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Sometimes family is a pair of bisexual goths in an open marriage, an ancient baron who fucks them both, a soldier from the Ottoman Empire, one of his 37 reanimated wives who’s been mind controlled, the ghost of one of the goths possessing a doll, a familiar-turned-vampire-killer in a homoerotic relationship with the soldier who kinda wants to murder them all, an unnamed guide who’s fallen in love with everyone, and a musical theatre nerd child that burst out the chest cavity of their old dead roommate. And I think that’s beautiful
cannot stop thinking about marwa as nandor telling guillermo that she doesn't know what she would do without him. the whole thing really is just about nandor thinking that guillermo stood him up at the train station for one reason or another (like maybe he thinks guillermo changed his mind etc) and then being alone for that whole year and getting "home" and not finding any fulfillment or happiness in that and then thinking he has to get married to stop feeling so alone and being too stupid/depressed/repressed emotionally to understand that he just wanted guillermo to be with him! because he doesn't know what to do without him! and that him getting married was him subconsciously trying to get guillermo to object like he always did but guillermo just giving up on the idea of being a vampire or anything else with nandor because nandor didn't wait for him or come find him but nandor being so self hating that he probably thinks guillermo chose not to come. nandor trying to find flaws in the wedding and assuming everyone is trying to sabotage it because he know he doesn't actually love marwa that way and doesn't want to be married to her and can only do it when guillermo says he'll be there with him. because he doesn't know what he'd do without him. because he's his best friend and he can't bring himself to say it but he knows it's true and guillermo knows what he meant and he's okay with that because in s3 he realized how much he loves nandor but his love for nandor was never enough to make him happy and he wants him to be happy but everytime nandor is without guillermo he realizes how much unhappier he is without him. this whole arc is just a masterclass in mutual pining and miscommunication.
something i never considered until this episode is…. Marwa knows.
like, the djinn wish made her like everything nandor likes, but as we all know about djinn wishes, you have to be super specific about your wording or it’s gonna come back to bite you on the ass somehow. Marwa now likes everything nandor likes, but there were no caveats in the wish about her awareness of it. he can change her mind but he can’t stop her from wondering why her mind was changed.
i think the man cave scene in this episode is a perfect and chilling reminder (as well as moment of foreshadowing) that she still has her intellect and her agency, and KNOWS that nandor has taken her free will when it comes to the things she likes. Marwa possesses deep practical and emotional intelligence, so the fact that she is slowly kenning to how and why her feelings changed so rapidly the night before the wedding makes sense. the look she gives nandor right before closing and locking the door is one of recognition as well as condemnation.
she knows what he did and will make him suffer for it until it is undone.
I am no longer a nandermo shipper. Nandor the Relentless is Public Enemy #1 and I hope someone kills him for what he's done.
The amount of people calling for Nandor's death, solely because of the Guillermo end of things, is fucking disturbing. Like people not even mentioning Marwa but calling for Guillermo to "put him down" (holy shit), zero jokes. The real life equivalent of the Guillermo part of this is a cheating plot, but actually less bad than that would be because of clones and good intentions. What the fuck is wrong with some of y'all.
I got thinking too much about Marwa from What We Do in the Shadows again and how she was canonically making observations of Jupiter and Saturn in the 1200s. Then I thought about how Elena took Damon to go watch a meteor shower, and I decided that Marwa and Elena should get away from all the vampire drama B.S. in their lives and go nerd out about astronomy together, and this moodboard sort of happened. I also thought about how Elena becomes a doctor and went ah, they are both women in STEM! So I ran with that as a theme too.
But yeah, Marwa needs a friend who will actually support her interests and engage with her intellectually (no shade to Nadja and the Guide, I'm glad they had a fun weekend watching Mamma Mia together which was literally the only time we got to actually see Marwa happy onscreen, but they have never demonstrated much interest in science that I can recall and I want Marwa to have an astronomy buddy), and I think Elena would be fascinated by her and her perspectives on astronomy from centuries ago, and they could learn about modern astronomical advances together. If I find the time and energy I might even write fic about it, but for now, here is a moodboard so that we can all bask in the vibes of my beautiful crossover vision together.
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