Episode Thirty-Eight: Revelation

In which a certain kind of clarity is reached. Featuring: many different threads, unraveling.

Episode description: Who is the daughter of the king under the hill?

Episode Overview
Everything goes to hell.

Trigger Warnings

 * Screaming, distortion, panic/anxiety attacks, unreality, injury, abuse mentions and flashbacks, pain, disassociation.

Episode Summary
After Aconite crashes the party and claims her right to the throne, Anna and Mabel freak out, Mabel insisting she must have been lying about her parentage. Anna stops her by saying that they need to go.

We cut over to Janet, who explains to her audience that her tape recorder was stolen from her hands and dragged away, leading Janet into a gigantic room with a triple window covered in ivy. The ivy is spread out in strange patterns, along with datura pods everywhere. She whispers "oh my god--" before the entire thing cuts away, back to the girls.

Anna tries to fix Mabel's arm, while Mabel continues to panic. The two of them discuss Aconite's possible parentage, Mabel insisting that Luna could not be her mother because the King and Luna's relationship was very business-like, with no fondness between them. The King's only hope-- his only joy in the whole of himself, which Mabel saw during the fight in Temporal Snake-- was Mabel herself.

They discuss how the King never tried to hurt Mabel on purpose, and Anna apologizes for taking Mabel out of the hill without her permission. Mabel has a brief moment of confusion over someone caring about her autonomy, before Luna stops in, being dramatic and strutting out after saying she doesn't envy the girls for what is to come.

The episode cuts briefly to a cult tape recording of a subject referred to as 1138. An infant wails before Aurora Silver asks if that's what 1138 expects to affect her, and the baby's screaming changes to terrifying laughter. 1138 says "Fiat justitia et ruat caelum" in a distorted voice before it cuts to Aconite, having a panic attack, trying to remind herself that the King is her father. She repeats "I know who I am" to herself several times.

Mabel and Anna decide that they have to somehow best Aconite in order to gain the throne back properly. Anna asks if Mabel is jealous of Aconite, because the King was her only father figure. They have a good strong discussion on their feelings; afterward, Mabel accidentally finds the tape recordings Anna finds in Reactionary Politics or Primogeniture I'll check in a minute. Mabel hears the recordings of herself when she was subject 7825, and begins to panic. She explains that Aurora Silver used to inflict the King of the Underhill on normal people; calming herself down, she hears a different tape begin to play, and laughs, realizing the House was trying to help.

Continuity
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 * The tape Mabel hears at the end is of Aconite-- or, in this case, Subject 6163-- in one of Aurora Silver's tests.
 * The King being Mabel's adopted father is relevant to the overall way Luna treats Mabel along with the reason Mabel was able to win in Temporal Snake.
 * Janet presumably finds the window on the third floor that Mabel warned Anna not to look in during King in the Labyrinth.

Trivia
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 * Fiat justitia ruat caelum-- properly written as "fīat jūstitia ruat cælum" is a Latin phrase which means "Let justice be done though the heavens fall." It refers to the belief that justice should be and must be served regardless of any consequence.
 * Subject 1138 is presumably a shapeshifter, which is why they can switch their voice. This, however, is not confirmed.
 * 1138, run through the A1Z26 cypher, is "Aach." Apparently that is a German term for running water. It may be a reach, but hey, who knows!