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wordsmith30 · 1 year

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The more that I think about it, the more I realize that Ava’s character arc as the Warrior Nun actually regressed in season two.

Ultimately, Beatrice hits the nail on the head in their fight at the very beginning: Ava does whatever she wants, jumps headfirst into danger without thinking about the consequences, leads with her heart and emotions instead of her head.

Because of the intense pressure Ava puts on herself to be the Warrior Nun, she becomes dangerously self-sacrificing. In her desperation to not let the team down, she throws herself at every threat that appears (whether she needs to or not) and the team gets smoked with her. Afraid to lose her friends, she takes on the whole weight of the mission alone. In the end, she abandons them for a solo mission that nearly gets her killed.

One of the key lessons Beatrice tried to impart to her in season one was to trust her team. The Warrior Nun is not supposed to go at it alone or exist in isolation. She is a symbol, a representative of a collective unit. If only the Warrior Nun was needed, there would be no OCS. There would be no team.

Though the Warrior Nun is supposed to be their designated leader, that doesn’t necessarily mean that she is. In season one, Ava was a complete newbie with no background knowledge, experience, or training whatsoever. Despite her special status, her role was limited to one specific thing and it was the team’s job to protect her so that she could fulfill it. Everyone had their own part to play.

But Ava chafed against this system. She didn’t like the idea of other people fighting for her and wanted to do something, even though she wasn’t properly equipped. Beatrice and the others consistently had to tell her, “No. That’s not your job. You’re going to get yourself killed. Your responsibility is this and that’s all you need to worry about.”

Somewhere along the way, Ava forgets that. She gets roped in with Michael and Reya’s plan (a horrible, stupid plan that doesn’t even work!). She blames herself for everything that goes wrong and believes it’s her sole responsibility to protect the team – that she needs to take the biggest risks and make the ultimate sacrifice.

But the biggest difference between her and the OCS? They chose this. They signed up for this. They have trained for this. They’re prepared to lay down their lives for this, they know what’s at stake. And you need them!

Two seconds after Ava and Michael defect for their own plan, Michael is killed on the spot. Ava is left outnumbered and alone with no way to call for backup.

Meanwhile, one-woman-army Beatrice is slicing through every last one of Adriel’s men to find her. That’s the girl you left behind?

Enough with all this “I’m doing this to save you”. You need her to save you!

Every time Ava was in trouble this season, my reaction was either: “Yaas! Beatrice has arrived” or: “Shoot. Beatrice! Beatrice, help her!”

Beatrice has saved her a thousand times over and when the two of them are fighting side by side – protecting each other, leaning on each other, trusting each other, working together – they’re unstoppable.

After Ava falls fifty feet from a building, she tells Beatrice that “they can’t beat us [...] Not together.”

So why did you leave her? 😭

#yes I'm late to the party but I just finished Warrior Nun and now I'm sad #Avatrice #Warrior Nun 2x08 #Warrior Nun 2x02 #Warrior Nun 2x05 #Warrior Nun 2x06 #Warrior Nun 1x09 #Ava Silva #Sister Beatrice #Ava x Beatrice #save warrior nun #Michael Salvius #Reya #Adriel #self-sacrifice #I just want Avatrice together and happy #Ava deserved to live

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mxmeiyun · 1 year

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"Sorry. Theological grandstanding just really annoys me."

#warrior nun #sister beatrice #warrior nun blogging #warrior nun 2x02

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smokestarrules · 1 year

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I love jealous Ava especially in the context of Ava definitely knowing that her feelings are requited. she’s not even worried that Beatrice is going to fall for someone else she’s just offended that this lady doesn’t understand Beatrice Is Taken

#which. is even FUNNIER with the context of the woman Knowing that and is purposefully making her jealous FOR beatrice #it's a comedy of errors and it's fucking hilarious #god.... 2x02 the episode that u are #warrior nun #ava silva #sister beatrice #avatrice #smokey speaks

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spaceman-earthgirl · 1 year

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“Just your job?”

