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rearranging-deck-chairs · 2 months ago

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"you were born evil" but you still named her agatha.

thinking about that process, because it took 18 years right. you have a baby and you call her good and she turns out to be smarter than you, more powerful than you, and it scares you, you dont know how to handle that especially in a world that hates you and her already. the things about her that scare you, will scare the outside world who understands even less than you do ten times more. you dont know how to protect her so you try to control her which is like number one bad idea human response to things that scare us.

obviously this backfires and she gets even more furious in her quest for knowledge, every door you close she finds a window, every place you warn away from she gets into, talking to people she shouldnt be talking to, trying out magic she shouldnt be trying. every step she takes is one further out of your control, further out of anyone's control, every new thing she learns makes her dangerous, puts her in danger, puts your coven in danger, shes exposing all of you along with herself. shes in danger, shes a danger, shes a teenager and she knows more than you, of course shes not gonna listen to you anymore, about anything. of course shes not gonna hear a warning, and if she did she wouldnt take it, just to spite you.

what are you gonna do? youre not the only one whos scared. of her, for her. youve got an entire coven getting panicky about the way shes exposing all of you, the risks shes taking that she may or may not be able to fully understand (maybe shes never seen one of you burned before, maybe shes her own first). and if she were on her own that would be her decision to make, but you are still responsible for your coven and you are responsible for her, for her safety and for the threat she poses. so what do you do? do you even have a choice? or is this just where the mob turns. kick a scapegoat onto a pyre and hope fortune turns for the rest of us. if she cant stick to the rules in place for the safety of all, then shes a ticking timebomb. if it's not her at the stake, sooner or later it's all of you. so what can you do? what are you expected to do?

punish agatha.

#dont remember who i saw say it but when agatha is recruiting sharon and she pauses for a moment before going yoohoo #making peace with the fact that shes definitely most likely gonna kill this lady along with the witches #*points at her mother here*#anyway i dont know what the fuck like went on this is just one version #but im thinking of her ghost and like 'emotion ties them to this plane' like yeAH NO SHIT fhkjhgkj #the amount of emotion that mustve been going on here #i imagine there must have been a lot of self-convincing before her mother got to this point #i imagine there werent a lot of choices and she was kind of backed into a corner and she just had to find every reason to make this possibl #to be able to do THIS #thats the only way right?#she seems to be the leader. idk if covens have leaders maybe shes just leading here bc it's her daughter thats on trial #or maybe agatha just gets it from her mother #but like if she hadnt gone first then maybe the coven wouldve done this ANYWAY without her right?#and then she'd have lost control of the coven. maybe kicked out. her daughter would be killed either way like #idk if she considered taking agatha and fleeing just the two of them. if she rejected that as too dangerous. safety in numbers #they'd get killed if it was just the two of them #or if she never even considered it. i do get a sort of.....conforming vibe from her. which isnt weird bc standing out or losing community #is p dangerous right in the environment they live here #im more inclined to imagine her trying to teach agatha to just like. shut up. hide. conform. dont stand out. whatever you do DONT push the #boundaries #bc if you end up outside of them youre fucking toast #i can imagine that more as her attempted strategy than running off with agatha #but like obviously that wouldnt work bc agatha wants to push boundaries she wants to push boundaries so bad #i get a feeling she wants to push boundaries like the doctor wants to press buttons #yaz voice: you'd hit a hornets nest just to see what happens

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