#but imagine your whole moral compass flipped completely upside down in a moment of your own volition

[captncthrola]

the casting parallel of Willabella & Grace Chasity

just rewatched Episode 3 of NT (harrowing to say the least), and whilst also recovering very important the Fosters and general Hatchetfield lore, i also just realised Angela played Willabella Muckwab, who seems kind of set-up to be this witch that did actually hurt people but might have been an outcast herself. so here's some thematic character thoughts that just rang true bcus i love Angela Giarratana, Hatchetfield and Grace Chasity lmao. the dramatic person in me is so set for some sort of Grace recognition-maybe-even-redemption-of-humanity arc, because shame and stigma from the church is so real and i think the Lords in Black enabled not only her superiority complex but her shame by corrupting her with the Black Book. rewatching the Witch in the Web, Willabella says "I'm not a monster, like they said!" and we even get a glimpse of her previous life where she was about to be hung (though we don't know for what crimes), and in this damn podunk town ironically tearing itself apart trying to keep itself together + classic references to the Salem witch trials (of which was mainly condemning women / people breaking any social rules) + gifted kid g*nocide??????, it feels like it could be highly probable she was another example of a hurt, shamed person refusing to change and enabled by forces beyond her initial reckoning, because she couldn't or refused to recognise anything else good beyond her own world. it just was such an unintentional connection yet is fascinating to me. oh and also just realised Kim Whalen as both Becky and Ms. Holloway playing almost the complete opposite of all that (person who experienced great pain and suffering usually trying to do a great deal of good).