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hmmmmm

i love the scissors, and i know a lot of people feel like they’re random but personally i find them to be really fitting

the scissors are more than what she threatens the deans with. she also cuts her hair with them. which is such an important part of her story. it’s marking her commitment to this plan and her becoming leo. they symbolize this change for her. it’s almost like when jinx cuts her hair in arcane.

but then by having the long braid in her spectre form, it’s almost like she’s taking back this control. the first time we see her wearing a braid is when annabel leaves. another vital moment for her. little lenore also has one when they talk about the fox hunt. i want to point out what theo says here “the fox runs till it can’t anymore”. this is obvious in the moment of the flashback but it also is literally a summary of lenore’s life. she was stuck in the attic, a caught fox in a cage, to be released, meeting annabel, then running, trying to find that freedom again, courting annabel, till she couldn’t run anymore and was killed. also running in the literal sense when she was killed but yeah

its the same with the mirror walking thing. she looks at her reflection in this moment and sees theo. and it ties into her bloody mary archetype. she is showing herself what her future is and she does the same for annabel.

each component of her spectre design represents a huge change in her life/major plot point

i also think it’s really cool that her spectre is the only one that has an actual weapon, not like a fabricated one. she basically has two swords. which is really fitting for her.

edit: forgot abt morella ooops

i feel like a gun would just be kind of boring and maybe even overused

also i want to know what the like red sort of halo is about. it kinda looks like a target so that could be alluding to her death but idk

LADY IN RED

come on

like it’s so perfect

let me elaborate

ehhhemmm

wikipedia says the legend of a lady in red is a ghost that is often seen wearing crimson dresses that was a woman of vanity or mistress “tied to a tragic romantic past”. and said to be killed “in a fit of passion”. now lenore isn’t necessarily a mistress. annabel agreed to the marriage plan, but chickened out. likely because of her old playmate. now I find it important that it’s lady in RED. lenore has always been associated with the color red but in this case we can connect it to this episode

she is wearing red, but it is significant because of the dialogue

annabel talks about hiding lenore’s existence, just like one would a mistress. also the obligation; a mistress must hide the same way.

also this

annabel herself puts on an act everyday. she must keep up with her status and expectations. probably the reason she didn’t commit to the wedding.

then we have this

lenore here is talking about when annabel left. but annabel thinks she’s talking about the wedding.

so basically i think it’s very fitting

one other thing i noticed though is that normally ladies in red are considered benevolent and lenore is malevolent

also her type is bloody mary

which explains the mirror walking thing and also ties into dying before marriage since the history is it would show you your future husband in the mirror but if you saw a skull it meant you wouldn’t live to be wed

specifically “turnabout”

i understand this to mean she can finesse her way through a situation and put it to her favor/flip the odds

which i kind of love because that’s been a huge part of her character for forever same with spite

wearing them pearls to dinner

1. duke feels bad 🙁 he’s trying to prove pluto wrong 🥲

2. pluto’s social awkwardness will always be hilarious to me

3. alluding to pluto keeping his scar secret…

4.yes auguste call out that misogyny

5. theyre so cute

6. morella my baby noooo

7. annabel is so having a panic attack in those bushes

i sense we could have another closet situation with prospero

and KISS HER ALREADY

please

just a smooch

hrmmmmmm

lenore’s going to remember more about like actually proposing and then they’re gonna swap rings for realsies and then i’m going to be fulfilled trust trust

1. ada, never really cared for you too much, but even i’ll admit, that hurts

it’s just kinda sad

2. damn poppet

i really wasn’t expecting that from her

3. ah annabel

it’s frightening how good at acting you are

4. i’m so not excited for this dynamic

5. GAY 🫵

annabel is so down bad GOD KISS ALREADY

i’m also loving how being apart like this has made both lenore and annabel indirectly show their feelings for each other mmmh mmmh mmmmmmh so good

now KISS, just a little smooch full on make out

Alright imma preface this by saying I am not religious so I probably made some mistakes regarding that, please excuse them and also let me know.

Firstly, I want to talk about the Edgar Allen Poe connections. In Morella’s story a women named Morella and her husband have a child. One interesting thing is that the husband isn’t utterly obsessed with Morella, instead he actually shows feelings of resentment, distance and almost hate. (slightly straying from the obsessed husband narrative but the dead wife is full steam ahead) Morella is aware of this but just accepts it as she is dying from a sickness while carrying his child. In her last breaths the child is born. Her last words are “I shall live”. As the story progresses, this child grows very quickly and as she does, starts to resemble Morella strikingly. Out of fear, the husband does not name her. She keeps growing and showing similarities in appearance and personality. The husband decides to get his daughter baptized. When asked her name he panics and says Morella. She then responds “I am here” and dies immediately. When she is buried next to her mother, it is found that the mother’s body is no longer there. So, there’s Poe physiological horror we all know and love.

