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I fell so hard for this show, and I'm excited for basically any fic for it. Go nuts! <3 But if you're after specific pointers, see below:
Things I love about this fandom: cool powers! generational rituals! magic and spells and alchemy! And thing that is not stated in the text but infuses every word: abuse, and if we'd been able to get a season 2 (fuck you Netflix), starting to process that abuse and trying to work towards recovery or some form of peace: Annalise after the finale, holy shit, or in the case of the guys, what they want their lives to be now they're not being actively abused or controlled. Um, this fandom pinged many of my dark recovery buttons, basically.
A respite from the dark is equally welcome! A cosy time together on the boat (minus traumatic twin deaths!), a few more fic-days with the Blood witches in France and that bed. Or that quiet night in, in a squat or an apartment somewhere: bad movies, takeaway, and safety, god they deserve that.
If you wanted to follow me down that darker rabbit hole...that moment where someone looks at their abuser and realises that person doesn't have the same control over them anymore -- that the victim is now a survivor, and both of them know it. Triple points for friends/lovers supporting and backing the survivor up. The three of them being fucked UP in their own ways, and finding comfort in each other and a little bubble of okay, if they can let their guards down enough to receive it.
With Gabriel & Mercury in particular with the above point: Fuck, all that memory fuckery, and Gabriel knowing he can't trust his own fucking memory, and trying to find a way to be okay. Making memories that he wants to hold on to with Nathan and Annalise, and not wanting Mercury in them, ugh. Wanting to rescue her latest victim. There's a wallop of psychological and emotional abuse going on, and I feel like the show was also strongly hinting at sexual abuse there that was potentially continuing into adulthood, but no need to go there (unless you want to. I'm here for it if you are).
Within the context of the threesome: Nathan and also never having known a life that wasn’t being brutally controlled and monitored. And his relationship with Ceelia (who I adore embarrassingly a lot), who controlled and abused Nathan for all of his known life (she probably didn't do it *willingly* but still, that doesn't make it any less traumatic for him, obv). What's it like for them as equals--or probably Nathan as now *stronger* than she is, assuming [finale assumption redacted]?
For Annalise, holy fuck girl, that finale was A LOT. She who'd been doing comparatively trauma-free growing up and then WELP. Are the others there to catch her? How do they do it?
Best of luck! <3
Things I love about this fandom: cool powers! generational rituals! magic and spells and alchemy! And thing that is not stated in the text but infuses every word: abuse, and if we'd been able to get a season 2 (fuck you Netflix), starting to process that abuse and trying to work towards recovery or some form of peace: Annalise after the finale, holy shit, or in the case of the guys, what they want their lives to be now they're not being actively abused or controlled. Um, this fandom pinged many of my dark recovery buttons, basically.
A respite from the dark is equally welcome! A cosy time together on the boat (minus traumatic twin deaths!), a few more fic-days with the Blood witches in France and that bed. Or that quiet night in, in a squat or an apartment somewhere: bad movies, takeaway, and safety, god they deserve that.
If you wanted to follow me down that darker rabbit hole...that moment where someone looks at their abuser and realises that person doesn't have the same control over them anymore -- that the victim is now a survivor, and both of them know it. Triple points for friends/lovers supporting and backing the survivor up. The three of them being fucked UP in their own ways, and finding comfort in each other and a little bubble of okay, if they can let their guards down enough to receive it.
With Gabriel & Mercury in particular with the above point: Fuck, all that memory fuckery, and Gabriel knowing he can't trust his own fucking memory, and trying to find a way to be okay. Making memories that he wants to hold on to with Nathan and Annalise, and not wanting Mercury in them, ugh. Wanting to rescue her latest victim. There's a wallop of psychological and emotional abuse going on, and I feel like the show was also strongly hinting at sexual abuse there that was potentially continuing into adulthood, but no need to go there (unless you want to. I'm here for it if you are).
Within the context of the threesome: Nathan and also never having known a life that wasn’t being brutally controlled and monitored. And his relationship with Ceelia (who I adore embarrassingly a lot), who controlled and abused Nathan for all of his known life (she probably didn't do it *willingly* but still, that doesn't make it any less traumatic for him, obv). What's it like for them as equals--or probably Nathan as now *stronger* than she is, assuming [finale assumption redacted]?
For Annalise, holy fuck girl, that finale was A LOT. She who'd been doing comparatively trauma-free growing up and then WELP. Are the others there to catch her? How do they do it?
Best of luck! <3
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