Feb 15, 2025
(me putting off working on the long-ago outlined but not yet finished scenes of elena finally meeting maeve's dad): but... what about ANNIE meeting maeve's dad? ... honestly can't decide if she'd try sooo hard to like him or sooo hard to hate him. the true secret third option is annie would never meet him because in a maeveannie universe maeve can NOT go through the specific emotional journey it would take to consider ending her estrangement with him... (clarification: it is not maevelena endgame that makes maeve capable of reconciling with her father. it's actually... ashley.)
#ok i mean TECHNICALLY in the cause-and-effect#triggers-and-heaps sense...#it's STORMFRONT#bc it's really meeting her mom that changes maeve's whole world & perception and without that she would never go back and talk to her dad.#but i feel that in another intangible yet very important way ashley is a key ingredient#ashley pokes and prods at maeve's sore spots shamelessly in a particular way#that sparks growth that elena nor annie could EVER spark because well. in their differing ways they are both too nice#maeveashley true OTP????#no one ask me about a hypothetical AU where it's like TMDOMS in terms of ashley's involvement except annie replaces elena#no the thing is that's not possible#because of annie and ashley's history#annie would tell ashley to fuck off the minute she turned up with the compound V and she would let maeve slowly die of liver damage!#i mean. not on PURPOSE#no ok im being mean annie would find a way to save maeve but itd probably be like. procuring the V herself and regardless#maeve/ashley friendship could not blossom whilst maeve was in a relationship with annie. it just couldnt.#but now i'm gonna be distracted imagining 'tmdoms but with maeveannie' instead of the distraction i originally posed here#tmdoms#fic stuff#maeveannie#queen maeve sp#maeveashley