Ace of Cups is a great card to pull. I pulled this from the Witches Tarot app.
Here’s what Labyrinthos has to say about Ace of cups:
Athénaïs is a Vélane Gorgon and the last of her kind. Whereas Sérisse is Abyssale, and only one of two known Abyssales in Gorgon History, Athénaïs’ kind was plentiful until the fall of Languilier.
Cendrefleche was the original Gorgon homeland. It was lost to Kethri thousands of years before Sérisse was born. The rest of the Sauvains (Devyn Reth, Dwarves, Elves, Fae, Unicorns, Dragons, Merfolk, Harpies, Banshees, and so on) had already seen their kingdoms fall to the Kethri and had been forced into exile. Cendrefleche was the last one standing.
When it fell, the majority of the Gorgon people and the Royal Family fled to Languilier, an island in an enchanted Archipelago in the Mediterranean, near France. Others fled to different parts of the world.
Sérisse was born on Languilier, she and her twin brother Chevalier were the heirs to the Gorgon throne. During that time, the Vélane were many and resided in the palace.
For two hundred years give or take, Sérisse and Chevalier helped their parents run the kingdom. Neither had any interest in love or romance. They were both brilliant, awkward, and introverted.
Eventually, Chevalier met Seraphine who became his wife. Sérisse was happy for her brother, but for the first time in centuries, she was alone. She declared she would never, EVER fall in love because it was stupid, ridiculous, she was born into solitude, had never been even one bit attracted to anyone and didn’t have “one ounce of romantic interest” in her
Until the day she saw Athénaïs d’Lamorvaine drawing a picture of a sea serpent with earrings on the castle wall. On top of a mural that was three thousand years old.
Normally, something like this would have enraged Sérisse, who was already known throughout Languilier as the powerful, stern, unyielding Dauphin.
Not this time.
Sérisse found Athénaïs and her blatant defacing of royal property utterly adorable, perfect, beautiful, captivating and so on.
Athénaïs tells the story of how Sérisse tried (and failed) to look cool, aloof, mysterious in an effort to gain Athénaïs’ attention. These tactics were an utter failure and gained Sérisse a smack on the head with a book. To be fair, Sérisse deployed a tactic Jean-Luc encouraged her to use – she slid next to Athénaïs at mass and asked:
“Let’s go to the confessional booth and share secrets with each other.”
Complete with Sérisse putting her arm around Athénaïs and winking at her.
Eventually, Sérisse stopped being ridiculous and began showing up as her authentic self. When she and Athenais finally got together, Sérisse went to her parents to announce she was abdicating the throne. You see, Sérisse’s parents had entered into a betrothal contract between her and another noble family when Sérisse was two years old. She was the eldest twin and the actual heir and the heir needed a queen.
Well, Sérisse wasn’t going to marry a stranger: she was going to marry Athénaïs.
Her parents and Chevalier laughed in her face when she told them her plans. Offended, Sérisse threw one of her infamous thunder and lightning tantrums and once she was done tantruming, Chevalier said:
“Sérisse, you colossal DUMMY. Athénaïs d’Lamorvaine IS your betrothed.”
Even though she was two hundred years younger than Sérisse, the Vélane Gorgons knew that one day the house of d’Argelonne and d’Lamorvaine would be united. On the day the matchmakers met with King Phorcynne and Queen Cetoë, the Ace of Cups was drawn from the obsidian stone deck of tarot cards.
Sérisse and Athénaïs are the embodiment of the Ace of Cups as well as the Two of Cups and The Lovers.
Athénaïs is the last of her line, the last true Vélane Gorgon, though hers and Sérisse’s children and descendants carry the ability in their bloodline. Vélane Gorgons are what mortals would label a super empath; clairvoyant, clairsentinent, clairaudient, but they are not fortune tellers.
She can “feel” impending outcomes or events, but she can’t actually see what is coming, just that something is.
Athénaïs can always hear what isn’t being said.
Which is a very powerful ability, indeed.