust since.

. Amethyst was more melancholy between Mastermind to Bloodstone wedding crash - she often wears face covering veils and black. And she gradually got better after Via is finally saved

. All of those plants become terrified of Stella ever since she starts to smash those vases

. In the Bloodstone wedding crash, Amethyst conjured up plants that tore apart a bunch of Stella's allies then

. When Paimon and Amethyst are courting, a rite of passage Paimon has to go thru is to win over Amethyst's plants.

. It was tricky with some of the plants at first, but gradually, Paimon won those plants over

. It's a similar case with Blitz with Stolas' plants btw

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Octavia's testimony in the retrial ( man, I was emotional when conceptualizing this ):

' Honorable judges, esteemed jury, friends and family. I have written this testimony, not for pity, but for my truth to finally come out.

I did not grow up in a conventional ' family '. Growing up my father is the one who hired nurse maids for me, fed me, changed me, clothed me. My mother is only in name only - I never remembered her holding me, comforting me or taking me to trips that much. She was like a distant shadow in my childhood. Any child would want the love of both parents. I knew something was off with Stella even as a child yet I did not know what it is. I can see the efforts my dad had for me to have a more ' normal ' childhood, so I pushed down my concerns of Stella growing up.

' And the divorce came. My dad, as you know, began this affair with this honorable imp, Blitz, during the divorce proceedings. Stella started to launch tirades and smashing plants and vases every morning since that affair began. And I had to watch the family I once knew being torn apart with propaganda, dispute, misunderstanding and miscommunication. My dad also partook in the propaganda campaign against Stella, mainly out of paranoia of losing me. I tried so hard to ask what's rlly going on yet I was fed with very biased views on both accounts. I watched my cousins also being taught to hate each other, their taunts and jeers at each other disturbed me to no end

' Then Stella suddenly had me in her hostage, and she and Andrealphus fed me all sorts of lies about my dad, my paternal relatives and my dad's new friends, calling them ' liars ', ' cowards ', every bad name in the book. In a moment of weakness, I pushed my dad away last Yuletide, as a way to try protect his life. I thought he would be happy without me. Turns out, how wrong I was. '

' For those 6 months, I was neglected, isolated from everyone else I held dear, and then abused severely by Stella and Andrealphus. They pushed me into being whipped, slapped and yelled at whenever I tried to stand up against them, and I was force fed with those ' haute cuisine ' diets that I loathed. Stella also burned down many of my old clothes and forced me to wear those tacky hoop skirt dresses which I loathed. Not only that, she forced me to be engaged to Pyrrhus, the nastiest of my cousins. He was like Stella but worse - he's far more menacing than I remembered.

' The abuse that I endured is too long to even be fully described in this paper. But I can tell you all how I survived. I realized that the former staff and the younger cousins are also prisons of cruelty, so I rallied with them and began my scheme to topple Stella's reign of terror from inside out. Inspired by the Project Reunite Families, I protected them from even more abuse, and managed to help the younger cousins escape to the Sloth Asylum. I managed to free many of the former staff to refuges. But even with my acts of help it just can't seem to free me from the cage I was put in- Stella's parents and their allies then installed magical restrains on me, ensuring I cannot escape.

' And how they sorely miscalculated. I have exposed the cruelty I've seen and witnessed to all in that wretched press conference. And as all of Hell witnessed, I was being attacked and drugged by Stella and several others. Even my dad's siblings crashing in to try save me didn't work.

In the ice castle dungeons, Stella gloatingly taunted her so called ' victory ' and confessed how and why she hated me. One core reason : I reminded her too much of Stolas.

I have contemplated to forfeit my life after she left, but it was the prison wardens who saved me. And on that ' wedding ', I was luckily saved me the mob who got me out of this mess

' My case is one of the more extreme cases of parental alienation, and in the Pentagram City Asylum, I have recovered with the help from the medics and my new friends, and the other Goetias. My dad's new friends turned out to be the opposite of how Stella lied to me about - they aren't ' losers ', they are amongst the strongest, kindest people I've known. I've seen how several strive to be kind in spite of trauma, and several others use trauma as a trump card for their cruelty. And of course, I choose the first one like my dad. To everyone I love, I'm sorry that my acts of recklessness have affected you and I so deeply. And to Stella, you have not been my real mother and you will never be.

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I am really curious as to how they are going to handle Sophie being from a lower class. The storyline presented with Kate, (who is technically from a lower class, regardless of her being sponsored by Lady Danbury) is that she has been accepted into the ton with open arms, since we have not seen any societal obstacles presented in the show. However, in the books, Sophie being from a lower class is a big issue (as is true to the time period) and is a major plot point in her and Benedict’s storyline.

If they keep Sophie’s status as an illegitimate child, she will still have a higher status than Kate in the show, who is only related to a member of the ton through marriage and not by blood. But, like I said, Kate was accepted with open arms (probably in large part due to the queen and lady danbury’s support and sponsorship, but accepted nonetheless).

