Completely irrelevant fun fact: I have actually been the Lucia, once. The only reason it ever happened was that my school didn’t do the whole popularity contest thing, instead having the teachers decide who got the honor that year. I vaguely understood it as a consolation price for being so profoundly uncool, but it was also kind of a big deal for a 11 year old so I wasn’t about to let that stop me.
My school was also pretty big on *~*Old-Fashioned Traditions*~*, so I got to wear a real candle crown with live candles. I remember it was brass, unexpectedly heavy, and looked like some kind of medieval torture instrument (except with candles). I wore a wet cloth under, but I was still picking bits of candle wax out of my hair for a week.
The more I listen to his music the more I am convinced hozier’s oft-referenced baby is a necromancer
so to start this theory, she’s obv some kind of supernatural being:
in the lyrics in “from eden”, Babe, there’s something tragic about you // Something so magic about you
in “nfwmb”, the whole song is about how she’s not even phased by the apocalypse, “When I first saw you // The end was soon //To Bethlehem // It slouched and then //
Must’ve caught a good look at you“
i hesitate to put too fine a point on it with “the angel of small death and the codeine scene”, but i’m also thinking small death refers to the euphemistic “la petit mort”, french for orgasm, and therefore she’s not actually an angel of death, but feel free to interpret that differently
to go on, he keeps referencing how she dug him up out of the ground:
in the song ‘shrike’, And I had no idea on what ground I was found in”, and a bit later he mentions being reborn “Remember me love, when I’m reborn”
in “nfwmb”, “
Ain’t it a gentle sound, the rolling in the graves?
”
then again in “like real people do” (which begs the question, is one of them not a real person? hozier are you some kind of undead?) : I had a thought, dear // However scary // About that night //The bugs and the dirt // Why were you digging? // What did you bury // Before those hands pulled me // From the earth?
so not only is she a necromancer, he’s like a zombie or something.
and for some extra crack theory perhaps she is not a necromancer but a vampire and he’s her ghoul, from shrike
“Bites on above // But never would form // Like a cry at the final breath that is drawn “ hmmmmmmmmmm
more straightforward, “ I was hatched by your warmth /And I was transformed”
and like if you really want to get into the symbolism of it, “
and just from “angel of death and the codeine scene” “
Feeling more human and hooked on her flesh I // Lay my heart down with the rest at her feet // Fresh from the fields, all feeder and fur tires //Bloody and raw, but I swear it is sweet”
my rational brain telling me that rose’s story is over and there’s no way i’ll ever see her wrap things up emotionally with the doctor VS jodie and billie’s apparent personal vendetta to see me dead
Once the world was full of wonders, but it belongs to the humans now. We creatures have all but disappeared. Daemons, vampires and witches, hiding in plain sight. Fearful of discovery. Ill at ease, even with each other. But, as my father used to say …..in every ending, there is a new beginning.
Spitfire Alice A Gra 
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