new day new meme lmao shipping questions!

13, 31 Frankie

13 - she regrets underestimating Sid. she controlled him pretty easily while setting him on her father's trail, and didn't realize she'd left enough breadcrumbs for him to eventually uncover her too

does she regret having a relationship with a guy she gutted and redmodeled like a housing development to make into a weapon? absolutely not

31 - love stories, I think she's down for trashy bodice-rippers

she'll read nora roberts or danielle steel in the waiting room or whatever

she likes the, mm, disposable indulgence of it? and also there's a tiny feeling of rebellion in indulging something 'soft' and 'girly', bc it's pretty clear she spends a lot of her life shoved in the box of 'inadequate foot soldier'

That's weirdly sweet

same for like, cheesy 90s chickflick romcoms

if you gave her an actually earnest love story with vulnerability and romance and caring about each other as people instead of tropes, I think she'd hate it

that's just not how people are, that's not a real thing people get to have, fuck you

tldr: twilight sure, This is How You Lose the Time War, no

Oof, Frankie.

the only people she's ever known who were actually in love were her aunt and her father's abused girlfriend who had a secret affair while her aunt was still a co-leader of the gang, but never could/would do anything about her father physically abusing Pneema

so like. fuck all that

brainless fantasy only

Growing up in organized crime fucks a kid up, huh.

mmmmmmmhm

man, I think Frankie has so much anger toward her Aunt Bea that she hasn't acknowledged at ALL

because Aunt Bea had a good power

she was a heavy hitter

she was smart

if anyone had a chance of reigning Don Harvest in, it was her

and she didn't

so Frankie set her up for Don to kill her, and he did

(her mother did not get a power at all. this did not end well for anyone.)

and like. that's not at all fair to Bea, Don was clearly not a man easy to reign

but Aunt Bea was the closest thing to a stable, strong adult for Frankie and I think her disillusionment about Bea really poisoned her