#osirian!patricia au

[incorrectsibunaquotes]

no because you guys don’t get it. if the osirian!patricia AU was a thing, in s1 can you even imagine how much worse the gaslighting would have been from not just the adults, but from everyone, if on top of all the conspiracies patricia was screaming from the rooftops, she was also claiming to have visions/prophetic dreams? we already saw how bad it got when she was saying she saw a creepy man in her room…

[joysmercer]

What would happen if Nina never came to Amun Boarding Academy?

i think patricia would have lost it with worry as she did in canon, but with no nina-took-her-place!! accusations, people (fabian and mara, mainly) would have been less dismissive, even if they didn't quite share her worry. the facetime with joy would have happened a lot quicker as a result since everyone would want answers. but i simply don't think sarah would have dumped the locket on them (one, because she has no kinship with them, and two, since it wouldn't work for them anyway), so they would not have any way to truly discover the ~mystery~, let alone solve it.

patricia's pre-sibuna plotlines (up until kidnapping rufus) would be mostly the same, though, maybe dragging fabian along with her (since he's not busy with nina)…but more likely that he refuses to participate but knows what she's up to, so he ends up being the one to bail her out lol. joy would have still sent her the messages/been there in the audience, and i'd like to think they still find her on prom night and know something is up, but it's not going to be as clean as an ending because they have no way of knowing what that something is.

so then joy would have come back super duper traumatized with no answers, and maybe she'll fill in patricia and fabian about what she knows, but certainly not amber – not that that thought would even occur to her, anyway, considering amber would not have founded sibuna if it weren't for nina. and then nothing would happen in s2 because there's no fabina date-turned-senkhara release (actually, there's no cup for senkhara to be stuck in in the first place). maybe they see the adults milling around and follow them, but it's more likely that the adults are unsuccessful since they can't spy on the kids and get the answers.

jerome's entire thing would still happen though, so he'd still get the gem and have to deal with rufus…not sure how that would shape up but I think this is when eddie's Osirian powers would awaken somehow (even with the actual chosen one miles away and unaware), and patricia (dragging joy and fabian with her) would follow him and that's how they all get involved?

but then s3 rolls around and no one knows anything because sweet's kept his mouth shut, and maybe alfie steals that bracelet but i doubt that, without 2 years of sibuna shit under their belts, the kids would even think of it being a mystery, let alone decide to follow the trail or whatever. not to mention the fact that amber wound not even be involved in sibuna anyway. actually, i feel like amber would have just bugged the school to give her a year-round place and stayed in the states after fashion camp without ever coming back lolol but for the sake of this, she does come back first

so amber has the bracelet and probably just gives it right back to victor. maybe jerome gets involved via alfie and is like idk if you should have done that but they don't listen because what is he even talking about.

so kt shows up with this key and it's her and eddie against the world, except eddie immediately confides in fabian about his visions, and since fabian doesn't have a (weak) excuse to be a dummy about it in this au, the three of them immediately start working together. and jabian stays besties throughout s2 and up to this point because at least that aspect of her psyche is a little less traumatized here, so joy's in, and brings patricia with her. but, like, no locket! and probably no bracelet! so they have no leads or ideas…and this is when jerome crashes the party like "yo victor's package was a mysterious bracelet and i think it's important?" and somehow they figure out denby's a fraud and the adults are Up To Something. and joy's like "i know their weaknesses let's get em" and they try to thwart the eclipse ceremony, but fail to do so, in basically the same way in canon (except that both jerome and joy also know what's going on). so now alfie's involved too because "wtf was that, guys," and the lead up to the rfs-is-alive reveal is all pretty much the same besides the extra sibuna members.

(also cheating arc still happens amidst all the ceremony drama lol) (and the fake date-turned-peddie getting back together) (and the dog-washing-turned-jeroy-arc)

so anyways! with nearly the whole house involved, and especially joy, there's a buddy system immediately implemented to make sure none of them get taken (miss mercer's directive, obvi). sinners are victor, sweet, and mara. patricia does get jealous here, but joy recognizes it and manages to calm her down (/not let her run off alone anywhere/throw her laptop in the toilet). so that's not a thing.

so the phonograph doesn't get destroyed, they manage to break out the three sinners before 2 more are taken, and all is fine in the world…

until he and patricia and kt go back to the states for university and the two of them meet kt's new roommate ("she was actually my bestie in preschool! small world!") and now that the chosirian are together again, well…

college!sibuna, anyone?

