Kai Parker is back and everything is about to get really complicated. Especially since he… well, spoilers. Read on for details on exactly what Kai was up to in Legacies season 2, episode 12.
We knew when Alaric, Josie, and Lizzie found themselves whisked away to the prison world in Legacies season 2, episode 10 that this episode wasn’t going to be easy. And, well, I think Legacies season 2, episode 13 is going to be the real threat, but that’s besides the point.
Legacies season 2, episode 12 was a great one, definitely one of the show’s best. And it has us set up for a few more really crazy episodes at least. Read on for all our thoughts about Alaric, Lizzie, Sebastian, Josie, Kai, the banished trio, and everything that happened in Legacies season 2, episode 12.
Alaric isn’t taking any responsibility anymore
It all started to feel wrong to me when Josie said, “It’s all my fault. If I had never done black magic in the first place, we wouldn’t be in this mess,” and Alaric answered with, “We all make mistakes.” Rather than giving her some sort of peace and accepting his role in this whole mess (if he hadn’t betrayed his students and been voted out, Vardemus never would have been there to tempt Josie), he just passes the buck to her.
Yes, she made a mistake, but Josie has never had a problem accepting her own faults. She usually takes on the blame others deserve in order to cause them less pain. It would have been nice to get a “Vardemus never should have been here in the first place,” or SOMETHING from Alaric, but instead, he allows his mature teenage daughter to shoulder all the guilt.
This trend continues throughout the episode as he never admits to being wrong about his passing judgement on the trio, his treating Sebastian like a long-since-decided lost cause, and more. I really need Alaric to act like the adult again and see that his actions have consequences. Someone is going to have to answer for his wrongdoings, and right now, it looks like Josie and Lizzie are paying up.
Sebastian: Passionate or possessive?
Okay, so, Sebastian giving Lizzie a moment of peace and happiness while everyone else is running around giving as much grief as possible to as many people as possible is actually really sweet, but as soon as we learned he had ulterior motives, the sugary taste turned sour.
I can see the desperation in what he’s doing in Legacies season 2, episode 12. He is actually trying to make Lizzie happy. But when he suddenly declares his love to her, I felt a little uncomfortable. Like a stranger walking in on a private conversation in a public space with nowhere to escape. And it felt especially strong since he hasn’t been in her life all that long. But then, he drops Cassandra’s name instead of Lizzie’s and the whole thing makes sense.
While I do think he genuinely likes Lizzie, we have to remember that, while he’s been alive for centuries, he’s also spent an inordinately long time desiccated in a coffin under the Salvatore School. I truly don’t think he was awake and conscious long enough after Cassandra’s death to mourn her properly. So all those emotions have been festering in his unconscious mind, and he still hasn’t sorted them out yet.
So, yes, while I do think his desperation to lock things down with Lizzie is insanely possessive, and his dosing her drink with vamp blood is absolutely unexcusable, I do see that there is a heart behind all this manic passion. I really do believe Sebastian could be a very interesting character to have around longer term, but he’s going to have to find a way to get this insanity under control.
Uncle and niece together again?
I’m not gonna lie, I bought it. I bought Kai’s act. I believed his story about being ganged up on by the deliquents. I knew I shouldn’t, but it was a good act. Thank goodness Josie is smarter than me. She even managed to get one over on Kai, and that honor was previously only held by Bonnie Bennett.
It was especially odd to see Kai being nice to Josie because prior to Legacies season 2, episode 12, the only response he ever had for any mention of a fellow Gemini coven member was that he wants them dead.
I should have known, though, that it wouldn’t last. Their trading information seemed like the best way to handle Kai’s usual manipulation. I believed that Josie had found a way to work with Kai without trusting him too much. But he pulled one over on her after he thought he had everything he needed to escape. I’m glad that she was able to screw him over a little, but her willingness to go along with his info for info exchange set the stage for him to escape. In the end, I’m glad she didn’t trust him too much.
Just kidding… Kai is no one’s ally
Because, yeah, Kai cannot be trusted by anyone ever. He will only ever look out for himself, and if he gets the chance to stab you in the back, he absolutely will.
