#I LOVE HOW MONTRESOR AND ANNABEL LOOK SO UNCOMFORTABLE

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Hmhmhmhmhmmmmhmhmhmmhmhmmmmmm…..😬🫨

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I'd love to hear your headcanons with Ada and Annabel and Ada and Wil. Their relationships interests me, and I'm curious what you have in mind with roommates, and two people who find admiration in the same guy. (Hopefully two in the same ask is okay--)

Okay, you’re so right. I do love both of those dynamics a lot. And of course I’ll do two, I love these

Ada and Annabel

- It’s complicated. Annabel finds her irritating, but she wouldn’t wish for anything bad to happen to her. Ada envies Annabel terribly, but admires and respects her greatly.

- Ada keeps begging Annabel to help her try the rag curl method out, but Annabel is trying to drag it out because she knows it won’t work with Ada’s hair type.

- Annabel hates how Ada tries to flaunt her ‘friendship’ around like an object. It’s how she was treated when she was alive; pretty object.

- Annabel had to resist every urge to roll her eyes when Ada told her she could ‘have Prospero to herself now’ once she got with Montresor.

- Ada tried to take her tea the way Annabel does but it was far too bitter. She sneaks sugar in when nobody is looking.

- Ada loves walking with her in the garden, pointing out flowers that ‘her darling would definitely pick for her’. Annabel is so tired of it, but she puts on a smile and goes along with it.

- Annabel has woken up to Ada hyperventilating/crying. She usually pretends to stay asleep, but on one occasion she actually sits up and offers comfort. Ada refuses to tell her what is upsetting her, wiping her eyes and insisting a lady would not react like this. Annabel says nothing to that.

Ada and Will

- cannot get along. They’re too similar, and they both hate it.

- Will is passive to literally everyone but her in canon. He talks back to her all the time. I think he sees her on his level of pathetic.

- They will tell the other that Montresor doesn’t care about them, even though they both know deep deep down that it’s true on both ends

- Will is further in denial than Ada. Ada kinda knows what she’s doing + pursues Montresor in a time of vulnerability. She wants to like…see someone as messed up as she is. Meanwhile, Will is just desperate for someone to call a friend.

- Ada finds out that he writes and insists that she is made into a character. So he makes a very ugly, evil hag.

- She tried to use ‘Fear Itself’ on him and couldn’t find one thing. It kept changing, as if his brain couldn’t decide what was worse.

- She was genuinely uncomfortable seeing him wear her face for the first time. It was too accurate. It made her wonder how often he’s watched her to be able to do that.

- Ada laughs in his face and jokingly says he probably turns into her to pretend that he gets Monty’s romantic attention too…and he can’t even deny it.

- They have a big fight after that. Ada always hits harder.

- They really cannot even sit in a room together alone without arguing unless someone is supervising them.

- Will remembers when she complimented her eyes. One day they’re just existing in the same room and he just quietly goes, “…did you mean it?”

“Mean what?”

“When you said my eyes were nice.”

And then Ada is confused- when did she say that? When she remembers, she ends up speaking without a filter.

“Duh, gray is a rarity for eyes you know.”

And that’s the only time they can ever truly speak to one another because Montresor is such a heavy blanket over them both that he’s the factor that keeps them from forming any sort of bond.

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Okay, this is a reblog because I have a lot to say, and I'm going to try to be nice, even though if there's one thing that gets on my nerves a little, it's when people call an element of a play "low" or "weak" without really stopping to look at it. First of all, why does Lenore like Annabel in the first place? Because Annabel was the person who came into her life at her lowest moment to make her feel alive again, when everyone around her saw her as a burden (the maids) or completely forgot about her (her parents), Annabel offered her friendship. An offer that Lenore is perfectly free to refuse. When they say goodbye, Lenore loses her mind because Annabel's presence is the one thing that has kept her sane for six months. Annabel attacks her when Lenore asks her to visit again, and the thing is…that's not going to happen. In three months, Annabel will be engaged, either to someone new or to the guy who's waiting for her in London. Either way, visiting a crazy woman locked in the attic is off the table, and from Annabel's point of view, it's better for Lenore to be angry and chewing on resentment than to wait forever for him to return, so she tries to hurt her. Her only friend is ripped out of her life for the same reason Theo went looking for her during the storm: an arranged engagement that she definitely doesn't want. And there Lenore decides that she's had enough of all this crap, if the price she had to pay to save herself from it was being locked up like an animal, at least she'd try to save her only friend from the same fate. Otherwise, as long as Victorian engagements lasted, these two had anywhere from six months to two years plus the three months of the social season to fall in love beyond making eyes at each other. And that's something Lenore feels, even if she doesn't remember it. Just like Morella feels like something is missing from her neck until she puts the collar on, or Duke feels uncomfortable jumping into the water chained up in the thalassophobia test because, well, that's how he died. As for the other thing… Annabel doesn't ignore what Lenore has to say. What's more, she does her best to address her concerns…but the thing is, there's nothing more she can do or say. Why not tell Lenore how they died? Because she doesn't know. She wants to believe that what the Deans told her is a lie, but how could she explain that to Lenore? "Hey, they told me you killed me, but I don't believe it" would absolutely destroy Lenore and could alter her memories, the only hope for both of them to know how they really died.