[house-of-the-chosen]

Thinking about a role reversal au with Fabian being the chosen one and Patricia being the osirian

[non-cannon]

Thinking about what if all of Sibuna learned magic and they needed to make their own wands for it. (Assuming some kind of AU where obviously the chosen one and osirian are going to be more powerful but everyone can learn magic).

Fabian would go for a historical ancient Egyptian Apotropaic wand. (Curved but probably not actual ivory).

Nina would probably also go for this (either that or a Harry Potter type wand depending on whether or not this happens before Rolling came out as a TERF).

Amber makes a fairy wand. (So many sparkles).

Alfie uses a magic wand. (Black with white tips).

Patricia goes for a staff. (It can also be used to bonk people on the head).

KT sort of makes a generically witchy wand with no specific inspiration. (I don't know man, I don't actually know what she would do).

Eddie didn't really know what he was doing. He tried to make it as cool as possible and it somehow ended up looking the worse.

(Can you tell I was thinking about the first five a lot, and only did KT and Eddie as I was writing this for the sake of completion?)

[howaboutwedont]

i was so utterly shocked until i realised it was talking about they both die at the end 😭😭

but.... hear me out.... au where this DOES happen:

in s1 victor goes to save patricia instead of miss andrews because in this he thinks she's joy's osirian

so rufus steps out of the car first but victor doesnt come out yet (pun very much intended)

and instead he starts the car and starts coming towards rufus in an attempt to scare him so he like runs and gives victor a chance to rescue patricia

but in his desperation -and rufus' refusal to back down even though victor was sure he would- he accidentally runs him over

i feel like him dying would be too much here but also angst

so rufus dies and victor gets to keep the elixir and rescue the "osirian" (which is really gonna add insult to injury when he finds out) but he also has to live with the eternal guilt that comes with killing your nemesis who you may or may not have had a thing with in your youth

thats it. idk what this was

[wolfblood-of-anubis]

ya’ll remember that time Joy called Nina ‘really pretty’?

well how about an AU where she’s vv jealous of Fabina and at first we think it’s Fabian and she does too! but then she figures out she hates Nina because she likes her (kinda inspired by Nico di Angelo hating Percy because he liked him)

anyway this basically evolves into the finale involving what the Secret Society Cult™️ believed to be the wrong Chosen One: Joy and the wrong Osirian: Patricia then dating the actual Chosen One: Nina and the actual Osirian: Eddie

[thankfullynotaredshirt]

i can't remember which house of anubis characters ive sent you for ask game bingos so far so it's your choice. LMFAO

Patricia and Eddie (bc somehow its the same for both of them)

i want to kill them with a gun: I want to tie them to a string and make a yoyo with them, see what happens 🤔 (affectionate)

their relationship to specific other characters makes me feral: Alfie and Patricia (laundry room scene) and Jerome and Eddie. and also we were robbed I want to see what crazy shit would happen with the chosen one and the osirian in sibuna - would nina get a paper cut and Eddie beat the paper up?

im taking them from the narrative: angsty peddie coffeeshop au WHEN

headpats for character: this, but Patricia is a cat methinks

my little meow meow: maybe they don't commit war crimes but all the shit they pulled as sibuna (or just in general) like... also bad boy eddie, do you think he writes swear words with a sharpie on the school desks orrrrrrrrr

squishes the character: *squish squish*

the flavour is stored in the character: I'm cooking a nice little spicy broth with all the flavour stored in them, who's served 👨‍🍳

Nina because she was my fav growing up and I wanted to marry her

Robert Frobby

fucking sexy: 😳 it's the unhinged goddess summoning okay

most interesting character: all the adults are pretty interesting but I want to know moreeeeeeee, also I want to take look inside his brain like you would open the back of a pocket watch to see what makes it move you know

who let this dipshit behave like this: yeah like who let him steal all that stuff from egypt

I want to kill them: I haven't decided which yet but I want several tragedies to befall him.

my little meow meow. my sopping wet pathetic bastard who summons Amut the goddess destroyer of worlds :3

*squishes* the wax figure in the secret room, I want to squeeze it like a toy to see if his head pops off. also imagine taking the time to make a speaking wax figure just in case he wakes up evil.

