#this regeneration is weird lolz

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village thoughts 2

okay I’m just gonna list out my character headcanons/fic land canons for the saints of warding fic series on ao3. also to start out...the workshop in the village is totally heisenberg’s, right?! the one you get the gun from? like with the photograph & the lycan that pops up in the window? i bet he did that for the lolz. what a bad boy.

-Claudia was Donna’s little sister, she had a better affinity for the Cadou & was Miranda’s initial target; Miranda sent Heisenberg to scope them out and spy on them; he got closer to them than intended, which ended up destroying him, Donna, and their quasi-friendship when Claudia’s Cadou rejected her, killing her, and Donna realized that H was only there to spy on them. Donna, who had been holding on for so long after her parents’ death, descended into a kind of total dissociative state & went to Miranda because it was all she had left, and maybe because she viewed herself as deserving it...I also think she knew about Miranda’s plan to let Ethan kill them all, re: ‘take care of our little Rose’ on the back of the photograph, but couldn’t stand up to MM or didn’t want to at that point. I also interpret her as being VERY weird to talk to, uwu donna is fine but i mean come on, she has a doll with a fetus in its head 

also I think the cadou in Angie unfurls tentacles and drinks donna’s blood from time to time. 

Anyway-

-Heisenberg’s line about the strong always destroying the weak, that’s the way of the world, always came across to me as being extremely bitter...I think he was talking about himself as much as his view of the villagers. To that end I interpreted him as just some kid whose family Miranda killed because he had strong Cadou affinity. She removed or repressed his memories of them and spun some yarn about him being descended from the ancient House, yadda yadda, I don’t think his last name was even originally Heisenberg. He was a quiet boy at first but after being subjected to repeated traumatic experimentation AND being told he’s special, perfect, intended for great things, etc, he becomes this frightened feral dog of a child, pushing his powers because they’re all he can truly control. A mongrel and a god. In fic land he’s still, past the swag and the brashness and the BDE, this bitter, angry child- I love how all the Lords are in some way childlike- and once he gets hold of Rose in-fic (long story) he views her both as a surrogate Claudia and a chance to stick it to the powers that be for what happened to him. it’s very selfish. but also they end up as the DILF/lesbian daughter duo of my dreams. so it’s fine in the end. 

-Alcina I think was some poor girl from some distant branch of the Dimitrescu family whom Miranda plucked from obscurity and groomed/pampered/molded into her perfect little pet- I mean Miranda must have seen something in her, she gave her a whole ass castle...I also think Alcina, deep down, knew that Miranda didn’t really care about her but repressed it and covered it up with a sense of superiority because Miranda was her benefactor, Miranda gave her all this, made her powerful and feared/beloved, especially after she got her daughters...I picture her life being very much a snow globe existence, maintained and enforced, because if she looks beyond the glass she sees the truth. In fic land she regenerates from her ‘dead’ state and kind of regresses into this feral mindset (I am in love with her batshit dragon form and just how unhinged she is during the boss fight). she can’t handle her daughters being dead and has to lash out and blame anyone or anything she can besides herself & Miranda, because then she has to face reality, which is that everything she is is a mask. also in fic she wears armor and rips out then eats a dude’s heart. and she drinks heisenbergs blood. its fine

-Moreau is PURE hc unsupported by anything besides that I chose violence and wanted to cause myself emotional pain. In fic land he was Miranda’s gentle, kindly childhood friend who harbored a lifelong crush on her and helped her out once her husband abandoned her when she was pregnant with Eva. He was the village schoolteacher and doctor, and promised her that he’d never let Eva die of influenza. We all know how that one ends. so once she finds the Black God she murders him and implants the Cadou under its influence, and the pathetic devotion he gives Miranda in the present is thanks to the echoes of his guilt that persist even through memory loss and the crumbling of his mind. 

All 4 of them are viewed as being demigod/arch-saint/divine monster figures by the villagers, though because this is a fantasy setting there’s an element of them being viewed as fairy-tale legends too...I think there was a fairy tale in the region that was about 4 monsters and a witch, and Miranda used it to support her regime slash edited it in the villagers’ collective consciousness to suit her needs and serve as propaganda. This all also serves me in-story, as one of the themes of the series is the quality of being viewed as divine or revered, especially as it connects to parenthood, or those we have lost. And it really allows me to explore my *other* favorite theme, which is when a revered figure fails, falls, or is otherwise brought down, and must deal with the consequences of that. 

There’s really only one major OC in the series, Teodora Balan, who is a villager from the next town over; Heisenberg & Rose attain a kind of sacred status for her, being literally two mutants of the Black God, and one of my favorite bits of the series to write was a late chapter where she and Chris have a conversation about the quality of monstrousness and divinity (he has a very different outlook than she does on BOWs). as a person who finds the natural world in all its awfulness quite sacred, I tend to view there as being very little difference between the two qualities, and I wanted to really dig into a world where the main foundation of these people’s belief, and thus one of the main foundations of their lives, is a fungus god that turns people into werewolves...like it’s bad from an outside POV but those are their lives! That’s their spiritual reality! It’s a cult but it gets them through the day and it enriches them! 

none of this is really supported by canon except for the icons in the church and the mention of ‘great ones’ in Luiza’s prayer. i just love making stuff up. 

anyhow, if you read all this and/or read my fic series which, as aforementioned in my previous post, i will not shut up about, I shall kiss you personally upon any part of the face or hand you desire

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