Musecraft - 🪐 — Musecraft.

🪐 — CHRISTINE DAAÉ​   for  giovanni !

 ❝  ────── you don’t have to do that.  ❞    her voice is faint and featherlight, fingers grasping at his sleeve. it would be better if she had said she didn’t want him to do that  ― didn’t want to him to flee and leave her hands empty… but those words thicken and catch and spread like fear  ― and her lips quick to seal… her hand, however, said what she could not, clutching at his sleeve with firm but trembling fingers…

           IT’S NOT ABOUT REASON.  no, the way giovanni reacts when he overhears a filthy comment from complete strangers as they pass by christine is entirely emotional.  he’s on his feet before he even thinks about it, his hearing muffled beneath the rush of blood in his ears. but one thing does cut through,  a gentle but insistent tug at his wrist that keeps him tethered to her side.  &  when he looks down into her wide pleading eyes, the rage slowly begins to dissipate.  though the protective instinct still remains, his other arm looping around her shoulder  &  tucking her close to his side.  ❝ do you just want to get out of here ? ❞

🪐 — @synchronzed​​  sent   a long-lost meme   for  giovanni !                      ❛   i  wish  people  liked  me  more .  ❜

        ❝ PEOPLE ARE IDIOTS. ❞  he says it with a shrug, like it’s obvious, like it goes without saying.  ❝ you can’t let yourself care about whether these high school losers like you or not, man.  they’ve all got terrible taste.  shit music, shit friends, shit opinions.  if they don’t like you, you should take it as a compliment. ❞  giovanni has never really much cared what other people thought of him.  but then, he wasn’t exactly the kind of person that would be clocked as an easy target.  jason was different  —  smaller, softer, stranger.  giovanni knew too well how people who craved a bit power would use all the things that made him stand out against him, would make his life a living hell  &  smile about it.  but that wouldn’t be happening to him anymore; not so long as gio was around.                                                gio tilts his head back, letting it fall against the wall of his van, a gentle smile splitting the narrow section of his face that is visible through the curtain of wild curls. at least in here, jason doesn’t have to worry about that kind of shit.  at least in here, gio knows he’s safe.  &  his tone softens consciously as he looks at the other boy, a cloud of smoke hanging thick in the air between them.  ❝ besides, i like you.  ❞

thinking about how stede — the man who once complained that his blankets were too scratchy — disassociated so hard after chauncy threatened to murder him  &  accidentally shot himself that he literally ran across barbados, over mostly undeveloped jungle land, all the way from the beach to his estate barefoot 

i don’t fear the devil, hannah. i fear the neighbor who would accuse me. i fear the mother that would let her daughter hang. i fear union. they lead us like lambs to the slaughter and expect us to just follow. well, they will see… i am no lamb.

bonus:

🪐 — HEADCANON :  sarah  +  witchcraft

   i literally don’t have any info up for her yet but this is my most important hc for her :  sarah is a witch. but witchcraft doesn’t work like the people in union thinks it does. the intensely christian people of union believe that witches are servants of satan,  &  that therefore all witches were devil worshippers.  but witchcraft  &  satanism are not the same thing.  witchcraft doesn’t actually really have anything to do with the christian devil.  which is why the widow —  who is a green witch —  warned sarah against reading the devil’s book when she stumbled upon it.  it’s clear to me that the widow did not actually use that book, but rather was keeping the dark power it held away from the people of union.  &  rightly so, as we saw what happened when someone else actually did want to use the power of the devil for themself.     however, sarah is not aware that she is a witch.  she like her mother before her is what is known as a  hedge witch.  hedge witches are born rather than made.  they work mostly with direct life energy, rather than trigger objects.  they often have intrinsic gifts, though they are nothing that could easily be perceived from the outside.  sarah’s powers appear in extremely subtle ways.  hedge witches tend to have gifts along the lines of intuition, healing,  &  protecting life.  their words can also be turned into spells simply by speaking them with strong intention.  hedge witches are unique because their magic does not come from a sustained practice of a craft or participation in a rite, but from something inherent within themselves.                        film evidence for sarah  &  her mother being hedge witches :   ●  though we don’t see sarah’s mother in the film, her father says that it was sarah’s mother who chose that her family would settle on the land that later became union, because she could sense something different about the wind in the trees there.  this type of intuition is  classic  hedge witch behavior.  in my hc, sarah’s mother did know she was a hedge witch, but that she died when sarah was still too young for her to share this awareness with her.  ●  sarah’s arc opens on her assisting a pig to give birth. one of the piglets has gotten stuck,  &  her brother henry warns sarah that they are going to lose both mother  &  piglet.  but sarah confidently says  no we’re not.  the words coupled with the intention behind them is a textbook example of a hedge witch speaking a spell into the world without even realizing it.  &  of course, sarah miraculously succeeds in saving all the pigs, to which her father even remarks aloud that she has a gift.  of course, neither of them know that he is actually profoundly correct.  ●  most of the adults in town thinks that sarah is weird.  this is not only because she is queer, but also because she has an inherent connection with the world at large that threatens their religious worldview.  mad thomas  &  hannah’s mother  —  two of the most bigoted members of the town  —  both go a step farther  &  tell sarah that they see darkness in her, showing that they fear her differences.  sarah’s own father even tells her that there has always been a strangeness in her.  i find it particularly telling that he also says that he believes it might have been “something a mother could have rooted out,”  &  blames the absence of sarah’s mother for her differences, when in reality sarah’s mother was a witch herself  &  likely would have only honed the parts of sarah that made union so uncomfortable.   ●  when the town turns against her  &  hannah, sarah says ‘ if they want a witch, i will give them a witch, ‘  revealing that she finally has the conscious desire to connect to powers beyond the mortal.  however, with no awareness of how witchcraft actually works, she intends to go to the widow’s house  &  use the devil’s book against the town.  &  while she doesn’t end up getting or using the devil’s book, this line coincides with sarah’s stepping into her power  &  using it more consciously  &  in service of a distinct purpose :  to protect hannah.  &  she does, even willing to die to protect hannah in the end.  ●  finally, sarah’s final act is to cast a spell  —  a curse  —  not on the town, but on solomon goode  &  his family.  she promises him that she will follow him forever, that with everyone he harms, he will feel the grip of her hand,  &  that she will never let him go.  &  this spell comes true in the end when it is actually sarah whose spirit returns through her connection with deena to drive a knive through sheriff nick goode’s eye.  &  it is this act that finally completes the curse, expels the devil from shadyside,  &  sets her spirit to rest.  the witch forever lives !