I set these aside for you

francesca is known to her family and the viewers as being almost perfect, she’s composed and neat and everything that’s expected of a woman in her society, sure she’s from an extremely privileged family, but by all accounts she’s… boring, calm and collected, chosing a good but not very interesting husband within the expected rank, not a big role in her family, not the most or least loved, she’s just… there, she has trouble understanding people but does well enough, doesn’t raise her voice or argue much even when she disagrees

but then michaela enters her life and that composure is derailed, michaela and francesca have had two scenes together and we’ve already seen frannie do things we’re not used to, she has to gulp and catch her breath and really work to remain in control, this just happens when they exchange two sentences together, literally

imagine what will happen when michaela touches her, says something she’s not supposed to say, comes a little too close, the neat, composed perfect child will unravel, she will get angry, upset, she’ll blush and stutter and scream and lose control

She's so trap and sad this season, it makes me angry-sad.

I feel most of the time, she has a sense of direction to go to but now she is a bit hopeless. I think she saw all people around move on to being happy this their lives, and she cant because she has 0 freedom to do anything.

And it's in large part because she deeply loves her family. Because the one time she did something for herself and truly enjoy it (make a friend and go the radical meetings) it immediately was used against her family.

If it wasn't for her, she could have try to run (like Cressida) and gain some form of freedom like the modiste or that artist who become model to have access to lessons. She's the most likely to pretend to be a man imo. But she wouldn't do anything that cause them harm.