#meanwhile diana is telling edwards shes his one weakness

[cicaklah]

47 feeling lonely and lost and having a sad fap in his safehouse in Chongqing.

It's only when he's safe in his hotel room under an assumed name that he feels the pang of loss. His phone lies silent on its charger, when normally he'd have it clamped to his ear, and Diana would be back in charge. She'd be telling him the specifics of the mission the way she always did, asking for the location of hidden bodies, of abandoned clothes, of security footage that needs to be discreetly wiped. He's always done his best to take care of it at the time, but that's why they're such a good team. They both understand that the job isnt complete until it's all squared away.

Instead, the ica is done for, Diana is missing, kidnapped and who knows what else, Edwards so close to his goals, now, the whole thing dangerous as a rogue knife in the dark.

47 thinks about just climbing into bed and going to sleep, but while he's tired, his whole body and every item of clothing stinks of the burning ica office, plastic fumes and hot blood and the distinctive smell of thousands of bullets discharged in a small area.

He forces himself to have a shower and to eat something, and he expects to just pass out, but instead his skin feels too small, tight and ill fitting from the deceptively cheap soap. good quality supplies and delicious food were always the kind of little touch Diana could be relied on, and he feels a pang of guilt that she spent her powers making sure he was comfortable and happy after a mission, rather than leaving him mercy to to whims of a late night hotel kitchen.

She was wasted on him, too good, too dangerous to he let loose, and the ica did everything it could to hold onto her. The files he'd deleted painted a picture of an agency that didn't know what to do about the pair of priceless paintings they had in a house full of toddlers armed with marker pens. There's something nice really about realising that they were appreciated for their contributions, even if they baffled the higher ups, who wanted desperately to be able to trust them.

He isn't sentimental about the ica. He has always been aware of it's many flaws and never expected the gold watch for himself, but he does feel unmoored without Diana.

The AC in the room is almost loud enough to count as white noise, but the thoughts sneak through anyway; all the unsaid things, how they never talked much before Dartmoor, how he was still dealing with grey's skepticism in one ear, how much he knew that his brother was always going to cut Diana at the first sign of betrayal, take 47 and Olivia and disappear.

Diana never would have stood for it. She'd have fought for him. She wouldn't have just let grey get away with it. She'd have made 47 tell her to her face.

He imagines in his mind that conflict. Imagines Diana finding him and accosting him, making him uncomfortable, making him face her. How maybe she'd make her case, say all the things comfortable silences and unperfumed soap implies; that she cares for him, that she alone is the one for him, completes him. How she carved a piece of him out for her own, and slid a piece of herself in place as collateral.

He is startled how the mental image of Diana, finally saying all that is unsaid, affects him. He's half hard in the harsh cool air, and when he takes himself in curious hand he gasps as he swells to full, diamond hardness. Closing his eyes he focuses on the image of Diana saying she loves him, that she notices him, understands him. Imagines it is her elegant, manicured hand that is touching him in the cool air, touches his lips with his other hand and imagines her lips, imagines what it would feel like to not be lonely, to know her touch, to be taken care of thoroughly by someone who loved him back.

#hitman #hitman ficlets with gloves #sad and lonely #meanwhile diana is telling edwards shes his one weakness #and a week later he gets his desires #and poisoned #but lets look on the bright side

[lynelovespopculture]

A CAOS PROFILE STUDY: FAUSTUS BLACKWOOD

From the very first moment he appears on the screen, Father Faustus Blackwood, High Priest of the Greendale’s witches coven and Headmaster of the Academy of the Unseen Arts is set up to be the show’s big bad. But is he truly evil? How did we get this way? Can he ever defeat the Spellmans? Using what the show’s two seasons has already given us and little guesswork, I’ll try my best to answer these questions. Before I get started, I like to state that the ideas discussed in this are 100% mine. The next season could prove me right or wrong, I don’t know. You, of course, could agree or disagree. I would love to see a debate here but, as this blog is a safe place, I must ask everyone to please keep things friendly.  Now, let’s begin:

