sooo I've already asked about the marigold + evie dynamic but...I must enquire about the sister dynamic with the gals and elodie!! do they all get along?? I know that elodie is very reserved (repressed) but is she the same with her sisters??
ljkldggdlkj oh god.
okay sooooo the thing that remains the same across all timelines, fantasy land, real world, wherever: elodie has assigned herself Mom's Favorite, and marigold and evie fucking hate their mother, who is at BEST neglectful and at WORST (gestures to marigold's giant chest scar). so there is this really really big rift between them, because elodie sees this as a situation that would be solved if marigold and evie just Behaved and Were Nicer but simultaneously really really really wants to be as close to them as they are to each other.
i think ESPECIALLY evie. they're twins! so there's a lot of not-so-quiet resentment towards marigold, because marigold and evie are pretty much inseparable and elodie sees that as how it should have been between HER and evie. marigold is kind of politely ambivalent towards elodie on a good day, with a little bit of older sister sympathy, but she will go for the jugular if elodie says some weird shit about their mother one too many times. evie does not do anything by halves and violently hates elodie for taking their mom's side re: marigold. elodie has this simmering fury re: marigold (expressed uhhhhh differently depending on the universe) and with evie it's generally just a defensive response to evie throwing rocks and sticks at her + a sublimated and very secret desire for them to be Twin Besties that arguably has very little to do with the reality of evie at all. she just really wants someone in her family to love her.

















