#marcella vengeful

[discountsoysauce]

This is gonna take a while to finish so here's some Eli & Marcella interactions from my outline bc I love them (with a single line about Victor)

[secretly-a-catamount]

So I was thinking about the Villains Series, specifically what each characters’ Disney villain song would be — is that a coherent sentence? — and, here’s what I came up with so far:

Eli — Hellfire (Hunchback of Notre Dame)

Marcella — Be Prepared (The Lion King)

June and Jonathan (Talking about Marcella) — Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)

Serena — Mother Knows Best (Rapunzel)

[sillysynopses]

The phrase ‘and they were roommates’ finally finds its origin as two men enacting scientific war crimes rather than fuck one another, encounter a pair of sisters who need therapy, a dog that really just needs to go to a better home, and the most innocent cyber criminal slash hired muscle you’ll ever encounter. Watch as this group of people burn through a city that might as well be New York but possibly isn’t for legal reasons, and murder a bunch of innocent people who probably had it coming anyway because they were possessed by the devil- or at least that’s what the traumatised religious man keeps telling himself- anyway, join in on the rom com of the century as these two crazy kids prove you need a lot more than good chemistry to make a relationship work- you also need a defibrillator!

[livingfictionsystem]

"Vengeful", V.E. Scwab

[monsoonrays]

The gala scene lives rent free in my head. Kudos to anyone if they can recognize which part of the fight this is from.

[i-know-the-endss]

my only purpose left in life is to read victorious by ve schwab when it comes out. and that’s it.

[dayables]

A meaning about the alliteration in Vicious/Vengeful I haven’t seen anyone talk about is how Victor Vale and Marcella Morgan are born with their alliterating names but Eli Ever is a fake name for Eli Cardale.

Something something, Eli not choosing his ruthless nature until he dies and looses his soul while Victor and Marcella were always kind of like that.

[festeringmoons]

overall I think it’s fine to not like Marcella(you cannot be expected to like every fictional character ever, and she obviously is nowhere near a perfect person; far from it) but if you hate her because she took up space in a book the author has stated is specifically about women reclaiming power and you wanted to see more of your homoerotic serial killer boys then you should reevaluate your fucking biases <3

[ajlockwood]

victorious by v. e. schwab 2026 be fucking for real.

I can’t believe those losers (and that VICTORious blonde bastard) are coming back to me

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2023. VILLAINS by V. E. Schwab.

Time for a NaNo Prep Reread! I love Victor and this vicious little family with my whole chest. This'll be my second time rereading VICIOUS, but only my first time rereading VENGEFUL.

[snartha]

I drew an impeccable sketch on a hot-pink post-it note at work and tried (unsuccessfully) to recapture its majesty on high-quality sketchbook paper. (Also I finally read Vengeful and it was pretty good)

[discountsoysauce]

3 chapters of the death note AU planned out so far and we're only just seeing Victor. Oh boy.

[adamsrcnan]

villains.

- "Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human"

[LINK]

[typingwithmyhandstied]

On a random note, my favorite dynamic in ADSOM is probably Alucard and Kell or Maxim and Kell or Holland and Kell or Rhy and Kell. Wait, or Lila and Alucard or Rhy and Lila.

[elysiawynters]

WHAT?!?!?????!!!

Listen, if Victor dies, I will be devastated. Absolutely torn apart. Ruined.

I’m hoping this means all that drama in his life is over and he can have a happy little life with Mitch and his adopted daughter Sydney. Maybe visiting Eli in jail in the weekends for date night.

[lesbianamalvada]

Let's talk about Vengeful. Most of the book is dedicated to:

-Marcella, her character, her revenge, her taking over the city, how she's gonna change the way EOs are seen.

-Eli, his tragic back story, honestly idgaf about him.

-Victor trying to stop his pain

-Sydney trying to bring back Serena

-June is there

-Mitch is there

-Dom is there

-Johnathan is there.

The people the book was mostly about, Marcella and Eli, die. Honestly love the way Eli went but Marcella's death was so anti climatic and pathetic, especially since she took up so much of the book. She was an interesting character, but her "kill a man in perfect make up and six inch high heels" shit was annoying yet Schwab presents her as the pinnacle of feminism.

Sydney's whole arc about being strong enough to bring back her sister goes nowhere. She thinks about bringing her back, but doesn't. She thinks about running away with June, she doesn't. The whole Serena plot line really pissed me off (forever a Serena Clarke stan she had a good heart how can you like Eli and not Serena fuck you.) Like okay, I get it. Serena was broken after the lake and even though she saved her sister (and tried to spare/save her later), she still abandoned her and wasn't there for her. The whole point is that even though Serena was a great sister all those years and loved Syd, Serena wasn't there for her so Sydney feels like she shouldn't bring her back. Unlike Victor who she brought back, who was always- wait what?

That brings us to Victor, he acts like an asshole the whole book. The bit we got in the beginning with him interacting with Syd and Mitch was my favorite part, but I just don't get why Sydney and Mitch stay with him. Okay, I get why they stay, they have nowhere else to go, but why do they take his shit? Especially Mitch. He kills good people for 5 years. Sydney, Mitch, and Dom relentlessly help him find a cure. Syd blames herself even though she's the only reason he's alive. Mitch's hacking is what keeps them afloat. Dom is the only reason Victor is safe from Eon, he gets killed. Then Victor finally gets what he wants, a cure. Plus not only did Sydney save his life again, she killed his mortal enemy, Eli. So after all that, now that he has everything he wants, he ABANDONS Mitch and Sydney. And it doesn't even seem like they're that mad about it.

June was interesting but we found out 0 about her. How did she die? Why did she want revenge? What got her here? What are her motivations? Why is this grown woman obsessed with Syd? She exists as Marcella's henchwoman and then is just a plot device so Victor attacks Marcella and not Eli. (The way her and Marcella fell out was contrived)

Johnathan was just there. Why the hell would he team up with Marcella? He had no motivation, he's probably happy he died.

TLDR: Vengeful really can't stand on its own for me and doesn't live up to the masterpiece that is Vicious. Instead of the woven timeline feeling poetic, like in Vicious, it feels contrived. And too much time is spent on characters idgaf about, or who don't matter.