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[booasaur]

yes i AM enjoying it! and i agree with what u said abt wlw not being interchangeable. But it honestly it seems so intentional that even if they retroactively say mary and shan were ~involved~ they'll be able to get away with it, the groundwork's already there. and the angst lover in me kinda likes the idea of bea pining for ava but not saying anything and just throwing herself into serving and protecting her instead that would be so beatrice

Oh, for sure. They’ll be able to get away with a LOT, tbh, if they want to say it’d been there all along. Just depends on if they want to. 

And yes, I kind of expect and want Beatrice to be pining away silently and for it to be slow burn as HECK, and then all come to the fore in perhaps ep 2x08 (the symmetry!) and have her be like, hurt while trying to protect Ava and Ava realizing all kinds of things and being like, oh. Just you know, if they’re gonna go there. :P

[booasaur]

My question remains. Following the vows, and all that. What Beatrice and Ava can do?

Haha, I don’t know! You’re asking the wrong hair-covering religious person. :P

[booasaur]

Beatrice and Ava end up in a relationship cause if so I must watch warrior nun ASAP

If you’re asking if they do, nope. Definitely not this first season and only the possibility that they might in the second season, the writers are definitely aware of it but haven’t really promised anything.

[booasaur]

boocita I've been bingewatching WN on your recommendation and when ava made it through the training wall after facing her fear bea really looked at her like she was ready to break her sacred vows 😂. also i thought shannon / mary was legit canon from the first ep i thought it was so weird nobody explicitly referred to it bc it seems hella obv and intentional??

I don’t know anyone by that name. =_=

My recommen--I did wh--it was no such thing! Unless you’re liking it? Then yes. :)

Haha, yes, after the training, that was the closest thing we got to anything canon. I mean, it IS canon one-sided at least, for now. Break her vows, lol. I’m kind of tickled at what research must be going into writing the fic for them. “Does a kiss--does another woma--does it have to be...hmm.”

Yeah, Shannon and Mary, I think all the viewers were like, uhhh, that’s clearly something, but it seems the writers weren’t intending for it. Just ended up a combination of the writing needing to sell that friendship as transformation for Mary and then Toya really leaning into the physicality We might still get some flashbacks next season that elaborate on that, now that they know people are reading them that way, and also, Mary was a lesbian in the comics, and I LOVE Beatrice, of course, who doesn’t, but I also don’t like the idea that lesbian characters are interchangeable or that they removed a Black lesbian. It’s not as if all the characters are completely new for the show, Shotgun Mary was a character in the comics. Just something I’ll be looking to, though I don’t know which way they’ll go and it won’t be a deal breaker if they don’t stick with it, I’ll just be disappointed.