#study:hizzie

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The amount of hizzie subtext in the first few episodes alone is actually a bit crazy and I don't even remember these tiny details, I'm ngl. I think rewatching the show while knowing how the dynamics end up unfolding is useful because you actually know to look out for it more

Like, most of Lizzie's scenes/development so far hinge around Hope. A lot of screentime has been placed on MG's crush on her, yeah, but Lizzie isn't returning it and all of her struggles and even her dialogue have something to do with Hope.

Just in 1x04 alone, she spends the entire episode trying to 'play hero' and then admits at the end that she was only doing it because that's how Ric and everyone else perceives Hope. So despite her teasing and jabs (which honestly in and of themselves sound almost begrudgingly affectionate in a way and you can tell they're not 'genuine' but instead almost give off this vibe of Lizzie being kind of obsessed with her, lol), she really clearly does admire Hope. Even the "Hope, you try not to deliberately alienate the entire student body" felt like it was Lizzie jabbing at her because her feelings were hurt because she felt like Hope rejected her.

She looks personally offended when Josie takes Hope's side before the community service, and even before that the only way she would agree to forgive Josie for sabotaging the football game win is if Josie promised not to do secret spells with Hope anymore. Which just screams that the twins are both coveting her...

The soft look Lizzie gets when MG is compelling Sasha and Hope opens up about her grief. The way every competitive thing Lizzie has been doing and all of her struggles so far have just been centered around Hope is insane, idk

Like yeah, it's also wrapped up in teen girl jealousy because (and this is true for Josie too) their dad is spending too much time with Hope. But it's also this bitter resentment that Hope came off like she didn't want to be their friend when they were kids. And you could read this as platonic, but to me there's just this heavy sapphic vibe to the whole jealousy thing going on between Hope and both twins. Which only deepens with the "I had a crush on you" scene where Josie says she was afraid Lizzie would go for Hope

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It took her like 5,000 years to figure this out and she’s pretty smart so it’s like. damn that closet is deep huh

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Little Hope saying Princess Saltzstar is smarter than everyone thinks and then in 1x03 when Lizzie does a containment spell to make sure the gargoyle doesn't escape into the outside world-

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hi hello i have a hizzie thought

1x10 starts with lizzie teasing hope about being outsmarted by a monster and losing the knife—

—and then it ends with lizzie ALMOST being outsmarted by a monster (the jinni) but then she ends up outsmarting the jinni in the end. which is another parallel to baby hope thinking lizzie is the smartest but anyway

throughout the episode, in the different realities, you can see even more that what lizzie is mainly after is attention from her dad. her face lights up when her dad tells her he doesn’t know what he’d do without her (my heart broke because she just wants that same energy in the original reality but ric is a bum ass, so).

and even though she can’t remember what happened in the other realities or the lessons she learned, she still retains the growth from it. she tells ric that all of her tools to help with her emotions go out the window when it comes to hope. hope asks lizzie if she wants to help put a boundary spell around the urn and lizzie’s eyes soften, but she says no (and hope looks disappointed). she can’t get hope out of her head and it’s because she’s starting to realize that most of her frustration and problems revolve around unfairly blaming hope for the way her dad is. it’s also compounded by a desire to be like hope and wishing she was hope’s friend, and now she’s finally (slowly) catching on

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hizzie thought: hope finds it endearing that landon loves nerd stuff, so she would probably bond with lizzie by watching the lord of the rings movies with her and they would have popcorn and laugh and stuff