AUs?? Concepts??

I just need to get it out there i guess. 2am rambles here we go-

MODERN AU (or Love Letter AU)

(yes, if yall following me, u shouldve seen this comin)

Evergoode and Nevermoore,

Ever Uniform: White blazer with purple accents and purple skirt. (yes white n purple, pink n blue is sooo last season).

Never Uniform: Black and red. (like kakegurui?? i guess??)

(honestly- i already planned so much for this- idk whats stopping me from just straight up rambling bout tis au.)

Love Letter AU- basically book 1 plot, where sophie and agatha tries to woo tedros, but this time with !!Letters!!

Witch Agatha

agatha is a powerful witch living in a cottage in the forest. Just planting and gardenin with flowers and herbs. makin potions and baking pies-

cottagecore. its cottagecore. but also witchcore.

I drew a piece before- witch agatha and prince tedros- balcony scene.

Tedros- either got lost, almost got assasinated and manage to escape, or just needed to relax- whatever the reason.

He ended up in agatha’s cottage, and helping out in the cottage, learning how to cook, walking round to forage, drinking tea.

just Tagatha cottagecore uwu.

Biker AU / Cafe AU / College AU

OF COURSE WE NOT GON FORGET BOUT THIS-

you see, i was staring at the wall, no thoughts head empty- then all of a sudden an idea-

BIKER AGATHA- the leather jacket, big black bike, and everything- BUT WORKING IN A CAFE- THE CONTRAST-

also ofc, the college part- imagine tedros just coming to the cafe where agatha works in- just to get coffee- ended up always coming back-

Delinquent AU / Red School (but modern) AU

i drew sketches of this before, and i cannot decide on “good kids gon rouge” or “atmospheric zombie apocalypse”

the delinquent au is pretty self explanatory,

the red school plot- makes more sense if its set in modern times, and theres no magic. (i mean, u can prevent getting infected by the red smoke if u just blow it away with air magic- come on guys-)

if its set irl with no magic- tis not like you can buy a fcken gas mask in 7/11- it’ll be way harder to fight against the infected.

anyway basically this au exist becuz tagatha wearing uniforms with blood splatter in it- while their holding a weapon- tis hot.

BONUS:

WALL-E AU (originally: @pumpkinpaperweight )

Agatha as wall-e and Tedros as eve.

agatha- lookin a lil steampunk robot. with goggles on her head, and her boots as roller skates.

tedros- has a hood thingy, like a retractable helmet. (def not among us.)

Agatha just doin her job, and collect lil trinklets. and this guy just comes in from the sky-

Tedros just doin his job, tryna find his objective- and this guy wont help him find it >:((

note: their dynamic aint like the movie, but more on actual tagatha

HS Band AU (with: @cucumbrandbeeswax )

this started cuz of her “SGE reference sheet post” in ig. i told her “they look like theyre bout to sing i want it that way from b99″. we came up with this concept-

Dot - lead singer, Hester - bass guitar, Agatha - lead guitar, Tedros - drummer, Anadil - piano,

(she can finish this au of she wants, just wanna put it out there :DD)

ahhhh there we go- i prolly forgot to add smth- but im too tired-

I Don’t Really... Like Agatha? Sorry. This will be explained, I promise. I do like her, just in a different way.

This is going to be super controversial, I know it.

Surprisingly, this started in Book 1.

My first thought when I was introduced to Agatha was: I would not be friends with her.

Like, okay, you’re goth and edgy and ugly and different. That’s cool. But,

Let Sophie Go.

Clearly, Sophie wants to become a princess and have a fairytale. That’s all she’s ever dreamed of, it’s in the first chapter. And Agatha wants a normal life in Gavaldon, which is understandable.

So, she tries to “save” Sophie from being taken by the School Master. But the way I see it, Agatha is clinging on to Sophie because she’s the only friend that she’ll ever have, and if she leaves, Agatha will have nothing. Agatha even SAYS that Sophie is the only one who makes her feel accepted.

This turns out to be a theme for the rest of the plot: Agatha wants her old life back with her friend. She even achieves that at the end, kind of. I don’t have a problem with that, you know? However, it’s not like Sophie was the darling of Gavaldon and her popularity transfers to Agatha in their friendship. Radley points out that Sophie is hanging out with a witch, so Agatha still has the same reputation.

So, Agatha just plans on living the rest of her life as an outcast? Sophie makes her FEEL normal. She’s not actually normal in Gavaldon terms. In fact, she’d probably be scapegoated for a famine or wildfire or kidnapping the children, and then sentenced to death by The Elders.

When she gets to SGE, she wants to return home… for WHAT? Sure, the students at School for Good tease you (and this time, you don’t have Sophie to back you up), and the teachers don’t have much faith in you. I know what it feels like to be alone and doubted by everyone. Still though, this is a magical school, and Agatha can learn magic. Literally who would turn that down? Granted, Ever Girl classes are about beauty and grace, two things Agatha would fail in, but she is so smart. If she focused on magic and spells and put her mind to it, she could easily become powerful. Just talk to Dovey, talk to August Sader, ask them about improving your skills beyond posture or smiling (also this could’ve been an amazing opportunity for Agatha to have scenes with her so-called mentors, but no, she speaks two words to them, they wink at her knowingly and when they die, we’re supposed to cry? Bullshit.)