BACKGROUND

As a feminist, I want to address Blackwood’s extreme sexism. There is nothing good to defend here. Since this wasn’t even an issue until the middle in season 2, some viewers have blamed lazy writing and I don’t disagree but it is in the show so I’ll talk about it. I’m fairly sure that little boys aren’t born thinking that they’re better than little girls.  They need to be thaught that shit. Which leads  me to my 1st   guesswork. We know nothing of Faustus’s childhood, but given his disgust for ‘half- breeds’, I felt safe saying that the Blackwood family are all pure-bloods. I imagine that Faustus’s father is an ancient warlock who had a weak, submissive witch wife and possibly both believe that ‘witches must serve warlocks’ jazz. As for Faustus’s boyhood, I am 2 minds; he could be a golden child-a only child or maybe an only son, favored above his sisters because he was a boy. Or if he had many brothers, he might have been a black sheep; overlooked, teased for preferring books to more manly pursuits.

Whatever lays in his childhood, at age 16, Faustus Blackwood signed his name in the book of the beast and enrolled in the Academy of  Unseen Arts. He must have done well there. After all, he was popular enough to win the election of top boy (unless he cheated) and he’s a powerful warlock so he must have studied hard. Of course, he becomes a teacher and while teaching at the academy, Faustus meets the family that changes his life forever; the spellmans.

There is   a lot to unpack here so I decided to discuss Blackwood relationships have broken down Spellman by  Spellman:

EDWARD: Faustus was Edward’s mentor. It’s possible that, in the beginning, given Edward’s power as a warlock and the fact he was the top  boy himself, Faustus could see himself in Edward. As a teacher/mentor and student, Faustus and Edward were close, possibly even friends. However, the clash between them had to happen. Why? Faustus Blackwood is an extreme traditionist, Edward Spellman, the extreme reformist. It’s the old vs new, Blackwood vs Spellman. The fact that Edward was made high priest, a student put in a position of power ahead of him, must have rubbed Blackwood the wrong way. It’s not only over ideas these men clash it’s also over love. The scene where Faustus tells Zelda that he once confided in Edward that he was going ask for Zelda’s hand in marriage. What’s so interesting here it’s not what’s be said, it’s the faces. Zelda has a look of surprise, this is brand new information to her and she’s not sure what to do with it. But look at Blackwood’s face when he said Edward rebuked him. The man looks in physical pain. Okay, it’s likely that Edward knew about Faustus’s way with women and didn’t want his sister near that mess. Yet, I would like to know what the hell Edward said to Faustus about marrying Zelda that even now, 16 years after Edward’s death and Faustus still looks like a sad puppy just by recalling this memory. It’s also worth noting that Zelda also taught at the academy while Edward was alive. Talk on the show suggests the brother and sister were close and as he was Edward’s mentor it is not that far a stretch to imagine that after he began high priest and headmaster, Edward would make Faustus and Zelda his top advisers. If this is the case, Edward might have unknowingly set the groundwork for Faustus Blackwood’s resentment of him.  Think about it; Faustus started out as Edward’s mentor NOW he’s Edward’s employee at school, Faustus is a devout man but Edward is high priest so he must obey but disagrees with all his polities add to all this that Faustus is working closely with Zelda-a woman he’s clearly in love/in lust with  but had been forbidden to marry. At this point,  Blackwood tries to find comfort by having meaningless sex with women who mean nothing to him. Things come to a head when one of these women (Prudence’s mother) becomes pregnant with his child. Sometimes after giving birth to Prudence, a  female child, the mother begs Faustus to marry her but Faustus, perhaps still entertaining hopes of making Zelda his wife, flatly refuses to marry the mother of his child so the poor woman drowns herself out of shame. Blackwood didn’t feel guilty about his lover’s suicide on the surface, but it was guilt, shame or pity that makes Faustus take his motherless infant to be fostered at the academy, where Blackwood can keep an eye on Prudence but isn’t forced to actually forced to claim her as his own. I had already said that Faustus and Edward don’t agree on many ideas but a prime example of this is their conflicting views are on mortals. Faustus has no needs for mortals, it’s against witch law for a witch/warlock to marry a mortal and Edward did just that by marrying the human Diana. Now Edward is not just changing the rules, he just breaking them. Edward fell in love with Diana-a full human who knew nothing of witch ways, the church or path of the night yet Edward married her and only punishment he received was to sign his child’s name in the book of the beast, something he was expected to do anyway. Yet Faustus was in love with Zelda-a full witch of their world and devout to the path of night, the ideal partner, yet he was forbidden to marry her. Blackwood did eventually, marry a witch named Constance, but from what I’ve seen there’s nothing of love or lust between them. So, why her? I personally believe that Faustus was forced to marry Constance, possibly even by Edward himself. Let me explain. At some point, Zelda, maybe even before Prudence’s birth, must of left teaching to focus on her training as a  midwife, maybe she even left the country, going to England to study with Hilda.  Yet Edward knew his sisters would not be gone forever. If he knew the sad story about Prudence’s mother, Edward would have kept a  close eye on Faustus and was dismayed when Blackwood showed no signs of interest in settling down with a woman that wasn’t Edward’s sister. When Constance showed interest in becoming Lady Blackwood, Edward took matters in his own hands. Playing on Blackwood’s love of power, as headmaster, Edward offers  Faustus a  big job promotion,   but ONLY if he marries Constance, Faustus grumpily agreed. As high priest, Edward perhaps married them himself, killing Faustus’s last, lingering hope of marrying Zelda, well, at least, for a while…