Ava glances up as she says it, thumb brushing carefully over the back of Beatrice’s, a look in her eyes that screams hope, but at the same time is knowing.

Beatrice knows it’s not just a job, it hasn’t been since the beginning, since Ava has systematically been breaking down every one of her defenses, one by one, whether she knows she’s doing it or not.

It’s definitely not just a job anymore, and Ava knows that too.

“Well, my pleasure.”

Ava smiles and Beatrice is hooked. They’ve been doing this a lot recently, staring at each other. With just one look, Beatrice can tell exactly what Ava is thinking. She can read her like a book, they can have whole conversations with just glances.

Like right now, Beatrice knows exactly what Ava is thinking, can tell by the way she’s now glancing at her lips, that Ava wants to kiss her, and it scares her entirely how much she wants to kiss Ava too.

She’s seen this look before, on more than one occasion. She’s avoided this look before too. But she knows it’s more than just want, knows there are feelings tangled between them, and that only makes it more terrifying.

Because none of this is one sided, none of this is just Ava. It’s her too, even if she’s denied it since the beginning, it’s getting harder and harder to deny it here.

Here, where they’re living together, where they have a home and sleep in the same bed and she gets to see Ava, all tired first thing in the morning and she gets to fight for space in the bathroom as they get ready for bed and she gets to see everything in between.

And now Ava is looking at her again and Beatrice is ninety-nine percent sure that Ava is going to kiss her. Right here, right now, right after they had an argument, when they still have tears in their eyes, but Ava’s hand is warm in hers and it’s grounding and Beatrice thinks she just might let Ava kiss her.

Beatrice is both relieved and thoroughly disappointed when her cross lights up, when Ava says her name and they get the call. But she’ll think about this moment later, think about what Ava means to her, and then she’ll shove all of her feelings back down, where she can ignore them a bit longer, so she can focus on the mission, focus on keeping Ava safe, because that’s all that matters.

#warrior nun #avatrice #sister beatrice #ava silva #set during 2x02 #it just really looked like Bea thought Ava was going to kiss her in this scene

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knightsofrayx · 1 year

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TW: Blood

Blood covered blorbo

#warrior nun #save warrior nun #sister lilith #lilith my beloved demon child #blood covered blorbo #my art #woke up and felt inspired #most of that blood isn't hers #is it weird that I thought she looked adorable when she looked through the cell bars after the 2x02 hallway fight?

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hyperfixatedonthings · 1 year

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Thing I never noticed #1242: Ava never takes her eyes off of Beatrice and her "friend" the entire way out of the bar. I never doubted that this was one of the reasons that she decided to leave... however, this made my heart happy.

(gif credit: @whatimdoing-here )

#there is always something with this show #we stan a legend #harold she's in love #lol #ava silva #sister beatrice #warrior nun #wn 2x02

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birgittesilverbae · 1 year

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turns out Sister "Nuns Don't Fidget" didn't actually break the habit. Where in Season 1 Beatrice physically restrains herself from fidgeting by clasping her hands or folding her arms or gripping her wrist, Beatrice starts Season 2 with her hands constantly in motion

KRISTINA TONTERI-YOUNG as SISTER BEATRICE WARRIOR NUN (2020-2022) 2x01 // 2x02

#warrior nun #warriornunedit #sister beatrice #mywn #myedit #this was legitimately not intended to be a Hands post but we've ended up here don't look at me

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wlwshipping-littlehuntress · 1 year

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Warrior Nun ➣ 1x08 // 2x02

#warriornunedit #avatrice #warrior nun #both of those scenes are top tier #healthy realtionship <3 #mine

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chappelroans · 1 year

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AVA SILVA | Warrior Nun 2x02

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gohandinhand · 1 year

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turning sun into sugar, spinning straw into gold (1/2)

Fandom: Warrior Nun

Pairing: Ava/Beatrice

Rating: T

Word count: ~9k

Read it on AO3

Canon divergent from the end of 2x02; what if they didn’t get called back to the fight, but had to find a new place to hide away, train, and fall in love? AKA a thinly veiled excuse to write a love letter to the pnw

They’re different here, again, off-duty and alone together through the rapidly shortening afternoons. In Switzerland they’d had this only for stolen moments, cradled in the refuge of a dark bedroom. Here, nestled in the safety of the trees and a sky shuttered with clouds, the intimacy of the night bleeds forward into the day.

