day 5 of @podcastgirlsweek: god forbid women do anything. celebrate a female villain. defend your #problematic fave.
i am here in defense of abigail reed >:]
you guys have to here me out on this one cause i’m not 100% sure she’s classified a villain, but she is absolutely a #problematic fave okay
abigail reed is the deceased wife of solomon reed (aka the worst person ever). she took her own life, and was subsequently trapped in a fife by said terrible husband. while trapped in said fife, she was constantly screaming, which is really girlboss of her.
she did sew her son’s mouth shut and leave him to starve to death but WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES
(i’m joking, this was obviously wrong)
but!! she was clearly not well, and shouldn’t have been left alone with percy. solomon is not as responsible, but i still want to blame him for it. so i will.
also, her story (ep 40 graves - stuck on the needle) is written SO WELL
“Judgement day was past, and she had missed the rapture, and the rain burned her eyes and her soul. It was something else—invasive, a virus or a parasite, altering her. She could feel it churning within her bone marrow. She couldn’t let it, couldn’t be changed…”
“Abigail nodded, and descended quietly, brushing a hand through her son’s hair. It was funny, she thought, how much he looked like that preacher’s boy. She wrapped her arms around him, and he cried quietly, and she was not repulsed. The tears that fell from her eyes surprised her, burning like stars themselves.”
kind of the only reason she wanted solomon was because he was quiet and wasn’t annoying. and calls him a ‘funny little thing.’ which is SO REAL.
despite her upbringing and everything else, she learns to accept percy for who he is. her son, not her daughter.
she also saved riot, and didn’t kill that family.
i just really think she’s cool okay