[amelia-pinches]

Patricia as the Osirian

SEASON 1 • before s1, her osirian “powers” clinged onto Joy, considering Joy is very similar -astrologically- speaking to the real chosen one • when they first met, Patricia and Joy really clicked because of this. Patricia felt a special connection with Joy that she hadn’t felt before • When Joy went missing, Patricia just ~knew- something was wrong and she lived in constant anxiety (canon but) • When she met Nina, she knew something was up with her but didn’t know what that was exactly • Confused and Upset, she mistook that as her intuition telling her Nina was bad • When she bullied Nina, she felt a strong inner-conflict and guilt like she had never experienced before • Rufus purposefully singled her out because he knew she was the Osirian • Rufus lied to Victor and told him that Eddie was the Osirian in hopes he could steal Patricia’s Osirian powers (another au i will post later) • As her and Nina grew closer, that bond she had with Joy began to form - except at a way faster rate • Patricia began to feel really uneasy because she felt as if she was replacing Joy with Nina when she knew Joh was in trouble • Patricia tried to push Nina away but that connection was so strong • They worked very well as a team and it seemed they were always thinking the same thing; what one person lacked, the other made up • Eventually, they moved back into the same room • Patricia began telling Nina things she had never told anyone before and vice versa • When Patricia was kidnapped by Rufus, she couldn’t help but worry if Nina was okay despite Patricia was the one who was kidnapped • Nina began to tell Patricia about the weird stuff happening to her, and Patricia was extremely concerned • When they found out Nina was the chosen one, Patricia had a feeling that there was more to the story • When her and Joy reunited, that special connection wasn’t as strong. Patricia brushed it off at first, but throughout the summer, it became very apparent • Over the summer, Patricia and Nina were talking on a daily basis • Joy saw how close Nina and Patricia were and began to get jealous SEASON 2 • When they all returned, Patricia and Nina shared a room while Joy, Amber, and Mara shared a room • Joy was very hurt by this and tried to get Patricia to change rooms except Victor wouldn’t allow it • Nina and Patricia would partner up in every class, leaving Joy to partner with Fabian • Nina told Patricia about Senkarah almost immediately and Patricia tried to fight her • Nina would complain about Fabian and Joy to Patricia, and Patricia actually gave her really good advice • Joy felt even more betrayed by Patricia taking Nina’s side • Fabian actually explained his feelings to Joy, and while Joy was hurt, she understood • Joy was more upset with her losing her best friend rather than her crush. This is when she really starts resenting Nina • Patricia got extremely protective of Nina when Senkhara marked her • Nina and Patricia began to get even closer and they would open up to one another about their feelings (Patricia told her about the loss of connection with Joy, Nina told her about Fabina doubts) • Nina was having doubts about her relationship with Fabian and broke it off that reason. Later that night, Patricia comforted her • Amber also started to get jealous at Nina’s and Patricia’s closeness but kept her mouth closed for the sake of sibuna TBC

[lilydreaming13]

fanfiction about hoa that I'd like to read part 2

1) one shot almost AU Eddie already knows he is the Osirian,  the secret society had asked him to guard Joy, thinking she was her chosen one. Your first real meeting with Patricia? When the sibuna contact Joy with a video call. Patricia argues with Eddie because he won't let her talk to Joy. 

2) Eddie and KT are in a "friendly war" to get Patricia. They will do anything to win, even throwing low shots.

[theosirianischosen]

New AU fanfic idea: Eddie is recruited by Rufus as well to spy on Sibuna (much like Vera with Victor), making use of a secret connections as they are both the Osirian.  However, Eddie reforms by the end, betrays Rufus, helps Sibuna, and still sends Rufus packing...

(And by packing, I mean being sent to Egyptian hell!)

Bonus points if you can make Peddie a part of his espionage mission, due to Patricia’s connections to Sibuna and Rufus’s past “involvement” with her.

I know they wanted to keep the osirian reveal till the end, but I think it would have been cool if we got to see Eddie have a similar connection to Rufus as Nina did to Sarah.

[incorrectsibunaquotes]

Do you think Eddie would have found out about all the supernatural adventures if he hadn't been Osirian and Patricia had been there instead? And how would the third season go in that case?

Correct me if I’m wrong, but you’re asking about the Osirian!Patricia AU, right? If not, I’m so sorry for the rest of this answer 😂

So if everything was the exactly same through S1/S2 (i.e. the adults thought Joy was the Chosen One but it was actually Nina, the Cup got built, Sibuna gets cursed by Senkhara, etc.), except for the fact that Patricia was actually the Osirian, it stands to reason that the kids probably wouldn’t know that right away. And the same way Victor doesn’t actually have confirmation Nina is the Paragon until the S2 finale, the adults might suspect there’s something a little wacky about Patricia, but they probs would not know for sure what that wackiness actually was.

