Aphrodite isn't just love and sex and frilly pink bows,
She's passion, the raging fire that burns between the hearts of two friends or lovers when one is under duress,
She's the unbreakable bond of family (found or bio), everlasting, infinite, no matter how close or far they are,
She's the pain of a broken heart, manifest in anger and vindication, the one standing behind you as you confront an abusive partner/friend/family member,
She's salvation for everyone who has ever been or is being hurt,
She is self love for everyone with self esteem issues, looking you in the eye as you stare into the mirror and saying 'You are wonderful just as you are',
She's the comfort when you're in your darkest times, Her hands cradling you as you cry into Her shoulder,
She's the swelling of your heart when you experience new love or when you pick up a child,
She is justice for every queer person of the world just trying to exist peacefully-- transgender/sexual, intersex, aromantic, asexual, non-straight,
And She is the feeling of your smile slowly fading when you didn't realize you were smiling at all.
So, I have a pretty distinctive house and after *coughmumble* years of living here I've kind of gotten used to people walking through the neighborhood between shopping and restaurant districts and going "wow look at that house." So when this one lady stopped under the mulberry tree to do something with her camera I wasn't too worried, although it looked like she was taking pictures of the mulberries? Which was weird. But okay. But it reminded me we had mulberries so my husband and I went out to eat some off the tree.
The crows said hello.
The lady says "ARE YOU GOING TO SUMMON THE CROWS?"
Come to find out she's walked through the neighborhood before at some point when I was feeding the crows and calling out things like "Peanuts! Peanuts for crows!" and making very bad but very consistent imitations of crow calls and all that. She saw the blue jays swarm in and the crows come to land on the power lines and in the trees. She was on the phone to a friend (who is a witch, she made a point of telling me) and she'd said to this friend "I've just seen the most magical thing!"
INCOMING: A DESPERATE COLLEGE STUDENTS OATHBOUND PREDICTIONS!!!!
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TRACY!! I JUST FELL TO MY KNEES IN THE MIDDLE OF WALMART! THE WHOLE GANG!! I’m so happy to see Valec, Alice, Will, & Mariah in the flesh like wtf! But while we are here, I want to talk about some of my Oathbound predictions…because I can. ❤️⚔️💙
P.S. IF YOU HAVEN’T READ LB OR BM I SUGGEST YOU DO NOT CONTINUE! Spoilers ahead!
• Okay first, I truly believe that Bree has had her squire and kingsmage all along, Nick and Sel. I mean just with the relationships between those three, there is no way it goes any other way.
also, Alice will wake from her coma and have somehow inherited powers from Will as she was LITERALLY breathing his aether signature in. Like I’m not 100% sure how that would work, but we’ve seen it in media before, take Monica Rambeau and Wanda’s hex for an example! Maybe that interaction with magic will awaken Alice's own unique magic too, or maybe it's closely related to Bree again how the Mesmer did too in LB.
Regardless, when she awakens I think bby girl will be given an even more important role in the finale of this series. Maybe like being Will's squire...
• it’s going to come out that not only is shadow daddy, IYKYK not spoiling for potential new readers who have no sense of self-preservation and are reading this anyways, is not only Sel's father but VALECHEZ’s! Like not only would that be pure comedy considering how they were at each other's NECKS in BM, but it makes sense as to why Sel was succumbing to his demonia so fast, faster than others, maybe because a little more demon than others…
•I think this new magic system that Tracy is cooking up is going to tap into Natasia and Faye’s relationship a bit more and even Sel and Bree’s.
I also think it’s going to be the solution to not only Sel’s demonia, but Bree’s bloodmark, and even abatement and all these fucking legendborn oaths. I mean think about the word OATH, practically meaning something one HAS to abide by. Vera took an oath of sorts with the blood mark “one daughter at a time for all time.” The legend born and their oath of service and all this, as I call it, greedy magic which shortens their life spans, the Merlins too! What if, just what if, Faye and Natasia found a way to combine both their forms of magic (root + aether + blood craft) and created something entirely new? Something so potent and powerful, defying these “oaths” or what you could call them, curses, to cure all these things…and what if since Bree is from Faye’s lineage, sel from Natasia, what if they can do it together too.
• I think we will learn more about the Morgaine. More on Nick….hmm. A lot of LB fans keep calling him boring, but with his mom's disappearance, and the fact that Tracy is too good of an author to simply leave his arc hanging, I don't trust it. Maybe he will even go rogue, I'm not too sure ATP, but don't sleep on Nick!
