Well, Everybody Saw It Coming. Ladies And Gentlemen, My Agathario Playlist

well, everybody saw it coming. ladies and gentlemen, my agathario playlist

They were probably the kinkiest bitches together back in the day. Rattling the walls, leaving each other covered in marks, blood everywhere, breaking furniture, choking, biting, hair pulling, neighbors can hear them and then the next morning going to church cuz it was Salem and it was the law that you had to attend service

This 100%. Only I think part of Rio wanting Agatha dead is so she can keep her in a way no one else can.

I don't think Agatha willingly gave up her son and here's why:

Her reaction to the Darkhold in the cradle was visceral, okay? I just reblogged the post that even says that's not the reaction of a woman who willingly gives up her child. So I don't think she did.

What I think is that Nicholas got sick. Like really, really sick. So sick that there was no way he was going to get better. Maybe Rio was warning her about it. Maybe Rio was trying to set the expectation that hey, Nicholas isn't going to get better, you should prepare yourself for that, but Agatha ignored it. Agatha figured that she's in a relationship with Death, herself, so there's no way that her son is going to die and be taken away from her. But Rio keeps reminding her "I don't want to do this, but it's my job. I can't chose not to."

And Agatha gets desperate. As she's watching her baby boy get sicker and weaker. I'm not totally sure how old he was when he died. I'm imagining him as a baby or toddler. A size that Agatha can still hold in her arms. Maybe he won't eat anymore and it worries her. And she knows that the only way to make him better, the only chance at keeping her son, is by getting her hands on the Darkhold. Dark magic is the only thing that can keep him with her, alive.

Rio, obviously, advises against this. Dark magic is trouble and Agatha will not be the same if she does this. Agatha ignores her. She makes a coven and forces Rio down The Road with her, begging her to help save her son. Rio, loving Agatha so deeply, agrees, and they set off down the Witches' Road.

The other three witches obviously don't make it, as we know. The other witch who survives (of course bc she cannot die) is Rio. Agatha acquires the Darkhold and rushes back to her son's side.

But she's too late. Nicholas is gone. He died while she was on the road. He was alone in his last moments, probably in his bassinet. Agatha missed it in her ambition to get her hands on the Darkhold. She probably will never forgive herself for it.

Rio felt the second he died, but probably didn't tell Agatha because there was nothing they could have done at that point.

Agatha is resolute, though. She starts looking for a resurrection spell for Nicholas, which Rio panics about because that is not what Agatha wants, she tells her. Nicholas won't come back right. He will never truly be alive. He will be a corpse, reanimated. His soul is already departing.

"Not if you don't let it," Agatha says, because Rio is in charge of reaping the souls, of ferrying them to the afterlife. She's Death, after all.

"It doesn't work like that," Rio says, softly and apologetically, reaching out to stroke Agatha's cheek. Agatha slaps her hand away and continues to frantically search through the book, but Rio can't let this happen. Nicholas would never be right. He wouldn't be the boy Agatha--that both of them love. Never again.

So she reaps his soul, takes it away before Agatha can start her spell. Agatha begs her to stop, to let her have her son, to not do this please.

"If you love me, you won't take him away from me," she says, desperate and angry and so, so hurt.

Rio doesn't look back. She's holding Nicholas's soul in her arms, cradling him because he's 100% her son, too. Her baby. She holds him more tightly.

"I'm doing this because I love you," she says, without looking back. She keeps walking while Agatha wails behind her, Rio fighting back tears as she listens to her wife's heart break.

Rio tries to return after reaping her son's soul, wants to apologize and beg at Agatha's feet for forgiveness...but she's not there.

Before, Rio could have found Agatha anywhere. She always knew where she was, like a homing beacon on her heart. But now Agatha is just...gone. The home they once shared together is completely empty, not a soul or piece of furniture in side. Except for Nicholas's bassinet, empty. She can't feel Agatha anymore. She doesn't know if she's alive or dead, but she's pretty sure she knows why.

The Darkhold. Agatha used a spell in the Darkhold to shroud herself from Death, to keep Rio from finding her again. Grief echoes in Rio's heart at the loss of the two most important people in her life. Then anger begins to burn low in her stomach.

Anger at her job. Anger at the Darkhold. Anger at Agatha. Murderous rage takes root in her chest, where her heart used to beat for Agatha Harkness and their son. Both are gone now.

But she will find Agatha. One day. And she is going to kill her...or make her wish she were dead. Either will suffice at this point.

agathario really has everything. theyre immortal witches. rio is the Personification of Death. like, Reaper of Souls type shit. agathas powers are essentially limitless as long as she can provoke other witches into trying to kill her. but she quite literally is incapable of doing that with rio bc absorbing the full force of Death would fry her fucking brain. so theyre like the only two people on the planet who are on the same playing field. theyre divorced, bitter rivals but also trapped in the worlds most insane lesbian situationship. theres a non-zero chance that they were raising a son together. in any case, agatha's son died and rio was forced to reap his soul, the only other person agatha has ever truly loved. and oh my GOD do agatha and rio love each other. even now, after gods-know-how-long, there is so much grief and longing and regret hanging between the two of them. they desperately want things to go back to how they were, but know they can't. so rio pulls away. but also theyve clearly had the most insane, freaky sex you could imagine, and probably done even more deranged shit you couldnt come up with if you tried. GOD i love lesbians

Rio hates evanora for what she did to Agatha. Agatha grew up as an outcast, with everyone being scared of her, and hating her. She never knew love, only fear, and pain, and loneliness. And finally, evanora and Agatha's entire coven try to kill her. Imagine 18 year old Agatha, trying so desperately to be good so that her mother would love her, or even just treat her like she can be, breaking down and sobbing on her knees because she just killed the only family she ever knew. She isn't heartless, she isn't cruel, and she isn't cold. She acts that way, but that's only because the people who truly needed to show her she wasn't, only fed into that image of her. Rio came to collect those bodies and fell in love with a young witch so broken and hurt that she didn't want to be who she was anymore if it meant everyone would hate her like this. Rio knows Agatha's pain and suffering, because she saw it. When Agatha says "I can be good" in the present, I just know Rio's heart broke. Do you know how many times Agatha probably sobbed into Rio's arms, just repeating over and over, "I can be good"? All she ever wanted was a family, she still longs for one like it's the only thing in the world. Her mother betrayed her, her coven betrayed her, and even now, her mother wants to kill her. Growing up your entire life knowing that your mother regrets letting you live has to do irreparable amounts of damage. Rio picked her up, and Rio was there. She fixed a broken girl, and she showed her that someone will love her no matter if she's "good" or "evil". Rio showed Agatha that no matter what she is, or what she does, she will always have one person that loves her beyond explanation. Rio gave Agatha what evanora never could; love. So of course, Rio hates evanora for breaking a soul so pure at heart, for ruining that beautiful girl she met all those years ago. Rio would die before letting Agatha's mother have her, and that is the true beauty of unconditional love.

"it's black and it beats for you" and "she is my scar" and they're lovers to enemies to lovers and they're both so hot and the whole thing is riddled with angst and they're both powerful witches I LOVE IT HERE