Sanders Sides Characters As John Mulaney Quotes

lore accurate chuuya canonically drives a 2006 sparkly barbie motorcycle

So now we've seen the finale, now we've seen how Rio chose to present to first Agatha before everything went wrong (coming for Nicky at his birth), and then to Nicky, while Agatha was sleeping - that gorgeous green dress, holding the green flame aloft. It's very different from the way she showed herself to Lilia.

It's also wildly different than how she chooses to appear to Agatha in the end. Rio's wild with grief. She's been pining for centuries. Agatha has just given her the most final, definitive, insulting no she could muster. There is no future here. There is no past to hold on to. There is only Agatha telling her she doesn't want her. That even in the end, she doesn't want the comfort of passing into a lover's embrace - she wants Rio masked. She wants Rio, essentially, to roleplay anonymity, strangeness, distance.

Now. Given what actually happens - and their moments of tenderness and Agatha's part in them throughout the rest of the show - I don't think we can take Agatha at face value here. But it is the first time Rio's heard Agatha's "no" when it comes to their relationship's viability.... and believed it.

To Agatha, in the moment immediately before everything went wrong, Death appeared as a beautiful woman, bedecked in green, expensive, well-made clothes. She appears the same way to Nicky. She's familiar, she's non-threatening. She tells him to come with her and he goes. She tells him no, kiss your mother, and he does. She extends her hand to him, and he takes it, and they walk together through the darkness. He knows her.

I wonder if she could ever be that version of herself again - or if it went with Nicky. I think there's a subtextual reading of what's going on in Agatha/Rio's relationship where Rio's grieving, too, but Agatha will never be able to see it, for so many reasons - where Rio's angry because she knows she'll never stop being invisible in this way. Where all she wants is for Agatha to see her.

wait wait wait Agatha took a silly song she made with her son and then used it to gather power for centuries after his death and then AND THEN her surrogate son comes along and makes the song REAL??? do NOT touch me for the next 24 hours

Ok I can’t wait for the edits about Agatha using the legend of The Witches Road to suck the power out of hundreds of witches for centuries.

And I just realized that’s what Rio meant when she said "You get your power and I get my bodies". They’ve been having a working relationship for years.

I’ve just always been disappointed that the only distinct physical trait of kalashtars is being thin and symmetrical, so now you can use this handy chart to roll your own sleep paralysis demon.

Spoiler - ep.4 very initial thoughts

I will need to watch this episode again (and again and again) to wrap my head around it and process everything before I write something more coherent... But for now:

Can it be any more obvious that Rio is Death? She needs bodies, she didn't heal Teen (so she's not a green witch - as they are supposed to be the healers - unless Rio didn't WANT to heal him?), she "had to do her job".

Noone can convince me otherwise.

Especially that Agatha KNEW Rio was coming - she panicked at the word "Death" in last episode (wanted to run straight away) and she knew Sharon's death will bring Rio back to her. That's why she seemed insensitive and wanted to walk on and get away from Sharon's body as quickly as possible. When she realised it wasn't going to work, she came up with a rouse that the coven needed to summon a new green witch, just to cover up who Rio really was.

I think she didn't want the coven to realise Rio was there for Agatha, but why?

And... why then expose Rio in the sound booth? Was she playing protective over the coven and wanted to let them know not to trust Rio, without actually telling them? Or, was that simply another way to distance herself from Rio - show her that she still hated her?

I think in the end she falls apart at the words "She is my scar". The whole episode Agatha was trying to just get away from Rio and was frustrated how much hold she still has on her. As much as Rio plays a lost puppy, trying to follow her everywhere, we see that the feeling is mutual. That last scene was SOOOOO SOOOFT and you can tell how much Agatha reacted at her slight touch and how much she needed this. If Rio didn't speak, who knows how far they'd take it...

But is Rio's job just being Death? Or, more specifically, is she to follow Agatha everywhere she goes? Is this a result of some pact (marriage?) or did Agatha bind Rio to herself?

The witches talk about their scars and it sounds like the Road is targeting just that. I bet there will be a vampire in Lilia's tarot trial!

So what if the Road taps into Rio's "scar" as well? What if, instead of getting Agatha back, Rio's wish is actually to break that connection between them because it feels too painful? I hope not!

So, the Master is clearly struggling with dissociation in S12, right? Because I never saw this talked about directly, but it’s been on my mind since Spyfall.

The Master is obviously traumatised by the events preceding the season and trauma is what dissociation stems from, so I guess that’s what made me look out for it. And then it just seemed so blatantly obvious to me:

The constant insisting on how sure he is about what he is doing; how right it feels - while looking utterly lost. (Nothing he does makes him feel anything, because he is completely detached from his own emotions.) The unfocused eyes during important moments. (Spaced out, can’t focus, no matter how much he wants to/ knows he should.) The mood swings. I know, every Master had those to an extent, but while in his previous incarnations it seemed almost voluntary, in this one he seems completely overpowered by it. (Inability to handle emotions.) The way he frantically claps his hands on the plane, a typical grounding technique, the same way I nervously tap my nails on my phone all the time (driving all my friends nuts).

And then the way he needs the Doctor, this time. (Even more desperately than Missy, in my view.) From making her say his name (from personal experience: your best friend saying your name; very grounding, 10/10 would recommend) to forcing her to take his hand, just to feel it in his; a prove that he still exists. The constant mentions of their past, trying to get her to talk about who he was, to find comfort in her reassurance. And the way he reacts when she says his name; he almost breaks down. He doesn’t remember who he is, but she knows and he needs her to tell him; show him, so he can feel real again.

And then the apathy toward the end; he doesn’t care if he dies, because why would it matter, when he doesn’t feel alive anyway?

"stop pursuing me" agatha says as if she doesn't leave a trail of bodies for her ex to clean up

whatever you do don't ever think about how the literal DEATH is crying over agatha harkness dying