So, I wonder how Netflix/Shondaland is going to address Sophie’s social status and maintain consistency in relation the ton’s classist bullshit, or if they’re just going to throw that out completely and give benophie a new trope. (Judging by the behind the scenes photos of the masquerade ball, the latter is unlikely.)

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Basically in Bridgerton Season 4

. Violet, Lady Danbury and Portia ~ The Fairy Godmothers

. Sophie Baek ~ Cinderella

. Araminta and her daughters ~ Evil step mother and spoiled step sisters

. Benedict ~ The Prince Charming

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Bridgerton Season 4 : A Cinderella Story

In Bridgerton Season 4, in classic Cinderella adaptation fashion, Araminta will try to push her spoiled twin daughters to marry into the Bridgerton family or smth, but it was Sophia Baek ( the step daughter Araminta despises ) who catches Benedict's eye and thus beginning a once secret affair

A series of dramas later, it will be revealed later on that Araminta had married Earl Baek for money ( and she was widowed with 2 daughters then ) and had previously poisoned Sophie's mother AND THEN Sophie's father, dislegitimizing Sophie's inheritance and even forcing her to become a washmaid

Oh all of the London ton would be in a STORM once that truth was revealed, and Araminta would end up in jail for her series of crimes while her daughter would sail back to Joseon Korea and banished from London forever

Sophie will end up inheriting her father's fortune and she marries Benedict in the end

Much like Cinderella, Sophie was also a survivor of abuse. But instead letting it harden her, she was gentle, kind and brave and earned respect and friendship from the staff and later on the Bridgertons' circles in tow

No doubt Violet, Portia and their children will eventually team up to figure out the whole truth as they caught wind that something was off with Araminta, especially after finding out Sophie and Benedict's once secret affair

Sophie didn't know the whole truth yet yet her accounts then will help them a great deal

And when Sophia finds out the truth of her parents' death, she'll fight to get her inheritance back and drive her step mother and Step sisters away

Bridgerton Season 4 will end with Sophie and Benedict being married and Sophie gets retraining to be a titled Lady, with Araminta and her daughters shipped back to Joseon Korea where Araminta ends up a lifetime in prison, and her daughters end up being Joseon royal palace servants as punishment

Sophie Baek literally is a Korean version of Cinderella in spades

🤩🤩🤩🤯🤯🥺🥺

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Since a bunch of people are making their own Cursed Cafe sonas, I'll make my own:

Annelise

. She's a water faerie who specializes in potions and magical cakes, and one of the Potionista staff

. Loves to draw and has a good ear for gossip

. Thinks Maleficent is ' wicked cool '

. Ships Firuzeh ( her manager ) with Jafar

. Overall respectful to thr customers but won't hesitate to keep them in line if they are being rude

. Doesn't like Gaston

. Is pretty chill with Hades and Captain Hook

. Kinda unnerved about Jafar but he brings in presents for Firuzeh regularly and such so I guess he's okay....kinda

. Gossip A LOT with Ursula and Maleficent

. SCARED SHITLESS OF SCAR

. Thinks Shere Khan's kids are so cute, then remembered that they BITE

. Also scared of Shan Yu

. Buddies with Alistair who spills a lot of Facilier family tea

. Gets along well with the other staff generally and usually

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Villains Cursed Cafe is so fucking funny. Like, Cruella starts her own very successful luxury fashion brand to spite some lady that gave her a fruit basket, Captain Hook is a theatre kid who wants to make a musical about how unfairly he was treated by Peter Pan, the Evil Queen starts an MLM so she can siphon energy from people, Maleficent becomes a social media influencer so she can rule the world and has a selfie stick instead of her usual staff, Jafar learned what bitcoin is and makes his own cryptocurrency, Ursula goes on the music equivalent of America’s Got Talent so she can basically become the next Taylor Swift, and then Gaston is just…Gaston.

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at the cursed cafe, maleficent has gotten very popular on talkzic under the name "maleficentsation"--but recently a new witchfluencer popped up and started to steal her audience, then blocked her! i had the choice of either giving maleficent a potion that would uncloak mixymistress and reveal her identity, or one that would simply have them unblock her so they could talk... i gave her the uncloaking potion, and found out that mixymistress is YZMA! uh oh, this could be bad...

