#but maybe beatrice at least had a tad bit of magic to help

[sortanonymous]

I'd just like to mention my headcanon that, at least in the Meta Knightmare AU, Garlude and Sirica Fuzzen are so fuzzy and naturally warm, that even in freezing environments they only need to bundle up in a thin jacket at most. Also just thinking up that among Garlude's family and species (like I'll ever be in the mood to dig deep into them weirdly enough), their fur is considered a symbol of pride and they've historically never cut it no matter how quickly or slowly it would grow. (I mean, their family name is literally "Fuzzen"!)

It's also funny imagining that whenever Sirica and Susie are in a freezing environment, Sirica, again, doesn't need anything more than, say, a thin fall sports jacket while Susie, despite literally spending her first seven years of life living on freaking Shiver Star, might be so naturally weak in the cold that she needs the thickest coat in the Halberd (even more than Mikey, a literal part-microphone that wouldn't work in the cold). Of course nowhere near as bundled up as Anais down here, but the fact that I even have to bring that up is telling. (Of course she loved playing out in it as a kid though and misses it, because I can't forget to throw in some angst even if she could just replicate the playing part at, idk, Waffle Wafers or something.)

[the-darkness-does-not-bargain]

oh all the talk about ava & lilith and how they don’t think they need to talk about things but need therapy anyway (that isn’t feasible because of the reasons you’ve mentioned) is convenient because i’ve been rotating a bit avalil’s relationship with beatrice and some of the problems in it, and idk the amount/degree but i feel like there’s a bit of a problem because they’re either too hovery, not hovery enough or usually both at the time

avalil are used to accommodating for each other for literal centuries, and often only for each other because while they probably have a ton of contacts and friends either had very few or didn’t have any actual close friends or family and/or life stuff kept them seperated and unable to contact others often, especially with diego’s shadow hanging over ava, and lilith’s general *waves*

so yeah, saying ava & lilith are used to it mostly just being the two of them and the other being the only person in their life that they had to consistently account for is a massive understatement and whike they’re trying and learning to accommodate for beatrice, ava & lilith are ava & lilith so they often tend to veer into one direction too much. and the fact that beatrice is relatively young, super new to the supernatural stuff, and is a werewolf who’s new to being a werewolf which reminds ava of diego a tad too much at times definitely doesn’t help things.

and it’s a bitch because while things are obviously a lot better and more genuine with avalil, their behavior reminds beatrice too much of her parents and family sometimes

semi related (or maybe not at all related, who knows), i’ve been picturing mary and/or shannon as being concerned for beatrice and really wary of avalil at least initially, because of how often the immortals who appear and/or are mostly or completely human or obtained their immortality through shady means. mary and/or shannon are especially shady probably because vincent is or tried to become immortal and manipulated mary & shannon to do so

and depending on if and how vincent is connected to adriel, finding out about lilith’s connection to adriel doesn’t help, along w any problems they might have unwittingly gleamed, guessed or heard from beatrice about her friendship & relationship w ava & lilith

See, what I realized is that they just need to engineer a Lucifer situation where they find an awesome therapist like Linda Martin who can they tell about their immortality. Easier said than done but I have faith in them. Well, I have faith in their friends' ability to find such a therapist, not their ability to attend sessions.

But yeah, they know each other's coping mechanisms and have rearranged everything around them. They don't make comments, they avoid hard questions, they dance around the issues for literal ages. Ava doesn't ask Lilith about what she does when she occasionally runs off, Lilith doesn't ask Ava why she's scared of mazes and won't use the magic she inherently possesses.

And they don't mean to repeat that song and dance with Bea, but it's a tough habit to break. Maybe they come off as unavailable when Bea needs someone to talk to, when really they're just used to not asking upsetting questions.

And I'm sure the others are wary of Ava and Lil, probably especially Mary and Shannon, whether Vincent was involved or not. One or both of them might be old enough to have met another immortal or heard stories about them, and so their danger senses are immediately activated by these two ancient weirdos who have seemingly beguiled their friend.

I'm imagining that however Ava became immortal was accidental. I really do think she might have swallowed the philosopher's stone, meaning that someone else (Reya, perhaps? 👀) was probably trying to become immortal and she foiled them. Maybe Adriel (and by extension Vincent) have and/or are trying to do the same thing with horrifying consequences.