#fredrick usher

Prospero - Lust

Camille - wrath

Leo - gluttony

Vic - sloth

Tamerlane - pride

Fred - envy

The Twins (Roderick and Madeline) - greed

Prospero is Lust, not only because of his hedonism but his unabashed Lust for power - he is filming his anonymous orgy so he can blackmail powerful people and dies in the midst of his orgy - but I could also see him as sloth (wouldn’t come up with a proper business proposal, didn’t bother to check that the tanks held water not acid)

Camille is Wrath, she approaches everything - her siblings, her job, her assistants/lovers and verna in the end with rage - and she gets killed by an angry animal

Leo is Gluttony - he indulges himself in abundant drugs and abundant sexual partners, despite having a relatively good situation - he has a successful career that doesn’t put him directly under his fathers control, he has a committed caring partner but still he gluts himself on everything that comes his way, he dies chasing a cat that hunts far more than it needs too

Victorine is Sloth - she doesn’t want to put in the work needed too make her device work, she just takes shortcuts to make it seem like it is working, she kills her partner in part because her partner who is actually the skilled surgeon doesn’t want to do the work anymore (admittedly this one I’m not as sure on - she might be pride, refusing to admit her device doesn’t work out of fear of failure)

Tamerlane is Pride - Of all her siblings she is the most proud of being an usher, and the most obsessed with her own image, obsessed with beauty, obsessed with being a success, she will not take anyone’s advice not even her husbands, she is proud and controlling in her relationship forcing her husband to go along with her voyeuristic kink when he doesn’t want too. This is a double-edged sword as she is also deeply insecure, outsourcing intimacy and dying as a result of smashing mirrors attempting to prevent Verna taking her place (alternatively she could be envy - envious of Verna etc.)

Fred is Envy - he is envious of his father and his effortless command presence and his fathers success, and he is envious of his wife, punishing her horrifically purely because he believes she cheated on him, (even though she didn’t, all she did was think about it and go to a party where she was alone) he is so envious that he even makes an attempted coup against his father. (He could also be gluttony - his drugs, and dying because putting more and more nightshade in his coke)

Finally the Twins - Roderick and Madeline are Greed - They set everything in motion because they both always wanted more, more money, more recognition, more power, even immortality - through AI in Madeline’s case and in the creation of a bloodline legacy in Roderick’s

I also have one thing to add I think that Lenore (and Annabel Lee and Juno and Morella - Lenore’s mom) represent the seven capital virtues: these are chastity, temperance, charity, diligence, patience, kindness and humility.

Chasity - Lenore dies before she ever has a relationship, she is in gothic story terms a chaste innocent

Temperance - Lenore seems disgusted by her dad having done drugs (also Juno is Temperance, her wisdom in coming to her own conclusion to wean herself off Ligodine)

Charity - As Verna says the charity her mom starts is a result of Lenore saving her mom (also Juno and Morella donating to charity)

Diligence - Lenore sticks to what is right even when it’s hard, giving a statement to the police about her dad, caring for her grandfather, searching for treatment options for her mom (also Juno diligently weaning herself of drugs, Morella’s charity work, Annabel Lee caring for her children)

Patience - Lenore patiently encourages her family to do better and be better

Kindness - Lenore saves her mother, and creates a ripple effect that saves millions of lives (Annabel Lee being kind to everyone)

1. She didn’t cheat. Going to a party doesn’t mean you’re a cheater. Taking off your wedding ring also doesn’t mean you’re a cheater. This is quite literally the most textbook domestic abuser rhetoric, which is likely why that plot line was picked for Morella. Almost (if not all) DV cases I know of involved allegations of cheating that the abuser made about their victim as a justification for abuse, making any small gesture that might take their victim out of their control into a situation that is cheating, therefore giving them the right to beat their spouses. By getting on board with this premise from Freddie that Morella cheated, despite her not doing it and him only having circumstantial proof, y’all are unwittingly (or not) agreeing w this.

2. Even IF Morella had cheated (which she didn’t), she does not deserve to be tortured for it. I know that this is a hot take but I do not believe cheating is a crime that someone should be tried for in a court of law and then physically harmed. It’s cheating on your spouse, not being a serial killer.

3. Verna herself made it clear that what Fredrick did to Morella was inhumane and even unexpected on Verna’s part: “but then you had to take her home.” Implies that while Verna was watching, the decision to abuse his vulnerable and isolated wife in the most painful state anyone could live with, was all his.

𝖳𝗁𝖾 𝖲𝗍𝖺𝗋𝗌 𝖨𝗇𝖼𝗅𝗂𝗇𝖾 𝖴𝗌, 𝖳𝗁𝖾𝗒 𝖣𝗈 𝖭𝗈𝗍 𝖡𝗂𝗇𝖽 𝖴𝗌 ⇝ 𝖳𝗁𝖾 𝖥𝖺𝗅𝗅 𝗈𝖿 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝖧𝗈𝗎𝗌𝖾 𝗈𝖿 𝖴𝗌𝗁𝖾𝗋 fanfic

↳ The actors are ready, the stage is set, the play is about to begin - with one minor change to the script.

Madeline Usher has a daughter named Pandora. She effortlessly assimilates into the family business. As the heirs start dying one by one Pandora begins to unravel a shady history her family dynasty built itself on. The Usher empire slowly starts to crumble and so does Pandora's mind.

Chapter I

Chapter II

I’m not asking who your favorite is, I’m asking who deserved to die the least

Perry - Lust; second youngest usher (i'm includine lenore), second level of hell, name's on the tin, bruv

Camille - Gluttony; they do not require food as sustenance, they need information and fame. she was in that lab for info on vic that she didn't really need at all.

Leo - Wrath; his rage and anger towards life falling apart (and the cat as well, of course.) he also showed the most compassion to any of his siblings, and when love is lost, anger is only the second step

Vic - Sloth; threw money at a problem she refused to actually do the research to solve. can't see progress without putting in the effort

Freddie - Greed; Morella wasn't a person to him, she was a trophy he coveted. like envy (as he and Tamerlane are twins) greed has little patience for sharing

Tammy - Envy; gets her rocks off being cuckolded but can't stand the thought of him having an affair with one of the sex workers. yes, the mirror kills her, but the light bathes her in green

Roderick - Vainglory; unsubstantiated pride. the man should have been a poet, he didn't have the brains to be so cocky, or the charisma to sway people into putting him above the rest - other people did the work for him

Madeline - Acedia; a form of sloth that mostly translates to the inability to form affections towards loved ones or have empathy for those around her. she was afraid of death more than she wanted power or glory, she just knew power would help her achieve her goal. what truly caused her downfall was her complete and utter apathy for her brother and his children.

Eliza and William - Pride; Eliza was too prideful to either leave her job, too prideful of her misconstrued idea of love to pursue a relationship with someone who could help parent her children, and too prideful of her religious beliefs to see a doctor. and William was too prideful of a man to admit his affair or acknowledge his children, obviously