This is a very interesting thought, which makes my head hurt a little. I will think about it later. Meanwhile, just leaving it here…
Edith is just crazy, she began to go mad after the passing of her mother, then increasingly so after her father’s unfortunate (truly accidental) slip-and-fall death…Allerdale Hall is actually an asylum husband and wife, Thomas and Lucille Sharpe, run . Lucille is quite strict, more focused on running the place as one would a corrections facility and finds Edith’s behavior both irritating and disturbing; she’s in favor of lobotomizing the girl, but for now simply (slightly) over-medicates the girl with sedatives. Thomas is more focused on the potential for recovery and curing the patients; he promotes Edith’s flights of fancy and encourages her to write as therapy.
…Sounds like a potentially fascinating AU…
(Perhaps Alan is a childhood friend of Edith who aides in financing her stay/care there and occasionally visits??)
Ghosts are real, this much I know. There are things that tie them to a
place, very much like they do to us. Some remain tethered to a patch of
land, a time and date, the spilling of blood, a terrible crime… There
are others, others that hold onto an emotion, a drive, loss, revenge, or
love. Those, they never go away.
Title: Return to Crimson Author:@wickednerdery Fandom:Crimson Peak Pairing/character: I’m not saying 😉 Rating: Mature Summary: “They say the past is never dead. It’s not even past. Do you think that’s true?” Notes: This picks after the last piece, but I’m unsure how long – some hours, perhaps?? (Here’s the masterlist.) Given this is based on Crimson Peak there will be spoilers. It will
also be a Gothic romance/horror so have more than its fair share violence,
sex, and scary bits without shying from the darker aspects of such
things. For this it’s auto-rated Mature, regardless of the chapter, and gets a “Read More”.
“So I think Lucille and Thomas would disagree about what the nature of the relationship is and who does the talking, who does the listening, and who does the leading, who does the following. But they are both… They’re both orphans and have lived together, it’s the late 19th century, so it’s obviously a time when a women’s power is expressed through the capacity of the men closest to her. That’s sadly the situation, and so her proximity to her brother is one of co-dependency in that she’s invested in his success in the world, and he feels very protective of her as well but not just because of their isolation, because they’re orphans. The thing of sibling who are close in age, who have been left alone and who need each other and who depend on each other, she’s older he’s younger.”
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Create a mess 