Strange Bedfellows - Marie LaFleur/Mary Wardwell/Zelda Spellman/Lilith
A/N: Day 31 for @polyamships Multiamory March.
It starts when Lilith seeks shelter. Mambo Marie had been with Zelda Spellman since she brought her back from the beyond and now, slowly, their polycule was expanding. Slowly. Mambo Marie had been a little uneasy, at first, slowly learning to trust Lilith. Next comes Mary Wardwell. Small, shy, broken and breaking Mary Wardwell. Now, here, Mary felt safe, she was unsure of many things, of her own sexuality quite often, but she knew deep down that Zelda would never let her be hurt, that Marie was brave and true and, much as she was growing used to sharing her face with Lilith, she was learning that it was easy to love herself with Lilith pouring honeyed words into her ears. Co-living was not always easy but this is their new normal.
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Mambo Marie x Fem!Reader: Fate and Her Whims
Summary: Anon requested “I will love whatever you can write for Marie!! Marie x reader where the reader just moved to New Orleans (The reader has visited the city several times before and met Marie the last time she was visiting) maybe they bump into eachother again at a pride parade?”
A/N: I really hope you like it! I’m getting into the groove of writing for Marie, so I’m hoping the more I write her, the longer the pieces will get :)
Warning(s): None
You had never believed in fate.
The idea of fate bothered you in more ways than you could count. It felt like a loss of control in your life. You wanted to make your own life, your own journey.
But sometimes fate seemed very, very real. In ways that you couldn’t help but enjoy. One of them being the day you bumped into Mambo Marie for the second time.
Since meeting Marie on your last trip in New Orleans, she’d captivated you. With her easy grin and knowing eyes. You hadn’t stopped thinking about her since. So it was most certainly fate that brought the two of you together, at pride no less.
You’d been weaving through a crowd of rowdy individuals, when you knocked shoulders with someone. Hard.
“I’m so sorry!” You apologized immediately, before meeting a familiar set of eyes.
Marie looked back at you as recognition crossed her face. Then came the slow, flirty smile. The one that had haunted your mind for weeks.
“No apologies necessary, ma chérie.” She said, brushing wrinkles out of her blue dress.
It was then that you took in her appearance. The red dress you’d seen her in before was replaced by a blue one of a similar material, the scarf wrapped in her hair boasting a pattern of purples and blues that matched. Then you noticed the small bisexual flag painted on her cheek.
“Are you enjoying the activities?” You asked, your eyes lingering on the small flag. Maybe you had a shot.
“I did. Though I was just about to leave. Would you join me?”
Marie was very forward. Open. She wasted no time with casual conversation or small talk, laser focused on what she wanted. It was something you admired.
“I’d love to.”
A shiver ran down your spine as you placed your hand within her’s. She expertly guided you through the crowds gathered to celebrate. You were grateful for her guidance, as all you could focus on was the feeling of her skin. And what had led you to this moment.
Maybe fate wasn’t such a terrible thing after all.
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Reasons why I started to distrust Mambo Marie LeFleur:
Since I’m obsessed with CAOS, I begged my gf @rumpel8 to watch it a second (actually third or fourth) time with me. We both ship MadamSpellman and although I liked Mambo Marie in the beginning, she hates - hates - her guts (because she gets to be canon with Zelda and Lilith doesn’t), so gf was trying to find anything to make MM look bad, even claiming she was secretly a villain. I laughed, at first, but now I think my gf was right all along.
But let’s start from the beginning:
Mambo Marie is a voodoo witch, and as Zelda says, she’s a Catholic, which means she should be enemies with satanic witches like Prudence, Ambrose and Zelda (and the Coven).
In New Orleans, she helped Prudence and Ambrose with Blackwood, but what if she did that only to gain their trust?
Mambo Marie arrives when the Cover summons the hedge witches and immediately sides with Zelda.
Of course, Zelda is grateful for her assistance. But how did she arrive since she’s not one of the hedge witches? Prudence invited her, but she laters admits she does not know her true intentions.
Hence, what are those reasons and, most of all, what are “her ways?” Zelda is visibly uncomfortable and she gets really upset when she sees Marie performing one of her rituals. Do we actually know that it’s a protection dance, and not some ceremony to steal every bit of magic that is left for herself? Or enter everyone’s minds? Or something bad at all? Prudence keeps defending her, but since when does she talk voodoo?
While Lilith is rejected after asking for asylum and offering her magic/help to serve the Coven (while still being the idol Zelda is devout to, technically), Mambo Marie is accepted and asked to stay rather quickly. What’s different? Well, Marie touches Zelda’s hand while introducing herself.
But what do we know about physycal contact with ill-intentioned beings?
Yes, Zelda was talking about demoniac possession, but maybe it can be applied to other forms of manipulation too. And then, this.
Sketchy. To do what, cherie? Zelda is enthralled, but what is she’s actually talking about slaughter the entire Coven or enslave them (to get revenge for her ancestors taken away from their home during the slave-trade) or something around those lines?
When Zelda is lying on the table after being operated, and they hear the banshee, Mambo Marie knows the three kids don’t have magic/strenght, but urges them to go check while she tends to Zelda. It doesn’t make sense: in case there’s a peril, being the only one with magic among them, it should be Mambo Marie go check.