#decided to split it into two chapters after all so here is part 1!#part 2 is so so close to being done (it's already 9k)#just polishing the ending so it won't be long until it's up #hope you enjoy my pnw propaganda :)#wn fic #myfic #pnw au #pnw ava

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booasaur · 1 year

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just lmao every time i think about how beatrice was staring so obviously and piningly at ava that a total stranger at the bar saw and was like "imma help her out because this is hopeless" and then succeeded in making ava jealous by flirting and pulling beatrice's attention away from her for 2 (two) minutes. and i'm not even sure if bea fully registered that that stranger was flirting with her or knew what she meant by "she's not the only friend in the world"

That scene was straight up out of fic. That lady was straight out of fic. What you described was literally what happened, a gorgeous stranger sat down for a couple of minutes next to this pining gay to make her crush jealous and it totally worked, after which her job was done and she never appeared again (though I'd like to see her return, ideally when Ava and Bea go back to the Alps, this time as tourist girlfriends, and she can be like, ah, I see it worked out, while Ava glares daggers).

Tbh, even with the pining Ava we'd gotten in the first ep, I figured since we already knew Bea was gay and liked Ava from the first season, this season's stakes would hinge on Ava's feelings mostly being vague, that we'd end up with a Bea/Ava/Michael love triangle and it'd only be at some pivotal moment that Ava would pick Bea and resolve it. Especially since the jealousy line from the trailer was used so early, I figured, ah, so we ARE in for some troubled waters, but then we got AVA being so openly jealous!

It speaks so much to my general low expectations for media that even with knowing there was going to be a whole kiss later, and continually already being wrong, I was like, oh, she's so jealous she's taking any opportunity to leave and not have to see Bea with this girl, maybe going off alone with Michael is where that starts, but AGAIN I'm wrong and the whole thing was to get Bea away from the girl! I didn't even realize till after that her accusing Bea of being jealous was literally wishful thinking, not an accusation. WN writers really gave us so much with them...

#replies #femslash related stuff #sent on 20221113 #Anonymous #5 #warrior nun #warrior nun 2x02 #avatrice

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wordsmith30 · 10 months

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Warrior Nun Rewatch 1×09-1×10

Our rebel Sister Warriors infiltrate the Vatican to steal the bones from Adriel’s tomb. This is Ava’s first big mission and everything has come down to this. She is already fumbling along while Beatrice tries to keep her in line.

“Trust your team.”

While casting their votes for the new Pope, Duretti’s Divinium ring lights up. He alerts the other nuns that Ava is here.

Mother Superion joins their fight and Ava learns that she was previously a Warrior Nun. Ava’s shocked as, to her knowledge, no Warrior Nun lives to see their successor. But the Halo rejected Mother Superion.

There’s so much pain in Superion’s face at the memory. So much shame.

I couldn’t help but think of how honour was/is valued in ancient civilizations and other institutions. In Ancient Greece specifically, a soldier’s worth was determined by their accolades: how many kills they had on the battlefield, how many war prizes they took, how many cities they plundered. Honour was represented by material things that could be taken away at any time. Their ultimate goal was to die on the battlefield in a blaze of glory so that bards would sing their names and stories forever. That was immortality.

To return home empty-handed or to fail in the line of duty was a fate worse than death. You lived the rest of your days in shame. No title. No riches. No recognition.

Unless you got the chance to prove yourself again. In defecting from Duretti and the institution for Ava and her team, Mother Superion takes the first step towards redemption. Her failure propels her towards a different choice: putting the welfare of her girls before a man’s consolidation of power.

