#Warrior Nun 1x03

[wordsmith30]

Another important thing I noticed in the scene where Beatrice goes to check on Ava is that she’s surprisingly open right off the bat. Honest. 

She tells Ava about her parents to try and bond with her – that they’re Conservative English diplomats who sent her away to Catholic boarding school. She even admits to starting the “Cruella de Jesus” nickname for Mother Superion, hinting at her more playful and mischievous side (the side we rarely get to see).

But when Ava (rightfully) guesses that there’s more to the story, Beatrice moves up onto the step behind her, out of the light. Though she admits that Ava’s right, it does come across as a bit of a retreat.

It’s like she thinks that if she hides, Ava won’t be able to gauge her secret. Won’t be able to read it in her expression. It’s a very subtle way of showing that that’s still a touchy subject and she’s not ready to talk about it yet.

But at the same time, there’s a tenderness in that moment as Beatrice is also moving closer to her, leaning against the wall just by Ava’s head. It makes it so that Ava has to look up at her, and Beatrice smiles.

Just goes to show that Beatrice was the first real friend she made at the convent.

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1x03 Ephesians 6:11 // 2x08 Jeremiah 29:13

Warrior Nun (2020-)

[birgittesilverbae]

TOYA TURNER as SHOTGUN MARY WARRIOR NUN (2020-) || 1x03 Ephesians 6:11

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SHOTGUN MARY

Warrior Nun 1x03 - "Ephesians 6:11"

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Warrior Nun 1x03 | Ephesians 6:11

[appleciders]

“Well, at least teach me how to use this thing!”

“It’s a stick.”

[ID: two gifs of Lilith from Warrior Nun 1x03, smirking and giving Ava a shit-eating grin. /end ID]

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By clicking on the source link at the bottom of this post you will be able to access #786 gifs that are 270x180 in size from  Warrior Nun 1x01 - 1x03.

These gifs were all made by me from scratch, for roleplaying purposes. Please don’t repost into gifsets/gif hunts or claim as your own. Please reblog if using. Hope y’all enjoy!

[strongwomenunited]

Warrior Nun 31: Day 7 - Favorite Scene from Episode 3 - This is a favorite moment from 1x03 too when Lilith is helping Mother Superior figure out what kind of training Ava has.

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I just watched Warrior Nun 1x03 "Ephesians 6:11"

[booasaur]

Warrior Nun - 1x03

[empressofkalumina]

Where’s the Areala statue, huh?

[wordsmith30]

Episodes 1×04-1×06 are probably some of my core favourites in season one because of the character growth and relationship dynamics between Ava, Lilith, and Mary. I think 1×04 really starts to cement Ava as a reluctant hero. She certainly doesn’t set out to be one, but she also can’t turn her back when she sees someone in trouble. (We see this a little earlier as well when she thought Michael was locked up in Arq-Tech.)

In the beginning of 1×04, Ava sees a man following this girl on the street and has to jump in, even though a good part of her doesn’t want to. And then at the end, when she’s on the verge of freedom, she realizes Diego’s in trouble and goes back to save him.

In doing so, she gets justice for herself and all the other kids Sister Frances killed. Frances was an evil woman who abused her position and the scriptures to justify the murder of countless innocents. The show also doesn’t shy away from the gray area there because even though Ava does the right thing and saves Diego, killing someone – even someone you hate – is a very difficult thing to do. She’s left reeling and traumatized afterwards.

And then she’s face-to-face with Lilith: another person who’s out to get her.

Lilith’s growth in 1×05 alone never fails to disappoint. Everything in the narrative sets you up to hate her: her anger and bitterness over losing the Halo to someone else, her rivalry with Mary, her selfishness and blind ambition, her willingness to cross the line for her own personal gain.

She and Mary are immovable force meets immovable force. They collide hard in one of the best sibling fights I’ve ever seen on TV as they kick the snot out of each other and Mary gives her the cold-hearted truth: You’re a coward, we’re not friends, you’re not a leader, and I’m not letting you hurt this girl.

And Lilith, who’s been trying to kill Ava all episode (and inadvertently summoned a Tarask in the process), finally goes still when she sees Ava put herself between JC and the Tarask – when Ava stands there, terrified, with zero training and zero weapons, facing down certain death.

“I’ll protect you,” she says to JC.

It forces Lilith to see what she refused to see before: that Ava’s not just some selfish non-believer or a nobody. She’s the Warrior Nun. She may have run before, but she’s not running now, and the stupid girl’s about to get herself killed.

Lilith runs in front of the Tarask, taking the claw straight through the chest. Her sacrifice is a callback to what Mother Superion said in 1×03: that Ava has to trust her Sister Warriors to have her back.

In Lilith’s dying words, choking on her own blood, she looks at Ava and says, “Pick up the sword.”

It’s like a concession and a passing of the torch all in one: It’s your turn now. Finish the job.

Ava swings the Divinium sword in a great slice and banishes the Tarask back to the other side.