• Lastly for my final predictions…more like a pipe dream. I really, for the life of me, need Bree to pull a Wanda from episodes 8-9 of WandaVision with Shadow Daddy.
We know Bree is smart and clever, this ain’t new! So, I need her to take what she has learned from shadow daddy, and then pull a clean uno reverse, and get out of there! EXPEDITIOUSLY!
Then from there, I need her to find Sel and Nastia (preferably in some cute cabin in the woods, and Natasia needs to be a MILF) this revelation of Bree's survival prompts Natasia to discuss the above ^^^ She and Bree get to work! Sel is now cured and they can get these oaths removed!!! Once these oaths are removed, the REGENTS ARE TOAST, TOR TOO! Then we get to work on Camlann in book 4! Cuz that’s how tf Tracy does it! Period!!
THESE ARE JUST MY PREDICTIONS, NONE OF THESE ARE CANON!! All I have to say is I'm fucking so excited about this book and even though it's still two years out I'm trusting Tracy's expertise to bring us something DE-LI-CIOUS! Also is it too much to ask that if this is adapted for television to have it animated, we know how much Tracy loves and takes influence from anime... it's only fair, and I feel can make for a more accurate and dynamic visual medium.
Okay okay!!!! Point by point because organization & I’ve only had one cup of coffee so far lol:
Yeah there’s no way we’re gonna get new characters that are as important to babygirl as Nick & Sel already are. They aren’t her Squire & Kingsmage by Oath, but also they both have proven to transcend the power of Oaths & even the power of the pull their bloodlines have on them (as in: it may have been the Lancelot/Arthur connection that sparked the beginning of the Nick/Bree relationship but their actions in the Camelot dreamscape at the end of BM have driven this deeper than the bloodlines imo. Bree isn’t the only one to realize by the end of BM that the power she holds is hers and not something she needs to ask her ancestors’ permission for.)
Yes to all of this! Alice is *unique in that she has the resistance to mesmer Jessie gave her through Bree plus she’s been marinating in lemon-scented Gawain aether for ???? how Iong? She gonna wake up with POWER. If she doesn’t wake up as Will’s Squire— no Oath needed— I’ll eat my hat.
*unique because she has no bloodline claim to either power; Bree was always the Scion of Arthur, even if she didn't know it, so William's comment that she was "acclimating fast for a Onceborn" was always false & perhaps a foreshadowing of Alice's journey
This is one of those fan theories that I'm warming up to the longer I marinate on it, if for no other reason than it would be funny as hell for these two to be bros lmao. The way they fought together in the woods, like they had been doing it all their lives was delicious enough!
cracks knuckles Well yes! Another thing we've seen before but only becomes apparent on rereads is that Bree has witnessed the power of Natasia & Faye doing workings together already, because it's the magic that locked her memory of the fair when she was 10 to Faye's charm bracelet. We learn in LB that Sel doesn't know the breadth of what his own power can do, & we continue to learn alongside Bree what she can do. Even if Sel has more demon blood in him than the average Merlin, there's no reason to disbelieve him when he says his mother is also something special; she was chosen to be Kingsmage as a child just like he was, after all.
However: more than a few characters in the text talk about how important intention is when taking an Oath. Intention is also important when combining rootcraft & Merlin aethercraft. When Sel takes Bree's root with her consent (BM ch. 40 when they are fighting Erebus & she breaks the cuffs) he gets drunk off her, yes, but his eyes return to their normal gold color as well, & this nerd is of the opinion that she healed his descent without either of them knowing it in the process. Contrast this with Merlin!Sel taking her root by force in the Camelot dreamscape: it pulls him into full descent in the space of a few breaths.
I think this part is giong to be key in Oathbound, in the relationships between our trio now & in the Faye/Natasia relationship in the past, in circumventing Abatement & the whole "one daughter at a time" thing, & in breaking the Order's Oaths.
Nick is hell of not boring!! I have faith that blondie is gonna turn it all the way out in OB. Whether he is both the Scion of Lancelot & a Morgaine via his mother's lineage or whether it's something else, I think he's going to play a big part in both dismantling the Order (he's already stated his intention to do this & lots of what Nick says off the cuff comes to pass) & saving Bree's bacon in just as dramatic a way as we've already seen Sel do. Trust!
Hey maybe, because we have already seen our girl sprout wings & fly. Next time perhaps she'll get to stay up there long enough to beat the SK at his own game.
This was fun & I think (hope!!) it’s pretty true to what is likely to happen in OB.
I can’t believe we have more than another year to keep refining these theories but at least we’ll have some new material to pore over once the BM paperbacks come out.
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