I think maybe in this AU because Patricia would still be interacting with Rufus as much as she did in S1 that he might tell her or give her reason to suspect there’s something up with her, but if let’s say he didn’t and she just spent the entirety of S1 having strangely intense nightmares and hallucinations that she and everyone else chalk up to being really upset over Joy’s disappearance. This just means that all of S2 is pretty much the same as canon apart from the occasional “funny feeling.” (If I were going to write this AU out as a story, tho, she’d probably know she was the Osirian by the end of S1, but for the sake of argument, let’s just assume this discovery comes at the same place as the canon timeline)

So here’s Eddie, right? He’s just a normal kid whose dad was a poopy head and left him and his mom to be in a cult. Casual business, all that. He and Patricia are still gonna hit it off, naturally, because nothing has really changed in their dynamic apart from a slight role reversal that isn’t even really relevant to them yet at the point where they meet, have their banter, fall for each other, etc.. The only difference might be that Patricia is a little more ✨inexplicably one-track-minded✨ about the mystery… so that could put some strain on their relationship. But other than that business as usual for Peddie.

Here’s where it gets tricky. In the finale, I don’t see any reason as to why Fabian, Alfie, and Patricia wouldn’t still go to the barn to rescue Jerome, and therefore Eddie would follow them bc he wanted to see what Patricia was hiding from him. He’d probably still get knocked in the head by Rufus, and Jerome would still give him the gem in a panic before getting dragged away, and Patricia and Alfie would still discover a concussed Eddie and bring him home, where she’d finally have to explain to Eddie who Rufus is/whats going on.

The divergence of the plot would come the moment Patricia gets her hands on that gem. She starts hearing voices, realizes Nina is about to do some dumb shit, starts rambling to Eddie that the Chosen One needs her, and she runs out the door. I don’t see why Eddie wouldn’t follow her, except for maybe if he’s really concussed. But I feel like he’d pull through because he’d obviously be really worried for his girlfriend, especially after what just happened.

So the final showdown happens, except it’s Patricia banishing Senkhara with the crown. So obviously if Eddie was there, he’d have a pretty good idea of the sort of supernatural shenanigans that went down.

In Season 3, however, all bets are off. Patricia would not be a shithead like Eddie, and she would obviously tell Fabian that Nina wasn’t coming back to Anubis House like a normal person, so that random Fabian vs Eddie brawl craziness doesn’t happen. Peddie probably still breaks up over the summer, but maybe not idk… let’s just say they did. Okay so Patricia has the vision of KT and the key, so when she turns up, Eddie is not being a total freak toward her, rather Patricia is, but it’s not as weird because Sibuna as a whole is being freaks about it.

KT gets sussed out as an ally rather than a threat pretty quickly, and Sibuna adopts her pretty quickly. Meanwhile, Eddie is aware that Sibuna exists, but isn’t taken into the club because his ex is now leading it 💀. So I’m thinking maybe he’s aware they’re up to something and does some of his own digging when his dad gets weird about the family tree project. Eventually, though, I think he’d approach Patricia and the others and offer his help. Cue romantic violins as the same harebrained scheme of KT to push her two friends back together ensues. Also in this AU she and Patricia are def besties bc there’s no wack misunderstandings and they’re still the only girls in Sibuna.

Now it’s also messy bc Patricia would be both Descended and the Osirian, but… she’s just OP I guess idk. Anyway, the ceremony works (womp womp) and S3b begins. I think Eddie would be in Sibuna atp, but maybe more in an unofficial way? Idk. But I think he’d probably get taken as a Sinner bc the only reason he escaped the crypt is because his vision of Patricia getting manhandled radicalized him. So he’s probs caught in a similar way to how he would have been if he’d not made it out of the crypt, and now he’s got all he needs to target the Osirian.

