(Reposting this post on @grimorie-dos to test for tag visibilit and mutual/follower visibility on dash. Sorry if you see this post several times on different grimorie blogs. This is just for testing purposes.)
One of the most fascinating things about the Agatha All Along artbook and with all the interviews we've gotten is how much of an open secret it is that Rio Vidal AKA the Universal Concept of Death is Nicholas Scratch's other parent.
"We wanted to use river rock for his grave, since he was born near water," Presley says. "There were also a few variants on what Agatha put on his grave. Of the two here, one is a dried twig wreath. There was also the idea that Agatha would conjure a bouquet of lavender from a single brown twig, which would give us purple green gold—the colors of Nicholas Scratch's costume from the comic."
The interesting part of this whole thing is they mention is that they considered putting a wreath made out of twigs. But the artwork for the wreath looks like infinity sign. This is significant because it's also a design that's used for Rio:
"Rio was one of the most challenging characters to design," says Daniel Selon. "What we landed on was that there would always be certain elements present in every look for her—a continuity of silhouette. It needed to involve some kind of hood, so that there would be a little nod to her ultimate reveal as Death. Then there would be an infinity symbol, in the buckle of her belt. And then we would have these cutouts on certain parts of her body, hinting at the skeletal aspect she would have later on.
It's not a coincidence IMO that the production artwork also had the wreath shaped into an infinity sign.
They can't TEXTUALLY say Nicky is also Rio's son but they sure as hell can hint at it subtextually.
Also, rewatching episode 9 again, I realized since Nicky was a baby, Agatha's dressed Nicky in green. And that's not a coincidence even when Agatha was terrified of Rio arriving to take Nicky, Agatha still dressed Nicky in Green Witch colors.
Agatha deliberately chose places where Nicky is close to a river. In nature.
Agatha still dressed Nicky in Rio's colors.
(Even Agatha worse some green in her clothes).
The last witches Nicky interacted with and refused to help Agatha lure to their deaths seem to be a coven of Green Witches with all the green on their clothing.
Rio might not have been around a lot in Nicky's life, but that doesn't mean Rio's presence wasn't felt. Rio was around them. Around Nicky, and Agatha made sure, despite her fear over Rio taking Nicky away, that there were markers to identify that Nicky Agatha and Rio's child.
(Original post is here from @isagrimorie)
