#cpeak

Well, not Edith but Lucille

Entirely possible!

I was thinking they had no idea she even existed until she turned up at their door prepared to argue her way into the household- the siblings don't seem the type to keep in touch with distant relatives, and if Beatrice was the oldest of Many (bios), there are a lot of those. Sufficiently observant abused child + unlimited access to rat poison and also soup + society that doesn't really think little upper-class girls capable of much at all due to the combination of Child, Rich Family, and Female = relatively easy murder. Lucille got away with poisoning her father at age 11, after all (bios).

Honestly, I feel like Edith would be more likely to get curious about the other Chetwynde siblings (Beatrice's canon maiden name, bios) and their children, if any of the OT3 would. As an outsider, she doesn't have the same reasons to write them all off that Thomas and Lucille do.

Maybe she began wondering, did some digging in Burke's Peerage, paid a call, noticed that Beatrice's sister and her husband seemed appalling and there was no sign of the daughter they were supposed to have but also some brief, dismissive mention proved the girl was still alive...and added things up in her head.

Thank you, fellow Sicko. I appreciate that.

(Honestly, my fics are really rather tame. I just want Lucille to Have Nice Things For Once, really. And part of that, I feel, is keeping her and Thomas together. They're like shelter cats that have to be adopted out to the same home, you know?)

GNC L*cille Sh*rpe headcanons do give me some unfortunate “strong-featured woman must be masc-presenting” vibes

you do you! Characterization Tomato, like I said yesterday! I’m not even putting this in the tags (see above censorship) because I am sure nobody means it like that!

it’s just.

she is the PINNACLE of Victwardian femininity in so many ways. not just her lavish, elaborate gowns and floor-length hair, either. her hobbies, her domestic-mindedness, her lack of personal ambition, her eternal self-sacrifice for the man of the house and role as his emotional mainstay...it’s all straight out of a sentimental novel sold in some London railway station in like 1880. that’s one thing I love about the character: she plays into gendered expectations of her world so well, and then with a few horrific twists subverts them

though they’re both quite feminine-presenting in canon and I prefer interpreting them that way, you could almost make a better argument for Edith to have some fluidity in gender presentation. she’s the quintessential 1890s New Woman, after all, and New Women were known to sometimes don suits and top hats for photos as a lark

!!! so cool!

A. show me the part where he left her; man wanted a threesome and you cannot convince me otherwise