#I wish they could have gotten along

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

My Great Grandma who loved her babies very much

Reference that I used for the face!

[agathasvidal]

below the cut is a short theory/deep dive into how i believe agatha all along is going to end between agatha and rio. it is inspired by one theory that is doing the rounds, and is the one i originally theorised myself after watching episode six last week, but i wanted to depict the how and the why of why agathario is important to the show, and why i don’t think a ‘final battle’ will be clearly cut between a ‘good’ and ‘bad’ side

like many others, i think it’s reasonable to predict that rio is there to take billy, but she does not actually know who billy is because of the sigil. small things to back this up include:

1. agatha asking rio why she’s there in episode one and rio replying “my job”. agatha is like boom she is here to take someone away, and it can’t be me, and there’s only one new person who’s recently appeared in my life so who the f is this kid why is he important

2. rio saying “did you hide evidence?” to agatha. ironically, someone is being hidden in the closet from her…

3.. rio telling lilia “go on tell them what you saw” in the beginning of episode five. we can infer that rio knows that lilia knows who rio is. perhaps we could go one further, and suggest that rio knows lilia helped hide whoever she is looking for, and is almost taunting lilia in an ‘i really do see it all’ way

3. agatha’s “don’t” to rio in episode four, when teen is injured. it’s obvious, and has been spoken about so much, but i really think this is a moment of confirmation from agatha that rio is there for him, and she needs to beat rio in discovering who he is. it’s confirmation that the two are working against each other, but it is so hidden between their flirtation and tension.

4. there’s been a big debate about why rio would be a witch, whilst she’s also *potentially* death, but i think it was important for the show to portray rio as a witch so the audience know that a sigil would also work on rio, so she cannot discover teen’s identity. why else would they make it such a big deal about sigils only working on witches?

5. the significant of the no. 3 and agatha/rio in the show all hinting at the cycle of life, birth and death: maiden, mother, crone; agatha’s shirt in ep 5; the clocks being on 3.33 when rio arrives in ep 1, the amount of rabbits we’ve seen (3 rabbits/hares represent birth-life-death cycle in christianity and egyptian hieroglyphs)

SO,

to agatha, seeing rio means something is about to be taken away from her. i think that is their entire dynamic within this show, and their entire relationship in general, after the loss of nic. agatha is presented with rio which means she must work out what rio is there to take. that’s why she suspected teen was someone important, because rio was there for either her or teen. teen had to be one of two people. that’s why agatha viscerally protested the idea of coming close to death in the first trial. because she does not want confirmation that rio is there to take this boy from her. she does not even know who he is, but he is important enough for rio to involve herself in agatha’s life once more. he is important enough for rio to go out of her way and resurface old feelings that they both know, the other should not be resurfacing. he is important enough to be seeked out.

by rio taking away billy, she not only repeats her and agatha’s history once more, but she completely takes away the possibility from agatha that she could ever find a way to be reunited with nicky. agatha needs billy, like she needed wanda, to end the quest she’d spent centuries on. rio is not JUST taking another child away from agatha, she is completely breaking the entire, vicious cycle of longing and hope for the son they lost.

i think that rio thinks that is for the best. for her agatha. to stop this endless chase for something rio knows she cannot have. rio is doing it out of love, even though it tears them apart more than anything else ever could. that is the lesson that agatha needs to be taught: the cycle of birth, life and death. (yes i could then start hypothesising about agatha dying, but i think it’s been overdone)

so that is our potential final battle. a battle between death and life. they are made for each other, but that is ultimately what tears them apart. one spends their life bound to defying death, and the other does not get life, but is bound to upholding it.

agatha is Death’s life. but all death can do to life, is take from it. in the end, rio will always be agatha’s death. they have always been doomed.

[lyxchen]

Okay so my thoughts because there really wasn't much Rio Agatha backstory explained and I'm wondering about the kiss. Because it seems to be some kind of kiss of death situation. So my question is now. Was that their very first kiss? Or. OR!!! Does Rio mean by "speacial treatment" that every time they kissed, Agatha should have died but Rio couldn't bring herself to take her so she spared her??? I'm not fully sure if that makes sense but I'm just wondering what this kiss means for them. Because again we don't actually get to see the parts of their backstory that doesn't involve Nicky

[bbygirl-aemond]

viserys defenders saying he was a good dad to rhaenyra as if i couldn't write an entire thesis about all the ways he failed her as a father and i am NOT just talking politically

edit: you can find the thesis here!

[chantillyxlacey]

Tomorrow it will be 10 years exactly since dad died

What do you even do with that

[saltwatersweets]

so… how long do you think it took the titan to figure out he blamed the wrong person?

[thatfaerieprincess]

Feel free to skip on past this, I’ve just gotta ramble for a minute bc i cant stop thinking about this kid from work last week. They were so much like me at that age (5-6th grade) that I didn’t know how to interact with them? I didn’t know what to say to them bc I don’t know what I needed to hear back then, what I would’ve WANTED to hear? What would I have even listened to? They were almost entirely silent and looked out at the world with a hesitant curiosity, but would pull back so fast as soon as you tried to interact w them. Little to no eye contact, face hidden in hair, always looking down, following others until they could strike off on their own and just quietly explore. Intently focusing on drawing any chance they got. We did an art project and they hunched over their piece the entire time and wouldn’t let any of us see it in progress, refusing to look up or acknowledge us if we asked to see it or to know what it was. Idk. I barely interacted w them while they were with us for those few days bc I didn’t know how? It almost hurt to try? It was like looking back into a time machine and i didn’t know how to tell them that it does get better,,, I still don’t even know if where I am is better, some days feel so unsure that I don’t think I’ve made any progress at all. But seeing that kid, idk. I’ve come pretty far. And it DOES get better. Maybe it’s not the best now, or even that great at all, but it’s better. I wish I could’ve told them but I don’t think they’d have wanted to hear it anyway

[kimjiwoong]

alexis got back with his ex

[animationismycomfort]

I wish twdg explored more on how though human beings can become closer through awful times…..sometimes that’s not always the case

[strohller27]

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[violetnaps]

i hate when old friends have memorable birthdays

[ice-sculptures]

ooooh u wanna tell me about i've been a lot of lonely places so bad oooh

hey sara!!! i've talked abt the fic a little here and here, but there's another element that i think you, my dear max mayfield enthusiast, might be interested in - the exploration of max's relationship with billy and the parallels to will/jonathan and lonnie.

i think that max's feelings about her abuser were incredibly complicated....while she wasn't being entirely honest in her initial letter to billy, and while a very big part of her spent most of her hours wishing he was gone, i do think that there was a slight element of truth to her saying that she wanted them to try again someday and that maybe they could've been a real brother and sister, and that rly reminds me of the scene with will and jonathan in season one where will says that it's fun to go to baseball games w lonnie. i think that both of them, being the 13-14 yo kids that they are, still hold some residual feelings of love for their abusers (as most victims do), and i thought that it would be a fascinating concept to explore, especially since will had jonathan to steer him away from holding onto lonnie while max has been alone for most of her life.

[baekuras]

Another shoutout to the Bayle fight because I fought him for 2 hours straight until winning but never ONCE have I gotten rage-quit or near it frustrated

[transkingcobra]

Hm

[celestialmancer]

⛈️ //

[rabbitjester]

sometimes i wonder if my siblings ever lie awake at night and think about how distant we are now. hm