She tells Ava that she should’ve listened to Vincent. Ava is worthy. And the tenderness Ava shows her by readjusting her habit is a beautiful moment of respect, one that says the same thing Mary says to Lilith: “I see you.”

Ava is not happy to learn that Beatrice brought backup explosives just in case Ava can’t do the job.

“You don’t think I can do this.”

Given that Beatrice has been the one training her, it feels like a very singular “You” here. The two of them have already developed quite a bond in their short time together, so Ava cares about Beatrice’s opinion. To find this out on the “homestretch” of their journey is quite a slap in the face.

“I know you can do this. We all do,” Beatrice says. “We’re just not certain you will do this. Being a team player isn’t exactly your forte. You do what’s best for Ava: flight, not fight. That’s where your instincts lie.”

It’s accurate, if not difficult to hear. And it’s eerily similar to the argument they have in 2×02 where Beatrice says that Ava just does whatever she wants.

But Ava is determined to prove her wrong this time.

“But things change when you realize not everything’s about you.”

This brings a smile to Beatrice’s face. Ava is putting the mission first.

And we even get the same cross imagery on the wall behind Ava when Beatrice uses the projector to measure the tomb.

Lilith, meanwhile, is back at the lab with Jillian and keeping close to herself. Jillian realizes that Lilith can teleport and has regenerative healing abilities, but before she can confront her, she sees her heading to Michael’s room.

Michael is drawing pictures of Adriel. He tells Lilith that she’s too late. Ava’s already at the door.

Lilith races to the Vatican to stop them. She’s the only one who knows the truth: that they’re about to release the devil.

After taking out Crimson once and for all, she engages Ava and Beatrice in the crypt. Mary shows up and restrains her, talking her down.

If only they had known. They were sending Ava into a death trap.

They learn as well while she’s moving through the wall that the Tarasks are the original source of Divinium, not Adriel’s armour. Beatrice surmises that they were coming for the bones, too, but it’s actually a step further. They were after Adriel himself for his crimes against Reya.

Ava is terrified when she gets there. Her comms have cut out and her flashlight goes dark. She’s trapped and alone, and there are no bones waiting for her. Instead, it’s the real villain of our story: Adriel.

Feels a lot like the ambush in season two, doesn’t it? 😭

The thing that makes Adriel such a compelling villain in 1×10 is that he tells us things that sound very believable. Especially in an institution like the Catholic church, we’re very familiar with corruption. We know all too well how men vie for power. It’s not hard to imagine the church imprisoning Adriel for their own gain or making Areala their pawn. And Adriel tells Ava that he doesn’t even blame Areala.

But the part that got me the most was him explaining that he was never blind to the human world. All the pieces of his armour are connected to him; through them, he can see and hear what’s going on in the outside world. And because all the Divinium in the OCS’ possession came from his armour, all their information goes back to the same person.

It’s not Divinium in general that allows people to connect to Adriel. It’s the pieces of his armour. That finally explains why Adriel was always a step ahead of them in season two! He didn’t need to possess Camila to infiltrate their base of operations. Ava had his Divinium sword strapped to her back! He would’ve heard everything.

Michael’s body is seeded with Divinium. He was the perfect conduit, the perfect pawn.

While looking for Jillian, Kristian walks into her office with Michael’s pictures all over the walls. He sees the full picture now, the full vision – that the Ark is proof of the beyond, that Adriel is real and is coming, and that this moment is just at hand. I think he finally gets the miracle he was seeking for so long. That’s why he joins Adriel.

Standing before Adriel, Ava is faced with that impossible choice: to help the church or help her family. She wants to end the cycle of pain, end the deaths of Warrior Nuns. She thinks in this moment that Adriel can help her, that they can take down the church together. But that means giving up the Halo. After all, she’s told that it was stolen from him.

And because Ava is the self-sacrificing person that she is, she agrees. As long as it means the safety of her friends, she doesn’t care what happens to her.

But then Adriel touches her back and she sees it: Areala screaming in pain while Adriel raises the Halo above her. Ava draws back.