Ok to the point, I realize now that our Morella is not the mother but the child (I think). I say this because of these panels.

She’s never had a surname, also does not use the name Morella. I wonder if this is meant to show that her caregivers did not like that she was so similar to a past Morella (her mother) that she is given a different name. It makes me think of another theory I read when this thumbnail came out about our Morella being an exiled nun because she got pregnant. If you know who posted that please tag them. I’m thinking that was her mother’s story. I also think that as a result Morella never really had real parents, but I do wonder if her dad was present like in Poe’s story. Either ways she’s probably spent most of her life inside a church. Like did you see her face when Maeve drank whiskey. Ya girl was shocked. Considering this was probably 1919-1921, we can connect the prohibition. Obviously, the Irish prohibition was closer to 1927 but in the United States it was in like 1920 and definitely made Irish whiskey businesses struggle. So we can still kinda connect the two. (This isn’t really important, I just thought it was interesting).

Secondly, I want to talk about this panel

Maeve says “Goodbye for now” and earlier she said “Maybe our paths with cross again someday, Morella”. This basically proves she will have a bigger role in Morella’s backstory. Also the namedrop makes it pretty clear too, but ya know.

Moreover, Ithink that Maeve is the one who plays a big role in influencing Morella’s life. Because of what she says here:

She is instilling this feeling of duty into Morella. And I think it relates to her death. In the maze, when Morella gets her spectre she says something along the lines of feeling like she had to protect her friends. Morella was a martyr. I say this for another reason. The bloody rosary. As I read this episode I felt like there was a lot of attention given to the rosary covered in Maeve’s blood.

Apparently, a rosary with red beads is meant to depict the blood of Jesus Christ in his sacrifice and also the bloodshed of martyrs. This is crazy fam. It also is meant to mean the hope or grace that comes from redemption. eh eh? Yeah yeah?

Another thing about the rosary is this bead that seemed to have emphasis as well

it is a heart on fire with six swords around it.

The closest thing I could find to this was the Seven Sorrows of Mary. The swords themselves each represent one of Mary’s greatest pains. Which include:

The prophecy of Simeon

The flight into Egypt

The loss of the child Jesus

Meeting Jesus on his way to cavalry

Standing on the foot of the cross

Jesus’s body being taken from the cross

Jesus’s burial

(idk if these will be important or not)

The swords pierce Mary’s heart I think metaphorically. It’s meant to represent the level of pain she felt from these events. Now I could see this a relating to Morella’s mother. Because supposedly the heart on fire represents the love for God in a maternal way. On the other hand, it brings me back to this panel

I mean I already mentioned considering the context, this just screams martyr. But also it’s a bleeding heart. On morella. When she already died protecting her friends. And a rosary bead with a sword pointed to a heart. Nah I am not worried for Morella at allll I mean why would I be, Theres nothing that would make me worry, noooo. Not. At. All 😢

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more edgar allen poe characters confirmed!

ligeia and rowena

they are from a short story about obsession and dying wives, (the usual) but basically ligeia dies (protagonists wife) and then his second wife rowena dies and is transformed/ressurected into ligeia

arthur

he’s from a novel called the narrative of arthur gordon pym of natucket. in the simplest way possible, arthur is from nantucket and went on a whaling ship. then witnesses mutiny and commits cannibalism. cool cool. he got in a shipwreck and resorted to cannibalism to survive in this tiny boat, then ran into violent natives, a supernatural boat sorta deal, and more funky stuff.

auguste

this guy’s a detective that’s like a genius. very good at problem solving and such. his last name is dupin and he pops up in three mystery short stories. basically the first sherlock holmes. the three are:

-the murders in the rue morgue (double homocide)

- the mystery of marie roget (based on a real life murder case)

-the purloined letter (this one is important)

the purloined letter is about auguste helping find a stolen letter that a minister is using to blackmail some royal woman. the police search the minister’s apartment but find nothing. auguste finds it “hidden” on the mantle and replaces it with a fake letter made to mislead the minister.

SO BASICALLY

this is totally about the letter that lenore wrote and some one finds it and blackmails either annabel or lenore or both but auguste helps them and yeah.

the theif is named as minister d, idk who that could allude to but yuh and the blackmail letter mentions something about romantic tryst or treason from the royal lady.