Imodna Happy Ending Prayer Circle

Can I just say… I love Pâté de Rolo so much.

He is just a guy! A little dude! Can do no wrong! Suprisingly cute for a decaying rat body with a raven skull head!

No because my biggest fear is that they won’t get a happy ending. I want them to be together in the end sooo bad. Like what sacrifices must I make for them to be okay, I’ll do it!!

It doesn’t help that they keep scaring me with all these emotional situations and the dnd format means that literally anything could happen.

Like… is Laudna’s idea of personal space from Imogen sleeping a foot away instead of on top of her?

Or did Imogen decide fuck that and went right back to Laudna’s side once she was asleep?

Did Imogen decide that sleeping on the floor was better than not having contact with Laudna and dived across the floor to hold her hand??

“Where are you going?”

“Wherever you’re going.”

It’s such a quick little moment between them, especially comapred to the rest of e65, but it just might be my favorite imodna interaction to date.

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Imogen woke up to the sound of birds chirping outside. She lifted her head and peeked her eyes open just enough to see the sun streaking through their shitty curtains and bathing the room in bright natural light. Imogen dropped her head and let out a huff. She buried her face into black, silky hair, which made Laudna let out a tired whine.

“Sorry. Did I wake you up?” Imogen asked quietly.

“We should probably get up anyway,” Laudna replied, her voice still hoarse from sleeping. She made no move to remove herself from Imogen’s embrace though.

Imogen giggled and wrapped her arms tighter around Laudna, pulling her nearly on top of herself into a hug,

“We’re in no hurry. What’s stopping us from sleeping in?”

How does it make Imogen feel when Laudna insists that she’s a dead end, that Imogen has her whole life ahead of her and she’s supposed to just carry on when Laudna’s gone? Does she think that Laudna saved her but now when she’s in danger of getting possessed forever, Imogen’s love isn’t enough to make Laudna want to fight for her future?

I just think it might be pretty shitty and invalidating when you love someone, consider them to be one of the most important people in your life and then that person keeps telling you that you’re wrong for thinking so highly of them. That you should be prepared to lose them.

She wants to give Laudna total agency without influencing her decisions because Delilah has already been manipulating her for decades and Imogen doesn’t want to accidentally do the same.

Like Imogen CLEARLY hates Laudna freely giving Delilah more power but instead of actively discouraging Laudna’s incredibly harmful behavior she has told her every time that it’s okay if she “uses” Delilah.

I think Laudna is far past getting to make choices though. If she doesn’t want to do something then Delilah will make her or manipulate her until she gets her way. Laudna is in way too deep, which means she keeps falling into Delilah’s traps.

“Maybe Delilah can tell me something useful about the powerful rock” / “The sword is cursed, you can be the one to protect Orym”

Laudna isolates herself from everyone to avoid giving Delilah the shard? Delilah spends the night pretending to care for Laudna and telling her she’ll be there for her. (Or something like that it’s been a while since that ep happened)

Laudna finally has people around that genuinely care for her and Delilah has been subtly finding ways to taint those relationships and make them doubt her. If that bitch doesn’t get too powerful and take over first, I think her general plan is something like breaking Laudna mentally by slowly creating a you vs them situation (“They could never understand.”)

On the other hand I think maybe Imogen is so agreeable with Laudna’s thing because she’s worried that if she’s not on her side then Laudna will think she’s completely against her and pull further away.

Imogen is waiting for Laudna to choose to live on her own but I really think she (and the others) should be actively reassuring her that’s she’s still wanted without Delilah, even if she’s “weak”, even if she’s “not useful”. Imogen tell her that you want that damn cottage and are willing to fight for it not that you’ll miss it!

But again, Imogen might not want to put that pressure on Laudna that if she can’t resist than she’s failing all of them. This is her way of telling Laudna that she’ll stay no matter what. She’s her teather, her anchor.

Oops this is so long😅