shout out to @datura-my-fawn helping me realize this btw their posts are awesome sauce
so. we remember the panel with Will's Spectre in front of a statue with wings, making him look like an angel, right?
do we also remember the panels where the stag made him into a kebab?
Stay with me here, I promise they're both related guys
Angels are associated with 'saviors', this is something I've seen in media, mainly due to the fact that most people also associate them with Jesus.
When the stag attacked Will, one of the places where its antlers pierced through was his hand.
Jesus, on most crosses, had a nail pinning him to the wood in his palm. Will's hand injury was on his palm. Do you see it.
He's also close to the guy that has religious trauma?? Like when Ada saw Montesor's fear, it was being in the church with the cult. The episode also has "Our Father" in the background when a demon (presumably Belial) crawls out of his mouth and kills the cultists. And Montresor is also seen as a demon, both in life and probably death. Almost everyone HATES him in Nevermore, he reflects the antagonists of most of their backstories. While he was living, he was literally called a demon.
We have Will, portrayed as a savior, and Montresor, portrayed as a demon, or a sinner.
Your only friend (arguable) in this school dies in your arms, you literally check to see if he’s stopped breathing and toss his corpse to the side, and then you hear his voice again?
That is not the face of a man who is glad to see someone again!
THIS BOY IS TRAUMATIZED!
He doesn’t even know if that’s even really Will or if the person who just kissed him was Will! Monty’s brain is probably short circuiting, questioning if anything is real.
Will, why do you bring so much nightmare fuel to Nevermore. Like, Will. Of all people, WILL is the one pulling the freakiest moves out.
Sorry for all the requests but a Willtresor edit to "The Promise" by Sturgill Simpson. I don't even gaf about this stupid toxic yaoi I promise (LYING. SHES LYING)
guys i think lotus might like the toxic yaoi… just a hunch… /silly
just reread season 2 up to 120 and i have so many thougts (that people have probably already had but oh well).
just warning you: this will be a long post
willtressor: i feel so sorry for Will, not the him that kissed Monty but the other him. because the Will that died finally got the answer to the question he was too afraid to ask. He died having finally had the realization about everything he'd felt his entire life and why he was the way he was, and just the "that's 3 times. I've never seen you stick your neck out for anyone else" this is the bravest, the most confident, the most WILL we've seen him. He wasn't groveling, he was challenging Monty, he took charge of the situation. For the duration of the kiss, he reversed their roles. I am so proud of him. But this other Will didn't get that. this other Will has to continue on, being scared and thinking he's so inferior to everyone else. in life he was just one of fourteen kids and in death he still doesn't see himself as any more noticeable or important. This Will never got the resolution he needed and now he's going to probably be so confused and continue to feel forgotten and useless for a while (unless Monty does something)
speaking of Monty- oh my fucking god. At first i didn’t like him, and i still won’t completely excuse some of the things he said and did, but from the flashbacks and the past few chapters it's very evident that this is a severely traumatized man. he's fucked up. and we see that he really cares about Will. he can’t admit it or show it in any way that would be recognizable to anyone else but again, i quote "that's 3 times now, I've never seen you stick your neck out for anyone else" i think what we have to remember about him is that he is a deeply fucked up individual and he has probably had to learn how to defend himself mentally, emotionally and physically. this whole thing he does, i think it's because if he makes everyone hate him on purpose then the rejection is easer and he doesn't have to deal with anybody trying to get close, which is maybe why ada and will piss him off so much: no matter how hard he tries to get rid of them they kept coming back and clinging onto him and acting like he hung the fucking moon and stars (or at least Will does). I think the events of episode 120 will make him do one of two things: become better and treat will properly while being a little haunted. or become worse,more scared and build more (metaphorical) walls and only become meaner. (and i'm starting to think it will be the latter. he'll be scared and haunted and all for a few chapters and then he'll start being crueler to cover up his sexuality panic.
prospero -
Prospero- i'm gonna put away my biases for this one (i think he's really fit). First of all, i called the whole plague thing + OCD tendancies (my best friend has really bad ocd and she suspects i have very very mild ocd ESPECIALLY around germs and mould and bacteria so i know what it looks like) anyway onto the serious talking.
