take my hand, wreck my plans

mephisto. he’s just... he’s gotta. there have been too many references. it will be vastly disappointing if there IS another big bad but its NOT him. i will accept even a post credits vague implication ok i just. it’s gotta happen. 

idk if he is just a random dude, but i don’t think pietro is fox universe peter. i just don’t see them opening the can of worms of “which xmen will cross over or exist and which wont, well what if we want to make our own xmen, oh and erik isn’t wanda’s dad but he is peter’s dad” mess. i hope he’s not a rando but i DONT see how he could specifically be peter without it creating a ton of plot holes.

dr strange will show up, probably near or at the end to prep for the multiverse of madness movie

im predicting that the twins DONT die mostly bc i don’t want to have to watch that. i can’t handle it. i think there is a chance they might age up (assuming the battle happens early on and we have a whole ~50 minute episode to fill?) but it’s very slim. that will probably happen in multiverse of madness. they gotta age up since 1) the had a casting call for teddy to appear at some point to play between ages like 15-23 so they gotta make sure he meets billy as a teen otherwise its gonna be weird af.

if the twins do “die” i think it will be very clear that they have either been reincarnated (if they entered the “real world” in the 2010s westview time, they would be about the right age in outside world time (which i think is like... late 2020s?) or exist somewhere in the multiverse (setting up, once again, MoM). then we can get jewish billy kaplan. and maybe even blessed with tommy kaplan. please dont send him to a different awful family in new jersey my heart couldn’t take it. 

im torn between vision definitely dies or there being a chance that they use the white vision to somehow merge and he survives? but i think regardless, wanda is going to have to let him go. temporarily or permanently idk but this whole show has been about her grief and i think it would be sweet, if sad, if she healed and was able to give him the funeral and begin to move on. 

look who mades their own bed, lies right down within it oh what do you have left?

the BELROSE family once had everything they could want. fame, money, the envy of families across the city. old money. and they didn’t mind showing it off, either. and maybe that was their ultimate downfall. people like to watch the rich and powerful crumble, and it’s all too easy to do once you get a little too comfortable relying on your status.

last year, the investigation into the finances of the head of the house and his wife went public. embezzling, fraud, money laundering. anything they could stick their hands into, it seems they did. the family home and several assets - and inheritances - were seized and used to pay off the hefty fines. jail time was a no brainer, even with a fancy lawyer. it covered the tabloids for months.

the kids, meanwhile, are having to adjust. not only are they dealing with the social gossip and reputational fallout from their parents’ vices,  they’ve also lost their entire financial security. 

having previously all gone their separate ways and kept in touch via the occasional birthday card or quick happy hour, the kids are coming together to lean on each other in these dark times. but they’ve each got their vices and demons of their own to contend with, and it’s reminding them why their family has never really functioned well in the first place. but if they want to survive in this strange new world and cling onto what place in society they have left, they’ll have to stick together.