I’d saved the million-dollar question for last: did Faustus Blackwood kill Edward and Diana Spellman? The 1st time I saw the show I thought of course he did but as  I reviewed the evidence in mind,  I honestly don’t know. True, as a warlock, Blackwood could cause a plane to go down without being near it and Edward’s ghost directly Sabrina that it was Blackwood that killed him. Case closed? Not really. Edward is one DUMB ghost.  Right after he tells his daughter that Blackwood bought his plane down, he also tells Sabrina that if Blackwood marries Zelda, he will kill her too but we know that this never happens. I really do get the need to reach out to his child,  but for all her determination and well-intentions, Sabrina is still only 16, a child and not the best pick to stop the wedding.  My question is if Edward wants to truly stop the wedding, what didn’t he just go talk to the bride, Zelda himself? Zelda even has this question herself. But let’s get back to the main question, did Blackwood kill Edward? On the morning of the wedding, Sabrina tells Nick about Hamlet.  For those of not in the know,  Hamlet’s uncle murdered his brother but the guilt only shows itself after Hamlet gets actors to reenact the murder in a play presented to his uncle. Sabrina does not this effect. Sure, when  ‘Edward and Diana’ crash the wedding, Blackwood sees right through it, he knows it’s just the kids using a glamour spell. But in explaining he knows it’s them, he oddly pays Edward a  complement, says that Edward would disrespect their ways by interrupting a sacred rite like a marriage service. Afterward, Faustus still shows no guilt, he simply goes on with his day, throwing Ambrose in a cell and marries Zelda privately. Is Blackwood’s hatred of Edward so deep that he simply feels no guilt over the murder or did he not commit the crime? If it is Blackwood’s master plan to destroy the Spellmans, why kill Edward and then wait 16 years to make his next move? The show doesn't give us enough evidence, either way, to show him as proven guilty or innocent.

 Okay, guys, this went on way longer than I thought but I have a lot more to say so I'll break this into parts. Meanwhile, I want to hear from you! Do you like this? Do you agree or disagree? Did I miss something? A like is nice but I LIVE FOR COMMENTS AND I LOVE TO TALK TO PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#chilling adventures of sabrina #caos #character profile #part 1 #faustus blackwood #fanfic #fan theory #zelda spellman #edward spellman