#awoooooooooooooooooooooo

I always believed that she and Cletus were 17 going on 18 when they were separated. It's just a feeling really. I assume they talked a lot about getting married when they were released when they turn 18. I only think that cause, besides burning down St. Estes, getting married was the main thing Frances and Cletus wanted to do when they were reunited 25 years later. AND CLETUS MADE HER A WHOLE RING SOOOOO.....

Also, anon, your "you can't blame this beaten-down woman who's only known tenderness in the arms of a murderous prodigy." HAS ME IN SHAMBLES UGHHHHH. Like he was pretty much all she had and vise versa. They both loved each other when they couldn't receive that love from anywhere else around them ;w;.

ALSO THE WHOLE WORLD DID THINK SHE WAS DEAD. And at first, when Cletus and Carnage located her and Cletus was like "She's alive!" I was confused, like why did he think she might not be?? But it clicked I think my second or third viewing that since the cop thought she was dead, Ravencroft probably put out that narrative that she was. Since I don't think a cop shooting a black girl would have avoided the news even in the 90s. (Let me not get into that right now, whew chile 😭 I'm still working on my thoughts about That.) I think even if that was the narrative, I think Cletus believed she was alive, or at least hoped so for the sake of his already shaky sanity.

But in the end of the day, Frances did get save by her murderous Prince Charming. Giving us a scene that rocked me to my CORE. A scene that snatched my wig, let me BALD. I am looking forward to rewatching that scene over and over and over again with it drops on dvd/digital. That scene is sweet refreshing water for my HEART.

Anyways!!!! All of that just to say a little bit about my fic.I don't want to dump too much about it since I'm still trying to plan how to write it. But basically, I want to explore Frances getting used to the world around her. It'll pick up when the police enters the ruined church. A bit of Carnage is still in Cletus, able to regenerate his head. They devour all the cops, regaining back their strength. Frances is freed from under the bell. And they are reunited once again but....some issues arises hehe. I'm stuck on actual scenarios to put her in later on in the fic. And also I want to be careful not to write her as the childlike woman who needs a man to teach her the world (i.e the Born Sexy Yesterday trope. Although it wouldn't fit it 100%, it's still something I really want to avoid.) So finding the balance between Cletus having to help her and her finding her own independence is what I've been trying to focus on while planning. Cletus would 100000% be super protective and helpful. But he also knows that his wife is capable. He tells Carnage that himself. OOOP, speaking of Carnage, I also want to write them finally getting along. After some bumps in the road of course.