Why tell Lenore not to get attached to anyone? Because Annabel felt that Lenore was someone important to her, and it took the Deans' 3 doritos to destroy her memory to show/make her believe that Lenore murdered her. Everything is being used against them, including the bonds they form here. And this is something that is more in line with the fact that there is only one life available: these people are doomed and Lenore will have to watch them die. Why not share her suspicions? Because, again, the Deans destroyed her memory to keep her away from Lenore. Who knows what they'll do when they see their plans aren't working, and if they're as powerful as they claim to be, they may be watching her 24/7 and Annabel doesn't know how. We readers know that these guys have no intention of doing anything more than eating popcorn while they see what's going on. Why not tell Lenore about Duke? Because Montresor is a danger, and logic tells her that the only way Lenore was likely to get herself killed was to run headlong after her friend. Assuming the plan was just to let him die. Does this mean that Lenore should forgive her and her actions should be without consequence? Jesus Christ Superstar, NO. But that's the tragedy: Annabel is trapped in a situation where no matter what she does, she will always lose because she has to pay the price for keeping up this charade (which is all she has because it's the only way she knows how to do things), while Lenore is caught in the middle of many conflicting feelings and situations that she can't even process before something else blows up in her face. The heart of the tragedy in Nevermore is how all these people are now trapped in a bullshit game they didn't choose and can't escape. And Annabel and Lenore embody that as the protagonists: not even death could save Annabel from wearing a mask and Lenore from being tossed around like a rag doll by the actions of others. This tragedy extends to their relationship, and to call it "weak" is to overlook how the conflict of Nevermore is embodied in them as characters and in their relationship.

Confession: I feel like lennabel is lowkey the weakest part of the comic. Yes its the selling point and the focus and everything but everything else like the misfits/lenores friendships, the spectres, all the side characters and backstories (especially lenores), the history of the school/where they are all way more interesting. And then oh heres another y/a "toxic but not actually because uhhh its hawt" ship. They have a secret conversation about the game or fodder or whatever. Or their "history" which is lenore forced to hang out with her and then being left with a bunch of insults? With lenore and her friends we see them grow and bond together but with lennbel they just hug or kiss or something. Why does lenore like annabel? Because...pretty? Because she gets all in lenores face? She always ignores what lenore has to say and literally tried to kill her friend without telling her. Like every other aspect of the comic is super neat and intriguing but The Ship is whatever. If lenore could just seriously break it off with her after what happened it wouldn't drag the story down anymore but it wont both cause spoilers and cause its what the whole marketing of the comic is.

I might get attacked for this, but I’m starting to ship Lennabel less and less as the comic progresses (Funny coming from a Mourn pfp), I prefer them as individual characters instead of a ship since it seems like things aren’t going to end well for them, given that this a gothic story and their views are too different from each others.

I would also like to know more about the other characters and the setting as a whole, especially the deans (I love eldritch horror).

I think it’s fair to say that the reason we probably aren’t seeing more is because we are approaching a climax. As a writer myself, I feel like we are approaching something big that will reveal a few questions we might have about the academy and such.

This comic was sold as a “gothic sapphic horror romance” so that’s why its ship focused, but I really would like to see Lenore���s relationship with the misfits get stronger, and for Annabel to hopefully make a friend outside of Lenore.

I think it’s safe to say to just wait and see what will happen.

What are all of your opinions on this?