Ok so!
I totally agree with your take on Rio when it comes to gender. Why would it care about any social constructs of any specific species 🤷🏻♂️.
Which also plays into her thoughts on ‘morality’ IMO like ok so no your ‘god’ says this is right and this is wrong but like I could care less. She doesn’t care that Agatha kills not because they like people dying (also don’t care just part of the job) but because like not some evil thing it’s just the way the cycle works 🤷🏻♂️
What are your thoughts on that body? That ‘form’ really. She can take many, any. Yet when she is in it does it end up being the same. Does it take a certain amount of time in it or is it always? Like I love the idea of her having to ‘take care of it’ like eat and sleep and what not when staying in it for sometime not because could die cuz obviously not but just so uncomfortable like I don’t need to eat to live but being in a body that’s starving just is uncomfortable for to long 😅
What are your thoughts on it! I want your lore drop 😊
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I think the most plausible explanation for her getting a body was that she took it from someone who had died. Some fics I’ve read explored this— where she moved someone forward but kept their body afterwards.
I’m sure she has had multiple bodies in the past, because she had to of had something with skin and bones to be a good buffer for both the human realm and the afterlife. I mean, imagine how fucking scary it would be if your ride to the afterlife was just a boney skeleton with a green crown; Rio’s job was to make them at least a little “comfortable” in their new home. What better way to make someone comfortable than to look like someone they would know?
Before Agatha, and since I don’t believe Rio would care about pronouns, gender, or any sort of “attractiveness”, I’m sure she took at least one or two bodies that were both men and women. When trying to appeal to Agatha, I like to think she tried on so many more until she landed on the right one, which we know as her in the show.
I’d assume she kept that body from whenever she first met Agatha to present day, and that she can sleep, and eat, and breathe, but it’s either less important or she doesn’t have to do it all together. However, I do like your hc that if she doesn’t, she won’t die, but the body will. Maybe that’s happened before with one of her forms, so she eats just enough and sleeps just enough to survive— for Agatha. It’s her first time being human too, let her watch her wife kinda creepily while she sleeps. We’ve all done it.
The idea that her body would give out if she didn’t take care of it is really interesting, because she’s literally just replacing the form’s consciousness. If the bodies dies, she lives on. Which could lead to the form not being (in the past) of much value to her, just a vessel to live in to make her immortal life interesting, until she met Agatha.