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Happy Father's Day to my favorite Daddy 💛

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But gods do i love it...

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Since the moment of Nickys birth, Agatha has been using Rio. She used her as a scapegoat from her own complex emotions. She then projects all her pain, her overwhelming loss, her guilt, and her feeling of responsibility for his death onto Rio as well.

Because Rio is death, an immutable immovable object that can take all the hits Agatha throws at her. All the sharpened barbs made to lay waste to anyone else, anyone weaker.

Agatha knows exactly how much to twist the knife to have the most impact.

She knows Rio will take every drop of her rancour, every ounce of her self-loathing, every rend Agatha can inflict. Then, in a few days or months, Rio will be there once more full of fervour with a flower in hand.

So when Agatha makes the deal with Rio to give up Billy in exchange for Rio never darkening her doorstep again. She never ever thought that this would be the final push that would cause death to falter.

Rio has for so long been a physical embodiment of Agatha's external self hatred that the moment that Rio agrees, it all falls apart.

The safety Agatha had in her hatred of Rio crumbles, and all that is left is the realisation that the one person left on this earth that truly understood her pain, that loved all that she was had finally given up on her.

As Rio walks away, you can see the disbelief, her hurt and the utter terror of losing Rio forever hit her. So, this right here is the exact moment when Agatha's fate was sealed.

Because Agatha is so deeply selfish.

The final act of reneging on the deal, pulling Rio into her arms, drawing death into herself, was never about saving Billy.

This was as close to supplication as Agatha is capable of. There is no universe in which Agatha ever says the words 'sorry'.

This was forgive me. I love you. I want you.

This was, I will bury myself so deep into you that you will never be able to truly be rid of me. I will drink the poison of your lips while filling you so full to the brim with me so that I fully cement myself inside you. You will carry the weight of me with you until there is nothing left but ashes and the taste of my lips on yours.

Rio crumbles under the deluge of it all. She takes it all in. She is so full of Agatha that she never truly sees what is happening until it is already over.

The immutable unchanging death finally faltered twice in as many hours. Once more, Agatha proves that she is not Rio's scar, but the torn open bleeding heart of her

No wonder Rio did not have it in her to collect Agathas soul

Even in her most hated form, a world with Agatha in it is a world with hope for Rio. Agatha will weasel her way out of final death, and when she does, Rio will be waiting with fervour and a flower. Like always

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So I laugh randomly in the day when I remember the scene from the first trial where Jen has to make the potion to save everyone and Alice is like rushing “next is frankincense.” And Jen’s like “no, no, no. No, wait. Get outta here.” And kind of swats at Alice’s hands with this like “the fuck are you talking about!?” Look on her face.

I have no idea why it’s so hilarious but I literally laugh out loud every time it pops into my brain.

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IM GOING SO FERAL OVER THESE TWO WOMEN AAAAA

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Down bad.

I love her your honor

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Also can we assume that Agatha asking Rio to not see her face when she dies was her pretty much asking that Rio not take her through to the afterlife?

That she asked Rio to leave her be a ghost?

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I’ve been reflecting on Jen and Agatha’s relationship for a few days and it appears that Agatha was honest in saying “I’ve always hated you but I left you alone because the work you were doing was important.” Referencing all of Jen’s work in what was early stages of obstetrics. As that kind of work would have been something Agatha found important personally with her pregnancy with Nicky.

Then you jump to the last trial and Jen and Agatha put it together that Agatha had made the spell for the doctor that bound Jen.

And Agatha says “it was bind or burn.”

MAYBE Agatha knew it was for Jen and MAYBE she respected her enough to believe that she would eventually unbind herself instead of being burned for being a woman that dared to pursue knowledge.

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October Passed Me By ~ girl in red

Is 10000% Agathario’s song

Jesus

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Aubrey Plaza as Rio Vidal/Death in AGATHA ALL ALONG (2024) 01x08 | "Follow Me My Friend / To Glory at the End"

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Power looks good on you. Honey, everything looks good on me.

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Nicky also didn’t appear afraid to see Rio as if it wasn’t his first time seeing her. Even felt safe enough to hold hands with her as they walked off. As if familiar in a sense.

Nicky's Rio son too.

I feel there were so many lines that imply this and the finale is starting to make more sense - especially because the dandelion in the trial!

Jen explains that Green Craft™ is about the cycle of all living things - growth and decay in constant flow. So it's not just about dying but being born too.

