#atotm

“So… ghosts,” Mai summed up. Queen Angelina Warner chuckled. “Ghosts.”  

Tragically, two mothers were taken too early from their world at the hands of a horrible and cruel tyrant. When they find themselves caught between life and death, they learn how to cope with their after-life and learn how to hope again. Together.

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(Beware spoilers)

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Animaniacs Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Dot Warner & Angelica (OFC), Wakko Warner & Abby (OFC) & Mel (OFC) & Marge (OFC), Yakko Warner & Mai (OFC) Characters: Dot Warner, Wakko Warner, Yakko Warner, Original Female Character(s) Additional Tags: Mother's Day, Mother-Son Relationship, Mother-Daughter Relationship, Adopted Sibling Relationship, Found Family, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Grief/Mourning, Angst, i got this idea this morning and spat this out enjoy, no beta we die like mai Series: Part 3 of Til We Meet Again Summary:

Dot celebrating her first Mother's Day in her new home, a series of letters between Wakko and his not-quite mother figures, and Yakko admitting something he really already knew.

Chapters: 1/9

Fandom: Animaniacs

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Angelina Warner & Original Character(s), Yakko Warner & Original Character(s), Dot Warner & Original Character(s)

Characters: Original Characters, Angelina Warner

Additional Tags: Ghosts, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Grief/Mourning, Hurt/Comfort, Found Family, Motherhood, Slow Burn, Minor Romance, like it's there but not the focus, Hope vs. Despair, Angst with a Happy Ending, or as happy an ending you can get when dealing with dead people, Hopeful Ending, Wakko's Wish, The Author Regrets Nothing, Afterlife, in the wise words of wakko warner himself: y'gotta cheer up and never ever give up hope, even when you're dead and watching your loved ones suffer, also the warner kids are here but they're not the focus so i didn't tag them, also you'll be Very confused if you try to read this as a standalone, like. i guess you COULD. but i don't reccomend it at all, there are currently no spoilers for the last chapter of separated, so if you're reading this before that comes out you should be good

Series: Part 2 of Til We Meet Again

Summary:

“So… ghosts,” Mai summed up.

Queen Angelina Warner chuckled. “Ghosts.”  

I wanted to ask, naturally Angelina’s anchors are her children and I assume she’s never been separated from any of them long enough to hurt her own form badly (or at least not more than once?) However because her anchors are divided into Yakko Wakko and Dot- does she constantly feel the absence of the other two (outside of her motherly need to be with all of them)? Does it actually strain her ghost form to have her three kids physically separated as they are?

If Angelina were to spend a lot of her time away from the other two, she would start to feel the strain of the separation, which is why she rotated between them every week or so. It would kind of feel like a hook in her heart, tugging harder and harder the longer she stays away. But there's some leeway with how long you could be apart from your anchor. If she were to be with Yakko for a week, then go to Dot for a week, she might start feeling some tugging towards Wakko near the end of her time with Dot, and then later for Yakko near the end of her time with Wakko, and on and on. By now she's developed a sort of tolerance to that kind of minor strain on her physical form.

However. She is constantly feeling the emotional strain of being away from two of her children, because not only does that mean she can't see all of them at once, but that also means the three of them can't see each other either. And she knows just how hard this has been on them. It's a knowledge that puts pressure on her psyche, and has been putting pressure on her since she regained consciousness.

1. HOW FUCKING DARE YOU YOU MONSTER RIP OUT MY HEART AND STOMP ON IT WILL YOU (affectionate, grateful, in awe)

2. Is this fic inspired by that one ask ages ago about how bad it would be for Mai to see Yakko blaming himself for her death and spiralling into self-loathing and emotional detachment as a result?

3. Will we be seeing the ghosts of other characters fallen to Salazar’s evil along Mai and Queen Angelina’s journey? Oh! Wait! Maybe when Marin is shot and almost dies he briefly gets the ability to see ghosts or sense them or something! And Angelina comforts him and thanks him for being there for her daughter.

4. Angelina insisting she can handle everything is totally understandable, but it isn’t good for her. I bet if all the grief broke out of her at once, or her rage at her children’s plight consumed her (like seeing Dot get abused in the tax collector’s house) she’d make a hell of a static monster… and then Mai would have to ground her as a reverse of her own partial transformation scene…

5. (joke) How do they know what static on screens looks like in a pre-electricity kingdom?

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2. A lot of Mai's reactions were based on that ask, or developed from it at least, but the fic itself was just born from my own ponderings about how Mai and Angelina would get along since both of them were Yakko's mother for a time of his life. There were a bunch of scenes that I imagined Mai or both of them reacting to from Separated (which was my first mistake) and I started indulging what kind of plot I could follow (which was my second mistake), and then I was like "GOD if I don't write this right now I will EXPLODE", so I've been writing this thing instead of writing separated chapter 12 akdjakdjq. I am very very pleased with how it came out, and I'm glad I did decide to write it out fully because I think it'll add a unique perspective to the story as a whole.

3. I toyed with the idea of having other ghosts come into play, but besides Mai I haven't killed any named and lovable characters, so I didn't really have anything to work with. Other ghosts will be mentioned, but for the most part we'll just be hanging out with Mai and Angelina, our two favorite moms :)

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