What I definitely did not see coming was his using Josie’s admissions about Malivore to find a loophole in the whole prison world thing. Now I have a ton of questions. Since Kai entered Malivore in a prison world in Legacies season 2, episode 12, is he only forgotten by the people in that world? Or does everyone in the present lose their memories of him, too? Because we really need someone to remember Kai, because he is absolutely bad news for the Salvatore School and anyone related to the Gemini coven.
The banished trio
Okay, so, it turns out that Alaric has only sent one trio of kids to the prison world before Sebastian. Their names are Wendy, Jade, and Diego, and they are a witch, a vampire and a werewolf, respectively. They were banished to the prison world due to the gruesome nature of five unexplained deaths, and the part Alaric believed they played in their slaughter.
I have to admit, I thought there were going to be a whole host of former troublemakers in the prison world, so to find out that he’s only used this eternal time out for one other group of students does make me feel a little bit better about the whole thing. BUT then I think about how much of an overreaction him sending them there feels like, and I get frustrated with Alaric all over again.
It turns out that while, yes, the trio were responsible for the killings, it was a little more circumstantial than one might think. They definitely didn’t meet up with those kids in the woods to kill them. Jade brought Wendy and Diego to the woods for a party, and it turned into a bunch of jocks and populars trying to embarrass anyone different from them. It was pretty much an accident, but one that could have been avoided if they’d never been let out of that barrier spell in the first place.
I would like to see them again at some point after what we learned about them in Legacies season 2, episode 12, so I hope however this whole prison world thing ends, they’re still around somewhere. There are definitely some chances for them to survive this ordeal, we just have to hope that Alaric’s threats about wanting them all dead are more of a front than a prison world to-do list.
Lizzie’s surprising maturity
It’s only fair to say that I would have had a hard time denying Sebastian the day he asked for. He’s a smooth talker and a freakishly swoon-worthy guy, so I totally see why Lizzie is so taken with him. However, I was really proud of Lizzie’s decision to not make any decision.
She is really young and has a lot of choices to in her lifetime. She has no idea if Sebastian is meant to be her eternal love (he’s only been around for like a month or so), she doesn’t know if she wants to have kids or a family, and she hasn’t even thought about what it might mean to grow old. Most teen shows make it easy to believe that all teenagers are frivolous know-nothings who are driven by their hormones all the time, but Lizzie is proof that not all teenagers are that way.
She definitely has feelings for Sebastian, but she’s not about to make irreversible life decisions because of sexy hair and a panty-dropping smile. I am so unbelievably proud of Lizzie, and I hope she gets a chance to choose what happens to her every step of her life.
Kiss siphon strikes again!
You know, this whole kiss-siphon thing the Saltzman twins do is starting to feel like the new surprise neck snap. You know in TVD how Damon or Stefan or Katherine would sneak up behind vamps and snap their necks from time to time? Yeah, I definitely feeling a bit of that with Lizzie’s siphoning in this episode.
She was completely justified, however, since Sebastian stepped WAAAY over the line.
Josie gets the final con… sort of
Josie making Kai believe that she had a vial of Bennett blood in her coat was genius, and the fact that he bought into her almost TOO innocent act makes me think that Dark Josie may be a formidable opponent for Kai by the time this is all said and done.
Is Lizzie still alive?!?!
We know that having vamp blood in your system when you die will turn you into a vampire, and, in Lizzie’s case, a heretic, but if your injuries aren’t enough to kill you, the vamp blood will heal you, and you will stay human/a witch/alive. So the real question is: How badly was Lizzie hurt in that car accident in Legacies season 2, episode 12?
I think she’s going to wake up fine, with injuries healed thanks to the vamp blood, but that accident did look pretty gnarly.
Josie is ready for that walk on the dark side
Thanks to Kai’s dip in the Malivore pit, Josie had to make a quick decision on whether to smash the mora miserium or not. Since it was the difference between them getting out of there or not, she did it, absorbing all the black magic she has performed all school year. The trailer for next week’s episode makes it look like she feels clear headed with all that black magic rolling around inside her, but maybe it’s just how she feels when her siphon tank is full, and she just hasn’t felt that way in a long time.
Whatever it means, we can officially mark down Legacies season 2, episode 12 as the one where Josie goes dark, but I bet it’s going to take at least a few episodes to know what her having all that black magic inside of her again is going to do to her personality.