#molly and lucien's seperation--

[dent-de-leon]

Still having so many thoughts about all the parallels between Molly/Lucien's souls and Opal/Ted's--

The way Opal and Ted were split apart and then became one again as a natural part of growing up; raised with this other half of their soul always by their side, learning from each other and through each other. It's a family tradition, their way of life. Worshippers of the Luxon willingly letting their souls drift apart and reform, an inherited legacy that has shaped their whole understanding of the world and themselves.

The way Lucien and Molly never had a choice; the violent violation of autonomy as their soul was torn apart and shredded to pieces, the agony of feeling so alone in the world, your very heart hallowed out and Empty. It's not a gradual, gentle transition of the spirit--it's losing your very sense of self, all these pieces of you burned away.

And it hurts them, both of them. The shard of a soul that would be Molly--young and foolish, so new to the world and yet already so scarred by it. A spirit that hasn't broken yet, in spite of how harsh and cruel the world is--in spite of all the pain he's inherited. Lucien as the ghastly specter haunting Molly's worst nightmares, the shadow always hanging over him.

Lucien's disdain for this "forgotten fragment"--how bitterly he resents Mollymauk for not having to bear the weight of all their most painful memories, his hands not yet stained with blood--the part of him that got to be free. Lucien refusing to call Molly by his name, to admit this other part of himself is real--that maybe Lucien's always known he hasn't felt whole, that someone carved out this piece of his heart long ago.

When the two meet, Molly can't help reaching out to Lucien. Can't help but try and save him. Molly growing to care for this other half of his soul, this other broken, shattered shard of a bleeding heart. Molly refusing to abandon him, staying by his side until Lucien is finally ready to reach back. Both of them learning to accept each other, understand each other. A kind of self love. A soul that mirrors your very own, makes you feel grounded and whole.

Thinking of Ted fighting so fiercely for Opal. Giving everything to defend her, even as Opal tries so desperately to keep her grounded and tethered. Thinking of Molly pleading for Lucien to stop, just walk away--save their friends and save himself. It's not too late, he doesn't have to do this. He doesn't have to be this.

Thinking of the Luxon and shattered souls that aren't bound by life or death, time or space. A part of yourself you never really lose, no matter who tries to tear them away--

[glitterinlowgravity]

are there any rez gone sideways fics where lucien and molly are both brought back into seperate bodies?

[wizardnuke]

lucien is just such a good character I'm so obsessed w the concept of him. when he called beau "dear" a few eps back I was hit with this wave of like !!!hiii molly!!! and RAGE because that is Not Molly

[ephemeral-dreamer]

Theory: Molly & Yasha and the Circuspeople

So like everyone I was deeply shook by episode 69. But something about it got me thinking.

Yasha and Molly were both connected from the start through the Circus.

They both were taken in by it after their life had fallen apart from around them. Molly literally knew nothing of his past and Yasha running from hers. They also both had a connection to Cultists of the Betrayer Gods.

As we saw this episode Yasha was a Warrior in a band of Zelots and it is implied from what we learned from Cree that Lucien was a cultist before the failed ritual.

Now it could be a coincidence that this wandering circus picked up these two seperate people with connections to cults of the betrayer gods...

But the Circus also had a Devil toad and was generally full of suspicious people and remember how Caduceus noted that Gustav their leader carried such enormous Guilt with him that he practically begged the M9 to leave him in prison.

What if Gustav and perhaps everybody (or at least almost everybody) used to be part of a Betrayer God Cult...

It would explain how they found Molly and Yasha as well as the strong policy of not asking questions about the past and how they got their hands on a soul eating devil

[wizardnuke]

molly is sooooo *holds him* bc he's not molly anymore after he dies and lucien wakes up. he's not a seperate consciousness inside that body's mind he's just a fraction of lucien's soul. a little mote a little speck of that being. but that fraction of lucien's soul loved the nein enough to overpower the rest of lucien and to keep them safe all through aeor. I'm gonna

[wizardnuke]

lucien can tell the nein that mollys dead all he wants but he called beau dear and scryed on yasha before the others and had a strange reaction to jesters tarot reading and flirted with caleb and knelt to talk to veth instead of standing over her and really probably should have killed the group a handful of times now but he DIDN'T and I don't think that mollys his own seperate person in the back of his head. I think molly is very dead. but the part of him that used to be molly is still molly and he loves them. am I making sense. red string and corkboards. this is such a guy