That gives her the chance to stay with Zelda for the whole time she’s in Limbo. Who said anything about burning purple candles? Who said anything about Limbo at all? Marie. But who tell us Zelda is really in Limbo and not some dream-like-vision created by Mambo? After all, she touches Zelda (stroking her hair, holding he hand) multiple times, and what could be mistaken for signs of affection, could be easily the ways she’s using to mold Zelda’s vision to her own likings. Edward as Mèt-tèt? Satanic witches don’t get guardian angels no matter how you want to call it, what if it’s Marie posing as Edward (Lilith did that too with Sabrina before the wedding with Blackwood), leading her to see the three stages of the moon? Leading her to Hecate?
Now, let’s talk about Hecate.
Aside from the fact that Zelda has clear loyalty issues (praise Satan, praise Lilith, praise Hecate, praise the guy I saw on my newspaper this morning) it’s very unlikely that a goddess would assist the most devout of satanic witches during her whole life.
So if Zelda’s Limbo is Mambo Marie’s doing, perhaps she is trying to become the most powerfool voodoo witch and is looking for adepts? Maybe wants to submit Zelda’s Coven? After all “she get’s her powers from somewhere else”, what if she’s not even voodoo? Is Hecate Mambo Marie in diguise? Is Hecate bad? Is Mambo Marie bad? After all, she was there during Hilda’s resurrection, right behind Zelda (and kept her eyes close for the majority of time).
And then, the revelation, the actual, verified proof. No theories, no suppositions, just the plain fact: in the last episode, how did Blackwood find the twins?
Blackwood’s only goal is to find the egg since he doesn’t sacrifice anyone like he intended to do in Scotland and he wouldn’t be able to find the twins unless he knew they were at the Spellman’s with the egg. But once there, how did he actually find them, how did he know where to look? I bet a dollhouse wouldn’t be his first choice.
The options are two:
• there’s a spell that locates people/your lineage/magical beings wherever they are, even though it’s unlikely the dollhouse wasn’t under any concealing or protective charm
• somebody told him
But who? Who knows where the twins are? Presumably all the Spellmans [Zelda, Hilda, Sabrina and Ambrose], Prudence and - drum rolls - Mambo Marie.
The Spellmans would never tell Blackwood about the dollhouse (why would they and how, when?), Prudence could’ve said about her siblings to Agatha and Dorcas, and Agatha could’ve told Blackwood after going insane, but that’s unlikely. This only leaves out... Mambo Marie.
Whether she’s got anything to do with Hecate or not, she’s secretly plotting with Blackwood.
Theory: they met in New Orleans and Prudence and Ambrose didn’t find Mambo Marie’s randomly - either she or Blackwood led them directly into her den. Proof they’re plotting together could be MM possibly faking her own death after Zelda wakes up from Limbo cause we don’t actually see Blackwood kill her and the skeleton could be anyone’s dressed with MM’s clothes.
We don’t know what the plans are, but either way, there’s a fact that leaves little to the imagination: the only one left who knows about the twins is, in fact, Mambo Marie. If we assume they are allies, Mambo Marie told him about the twins hidden inside the dollhouse.
And that explains why Lilith and Mambo Marie share screen time during the fourth season: whether for her own reasons or because she’s Hecate (a new goddess claiming supremacy) or another of Blackwood’s lovers seeking revenge, Mambo Marie is evil, Zelda needs to be saved from her and freed from her charms and the only one who can do it, it’s Lilith.
THOUGHTS AFTER THE CAOS PART 4 TRAILER:
Marie is in the Church but several rows behind. I’m kinda grateful cause Zarie is not my cup of tea. It used to be. But now I’m Madam Spellman (/Zelith) for life!
That’s honestly a suspicious coincidence...
Another suspicious coincidence...
Yep. She’s helping...
I honestly like this black sorority of witch-mortal-voodoo witch... But I still don’t trust her.
Marie is deceiving everyone and she is evil .
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
If you had access to the early screening, feel free to roast this post.
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Zarie headcanons? <3
(For the purposes of these Headcanons, Marie is NOT Baron Samedi, because fuck that story line. The Baron Samedi reveal never happened).
Marie and Zelda speak French together whenever they want to talk shit about people. It makes for some very entertaining meals 😅
Marie doesn’t like whiskey but drinks it anyway, just because Zelda likes it. But when Zelda realizes Marie doesn’t even enjoy it, she immediately stocks their cellar full of French wine.
Hilda and Marie sometimes cook together. It makes for some very interesting (and spicy) meals!
Though Zelda is an advanced scholar of ancient magic, she has very little knowledge of vodou, and so delights in having academic and theoretical discussions about Marie’s witchcraft.
Marie is the first to say “I love you” / “Je t’aime.” It freaks Zelda out so badly that they don’t speak about it for a full three days. When they do meet up again, Zelda apologizes for running away from the problem rather than addressing it. She has a complicated relationship to love—satanic witches aren’t meant to love, after all—but she’s willing to give it a try.
Thank you for asking!!
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