Legacies – Facing Darkness Is Kinda My Thing

By starrymag | April 1, 2020

By: Atiya Irvin-Mitchell

 

 

Hope (Danielle Rose Russell) is dressed like Little Red Riding Hood and inside Josie’s (Kaylee Bryant) fairytale-themed subconscious. But there’s no Josie in sight. She looks around, follows the breadcrumbs, tries a few spells and finds an anthropomorphic talking pig (Danny Woodburn). The pig tells her to stop it with the magic before she gets them both killed.

 

In the real world The Necromancer (Ben Geurens) wants to celebrate, but Josie has other plans. She also has Chad (Charles Jazz Terrier) and Alyssa (Olivia Liang) decorating The Necromancer’s lair. Curtains aside, she thinks something is off. She says if she won the merge she should be able to feel Lizzie (Jenna Boyd), but she can’t. Alyssa comments it’s probably Hope related. The Necromancer doesn’t really care. He just wants to raise Malivore. But then Josie freezes him and makes it clear it’s her way or no way.

 

Elsewhere, Lizzie and MG (Quincy Fouse) are planning Lizzie’s funeral. MG tries to persuade Lizzie that since she’s supposed to be dead it’d be a bad idea to show up to her own funeral. She has a contingency, which is to glamour herself to look like Hope while Hope’s unconscious body is glamoured to look like her. When Jed (Ben Levin), Kaleb (Chris Lee) and Alaric (Matt Davis) come in they’re dubious that Lizzie will fool anyone. However, she manages to convince a few werewolves to fall for her impersonation. So Ric, begrudgingly, says it’s fine. Then gets ushered off by Rafael (Peyton Alex Smith).

 

The pig and Hope walk through the forest and the pig tells Hope to leave. Hope says she can’t leave until she saves Josie. The pig explains that once upon a time the land was a beautiful place ruled by Princess Josette, but then the darkness came. The Princess tried to fight it, but the more she tried the stronger the darkness came. Ultimately, Princess Josie put a sleeping spell on herself so that she could never do magic again and the darkness could never grow. If they wake her up, the pig says, the darkness will grow again. Hope says she’s gonna try to wake her anyway. She tries to follow the rest of the breadcrumb trail, but it seems the pig ate it. Hope threatens to do magic if the pig won’t take her to Josie. He agrees.

 

Raf takes Alaric to the basement and shows him a dead Landon (Aria Shahghasemi). He explains The Necromancer made him kill Landon and Landon has yet to rise. Alaric says they’ll figure it out and Landon will come back. Rafael shows him the bloody golden arrow and says, “Not this time.”

 

The pig and Hope find Josie, who’s dressed like Belle in Beauty and the Beast. She’s still unconscious and the pig suggests waking her up with a kiss. Hope says non-consensual kisses went out of style with corsets. Consent 101 gets interrupted by a teen wolf like creature who says it knows magic is being used again. Hope creates a diversion and the pig says that creature was the darkness, who now knows they’re here.

 

Jed and Kaleb are trying to put together a tribute to Lizzie. It’s not going well. Wade (Elijah B. Moore) remembers a time Lizzie insulted him for no reason. There are a lot of people with not so fond things to say about Lizzie. Kaleb says this is pointless as they’ll never get anyone to say anything nice about Lizzie as she had burned everyone in school at least once. Jed says that everyone thought Alyssa was mean too,but  they just didn’t know the real her. He wonders if she’s okay.

 

Josie and The Necromancer have another chat. Josie says she feels something in her mind that shouldn’t be there, so her father must be behind it. She orders The Necromancer to talk to her father while she searches her mind.

 

Out of glamour Lizzie goes to MG. She’s pretty upset about the things she heard while she was pretending to be Hope. MG tries to reassure her that they just only got to know one side of her. This gives Lizzie the idea to give a eulogy about herself.

 

Rafael is worried as Landon usually rises by now. Alaric tries to reassure him that “felled” can mean a lot of different things, so this might not be the end. Raf hopes so, but he still asks Ric to kill him. The Necromancer could force him to kill again, but Alaric isn’t going for it. He tries to goad Ric into killing him only to be interrupted by The Necromancer making Raf take Alaric to the Necromancer’s crypt.

 

It’s time for the funeral and it’s a mess. The tribute video is heavily edited and reeks of so much insincerity that MG cuts it off midway through. Kaleb and Jed sing, but the tribute gets messed up by them competing. Lizzie as Hope interrupts the sing off. “Hope” gives a eulogy wherein she describes Lizzie as the absolute best of the school and the students start laughing. The laughter only intensifies when she says Lizzie was a kind soul. That’s the final straw and Lizzie leaves.

 

Back in Josie’s mind the pig takes Hope to the huntsman’s lodge.  Hope is still determined to save Josie, but they’ve been discovered by the darkness. In the real world that means that Josie knows Hope’s inside her mind.

 

It’s a bad day for all the Saltzmans. Ric wakes up and he’s being held captive by The Necromancer and Alyssa, Raf, and Chad who are under his command. The Necromancer wants to make him an offer. Alaric is apprehensive, but The Necromancer says it could save Josie. It turns out, The Necromancer says, they both want the same thing. Dark!Josie isn’t as easy to control as The Necromancer hoped she’d be. So, now he wants the dark magic out of her. He calls the trip into Josie’s mind a “suicide mission”, so he offers an alternative: he takes the black magic and Ric gets his daughter back. Alaric says he’ll only agree if he cuts ties with Alyssa and Rafael, no strings attached. The Necromancer agrees to it, but Rafael wants Landon to be included in the bargain. Ric wants to save them, but he can’t trust The Necromancer.

 

So, The Necromancer proposes an unbreakable spell. It’s sort of like Harry Potter, but instead of death, if they don’t hold up their respective ends of the deal they don’t get what they want.

 

The darkness and Hope battle. The darkness beast eats the pig. Hope slices into it with an ax and Josie crawls out. Hope is confused and more perplexed now that the pig is gone. Josie sheepishly admits that she was the pig. She thought if she disguised herself that the darkness would leave her alone. Josie asks Hope to leave, but Hope is not going for it. They’re interrupted by Dark!Josie so they make a run for it.

 

MG interrupts the worst funeral ever and gives a touching tribute to Lizzie. He reveals that Lizzie gave him his nickname on his first day when he told her he hated his name. And that although she had her flaws, she never stopped trying to change. Also, he thinks if people dig deep they have good memories of Lizzie.

 

Hope tries to convince Josie that Dark!Josie is a part of her and if she tries she could control her.  At first the Josie off doesn’t go well, but Hope encourages her to change the story. Dark!Josie corners Josie. Dark!Josie says she hates Josie for being so weak. Ouch. She says she needs her because without her she’d never survive. But Josie says that being powerful doesn’t mean being evil. She overpowers Dark!Josie and in the real world Lizzie siphons the dark magic out of her while The Necromancer laughs manically.

 

Alyssa is not a zombie anymore and Kaleb and Jed are bonding over her indifference towards them. Josie thanks Alaric for not giving up on him, even though she doesn’t deserve it. One day, Alaric says, she’ll realize she deserves never to be given up on. For the time being though, she feels she needs a supernatural time out and puts her siphoning ability on pause.

 

Lizzie returns MG’s kindness by giving him a touching eulogy. Being immortal he might not get one, but he’ll have her’s. The gist is that he has the best of his parents, faced his share of demons and brings light to the world.

 

But there are still two more problems…Rafael and Alyssa are alive without any strings on them. However, Landon is still out and Hope hasn’t woken up either.