So it would track that Rio's love for Agatha was so strong that it actually created life - Nicky. However, there would be consequences to this because proper balance had to be maintained somehow. Rio probably even warned Agatha about it, but Agatha always believes she is above the rules so in her head she probably thought she had every right to Nicky (maybe even her "prize" that she alludes to in their final confrontation). This would really add to Rio's hurt - Nicky was her son too. She thought she was giving Agatha a gift of life, but instead Agatha sees her as this cruel "evil" that "gave her nothing". To her Rio is the one who just "took."

It feels like it is also implied by Rio at the start of the episode when she says "This walk with another woman's son on a road that doesn't...". She could be referring to Nicky being her son.

But I think Agatha finally accepts her truth during the final trial when she sees the dandelion seed in her cameo. She even says "Out of Death - life" as she grows it because she finally understands the literal implications of that phrase.

That Dandelion is representation of Nicky. And sure enough, as soon as the flower grows and blossoms, it quickly enters the final stage - when it turns into the seeds that can be scattered by the wind again and continue the cycle of life. Because guess what, "dandelions produce seeds asexually by apomixis, where the seeds are produced without pollination, resulting in offspring that are genetically identical to the parent plant".

When Nicky is born, we could probably assume it was indeed asexual reproduction - Agatha says she didn't use a spell or incantation, but instead he was made from scratch (obviously a clever nod to his name). On one hand it could be read like Agatha is astonished how something this magical could happen without actually using any witchcraft. However, this also feels like a suggestion that maybe she is just amazed at how he could possibly exist. Kathryn Hahn in her recent interview alluded to how the witches didn't need men, babies were just born. So it was Rio's "dandelion seed" that made it happen.

It is the second characteristic of dandelion species is what seals the deal for me - "the offspring being genetically identical to the parent plant". Nicky as the offspring of Death needs bodies to survive in this realm. During his birth Rio says she can offer only time, because she can maintain the balance, as long as Nicky gets his bodies.

That's why she hates Rio and calls her evil - not because of Rio herself, but because of what her "genetics" did to Nicky. Agatha would rather have people believe that she is this evil witch killer that traded her child for the Darkhold, than anyone to know the awful truth that it was Nicky who was the cause of the killings.

In the flashbacks, there are those remarks about how they haven't "eaten for days" and that whenever Nicky was poorly he said he was hungry. Agatha said she couldn't create the food for him (and protect him from what's coming). She could've cooked that goat they had with them if they were really that hungry (btw, I still believe that goat is Senor Scratchy), but that wasn't the "food" that Nicky meant.

And just like Billy, Rio couldn't just take Nicky. He had to "turn himself in". It was his choice not to kill any more witches. On the day Nicky dies, he says "My mother needs me home". I think he is talking about Rio here, since he usually calls Agatha "Mama". This is the moment the decides for himself and goes home to Death.

I feel like this opens the possibility that we will indeed see Nicholas Scratch in the future (and have a role similar to the one in the comics). That maybe even he might not have "died" because he is an offspring of death, so he just exists in some Underworld realm, where he no longer needs bodies to survive. Maybe Agatha might have hoped that by killing more and more witches, she will bring Nicky back to life/this realm?

And the Ballad really was a protection spell she made for him too?

This would also be a more plausible explanation why Agatha went to kiss Rio when Billy asked "Is this how Nicky died?". I feel this was more of an apology to Rio for hating her for Nicky's treatment, because she finally understood why she had to do it?

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She lost either way.

It was never fair of Agatha to blame her.

She is my scar.

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Spoilers if you didn’t watch the finale

So I tried going to sleep last night after that RIDE but it was pointless. My mind was just rolling with question after question.

How did Agatha and Rio even meet? How long had they been lovers? Had they even kissed before? Who is Nicky’s father? Why did Agatha have to blame Rio for doing her job but even more so because she bent the actual LAWS OF THE UNIVERSE for her by giving Nicky more time? When was it ever mentioned that they had a “deal?” Bodies for time? Why did Rio pursue Agatha for all those years? Why did Agatha not want to move on and be with Nicky if she came to terms with the fact that “sometimes boys die?” Would Agatha, Nicky and Rio be able to be together if Agatha moved on instead of being a ghost? Did Agatha siphon Rio’s power in the kiss or was it just simply a “kiss of Death?”

And where the hell did Jen go?

And so on and so on because for every minute there is in a day another question appears in my mind.

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I’m going to say the quiet thing out loud

Rio was the real victim here.

Rio lost the most.

Rio deserved better.