But don’t worry, she’s got plot armor!! Idk, anon it’s not super fleshed out 😂

Anyway, to give you the short answer to your question: yes I think Eddie would find out about the mystery in this AU, he just wouldn’t be as much of a key player in the story

[joysmercer]

eddie dies in tor and victor revives him with the tear but it makes him lose his memories from the past two years because they’re technically osirian memories and the osirian stayed dead au where he bumps into patricia while in the uk visiting his dad a few years after tor and she’s stunned to see him but not enough to be speechless—in fact she’s super rambly and also pissed at him (both for something he just did and for getting amnesia) and starts scolding him—so he does the whole “*finger snap* i’ll call you yacker” thing he did when they first met although ofc he doesn’t know that. and she promptly bursts into tears and then he remembers the last time he saw her cry (cheating scandal) and everything comes flooding back. the end.

[non-cannon]

Some Nina and Victor Head canons. Note, that these are all season two or post season two in an AU where Nina came back for her third year, and Victor's characterization/character arc from the first two seasons isn't ignored.

(I feel like season three messed up almost everyone's characterizations/character arcs, with Victor and Jerome being the most egregious examples of their season three selves not matching with their end of season two selves.)

Victor respects Nina. During season two, when he admits to Vera that Nina makes him nervous, he clearly at the very least respects what she is capable of. And I think after the finale he just respects her with no asterisks or qualifiers.

If anyone else had told Victor that his father was sorry, he wouldn't have believed them, but he believes Nina. If it was Sarah, he would think that she was lying to make him feel better. If it were Rufus, then a lie to manipulate him some how. And he probably wouldn't even bother listening to anyone else about it. But for some reason he believes Nina, and not just because she's so bad at lying.

After meeting Victor Sr. and hearing what he has to say about his son, Nina understands where Victor Jr. is coming from a bit better. And she has more empathy and understanding for him, and after season two she no longer fears him.

After season two, Victor starts regularly calling her Nina, and she doesn't really notice until someone else points it out to her. And it weirds everyone else out because he only calls the students (prior to this, including Nina) by their last names.

-

After season two, Victor would be willing to give Nina lessons about Egyptian mythology, reading hieroglyphics, and alchemy, and Nina would be willing to receive them. I don't know which one of them broaches the subject first, but these lessons do start happening. Both of them, especially after the first name incident, are determined to keep this a secret. Nina does share the fact that Victor is teaching her "chosen one things" with the core members of Sibuna (Fabian, Amber, Patricia, Alfie).

Sibuna warns her to be careful, and Fabian desperately wants to be included in those lessons, but Victor makes it perfectly clear that none of the other miscreants are invited. Nina does share the knowledge with Fabian anyway. Or at least the impersonal knowledge that these lessons are objectively supposed to be about.

But after a while these meetings go from being purely academic to at least partially personal. It starts with Nina asking about what Sarah was like when she was younger, and with Victor asking for more details about his father's ghost. Over time they form a sort of relationship, I'm not sure if I would call it a friendship, they certainly wouldn't, but a positive relationship where they find themselves trusting each other with things that they don't tell anyone else.

Victor discusses things like his childhood with Rufus and Sarah, and his father, and about his guilt over what he and Rufus did to Sarah, and how he misses them sometimes.

Nina admits to being terrified of being the chosen one. It's a curse and it's already hurt the people around her, and what if it gets them killed? And she admits to being confused by Eddie and what her relationship is supposed to be with him as the osirian. She barely interacted with him at all last year outside of his relationship with Patricia. And he seems so eager to embrace being the osirian, while she just wants to runaway from being the paragon.

And in response Victor tells her about Rufus and Sarah discovering what being the osirian and chosen one meant for them, and what it was like watching them before Rufus went made with power. Victor then makes a comment about Mr. Miller being too much of an imbecile to go down the same path that Rufus did. And Nina takes it as the reassurance it was meant to be.

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I'm not mad that Natalia Ramos left. I refuse, on principle to be mad at her. It's just, with Nina gone, there was so much potential for Nina and Victor's character dynamic to develop. And it makes me so upset when I think about it. And even without Nina there I feel like Victor's character arc was thrown down the drain even before he became a sinner!

[incorrectsibunaquotes]

sunlit ice

Summary:

A spirit lurks in Patricia, intertwined with the very fabric of her soul, that Rufus recognizes, because it lives just as intricately in him. Osirian.

link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/48828064

[incorrectsibunaquotes]

chosen one & osirian

[incorrectsibunaquotes]

S2 finale AU where Eddie didn’t figure it out or make it in time, and Senkhara did manage to puppeteer Nina into the afterlife:

First of all, Joy would be dead. The Mask of Anubis would have gone with Senkhara and Nina into the Field of Rushes, taking with it any chance for a Tear of Gold. Nina also had Victor Sr.’s ring in her person at the time, so even that would be lost.

