#verna tag tbd

[mysfated]

ok for sure adding verna from the fall of the house of u.sher and bc i just did a bunch of research my brain is buzzing and i want to write this draft lol so heres a small dump of just some thoughts and hcs so far. please be aware there are spoilers below :)

TLDR; read the bold text :)

what is she? i think that's the question i'm still trying to answer. but the most i can akin her to is...a god. she would never say that though. her answer would be: fate. but verna has been here since the beginning of time. she may even be time herself. i'm deeply inspired by the fact that the raven is associated with god and chaos across multiple religions and cultures. in native cultures for example, the raven can be seen as the creator and/or a trickster god. which i think lines perfectly with what we see in the show. in hinduism the raven is associated mahakala (the god time, creation, destruction and power) and shani (the god of karma, justice, and retribution) also attributes we see in verna. in norse mythology, ravens are associated with odin, the all-father, as his trusted ears and eyes, providing secrets and happenings of the worlds he guards. in the quran, the raven "teaches" cain how to bury a body and in the bible, the raven is often associated with god, god's power, and were even considered forbidden to eat. again all stories i see really fitting with verna's character. and theres so many coincidences across these depictions - to be so closely associated with the idea of creation, judgement, and godliness... really proves what she is to me. i mean I CAN KEEP GOING , this is the kind of stuff I LOVE. i loveee digging into cultures and religions and reading the folklore and texts that i can find. so i'll stop there bc i think you get the point now LOL

but is she good or evil? she's neither. she just is. there's a quote in the very beginning of the show made by eliza that i think fit this idea and depict verna so well: "he's complicated...like god." and "pain and suffering are like the kiss of jesus." both of these quotes i think fit the previous of idea of what she is and how she can be thought of as a god. and you know i may not believe in the same god (reminder i'm a hellenic wiccan) but i do know that gods are complicated! in every depiction across every religion and culture. god and gods and goddesses are complicated. i do like to think tho that she is inherently good, like her name tag suggests in episode 3 :)

powers i mean what can't she do? she can do and be pretty much anything and everything. she is crazy op (i do not plan to write this though lol so please no worries about godmodding) just...be aware she is truly all powerful and all knowing? she knows the future (admittedly in the show), she know who you could've been, who you were and who you are right now. she can be in multiple places at once. she's crazy powerful. that said her favorite shifts are the human shift you see in the show (yay carla gugino!) and a raven bc...yeah! look at the ABOVE lol she's been everywhere since the beginning.

so why bargain? why not? i mean admittedly she's bored? and she's chaotic as well as good. but remember i said previously, verna would answer she's fate. and in my opinion she is fate twisted by horrors of humanity. in the later eps she goes on different rants about morality and human selfishness and how she doesn't quite understand it but she finds it so interesting. i think yes obvs shes a lil twisted to do what she does - but there's still a sense of righteousness with her actions. so she's morbidly curious about the horrors humanity is capable of. and she likes to witness it just as much as she likes to witness true kindness and sincerity. (as seen with lenore and her mother and even with the entire bargain with the twins: she wanted to see what they would do when given everything they ever wanted: good or bad?) again i think this all plays into the my idea of what she is: why bargain? bc she can and she's curious. so why not?