Lilith’s death (disappearance) hangs over 1×06 like a spectre as Ava and Mary call an uneasy truce and try and find their way through the mountains together.

I just find it really cute that despite all their fighting and saying that they’re done with each other, neither one ends up leaving. Ava once again proves she’s not a selfish jerk when she helps Mary bind up her leg, saying she can’t just leave her to the wolves.

Mary also drops several tough-love truths on Ava, telling her that her condition and upbringing prevents her from empathizing with or thinking about others’ problems. In doing so, she continues Beatrice’s throughline of “Not everything’s about you.”

She explains to Ava that her relationship with the OCS is a reciprocal one, and one that she carved out on her own terms. Through it, she found a family.

“Family?” Ava scoffs. “You and Lilith hated each other.”

“Well, she was my sister,” Mary says. “Of course I hated her.”

Cue all the feels. Because what are siblings if they’re not constantly oscillating between “I’m going to kill you” and “I’d die for you”?

I also just love the way Mary accelerates Ava’s Warrior Nun crash course. There’s probably some reverse psychology involved as Ava suspects, but it’s very effective. Though Mary lays out all the stakes – her suspicions about Duretti and Shannon’s death, how Ava might’ve gotten the Halo as part of a larger plot, and the fact that wraith demons are everywhere – she’s no longer fighting for Ava to come back with her. She leaves the ball in her court. Mary tells Vincent that she never caught Ava, that she’ll be coming back alone.

I know people have joked that Beatrice would’ve found and recovered Ava faster had she been sent after her in season one, but Mary is the best candidate here. She understands better than anyone what it means to be the Warrior Nun. Mary and Shannon were season one’s Avatrice (what’s their ship name, by the way? Shary? Mannon?) and she had to watch Shannon die. She knows that Ava is inheriting a death sentence. Mary, like Vincent, wants to give Ava a choice because when push comes to shove, they are asking a lot of her. Mary just wants to be sure that if Ava chooses to leave, she’ll be able to protect herself.

Mary gives Ava a few key tools to survive on her own: cooking skills and a Divinium knife. The second one only occurs after Ava makes the choice, of her own free will, to follow the possessed townsman out of the restaurant.

“I wasn’t ready then, but I’m ready now.”

So, Mary throws Ava in the ring with the possessed man and says, “Get ‘im! Get ‘im, Ava!”

And though I don’t think Ava would’ve admitted it then, she actually liked her time with Mary. What Ava wants most, after all, is a companion. Comforted by the knowledge that Mary would kick her around, but not kill her, and having no other plans or friends in the world, we can see all the little ways that Ava keeps coming back to her: finding Mary by the fire, even after being kicked off the cliff; looking for her in the morning when she wakes up in the church alone; and wandering into the restaurant kitchen to see what Mary’s doing.

When Beatrice finally arrives to take Mary back and Mary says goodbye, Ava looks visibly upset. She holds the knife close with both hands, her oversized jacket only highlighting how small and childlike she looks. Because ultimately, that’s what she is: a child alone in a world she barely understands. A child with no sense of direction or purpose, who doesn’t even know who she is.

But Mary uses the same trick that my mother used with me and my sisters growing up: the best way to get a child to follow you is to walk away.

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[birgittesilverbae]

Ava Silva + Mother Superion 1 of ?

WARRIOR NUN (2020-2022) // 1X03

[saii79]

Warrior Nun 1x03 - “ Ephesians 6:11 “

[laufire]

shows watched in 2022

Because why not. I like making lists I have negative-use for. Feel free to compare with the to-watch list I made recently lol.

The first list is for things I’m up-to-date with (some are/will likely be stuff I started before 2022, but that I finished/caught up with this year). Bold for those that are all finished, italics for those I’m following in real time. The second list is for those I’ve started but where I have ways to go (in some cases, a lot).

All caught up with:

A League of Their Own

Arcane

Grey's Anatomy

Harley Quinn

Russian Doll

Severance

The Gilded Age

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

The Sex Lives of College Girls

What We Do in the Shadows

The Umbrella Academy

Wednesday

Finalized

Batwoman

Battlestar Galactica miniseries

Charmed reboot

Derry Girls

Desperate Housewives

Dynasty

First Kill

Grace & Frankie 

His Dark Materials

Legacies

Paper Girls

Scandal

The Expanse

The Shannara Chronicles

Still at it:

Burden of Truth (watched up to 3x01)

Battlestar Galactica (watched up to 2x03) 

Better Call Saul (finished s2)

Carmen Sandiego (finished s1)

Dark Angel (rewatched up to 1x04)

Evil (pilot)

Farscape (pilot)

Good Behavior (rewatched up to 1x03)

H20: Just Add Water (up to 3x01)

Kevin Can F**k Himself (watched s1)

Love Between Fairy and Devil (pilot)

Lovecraft Country (watched up till 1x06)

Sandman (watched up to 1x10)

Stranger Things (up to 4x07)

The Good Fight (watched s5)

Xena: Warrior Princess (rewatched the pilot)

Warrior Nun (watched s1)

Yellowjackets (pilot)