So Joy dies on the scene, and is later labeled a hero in her own right.

Alternatively, Rufus would not have died, as he would never have had the chance to put the Mask on. By the time everyone’s paths crossed at the Frobisher Library, SenkhNina (this is the shorthand now, bear with me) would have already been through the portal and onto greener pastures… literally.

Since we have no real context for how Senkhara (or Rufus, for that matter) actually planned on becoming a god once they made it to the afterlife, or whether it was an automatic thing once you had the Mask of Anubis with you when you crossed over, but for the sake of this AU let’s say it wasn’t a super dramatic shift right away.

So in the immediate aftermath, we’re left with the dead body of a teenage girl, as well as a girl who has now up and vanished into thin air as far as the rest of the world is concerned.

They blame Joy’s murder and Nina’s disappearance on Vera, who’s already long gone by the time authorities go looking, and it buys them all time to get the story straight.

Fabian is, of course, way beyond inconsolable. Not only has the love of his life sacrificed herself to the afterlife to lift their curse, but one of his closest friends has also jumped in front of a lightning bolt meant for him. The survivor’s guilt is insurmountable, and he’s essentially on round-the-clock supervision so he doesn’t do anything drastic.

Eddie’s survivor guilt is also pretty bad. People keep telling him it’s not his fault, and “how were you supposed to know??” but something undeniable in his soul (the Osirian, or maybe even just his own conscience) insists the opposite.

Victor and Rufus are forced to reckon with the fact that their ventures for eternal life have led to an absolutely catastrophic end, and they make a public show of reconciliation.

Victor is rattled by the carnage, and does try to give his oldest friend the benefit of the doubt, but the children— Jerome and Patricia, in particular— are unconvinced.

“Things will get bad sooner or later. Senkhara doesn’t want to be a god just for the status. We have to figure out a way to stop her from destroying the world as we know it.”

So Rufus offers to take Eddie under his wing and train him how to use his Osirian powers.

This causes a major uproar, but ultimately Eddie accepts, much to everyone’s chagrin.

“I want to be prepared for when Senkhara strikes back! Rufus is just helping me be ready to face Nina if it comes down to it.”

Basically everyone is too depressed and reeling to argue…

… except for Patricia who shoved down all her grief for her best friends (to only be let out as sobs into her pillow at night), and stepped up as de facto Sibuna leader (since Fabian and Amber were too deep in their feels).

Patricia is adamant this is a bad idea, and that Rufus is only using Eddie to achieve some end— probably the same end he’s always been after— but Eddie is equally adamant that training with Rufus is necessary.

He needs to develop his skill as an Osirian. After all, it was his lack of knowledge that killed Nina and Joy. And Rufus is the only person who can help. Why can’t anyone understand that??

Things are relatively quiet for a while, but everyone’s still grieving pretty badly. Then, slowly, things start to get strange.

Senkhara is clearly up to something in the Field of Rushes, and Victor decides the best thing he can do is tell the students ahead of time that there’s someone who might still be able to to help them: Robert Frobisher-Smythe

So the S3 plot stays relatively the same, except now the whole squad is in on it and trying to make the ceremony a success, because if that ALSO goes wrong then between Senkhara and Ammut, they’re all cooked

With Joy dead, they have to find a replacement descendant for her bloodline, and end up landing on Willow, since she’s the closest thing to it.

For the sake of everyone’s sanity we’re gonna say they sniffed out Caroline’s B.S. early on, and Robert woke up good. But even he’s like “Man idk what to do about this either lol. Let’s figure it out tho”

Meanwhile, Rufus is still training Eddie. And Eddie’s getting stronger, but the way he’s harnessing his gifts is… detrimental. He’s not working with balance, he’s working with control. And it’s affecting him negatively.

Patricia starts slowly pulling away from him, because as much as she cares about Eddie, she can’t condone this. And she is deeply afraid of what Rufus’ influence over her boyfriend means for everyone.

Robert is over here with Victor going “you know, I never liked that boy” about Rufus, and Victor is in a bit of denial about his old friend “turning over a new leaf” but deep down he knows this is all a very bad idea

As months pass with nothing major happening, the emotional wounds start to scab over, even Fabian’s (mostly because Patricia and Amber force him to pull it together lmfao) but it’s tense. Everyone is waiting for the other shoe to drop

And then one day it does.