Danger.

Outside the tomb, the others are prepping to blow the wall. Ava’s been in there too long and they’re worried.

Mother Superion says she has to find Camila.

Adriel shows Ava the vision of how Areala first met Adriel. She was in the midst of a war, cutting through men left, right, and center. Then, finally, she went down. All of her men rallied around her.

And then Adriel appeared out of a void, the Halo in hand. He used it to close the door behind him, but a minute later, a Tarask followed. It chased him through the fortress and he used the Halo to fight it off. Only when it was dead did he go to Areala.

The men, awed by what they had just seen – this supernatural (but humanoid) being fighting off a demon – could never have known who or what Adriel truly was. They wouldn’t have known he was being chased for a reason.

But this works in Adriel’s favour. Now he has people to follow him. They see another Tarask about to emerge and Adriel drives the Halo into Areala’s/Ava’s back. The orange light flickers and vanishes. They don’t come through.

The Halo was never a gift. He was just trying to get the Tarasks off his back. For the next thousand years, they would chase down the Warrior Nun while he got off scot-free.

Areala confronts him the next morning and we’re reminded that she’s an atheist. She sees through Adriel at once. She’s like, “You lie like a man. You’re no angel. That’s just what you want us to think.”

And he admits the truth. He says that men see what they want to see and promises her that if she exposes him, he will take back the Halo and leave her for dead.

Now armed with the truth, Ava tells Adriel to suck it.

He asks why she thinks she was sent here, revealing that she was just a pawn all along. Then he shoves his hand into her chest.

As the power of the Halo flares, the Ark fires up. Michael says that he’s coming and races towards it. “Come with me, Mummy!” he cries, and then he’s gone.

Ava screams, blasting Adriel away from her, and the ceiling comes down on their heads.

Jillian stands at the empty Ark and sobs.

As the rumbling starts in the crypt, Lilith looks at Beatrice. “I tried to warn you.”

Beatrice arms the charges and blows the crypt just as Duretti is about to give his speech.

One thing Ava has been excellent at doing from day one: screaming. Beatrice is the first one to her side.

Vincent carries her out of the tomb and through his torn sleeve, we can see his Divinium tattoos light up. Then they’re all racing back upstairs.

Mother Superion confronts Duretti and says she knows he killed Shannon.

The rest of them meet up with Camila and Ava says to let her down. She’s regaining feeling in her legs again. She tells them that Adriel’s alive and not an angel.

And then the devil himself appears.

Mother Superion quickly realizes that Duretti doesn’t know what she’s talking about: not Shannon, not the bones, any of it. As the realization hits her, she staggers. Vincent walks up to Adriel and attempts to talk him down, saying that he will get the Halo in time. For now, he’s won.

The girls realize with horror that Vincent has been playing them all for fools. He killed Shannon. Mary is ready to rip his head off, but Lilith intercedes. “I’ll handle this.”

I love that she’s the one who steps up here because it puts all her previous baggage behind her. Long past the girl who went to war with her sisters, now she’s the avenger coming to right all the wrongs: to stand up for Shannon, unjustly taken; to stand up for Ava, used and deceived; to stand up for Mary, who trusted this man when he murdered her love in cold blood.

Lilith walks right up to Adriel and tells him he’s a thief.

The fight that ensues is one of the best choreographed sequences I’ve ever seen. Our girls converge on Adriel like a pack of wolves. It is the crown jewel of season one.

Camila’s double headshot still takes the cake and the look they give Vincent as they pass says one thing: You’re next.

They all turn when Adriel gets up, but it’s no matter to them. As Beatrice says, “We only needed seven minutes.”

And there’s our girl Ava, Divinium sword in hand.

(I still wish we got to see this fight! 😤😫)

Before she can rain down hellfire, however, Adriel summons his army of wraith demons. All the assembled people in the courtyard are possessed and move in towards them.

Mary breaks rank and throws herself into the fire. “In this life!”

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again now: no body, no death!

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