VERY important emmy and bernice update!!! (contains major spoilers!!)
tales from harrow county being bernice and emmy centered all along and giving us backstory about just how close they were...well, it's everything i had hoped it would be and more. let's break this down!!
i thought bernice and emmy had been writing to each other, but turns out bernice has been writing to people who have come in contact with emmy on her travels, trying to find out if she's even alive because for some strange reason, emmy hasn't contacted her in a while. bernice is very worried and still in love with emmy and wants her to come home.
georgia, bernice's girlfriend, finds the letters addressed to emmy, and it gets awkward as bernice recounts the last time she saw her ex witchy girlfriend. upon hearing bernice talk about emmy, georgia remarks that bernice loved emmy and what's fascinating is bernice doesn't deny it at all. not only that but bernice's actions regarding emmy also speak volumes; as she goes on to reveal that she went to some great lengths to protect now-human emmy.
despite growing up in harrow county, georgia doesn't remember emmy for some reason. now that's because after emmy and her tearfully parted ways, bernice did a ritual that would remove the memory of what emmy was from the minds of the townspeople, for some that meant removing the memory of emmy altogether. but it wasn't just a memory-wipe spell, it was also a cure for a broken heart.
love and magic are two totally different things.
turns out the ghostly choir and the disappearance of priscilla back in death's choir was all a trap, one to lure bernice down to the underground, where a cult of haint and fairy folk dwell. they capture both bernice and georgia who in turn, find priscilla. they force bernice to undo the spell she placed over the townspeople. hoping they'll pray for emmy to return.
curiously, bernice asks georgia what she's remembered about emmy, and georgia says she didn't know both of them that well back then, but she remembers how people talked about bernice and emmy. she envied them because despite those rumors, and even if they weren't true, they were living their lives and didn't care what anyone thought...they weren't afraid like she had been, to which bernice replied; they were always afraid.
and there we have it: bernice and emmy were in a secret relationship with each other.
suddenly all their hand-holding, *married couple energy* fights and lingering eye contact wasn't just my imagination after all.
EMBER IS FREAKIN' CANON BABYYYY!!!!
and now...for emmy to return to harrow!!
