So Fun To Chart The Footprints Of A Strangers Heart By The Graffiti They Leave On Art You Built For Them

So fun to chart the footprints of a stranger’s heart by the graffiti they leave on art you built for them

Also! She’s not just teaching Ava ‘know to do the thing exactly as I would’. Bea’s teaching her to be a Leader. Bea could have easily been like “here’s the plan”. Which she (mostly, kinda) does when it comes to Ava’s safety. Instead she gives all the information to Ava and lets Ava make the plan. Which she’s done a number of times before. Big “give it a try and I’ll catch us if you fall” vibes. That dedicated attention and safety net with no fear of failure? No wonder Ava kicks so much ass this season.

Warrior Nun | 2.03

"Yes, I've noticed."

Serious faces. Mortal danger. IMMA MAKE YOU LAUGH.

what if the halo chose ava despite having no training specifically because she's full of desire. the halo doesn't see her will to live as selfishness, but at one with its own existence. pure life. a microcosm of the breathing universe. there's enough love for the world in ava to safely, sacredly contain a power that's a sealed vessel of the spiritus, of the living purified souls of every being. she will do it justice, she is at one with the want to exist. the spiritus in its purest form: i want to live

ava is not an atheist. ava is an *animist.* she sits on beaches playing with sand like a geomancer conducting rituals of reverence. she speaks of cities like they're friends she wants to make. she prayed not to "heaven" but straight to the stars. look at the way she appreciates life. she worships *life itself.* ava is the perfect halo bearer because she is who she is. the halo itself is fighting to live, too

If I may offer a possibility?

Ava’s the Halo Bearer and was cursed into stone. Sentient, awake, aware but immobile. Lilith managed to get her away from whoever cursed her but freeing Ava would require chipping her out of a block of stone. Lilith isn’t an artist. If she gets it wrong she could kill Ava. So she does the best she can. She ‘donates’ a partially finished sculpture that’s little more than half a face in a solid block of marble and a reference picture of the subject and another reference picture of the pose. For understandable reason no one has taken up this task. Mostly because they’d want to make their own art not mimic someone else’s. Plus what little is carved out is too nice to ruin. Until Beatrice finishes her planned projects four months early. 

She shows up exactly at 7:45, ready to begin her day and all her projects are done. She doesn’t know what to do with herself. But she finds herself looking at the giant block of marble with half a beautiful woman’s face carved in it. Finds herself wondering what this woman think of the work she’s watched Beatrice do. Finds herself remembering how all her instructors were quick to compliment her precision and technique but equally quick to tell her to feel. To not just plan art, but to find it. She picks up the chisel without thought. With only feeling. She starts (unknowingly) to carve Ava out of marble.  Lilith, still a guard, does slowly explain the subject was a real woman she knew. She shares stories and insights into Ava’s personality while Beatrice carves. Beatrice doesn’t say much, not with other people around. When alone with Ava she asks endless questions.

Something something, divine act of creation, something something love is knowing. (Beatrice frees Ava through the divine art of creation because somehow even with one locked unmoving in stone they still know each other)?

And Beatrice isn’t even upset that the moment she finishes her greatest creation of her life, stone turns to flesh and Ava walks off. (But not really because is there anything hotter than Beatrice’s endless patience and perfectionism? No, not after Ava’s only sense of touch has been Beatrice for the last four months. Longest unintentional edging ever!)

Scroll past if you dont wanna read my incoherent rambling while brainstorming the FUCK outta this fic

Avatrice au prompt that I also wanna write lol TM TM TM TM TM TM MOTHERFUCKERS

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Beatrice is a sculpture amongst five artist who were selected to go through a paid internship (paid internships amirite) at the louvre. This internship would allow artist to push their creative bounds outside of all the boxes that may have constricted them in their daily lives.

