Gay Witch Nerd

i always found their eyes very striking — lenore is, from what i remember, the only character in the cast with blue eyes [edit: a small correction, morella also has blue eyes but my point still stands] and annabel has those pink/red eyes (which i always took to mean she's albino but that's unrelated) and i found it interesting they were given such unique eye colours.

I'm doing a drawing of Annabel and Lenore and realized that Annabelle is always in whites and blues and Lenore is always in reds and blacks

The black and white is definitely about chess but the red and blues are not only opposite colors that look really nice together but Lenore has blue eyes and light cool skin (I'm pretty sure it's technically a shade of pink based on my attempts to select the color for my drawing) to match Annabels color palette and Annabel has pink eyes with tan warm skin to match with Lenores color pallet

Annabels spectra is also mostly white with hints of blue but it has that bright striking red gem in the center of her heart surrounded by black shadows and I'm very willing to bet Lenore will have a mostly black and partially red spectre with light blue colors somewhere

1. The wording of the Dean’s message doesn’t mean someone who loved Annabel Lee the most of everyone, it’s someone who loved her more than anything else. Lenore, yes, but also Annabel’s father. With his wife/Annabel’s mother seemingly out of the picture, Annabel would become someone he loved above all else.

2. Look at their expressions in the panel below, especially Annabel. It’s not anger- it’s fear and desperation; she’s clearly pleading with someone. Now- true that we’ve only seen this type of desperation from Annabel with Lenore and no one else (yet) but the reason it’s only been with her is because Annabel loves Lenore. She also loves her father. So much so that one of her first protests when Lenore proposes her idea to marry Annabel as Leo is basically “I can’t just leave my father behind”.

3. Fairly obvious but worth stating- the Deans clearly wanted Annabel to believe it was Lenore and talk about that plan like it was an intentional manipulation rather than just them revealing a fact. Their use of “meddle” is especially pretty damning here.

4. Despite Annabel’s obvious affections for him and the fact that he gave her a modicum of control over her life (not choosing a suitor by himself and calling it a day) Ira is very much not the shining example of a good father.

He’s dismissive of Annabel’s anxiety/general mental health (which definitely did not affect her coping mechanisms and the way she comforts others profoundly nosiree). Even in the panel below, look at his eyes. He’s not watching Annabel at all, he’s looking around to make sure they’re alone- he doesn’t actually care about soothing his daughter, he cares that no one can see her panic.

He also treats her like a trophy or a prize, with Annabel herself even admitting that the only reason he let her have aforementioned control is because he found the idea novel; not because he wished for his daughter’s happiness.

Learning that his only child was running off to get married to a madwoman seems like the type of thing he miiiight not be cool with.

5. Annabel Lee is absolutely terrified of Lenore revealing that they know each other and how. Now, while this could be simply chalked up to her not wanting to ruin her plan, she would literally rather die than have Lenore tell Duke. It’s hard to imagine that kind of conviction for a plan that’s only spanned a week, and very easy to imagine that type of conviction in a woman who remembers how horribly the last time their relationship was revealed went.

Like, Lenore was trying to save her from falling to her death and Annabel is absolutely terrified- not of her imminent death but of Lenore telling Duke.

TLDR; Ira Whitlock you are guilty until proven innocent I fear

You have a circle of witches; The more powerful, the better the ritual.

You use the power of the moon overhead…

You have subject(s), which can even be alive, to transfer magic from the moon and into them, or transfer life from the subject and into the moon.

Could be intentional or not, but it makes me wonder if Hooty’s Moving Hassle foreshadowed one of the big climaxes of the series, as did Eda’s line about powerful magic because that’s who the coven heads are, and I believe it’s implied, if not outright stated, that stronger coven heads means a more effective draining spell, hence Belos’ insistence on using Darius, Raine, and Eberwolf. If the draining spell had stronger coven heads, it might’ve weakened Raine too much to save Eda, and weakened Alador too much to give the Hexsquad cover to travel to the skull and free the Collector…