#*vasgenia

yes >:•) i wish we had more canon to work with for vassa but there is something so beautiful to be said for a blank slate. genia/vassa would be super interesting because whereas usually genia seeks to cut herself above other females who have similar trauma to hers in an effort to outpace the severity and pain of what happened to her, having another female whose autonomy has been horrifically violated but in a different way than her own would be a very comforting thing in the boe scenario. same would go for vassa. it would be a very #likecallstolike scenario. what’s cool too is vassa having ~magic~ even if it’s a curse negates a lot of genia’s human prejudice (weaker, more frail, etc.) — and vassa has much more interpersonal death god hatred than political/theoretical fae hatred in her.

vassa would have to initiate, and i don’t think she’d have any qualms doing so. something about being forced to be a firebird against your will really makes everything else a non-issue—sexuality, rejection, insecurity, etc. i imagine her mortal wound results in her having a very life is fleeting; you have to do what you want and pursue what you want while you’re able because one day, when you least expect it, you won’t be able. pleasure-seeking vassa… grasping after freedom wherever she can rip it back from the world vassa… suicidally reckless vassa… oh man. okay. FOCUS UP. so vassa has no qualms at all coming onto iphigenia. iphigenia is a bi icon. she just doesn’t know it until vassa comes onto her. (a little bit of general autumn comphet, a little bit of her foremost exposure to f/f being in the context of enticing a male in the forest house and fulfilling his fantasies.) and iphigenia is feeling much the same as vassa in this scenario. pleasure-seeking. reckless. a lot of her pursuits are quasi-self harm.

but then ! genia finds there is none of the pretense with a female that there is with a male. then she finds that there is none of the pretense with this specific female that there is with a male. with vassa, she stays in her body. there is no performance to enact. there is only the pleasure, giving, receiving—never ceding, taking. everything can be on their own terms. bonus: no penetration if she doesn’t want it, so she doesn’t have those reminders of beron while with vassa that she would with a male. everything is new. everything, too, is a reclamation. through each other, they find healing and support and refuge. even genia’s wariness of other females is addressed through vassa. of course … vassa is cursed. she withholds her emotions because she doesn’t have time for them. (not because she’s so, so afraid of dying enslaved to koschei. not because having someone love her might mean they try to save her. might mean they fail.) she isn’t really successful in doing so with iphigenia but. she still tries. and that still hurts.