Agatha has shown that she’s badass already. Why not become more powerful and prove the Ever Girls wrong? Instead, she wants Sophie to kiss Tedros so they can resume their friendship in Gavaldon.

By the way, neither girl LIKES their school. That’s why Sophie was convinced to go to the School Master. She was like, damn, if we can’t switch schools and I can’t go to the Snow Ball, what’s the point? Fine, I’ll settle for Agatha.

I don’t know, I think Agatha was selfish in holding back Sophie. Just let her flirt with Tedros, what’s so hard about that? Oh, you feel inadequate because you’ve lost Sophie’s attention? Grow a backbone (yes, I know that’s the point of the book).

Anyways, if you only saw through Sophie in the beginning, you would have known that the faster Sophie chases after her fairytale, the faster she’ll fail and put it to rest (after a world-ending tantrum, but it would’ve cut the page count in half. So I don’t need to read this much boy drama).

The Glow Up

Everyone raves about this damn scene. Agatha becomes confident, yay! Inspiring to young girls everywhere. That’s established. Let’s move on.

SGE is about subverting expectations, appearances vs reality, friends vs love. We know that. Except Agatha is just…

When Agatha became “pretty”, and then realized her inner beauty shines past her looks, I thought she would KNOCK BITCHES DOWN. I was rooting for her. I thought she’d finally put Sophie in her place.

This was destroyed when Agatha became like the Ever Girls she hated for the first part of the book. She develops a crush on Tedros, which was the defining feature of the Ever Girls: liking boys. Nothing wrong with that, it was just out of place. I understand that Tedros might have caught feelings after Agatha saves his life, that’s a trope we’re familiar with and it makes sense.

What doesn’t, is that Agatha reciprocates? She’s been grossed out by boys the whole book, what makes Tedros different? Literally what switch flipped in her brain. That she’s worthy of love? Girl, if you’re “confident” now and suddenly dating a boy that you never genuinely got to know… Also, was Tagatha even considered a relationship? They don’t hang out until TLEA. I feel like Agatha was just excited to have a guy like her for once. They call each other “true love” based on what? We BEEN KNEW Tedros is dumb (okay, you picked her in all the challenges, that’s not real proof), and Agatha, do you even know his last name?

^ if anyone’s watched the Witcher, Yennefer is very similar to Agatha and she gains her physical beauty after she’s finished with her training as a mage. Also, Yennefer is dating a hot guy with authority WHILE she’s still ugly. Love that for her. (This situation is different because Yennefer is morally grey, maybe evil, but I like this arc better than Agatha’s).

Lesbian Agatha? Simp Agatha? What’s going on??

This started when I noticed on Goodreads that some people genuinely thought Agatha was lesbian. (Me being me, this went over my head).

Like, okay I get it, Agatha MIGHT be a simp for Sophie. I do kinda get it.

Throughout the book, Agatha repeatedly is there for Sophie even when Sophie treats her like shit (I don’t have to explain each example, right? We been knew.)

What stands out to me most was when 1. she literally turned into a cockroach and stayed up all night for weeks to help Sophie study 2. cheated and guided her in the Trial By Tale (risking her life several times in the process).

That wasn’t because she had a Good heart (though it contributed). It was because Agatha wanted to protect Sophie.

The only reason I didn’t include all the times Agatha helped Sophie make Tedros fall in love with her was because she thought that Sophie’s kiss would send them back home, so that was theoretically for her own benefit (although we know that Sophie was just using Agatha).

Also, I distinctly remember Sophie having a Regina George moment with Agatha where she was like “why are you so obsessed with me?!”. Because Agatha was being all “😔👉🏻👈🏻 we’re friends” and Sophie was like GET YOUR OWN LIFE YOU’RE RUINING MINE!!!

Nitpicky Shit

This is irrelevant, when you come for me don’t mention this part because I’m not all that pressed.

Agatha comes off as Not Like Other Girls. She says that everyone at School for Good are stupid/shallow RIGHT OFF THE BAT. Obviously Beatrix didn’t make a good impression, but come on.

She hates that all the girls are obsessed with boys and looks. Just because you’re not interested doesn’t mean others can’t be. It came up several times and I was so irritated. Not to mention that Sophie was basically a carbon copy of Beatrix except that she’s nice to her.

This is extremely SJW of me but I had to say it. Sophie is a typical bratty blonde. Agatha is said to be hideous, then finds out she was beautiful all along. I felt like this would’ve been better if Agatha had Real unconventional features.

She’s tall, skinny and pale with big eyes. That is a textbook runway model and fits Eurocentric beauty standards. It’s not like making Agatha fat, short, and dark-skinned with acne is going to enhance the book, although it would be so, so nice.

Might be editing this later on! I don’t know!

Disclaimer: Agatha’s still a good character, I still like reading about her.