When they all finished their pieces their predecessors would pick and choose which pieces were “worthy” of being apart of the museum's modern artist showing. Each of the artist who were selected had only a year to finish all of their pieces, but Beatrice finished hers in under 8 months.

Mostly due to the fact that she would stay working until the sunrise because she was a perfectionist but also... she was passionate.

However so was Ava once upon a time, but now all he can do is sit and watch through the lifeless eyes of a statue... [BANGER]

Or

Ava can only sit and watch Beatrice work through one of the paintings in the museum

- So maybe… Sister Francis who’s like the wicked witch, cursed Ava to watch her life pass her by (kinda like an continuation for her time spent in the orphanage as a paraplegic) so like being trapped in a painting/statue, was sister Francis’ way of “sparing her from death.” THIS CAN STILL APPLY IF I PLAN ACCORDINGLY ND SWITCH UP SOME THINGS BEAR (haha pun , im so funny iykyk) WITH ME

- WAIT SO LIKE WHAT IF AVA STILL HAS THE HALO JAMMED IN HER BACK AFTER HAVING ALREADY BEEN KILLED BY SIS FRANCIS (WHICH SISTER KNEW THIS BUT USED HER TO HIDE THE ARTIFACT IN THE PAINTING/SCULPTURE ALONG WITH AVA WITHOUT REALIZING THAT IT WOULD RESURRECT HER LOL) this is kinda contradictory lol

- I was also thinking whichever pieces Ava is “trapped” in or “bound” to, belonged to one of the predecessors that was also selected at one point just like Beatrice. Which obviously makes this person very likely to have had something to do with what happened to Ava. I mean technically the predecessor could have smth to do with what happened to Ava, like this person worked with sister Francis and made the sculpture so she would have somewhere to hide the halo (not anticipating a entire human being apart of the equation but ya know life or whatever 👁️👄👁️)

- Beatrice however does end up finding out about Ava’s situation (SOMEHOW) Beatrice probably things its just sleep deprivation when she sees a singular teardrop fall from the eyes of the statue or like fucking uhhhh???

- Beatrice then is somehow convinced later on that she can break the curse (bc Ava’s smart ass would definitely find a way to fuck w bea) so bea maybe finds out about the existence of another witch (Lilith) to help her break the curse, if shes will lol

- the part im having trouble with is incorporating Lilith into the story because odds are bea doesn’t know about the supernatural 🤩 so like the FUCK would she seek out a random witch for???? Uhhhhh mayhaps Lilith senses the halos energy AFTER it activates and goes to investigate in the museum but also figured thatd draw too much attention, so she finds a way to get a job there.. which is how she comes across BEATRICE HUZZAH 🎉 YALL I JUST FIGURED OUT MY OWN PLOT HOLE IT MIGHT NOT MAKE SENSE TO YALL BUT HELL

- Also, Camila, Yasmin, Mary, Shannon, along with Beatrice are the candidates for the internship. (Camila and Beatrice are roommates) (Shannon and Mary are married and roommates WHAT ARE THE ODDS!!?!??) and YASMINE UHHH lives nearby (bc the internship also paid for housing, and Yasmin didn’t really require the housing still determining whether or not she is a nun)

- so Shannon and Mary were never nuns nor part of the convent, Beatrice is a reformed nun who decided art was more important than her vows (slay sister artist), Camila was getting her masters in cyber security but had always felt her true calling was art and saw this opportunity and took it, and yea I guess Yasmin is still a nun in this au but like of the more chill variety (so in terms of where she stays which is the convent, she was able to get lucky enough to commute back n forth to the museum due to the short distance)

- also Camila decided to either stay late with Beatrice one night/come pick bea up and witnesses the weird aforementioned thing Ava does in the sculpture or painting after being revived by the halo and unlike ya know screaming when she awoke 🥹😖 (god this is somehow sadder than the actual storyline wth imo) she has to silently cry instead out of the sculpture LIKE IN THAT ONE SCENE IN THE SHOW OMFG YOU KNOW THE ONE WHEN AVA AND MARY SLEEP IN THE CHURCH IN THAT ONE TOWN YEAH

- okay… so it is 5am but I am sticking with the sculpture idea bc the fucking teardrop sounds cool lollll like bea sees it, wipes her eyes blinking hard, and Camila is just like 🧍🏻”ayo they done sprung a leak in here???” BUT THIS TIME IT AINT A FUCKING LEAK YO WHAT??!??? CRAZY!???!?

