#lady death mcu

[aperfectlylesbian]

What do you guys think Rio's relationship with her siblings (can I call them that? I totally forgot their names) is like?

Like, not all of them are like her, there's probably one who's more responsible, another who likes her more. How did they react to some of Rio's decisions? What do they think about Agatha?

I don't know, I feel like we're antagonizing this a lot, or I'm kinda wrong.

[emo-clarence]

rio vidal aka lady death aka the loml 💚

[roses-and-lightnings]

[mizubyte]

So now that they've introduced Lady Death as an actual character into the MCU, it kinda fucks with Thanos's storyline, if you're familiar with the comics. See Thanos's whole killing spree was because he fancied himself in love with Lady Death and was trying to court her. And that totally still works here in the MCU! Except here in the MCU, our dear Lady Death already has a love, the fabulous Agatha Harkness, and thus Rio don't give a damn about Thanos's courtship, if she even noticed. (My bet is she doesn't notice, or is outright like "WTF step off")

Thus self-proclaimed "alpha!male" Thanos has to incel himself and his followers a justification for their damn murder spree, hence the whole "finite resources" conspiracy theory he starts selling and his followers red pill and in this essay I will...

[nabooberrie]

He died so the gay agenda could live on

[nogenderblender9358]

rio vidal

Okay so this is my finished project for my fundamentals class. We had to make a life sized face sculpture so I chose to base it on rio. It’s hard to see but she is sitting in a flower pot. She is made of cardboard, air dry clay for the face and yarn for the hair. Technically fanart 😂😂😂 thought I’d post it because I’m actually really proud of it.

[warningsine]

Don't you recognize me, Lilia? Rio is... Death.

[holyblanchett]

"This walk with another woman's son on a road that doesn't exist."

Are we really suprised that Rio crashed out at the end? Not only did Agatha reject her once again and say she never wanted to see her again. Rio was jealous as fuck about her care for Wanda's son when she's a single mom in the afterlife raising Nicky because Agatha's avoiding them both.

[aperfectlylesbian]

I really need to start messaging someone because I REALLY need to talk about that shit!!

Rio's the Original Green Witch, those who came after her had their origins in her. It's like Jen said, earth is one of, if not THE, most important element to cross the Road.

Green witches not only create life, they also destroy it, and this is the perfect symbolism for Death, who at the same time helps so many lives to come into the world, takes them out of the world and takes them to the afterlife.

That said, I think Rio could very well impregnate Agatha with her magic, as well as generate life herself, that is, the physical form of her becoming pregnant.

For me, both options are very plausible and understandable.

Yk that couple where one of them wants to carry the baby in the first pregnancy, but in the next pregnancy it's the other who will carry the baby? Something like that.

what do you mean rio can't get agatha pregnant naturally

SHE'S THE FUCKING OG GREEN WITCH

[she1smyscar]

No but like, we thought she was Cunty before??? This look will E.N.D. me

[aperfectlylesbian]

"Death comes for us all."

Agatha: Yeah, so, I'm not sharing.

[skittlebits]

Shortly after Thanos snapped (probably)

Thanos: I killed half the universe as a gift for you, my love.

Rio: Um, you snapped them out of existence. There’s nothing for me to reap.

Thanos: I-

Rio: -didn’t think it through? Yeah, figured. Maybe try smaller scale next time. For example, Agatha sunk the Titanic and torched a zeppelin for me a while back. Lots of bodies. It was really sweet.

Thanos: *mutters* Fucking Agatha Harkness.

Rio: Well, obviously.

[roses-and-lightnings]

"You want straight answers, ask a straight lady"???? 😭😭😭

[viceandmature]

#Mood

[anaxarts]

“You don't have a heart." 

“Yes, I do. It's black. And it beats for you."

And now Rio's heart doesn't beat anymore 💔

[agatharkn3ss]

Nicky's Rio son too.

I feel there were so many lines that imply this and the finale is starting to make more sense - especially because the dandelion in the trial!

Jen explains that Green Craft™ is about the cycle of all living things - growth and decay in constant flow. So it's not just about dying but being born too.

So it would track that Rio's love for Agatha was so strong that it actually created life - Nicky. However, there would be consequences to this because proper balance had to be maintained somehow. Rio probably even warned Agatha about it, but Agatha always believes she is above the rules so in her head she probably thought she had every right to Nicky (maybe even her "prize" that she alludes to in their final confrontation). This would really add to Rio's hurt - Nicky was her son too. She thought she was giving Agatha a gift of life, but instead Agatha sees her as this cruel "evil" that "gave her nothing". To her Rio is the one who just "took."

It feels like it is also implied by Rio at the start of the episode when she says "This walk with another woman's son on a road that doesn't...". She could be referring to Nicky being her son.

But I think Agatha finally accepts her truth during the final trial when she sees the dandelion seed in her cameo. She even says "Out of Death - life" as she grows it because she finally understands the literal implications of that phrase.

That Dandelion is representation of Nicky. And sure enough, as soon as the flower grows and blossoms, it quickly enters the final stage - when it turns into the seeds that can be scattered by the wind again and continue the cycle of life. Because guess what, "dandelions produce seeds asexually by apomixis, where the seeds are produced without pollination, resulting in offspring that are genetically identical to the parent plant".

When Nicky is born, we could probably assume it was indeed asexual reproduction - Agatha says she didn't use a spell or incantation, but instead he was made from scratch (obviously a clever nod to his name). On one hand it could be read like Agatha is astonished how something this magical could happen without actually using any witchcraft. However, this also feels like a suggestion that maybe she is just amazed at how he could possibly exist. Kathryn Hahn in her recent interview alluded to how the witches didn't need men, babies were just born. So it was Rio's "dandelion seed" that made it happen.

It is the second characteristic of dandelion species is what seals the deal for me - "the offspring being genetically identical to the parent plant". Nicky as the offspring of Death needs bodies to survive in this realm. During his birth Rio says she can offer only time, because she can maintain the balance, as long as Nicky gets his bodies.

That's why she hates Rio and calls her evil - not because of Rio herself, but because of what her "genetics" did to Nicky. Agatha would rather have people believe that she is this evil witch killer that traded her child for the Darkhold, than anyone to know the awful truth that it was Nicky who was the cause of the killings.

In the flashbacks, there are those remarks about how they haven't "eaten for days" and that whenever Nicky was poorly he said he was hungry. Agatha said she couldn't create the food for him (and protect him from what's coming). She could've cooked that goat they had with them if they were really that hungry (btw, I still believe that goat is Senor Scratchy), but that wasn't the "food" that Nicky meant.

And just like Billy, Rio couldn't just take Nicky. He had to "turn himself in". It was his choice not to kill any more witches. On the day Nicky dies, he says "My mother needs me home". I think he is talking about Rio here, since he usually calls Agatha "Mama". This is the moment the decides for himself and goes home to Death.

I feel like this opens the possibility that we will indeed see Nicholas Scratch in the future (and have a role similar to the one in the comics). That maybe even he might not have "died" because he is an offspring of death, so he just exists in some Underworld realm, where he no longer needs bodies to survive. Maybe Agatha might have hoped that by killing more and more witches, she will bring Nicky back to life/this realm?

And the Ballad really was a protection spell she made for him too?

This would also be a more plausible explanation why Agatha went to kiss Rio when Billy asked "Is this how Nicky died?". I feel this was more of an apology to Rio for hating her for Nicky's treatment, because she finally understood why she had to do it?