Zarie

Zarie is the femslash ship between Marie and Zelda from the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina fandom.

Canon
Marie Le Fleur meets Prudence Night and Zelda's nephew, Ambrose Spellman, when they enter her store in New Orleans, looking for help to detect Blackwood. Prudence makes it clear quickly that they are not tourists and Marie shows them how to find Blackwood, with her magic. With the coven increasingly weakened following Lucifer's incarceration, Zelda decides they shall call upon all of the hedge witches to help fuel their remaining power to defend themselves against the Pagans. They all show up, as does Marie.

The hedge witches are enraged at having been summoned and prepare to attack. Marie stops them and says that infighting is for men, but surely they can do better, as they are women. Zelda looks impressed with Marie as she concurs and finally convinces the witches to listen as Marie releases her magical hold that was halting Gryla's attack. Marie takes it upon herself to show the coven her specific ways with magic. Whilst performing a ritual in the grand hall of the Academy, Zelda walks in and is appalled, stopping Marie's teachings and asking to speak to Prudence, who is accompanying Marie on drums. Marie does not seem deterred by Zelda's reaction, rather momentarily deflated that Zelda could stand in the way of what can actually help the coven. Zelda learns from Prudence that Marie is not a hedge witch, but was invited by Prudence and arrived at the same time as the summoned witches. Marie follows Prudence and Zelda into the Directrix office and presents who she is and what she stands for. Marie offers her help to the coven and reaches out for Zelda's hand. As Zelda takes it, Marie grasps it with both her hands, reading Zelda with her magic. Zelda is overwhelmed by Marie and stops her as she is about to leave, asking her to remain with them as their honoured guest, which Marie accepts.

After hearing the gunshot, Ambrose and Sabrina rush downstairs to find Zelda dying on the floor. Ambrose rushes for help and brings back Marie and Prudence. Marie asks where they can operate and they bring Zelda down to the mortuary where she manages to remove the bullet. Marie tells the group that while Zelda is still alive, she is in limbo and needs to be guided back to the living realm. Marie offers to watch over Zelda as the other three run to keep whatever's wailing out of the house and Zelda safe from it. While all hell breaks loose above ground, Marie stays with Zelda, reciting guiding enchantments to bring Zelda's soul back to them. Ambrose asks Marie if she will protect Zelda while they fend off the Pagans and Marie says it would be her honour to do so. As Zelda is guided back to the living realm, she awakes with newfound wisdom on how to save the coven. But alas, it is too late as she sees Marie's lifeless body on the ground and looks up to see her killer, Blackwood, in the shadows. Before Zelda can protect herself Blackwood stabs her to death. Decades pass and future Sabrina frees her past self from the ninth circle. Sabrina is eventually found by Ambrose, the sole survivor, who explains that the Pagans took over everything. With the Unholy Regalia and the Eldritch egg, Ambrose and Sabrina send her back in time. Sabrina goes to the house and find Marie, Ambrose and Prudence with an ailing Zelda, right as Ambrose and Prudence were about to leave to fend off Blackwood, convincing them to move to Dorian's before Blackwood attacks, despite Zelda's fragile condition. They agree and, after Sabrina saves her friends from the Pagans and bring them to Dorian's, Zelda comes back to the living realm as Marie looks on, shocked. Zelda asks the witches to help her bring Hilda back to live by invoking and worshipping Hecate, which Marie joins in, and they are successful. After defeating the Pagans, Zelda and Marie have a drink together in Zelda's office, where she relays to Marie that the coven are now The Order of Hecate. Marie reveals to Zelda that she senses an even darker force approaching them and that the new matriarchal coven should harness their strength and prepare for war. Zelda playfully asks if this means that Marie will be staying and Marie replies if she is welcome, she will. Zelda leans in and kisses Marie who responds passionately.

Fanon
The ship became rapidly popular in the fandom. As the ship became canon, fans were rejoicing but it was short-lived as the second half of Season 2 somehow reconstructed Marie's character to not only having faked her identity and lied to Zelda the entire time, but actually being a man. This, coupled with the second season being all over the place and senseless, compounded an outrage in the fandom over the mistreatment of the ship and especially the only dark-skinned woman of colour on the series. While the ship was well received almost immediately, there weren't a lot of scenes in Part 3 with the two and so, fans were looking forward to see the couple flourish in Part 4, only for it to be destroyed completely instead. Fan works are therefore often canon-divergent, showing Zarie being happy together and them enjoying the time they were never granted on the show, with eg. fan art featuring a lot of domestic bliss, or fix-its, where Marie is never revealed to be a man and the ship end up happily together. There is a faction of fandom that didn't take to the ship and felt it was rushed, which is mostly Madam Spellman shippers, and also there's the requisite disgusting klandom behaviour that happens any time a black woman is paired with a white fave.

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