- also yea Lilith DEF a security guard (so she has clearance to being in the museum late at night idc if thats not how it is irl this will be biblically accurate information in my au) and that is how she comes across bea and Camila (ooh woo *winks*) bc you already know im going to have Beatrice use Camila as leverage to steal Lilith’s heart so they can help get Ava outta the sculpture (also Camila and bea are allowed to stay late too yea yea bc they sectioned off apart of the museum for them to work where Ava’s sculpture happened to be hehehe, im scheming, gay scheming, if I may HEHEHEE)

- so like idk what else to add currently bc if el halo is still in Ava’s back when she gets out of the sculpture then she can magically walk again but like not immediately (bc like after she gets out bea, Camila, and Lilith too lol bc she will be the witchy bestie chasing after Camila like a lost puppy , ANYWAYS they realize that they cant just take a freaked out, unstable, Ava to the hospital w/o questions arising bc in this she was declared “missing” from the orphanage, ANYWAYS X2 Sorry I have adhd unmedicated, they take Ava back to bea and cam’s apartment nd call Shannon and Mary bc Mary is a nurse (we love a multi tasking queen) who helps alba and what not. Mary and Shannon come to find out what happened, but also bea and cam let ava stay “secretly” in their apartment so they can figure out wtf to do from there)

- nd like tbh i dont wanna make huge conflict bc ava already been hurt enough but after she gets out of the sculpture she gets to know bea and all that cute shit and gets to experience the life she missed out on, but that would create a plot hole bc if Lilith can sense the halo that means Francis can too (so who knows ava may find out the halo gives her powers and kills Francis by “accident” in this timeline too HAHAH) so maybe Francis sends the predecessor who created the sculpture only to find it shattered

I know this is getting away from the internship aspect of the story (im trying to be consistent bc like bea, cam, and Lilith needed to have a reason to be in the museum that late at night but like if they all worked there thatd be BORING so im improvising but THIS IS JUST BRAINSTORMING) and also kinda overshadowing yasmin (so as much as I love her she may just be a far removed side character reeeee)

- ANOTHA ONE, OKAY SO LIKE WHAT IF BEATRICE FOR SOME UNGODLY REASON HAS A NECKLACE THAT HAS DIVINIUM IN IT STARTS GLOWING AFTER AVA WAKES UP ANYTIME BEA IS NEAR THE SCULPTURE REEEEEEEE (yall the smile on my face bc I feel like I’ve cracked another code, or you could say YOU COULD SAY IVE CONNECTED THE DOTS)

- also like what if mommy- sorry mother 🥸 superion was like the person who overlooked their progress on their pieces, obviously bea is way ahead of everyone else, overachieving bichass [endearingly] 🙄 , but yea LOL

FUCK OKAY TIME TO PUT THIS IN A DOC BC MY HEAD HURTS STARING AT THIS WHITE SCREEN

I have feels about this concept. And half an idea of new recruits joining the OCS who fall in deep lust for the ‘young’ halo bearer and can’t figure out why their MILF of a hand to hand combat instructor hates them. Mother Superion (Camila!) laughed at them for not figuring it out. And is it just them or does everyone have the same last name if they’re not a nun?

I think Avatrice would be like, that elderly couple who die within days of each other, not because they can’t live without each other, but they’re at the end of their lives anyway and they just don’t want to. They were each other’s best friend, each other’s person. Their life was always a joint project, and it seems like a good end, to not be apart for too long.