Lilia's Leggings

alice didn’t believe in tarot before meeting lilia on the road, but now she helps the older woman out with her shop and sometimes indulges in getting her own tarot read.

Halloween season is over but i am still here 🎃

So yeah, this is my own personal Westview in which everything's fine, everyone's good and they're all living peacefully together leave me be🥲

I know my inner Wanda is showing, but I need so much therapy after Agatha all Along and this is the cheapest option. Look, they're having a cookout!

OP. OP, you have my heart. My heart and soul. I will sob, op. Save me OP-

Billy v Death.

In the comics, a version of Billy Kaplan created a UNIVERSE. He is The Demiurge. He is basically a GOD.

His ONLY weakness is his insecurity and doubt. If he believes something, it becomes reality. A long as he believes he can do something, he can do it. (If he subconsciously wishes or believes something... you get it.)

If he believes he can defeat Death, he can do it.

If he believed Sharon, Alice, or Lilia could have survived, they would have. Just jump scared and sat up in those body bags metaphorically, you know?

But he's just coming into his power. He doesn't really understand it. Would it even occur to him that he could heal them? Subconsiously creating a magical dimension based on a song... crazy. Believing you could bring someone back from the dead would seem... impossible.

I would argue that Wiccan/Billy Kaplan/Billy Maximoff/The Demiurge is actually more powerful than his mother.

(Fix it fic idea: Imagine Billy just... has a dream; Sharon, Alice, and Lilia are alive. And in his groggy, sleep addled, just waking up brain... He believes it. SO THEY ARE ♥️♥️♥️)

Random thought: Jen was a midwife, yes? And her and Agatha have a history of mutual dislike—but Agatha respected her for her craft so much as to spare her.

How devastating would it be if, maybe, just maybe, Jen had been the one to deliver Nicky? (I assume based on the canon that they technically didn't know each other yet, but just bare with me for a second. Both of them, if I'm not mistaken, are from Massachusetts—Salem and Boston respectively, so they probably met pretty early on regardless.)

Imagine Jen meeting Agatha just as that—a mother in labour, in need of help—and helping her so, healing her, and handing her newborn son to her, to hold for the first time. She didn't much like the woman—not only because she was obnoxious—but also because she would have heard tales of the witch-killer who murdered her own coven after breaking their rules. But at that moment, none of that mattered. She had a Hippocratic oath to keep. And since Jen didn't know Rio at all, she would have assumed that Agatha was alone in all of this.

Then one day she hears of the witch-killer again—learns that she “sacrificed her son for the darkhold... ” And that she “goes after the undeserving,“ stealing magic from witches with her terrible syphon power.

And so she runs into her again, and again, each time convinced it'd be the last—because Jen would never stop provoking her for sacrificing her baby boy. The 'one thing in her life that made her redeemable.' But Agatha spares her. She leaves her alone, because “what you were doing was important. Not this Kale Kare crap, your real job.”

And how many more layers does that line gain, if Jen delivered Nick? And how nicely does it tie in with her being the one to warn Billy about how “Agatha sacrificed her son for the Darkhold.”

Okay so OBVIOUSLYYY we saw Nicky be born in episode 9 but REGARDLESS, still think it could have been interesting. I mean, generally speaking, I feel like Jen was sort of mishandled. Sasheer does an incredible job portraying her emotional journey but the thing about “Agatha being the one to take her power after all” felt very out of nowhere. I expected her to get more screentime in these episodes since she's the path ahead—to finally make up for her trial not quite feeling her own. It's still interesting how Agatha found a way to take her power WITHOUT killing her, because “what she was doing is important,” but I still think she was done a bit dirty. I expected a bit more Jen.

But then again, I also expected Agathario backstory on how they met, before the Nicky stuff. And I expected more romance than a “kiss of death” for the sake of saving Billy. Though I do feel like Agatha sacrificing herself for him to live is a natural development for her character. Her helping him to save Tommy and admitting he reminds him of Nicky was very sweet.

I did genuinely enjoy many parts of the two part finale. The acting, for one. I think they were all marvelous. Aubrey plays “crazy” well, very well. Kathryn is always amazing and expressive and just brilliant. Sasheer was wonderful in the little time she had, and Joe also did great this episode.

I did love seeing Alice again. And seeing Jen's reaction to Lilia staying behind—and her deep desire to save the other two. (I'm disappointed it didn't lead up to anything but I get why.)

And I also loved how in her battle with Rio, Agatha does three things: she uses the same protection spell as Alice, the same healing spell as Jen, and “hits the deck” as Lilia told her to do. I loved that she hated her "spirit" magic for not being able to—protect, (alice) heal, (jen) her son, or foresee (lilia) when death would come back to take him.

I loved all the Nicky stuff also. Feels like she was trying to buy him more time by killing witches, and the one day they didn't do it, he died. I do like ghost-agatha as a mentor to Billy, since it's a nice homage to the comics with her being a ghost mentor to Wanda. I liked the call-back to “coven two.” I liked the Road being Billy's creation, and the backstory we got on the ballad—the only real road being the one Agatha walked with her son—heart, who she buried. ("All roads lead to me") I loved Lorna Wu writing her version of the ballad to protect her daughter just as Agatha wrote hers with her son. And in it she planted all her gried for not being able to save him. I loved how Agatha preferred being feared and hated rather than pitied and understood, even to the last moment of her life. How she buried her vulnerability and let everyone think she sacrificed her son—her son, who she lived for. Because not being able to protect him, for her, was far worse than the former.

I loved Rio giving Agatha more time with her son. I loved it still not being enough. I love how she repeated, "i need more time," in the last trial. I loved how it wqs practically Nicky's choice to pass on, how he held death's hand in his—because he could no longer stand to watch his mother kill for survival. I loved Rio being gentle with Agatha and Nicky, Rio being unable to understand why Agatha didn't want her. Why she kept evading her, even after Rio bent the rules for her sake. I loved Nicky kissing Agatha's forehead twice—as if one was for him and the other for Rio, because Rio couldn't do it herself. Because Rio is Death—and nobody yearns for death, even as Death yearns for the living that she cannot touch.

I feel like we could have gotten a bit less Billy stuff and a bit more Agathario stuff, or we could have found out how Agatha got the Darkhold. But also—the story wasn't about that. The story was Maiden, Mother, Crone. And that referred to Agatha. Rio was an important part of her life, but sshe wasn't her life. Her life was her son, who she killed for—who just like Billy and Tommy, came from Scratch. He came from her love, and only that. Even as Death couldn't hold her, their love was so strong that no incantation or spell was needed. Just like how Billy and Tommy are the results of Wanda's love for Vision, even as she couldn't hold him or feel him anymore.

And I just can't be mad about it. Honestly, it's not like we got cheated out of the sapphic stuff. I would have liked more agathario just as much as the next person, but the show was unapologetically queer and Agatha never shied away from talking about how much of a lesbian she is and how Rio is her ex. I didn't watch the show only for their relationship, I watched it for the characters. I watched it because above all it's one (or multiple) hell of a character study (/studies, because Alice and Lilia were also handled brilliantly. rip queens.)

It feels like a lot of things were left underdeveloped for the sake of setting up Wiccan for the young avengers. Like, I am super worried the rest of the mcu will forget Jen, and also not give a shit about the rest of our dead witches. But as a standalone? I loved it, I genuinely really did.

Agatha, the spirit witch, is forever stuck haunting the narrative. (literally) And I surely can't be mad about that.