Seing prospero get slurred and the way he interracts with his family tells us so much. I'm pretty sure we're in the eighteen tens here and many italian and spanish immigrants were not treated the best, especially because of the mass sickness at the time, which i imagine only worsened Prospero's problems with germs and being unclean. People calling him names and treating him as inferior and some people blaming the plague on the immigrants would probably have made him spiral a little. I am so annoyed at his cousin because they've presumably known each other for a while. We know that because this guy knows exactly how to mess with Prospero, so surely he knows that this has been a thing for a long time? Feeling the way that prospero does about cleanliness doesn't happen overnight and while we don't know about anything before this, we can assume that people in the community would know about it, especially if they are family. I also feel so bad for him because people don't seem to understand. They think he's digusted by them or that he wants to distance himself from them or that he doesn't love them, when in actual fact he just has something going on with him that makes it difficult for him to get close to anyone. Weather he's aroace or just can't get close to anyone or express his love because of whatever is going on with him, we don't know. Red and Flynn could take it in very interesting directions either way, or if there's some secret third thing i'm sure it will be fantastic.
[also, in another universe, prospero could have worked with carlise cullen while he was alive. Someone write the fic.]
Quickfire round (don't have as much rambling or analysis for these)
Duke- duke is hiding behind who he is on stage, he's the fearless fortunato and that means that he will keep being reckless and disregarding the safety of himself and others until he exhausts himself and girlbosses to close to the sun. Only then will he learn. I love him, don't get me wrong. I love this silly little french man, but he needs to stop being so cocky and showing off when they are literally about to die for a second time.
Ada- i feel so sorry for ada. For the majority of this fic i didn't like her, but all she ever really wanted in life and in death was to be loved, and damn can i relate to that. She deserved better. She was annoying and bitchy and kind of a pick me but she deserved better. She was like that because she had to be. Do you think she saw the nurse's outfit and was hit with a strande deja vu? Because it was so similar to her maid's uniform. Ada clings onto anyone she can because all she wants is to be loved, but she'll never get the love she craves. She wants to be cinderella, but she won't marry a prince, she didn't even make it out of the cellar.
Pluto: this guy is really just the human embodiment of a cat isn't he? As a manchester girly i love the lancashire representation with this guy, i've been to blackpool like 10 times for various occasions throughout my life. I think it's a tie between him and Will for my favorite character. (also i can't decide if he is just really gender or really fit)
Unrelated but does anybody know the age range? Like are they adults or teenagers? Because with some of them like pluto and morella and maybe Will and eulalie it seems like they're at least 17 but no older than 19. but with some of the others they're very clearly in their early 20s, like Montressor,duke, prospero and Ada are all deffo above the age of 20, as are our main ladies. That's just my perspective though
Anyway's theres a whole recap of my current Nevermore thoughts. So far in order of obsession my ships are
Willtressor
Lenore and anabell (idk ship name)
And i'm gonna be honest i don’t really ship plukalie but i can't remember any other ships.
Quick theory time: what if the reason Lenore hasn't manifested yet isn't the curse or something. The deans said they would manifest when they felt what they felt when they died. What if when she died, for that split second, lenore felt loved, or content. What if the reason why it hasn't happened is because in order for her to manifest she would need to be happy and feel safe. I don't think she's really properly felt any of those things for more than a short while durning her time at nevermore. Never long enough or completely enough anyway, because for either of those things to be fulfilled she would need annabel, and there is no other way for her to feel what she felt when she died.
(btw please bear in mind i started writing this whole post at 11:35 last night and i have exams so my brain is not braining i should be REVISING not thinking about GAY PEOPLE god damn it)
Will: peasant (works at family owned farm and convince store, saved Montresor from a gang fight by using a flashlight to scare them off, Montresor and him have only grown closer since)
Montresor: kings illegment and only son (was raised by abusive religious mother)
Annabelle: emperor's daughter
Lenore: rouge (ran away)
Pluto: rogue (run away)
Duke: rouge
Bernice: a wild and renowned actress
Eulalie: fortune teller
Morella: a baker (houses the misfits)
Prospero: Annabelle's personal butler
Ada: Annabelle's personal maid (Annabelle did it originally to protect Ada from Thomas, though they're becoming friends, ish, but through the story they ultimately do)
Montresor is dragged away by guards one day despite Will's efforts to stop them (which he is injured doing so). A week later Will is still worried sick and trying to figure out why the guards would take his only friend. When suddenly on a Saturday afternoon guards walk into his shop and say the King demanded's an audience, and that if he comes he'll see his friend again. Will immediately accepts and is taken to the castle and escorted to the throne room doors. And thus the fear settles yet he walks in and kneeling before the king not daring to even look at his face begs the king to release his friend. But this is met with Montresor's chuckles and he soon learns that the old king has died and Montresor was his illegitimate son an only living heir. Montresor then escorts Will to the fanciest bedroom in the castle and tells him this is were he'll be staying (but he doesn't tell him it's the biggest and fanciest bedroom in the castle)
Also for those interested in this Au Annabelle & Lenore meet during a royal retreat (in which the nobles were required to come to) and they reunite during a heist gone wrong in the emperors main palace. As you can imagine the conversation is a bit...awkward 😅
