if you told me there was a mcu movie featuring a cats the musical song, two alien species of the queerest looking people ever, including one that can only communicate through song and dance, mentions of fanfiction, three female superhero leads, only one of whom is white (and she has multiple romantic coded interactions with other women), found family, and iman vellani living her best life?? i absolutely would not believe you. anyway everyone should go see the marvels.
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i know this scene has been talked to death at this point but genuinely the picture of marcille with her hands feet and hair all bloody after fighting the dragon, sorting through the dragon's literal fucking guts and gore in order to find falin's bones after having been squeamish around other monsters. using resurrection magic to bring falin back bc thats what she came down there for and by god she was going to do whatever it took. like jesus christ
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"can fake peppino say fuck, can people teach him swears--" i think fake peppino knows/understands curse words perfectly well but sees them as bad customer service and therefore will never use them himself. he is mildly confused when the other peppino starts cussing, seeing it as a behavioral flaw. here i depict a mildly shitposty approximation of this dynamic
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This might be the most "well duh" statement in history, but something I'm really looking forward to in Alecto the Ninth is.... Alecto.
We've seen little glimpses of her here and there, through the Body and through Nona, and the picture I see them painting is definitely of someone who has been hurt very badly, and who is very angry about it, but there's more to it. She's more complicated than that.
She's conflicted about necromancy itself:
It's not that she hates or fears necromancy—it "feels nice", she has positive associations with it, but it also makes her sad that Palamedes is capable of doing it at all. Is that regret? Does Alecto regret having introduced necromancy into the world? Does she consider herself to share in responsibility for the consequences?
Does that have to do with why she's frightened of herself, and of who she thinks she'll become if she remembers herself? She's understandably afraid to remember what was done to her, but she's also afraid of the person she'll be once she does. She thinks that person—Alecto—is incapable of love.
And it could be that her fear is only of being a person who has suffered. That she doesn't want the pain. But this series has never been shy about complicating that narrative. No one in this story is a perfect victim. Very few characters have avoided suffering terrible and undeserved harm, and few have avoided causing it.
I want to know who Alecto is. Why Nona thinks that Alecto, who is defined by love, whose final words were "I still love you," is incapable of loving. Even more, I want to know why Alecto's later actions make that fear seem kind of.... reasonable. Why the Body—who was never anything but gentle and kind to Harrow—hurts Harrow on waking, and seems to not even understand hurt has been done.
Who else has Alecto hurt, and how does she understand it? What harm has she caused, and how is she going to face up to it? What role will Harrow and her relationship with Alecto play in that?
I have some ideas, but I don't really know. And I dunno. I'm pretty stoked to think we might find out.
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