#nicolas scratch

Nicky: Stay back my mama will drain your life essence from your body

Rio: Andddd…

Nicky: My dad will drag you to hell

Agatha: Perfect! You’re ready to go on that school trip now

Rio: But don’t forget this baby *hands Nicky a smaller version of her own dagger/scythe*

Nicky: My teacher said we’re not allowed sharp objects that might hurt ourselves or others

Rio: That’s why it comes with a leather cover baby, only use it when there’s a stranger around

Nicky: Okay! *takes the dagger and puts it in his bag*

Billy watching from the side shocked: What the hell guys?!

Agatha: What?

Rio: Are you judging our parenting techniques?

Lilia: ladies you can’t send a young boy to an overnight school trip with a sharp dagger because you’re scared of strangers

Nicky: It’s okay aunt Lilia I promise to be safe

Agatha: See! He’s very mature for his age

Billy: You’re going to get an angry phone call from the school Agatha

Rio: jokes on you teenager we don’t answer the phone when they call since they do it so often

Agatha: And we put the letters in senior scratchy’s cage right where they belong

Nicky: I have some more in my bag for him too

and @interstellarnomadoumuamua’s tags hit me right in the chest, actually:

#okay but we all saw how she fucking inhaled the donut in her detective hex and nearly choked #so this women very much eats feral #and probably not enough #just forgets until it hits her

#also she didn't grow up with a mother - she was probably never taught any manners

#also the grip on the drink #reminds me of my cousin in law who grew up with five other brothers and not enough money to feed them so they all eat like this was the last #time they'd eat for the foreseeable future #and would also hunch over their food to protect it from being taken #and so they ate the entire meal in a minute

and now i can’t stop thinking about that.

like.

what if Agatha eats that way because she had to?

because she didn’t know when the next meal would come.

because survival is a hard habit to break.

and then you remember Nicky saying, “can’t you just make me some food?”

and it just—

wowie.

her hunger isn’t just for magic. it’s older than that. deeper. born from never having enough—of anything. food. love. safety. power just happens to be what she could reach.

Nicky was probably the only human to look at Agatha’s magic as something beautiful. And yes. He saw her magic’s destructive side; The side that her coven feared, the side that labeled her an unnatural monster. But he also saw the more gentle and soft side of it ,and of her.