nobody is irrelevant. nobody is invisible. your neighbors know your name and see you set off to school or work or the backyard everyday, sometimes with a spring in your step and sometimes with hunched over shoulders. there was this one time some stranger pointed you out to their friends and said “that’s the haircut I want” or “I have that shirt, too” or “they go to my school”. someone has admired the way you carry yourself or gave a presentation or even the way you’re so polite when you first meet a person. you’ve made comments or jokes that have stuck in minds of overhearers and eavesdroppers. when old classmates of yours think back to kindergarten or fourth grade or sophomore year they remember you and have an opinion of you. you’ve made recommendations of songs and restaurants and even cookie brands and actually introduced people to their all-time favorites. the cashier at the grocery store knows exactly what laundry detergent your household uses, or even if you don’t do your laundry at all.
you can never be irrelevant. there’s pieces of you everywhere, in a dozen lives, in a hundred dreams, in a million memories. maybe it’s true that you don’t have any friends, and you have a sucky relationship with your family or no family at all and no-one ever checks up on you, and you’re really very lonely, but that doesn’t determine your worth. you do. and so do the billions of small attributions you’ve already made to the world, both long-term and short-term. so thank you.
There are many examples of terrible parents in MCU; Howard, Odin, Ego, Thanos etc. The newest member of this club is Evanora. I believe there is a certain kind of cruelty and prejudice in a parent who condemns their child to death. Specially when the said child begs them for help over and over again.
Evanora, the head of Agatha’s coven accuses her of betraying the coven by stealing knowledge above her age and station and practicing the darkest of magic. Agatha answers that “I did not break your rules. They simply bent to my power”. This implies to me that she has found loopholes in the rules and used them and/or she was so powerful that the magical rules didn’t work for her.
After this admission, the witches start chanting and Agatha recognizes what they’re doing and panics and starts begging to them. Interestingly the first thing she says isn’t begging for her life. It’s a warning for the coven’s safety.
“No,I can’t control it! If only you would teach me! Help me! Please!”
Then she turns to her mother and begs her, pleads with her. But Evanora starts chanting with other witches too.
“Mors monstrum natura”
Which if I have translated it correctly(I don’t know Latin. I used Wikitionary to find the meaning), means “death to the monster of nature”. Agatha’s expression is so heartbreaking when she realizes her own mother condemns her to death.
When the coven try to execute Agatha, at first she screams in pain, but as she had warned them and to her own surprise, her power which she could not control, reacts and starts taking the coven’s power from them.
Then Evanora joins the execution. But Agatha still has enough compassion to not let her mother be affected.
Again she begs her mother that she can be good. But Evanora rejects her.
As some fans has noticed, this moment is a parallel to the scene where Odin rejects Loki and denies his love and approval from him, when Loki physically and mentally is hanging on the edge of an abyss. This causes Loki to commit suicide.
But there are other similarities that Odin and Evanora share.
Odin raised his children with the belief that Jotuns were monsters, while one of his children was adopted from that race. He hid the truth about Loki’s race from him, claiming he wanted to protect Loki from the truth. Meaning the truth, which was Loki being Jotun, in Odin’s mind was so horrible that Loki needed protecting from!
He tells Loki that the reason he won’t execute him is Frigga and sentences Loki to never seeing his mother again and solitary confinement for life. This for a crime Odin himself committed in a worse way in the past. A crime which was done when Loki’s mind was under the influence of the mind stone and he was under duress and threat of torture.
Evanora doeas the same to Agatha. Agatha in that scene, seemed like a young and curious witch who is a little arrogant because of her amount of power. She probably sought knowledge and experimented with dark magic because of these characteristics and her thirst for knowledge. But she was not evil. As she warns the coven that she can’t control her power and repeatedly begs them and her mother for help and teaching. But Evanora has already made up her mind about her. She doesn’t ask Agatha for her reasons, or what exactly happened. What they brought Agatha to, wasn’t a trial, it was a planned execution. Evanora sees her child as a monster and probably fears her because of how powerful Agatha is, and condemns her to death.
Still after all their parents done to them, Agatha and Loki still feel some kind of affection for them.
Loki, after erasing Odin’s memory brings him to a retirement home so he can be comfortable and you can clearly see how sad he was after Odin’s death.
And Agatha takes her mother’s pendant hesitantly, and wears it all the time afterward.
As a token from the mother who created her worst fear. Because the execution was where Wanda’s magic(which shows someone their worst fear), took them in the final battle.
Agatha and Loki, unlike what their parents believed, were not monsters, nor deserved death.
The Comet Book (1587), details, “16th-century treatise on comets, created anonymously (or maybe it was a woman who endured erasure) in Flanders (now northern France)”. Originally named in german Kometenbuch.