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THAT MF KEEPS PULLIN UP TO MY COUNTER WHILE IM WORKIN WITH OTHER VILLAINS

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Some more Cursed Cafe Headcanons:

. The Head Chef is an elderly, no nonsense but caring Voodoo witch who knows culinary magic at the back of her hand

. The faeries all have their own fae language when conversing each other, and they all fear, adore and respect Maleficent ( who literally is the Queen of the Dark Fae in Sleeping Beauty. Cmon now )

. The sea folk staff all think Ursula is ' wickedly cool '

. NONE OF THE CURSED CAFE FEMALE STAFF LIKE GASTON

. Gaston tried to hit on Firuzeh and Firuzeh rejects him ( duh ) and eventually chose Jafar. Jafar hexed Gaston for calling Firuzeh a sexist disparaging remark IN FRONT OF EVERYONE ELSE. And Gaston never bothered Firuzeh again

. Hades and Persephone are usually cool with the staff, especially those Greek dryads and underworld spirits that work there. Those spirits know not to mess with Hades, but they ALL adore and respect Persephone. Aw

. The German wizards and witches all roll their eyes at how vain Grimhilde is

. SO MUCH TEA ANS GOSSIP ABOUT THOSE DISNEY VILLAINS

. Alistair turns out to be Dr Facilier's son! ( harkening to how Alastor in Hazbin's dad is a Dr Facilier parody ). Dr Facilier sometimes comes by to see his son at work and bring word on how Mrs Facilier ( an Esther LeFevre parody ) is doing. Mrs Facilier also comes by sometimes

. Frollo never comes by. The Cursed Cafe literally banned him cuz Frollo is gonna try destroy it if he sees it

. ALL of the staff are scared shitless of Scar.

. The Hindu spirits of the staff all treated Shere Khan and his tiger clan with deference. Whenever they come by, they instantly straighten up and such

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Drawings of Alistair the Host and Firuzeh the Potionista

So basically, Firuzeh the Potionista is also the manager of the Cursed Cafe. She also knows potions and botany at the back of her hand.

Alistair hails from New Orleans and has a charming Transatlantic/New Orleans accent ( basically also like an Alastor from Hazbin parody in spades )

IDK I was just imagining a coffee shop AU of Stolas' parents ( Paimon x Amethyst )between Jafar and Firuzeh in Disney Villains Cursed Cafe

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So both of my current hyperfixations are Disney related. (Twisted Wonderland and Lorcana). And because of this I can’t help but think of the Lorcana cards in relation to Twist. 

If you don’t know what Lorcana is, a brief explanation is that it’s a TCG (Like Magic the Gathering, Pokemon Card game, Yugioh etc) but Disney themed. And it has three types of character cards, Storyborn, Dreamborn and Floodborn. 

Storyborn is basically the characters as they appear in their canon story. Dreamborn is basically what they dream of becoming. Easy enough (There are cards for instance where Maleficent wins)

Floodborn, is where the characters have been altered by the ink. Their story changes completely. That's how you end up with things like “Gaston: Intellectual Powerhouse” where he’s a mechanical genius. (one of my personal favorites because of how funny it is.) 

There is also Lady Tremaine who became queen: 

My absolute favorite Floodborn story is Cinderella’s. In her Floodborn story, she becomes a royal knight. Given I am a believer of the Caterella theory, it opens up a lot of possibilities for that dynamic. 

And while I know the only thing the two projects have in common are that they are both Disney IP’s, It’s easy to imagine Twist as part of Lorcana, an entire Floodborn world where the character’s stories were altered, giving us the Great Seven. Esteemed heroes of their world, rather than evil villains.

There are a lot of other examples too, and all would be fun playing with the different Twist characters.

This one would be very relevant for Silver:

And this one just absolutely screams Vil :

Anyway, I've always enjoyed AU's so Lorcana is definitely fuel for that fire where Twisted Wonderland is concerned. Also wonder if there is anyone out there who plays both games like I do.

Follow ups:

Part 2

Part 3

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Okay so the Cursed Cafe staff line up that I can think of so far:

. A Charming host who is also a wizard

. A beautiful Potionista who is a witch

. A bunch of waiters and waitresses, cooks, cleaners and dishwashers ( all know magic )

. Several other Potionistas who also know potions and beverage magic at the back of their hands

The staff comprises of a team of wizards, witches ans a host of other mythical creatures

I was envisioning the Host of Cursed Cafe to be a Voodoo sorcerer, who is kinda like a mix of King Dice and Alastor from Hazbin in spades. Smooth talking and charming, he also has a talent of pick pocketing

Basically the Cursed Cafe Host be looking kinda like Cab Calloway in spades

And I can see the charming and beautiful Potionista be a Persian witch who regularly wears Purple, Flowers and fancy magical accessories, usually soft spoken yet quite snarky too

Oh and she looks kinda like a mix of Sarah Brightman and Golshifteh Farahani in spades

I figured that the Cursed Cafe staff can have some elements linked to the Disney Villains featured in there - we get some Voodoo magicians ( Dr Facilier ), Greek Underworld spirits ( Hades ), faeries ( Maleficent ), Hindu apsaras ( Shere Khan ), Arabian and Persian magicians and jinns ( Jafar ), African spirits ( Scar ), magical undersea creatures ( Ursula ), and German magicians ( Grimhilde ), for starters

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Watching one of the story modes, the memes with... very little context, this game is fun. The dialogue is amazing

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More bc BRAH THIS GAME