#but it was not agatha giving

[thymejot]

Since the moment of Nickys birth, Agatha has been using Rio. She used her as a scapegoat from her own complex emotions. She then projects all her pain, her overwhelming loss, her guilt, and her feeling of responsibility for his death onto Rio as well.

Because Rio is death, an immutable immovable object that can take all the hits Agatha throws at her. All the sharpened barbs made to lay waste to anyone else, anyone weaker.

Agatha knows exactly how much to twist the knife to have the most impact.

She knows Rio will take every drop of her rancour, every ounce of her self-loathing, every rend Agatha can inflict. Then, in a few days or months, Rio will be there once more full of fervour with a flower in hand.

So when Agatha makes the deal with Rio to give up Billy in exchange for Rio never darkening her doorstep again. She never ever thought that this would be the final push that would cause death to falter.

Rio has for so long been a physical embodiment of Agatha's external self hatred that the moment that Rio agrees, it all falls apart.

The safety Agatha had in her hatred of Rio crumbles, and all that is left is the realisation that the one person left on this earth that truly understood her pain, that loved all that she was had finally given up on her.

As Rio walks away, you can see the disbelief, her hurt and the utter terror of losing Rio forever hit her. So, this right here is the exact moment when Agatha's fate was sealed.

Because Agatha is so deeply selfish.

The final act of reneging on the deal, pulling Rio into her arms, drawing death into herself, was never about saving Billy.

This was as close to supplication as Agatha is capable of. There is no universe in which Agatha ever says the words 'sorry'.

This was forgive me. I love you. I want you.

This was, I will bury myself so deep into you that you will never be able to truly be rid of me. I will drink the poison of your lips while filling you so full to the brim with me so that I fully cement myself inside you. You will carry the weight of me with you until there is nothing left but ashes and the taste of my lips on yours.

Rio crumbles under the deluge of it all. She takes it all in. She is so full of Agatha that she never truly sees what is happening until it is already over.

The immutable unchanging death finally faltered twice in as many hours. Once more, Agatha proves that she is not Rio's scar, but the torn open bleeding heart of her

No wonder Rio did not have it in her to collect Agathas soul

Even in her most hated form, a world with Agatha in it is a world with hope for Rio. Agatha will weasel her way out of final death, and when she does, Rio will be waiting with fervour and a flower. Like always

[evgar]

i need them badly

[maines]

— Kathryn Hahn, The Tonight Show, september 12

[aenslem]

👀looking at Agatha like👀

[lucyllawless]

[sanyu-thewitch05]

Honestly, this. This, this, this.

Especially with Agatha’s excuse of “it was the 1920s!” sounds so similar to how white people respond to reparations (“It was 400 years ago! Get over it.”)

[sapphosclosefriend]

This is the outfit of a lesbian who made so many women realize they were gay back then

[sapphichymns]

[hattersarts]

all along

[holyblanchett]

Aubrey is so real for this. She legit said marvel is the least appealing thing for her she just wanted to work with Kathryn 🤣

[tuttle-did-it]

You know, it's genuinely sad to me that aging favourite character actors no longer have any fun murder-mystery tv shows to guest-star as murders on.

[jennipond]

i can sense him, i just... can't find him

[soularsss]

Death's Hand in Mine

this episode really got me i can't lie, it was just incredible

[lucyllawless]

[gayallalong]

I’d like a prequel where we see exactly what happened between Agatha killing her coven and her arriving at that lake pregnant calling Rio “my love” I HAVE BEEN CHEATED OF THE MOST TRAGIC AND KINKY SAPPHIC LOVE STORY OF THE CENTURY

[to-be-a-dreamer]

No but seriously can we talk about the horrifying tragedy of William Kaplan in the MCU?

That child died. He's dead and no one is mourning him. He died and a stranger took over his body. He died and everyone's memory of him is being replaced by a different person. His parents don't know and even when they eventually find out they'll never be able to bury their son.

Do you think they're grieving him? Do you think, on some subconscious level, they know their child is gone? Do you think they feel guilty because for all they know they're just being selfish about "William's" memory loss? Do you think they'll be able to stop loving Billy, the child they've raised for the past three years, just because he's not really William? Do you think Billy will stop loving them just because he found his "real" family?

Do you think William will ever get to have some kind of memorial?