Considering Verna doesn't let Roderick die before she says so, a complete crack au where Verna is having to keep the entire group alive until she can actually let them die.

Leo accidentally overdoses? Wakes up in the morning with nothing but a killer headache.

The one time Freddie gets in an elevator and it drops nine stories with him in it? A broken bone and trauma.

Camille and her horrible parking skills plus driving under the influence gets her to accidentally drive herself off a cliff? She wakes up in the hospital with a concussion and a scratch.

Roderick: You're telling me Tammy can survive a car crash where she flipped over three fucking times but she couldn't survive fucking glass?!

Madeline: Well, its no different than the time Prospero had more alcohol in his bloodstream than water and yet was walking around perfectly fine.

You are the consequence ❤️

ROUND 1 — Match 7 of 286

Emporio Ivankov (One Piece)

Identity: Genderfluid, explicit Notes: Can change their sex via their Devil Fruit, and does so multiple times throughout the source. Propaganda: 1. "Started a gay bar in the walls of the most secure prison in the world. They're one of the top ranking revolutionaries set on toppling the oppressive world government. They can trans their gender and yours on demand. They're a legend." 2. "Literally the king/queen of "homoland", and founded a drag club filling with pretty much only transexuals in the walls of a prison."

vs. Prospero "Perry" Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher)

Identity: Bi/Pansexual and Polyamorous, explicit Notes: Shown on-screen to have sexual encounters with people of multiple genders, and is in a triad with Jenny (a woman) and Faraj (a man), whom he lives with. Propaganda: "what makes him so grim is how young he feels compared to the others - like he’s playing at being powerful. he wants to prove he belongs in the family and he’s doing it in the dumbest, most dangerous way possible: bigger, louder, more shocking, more everything. perry isn’t some mastermind he's just a kid with unlimited resources and 0 brakes"

ROUND 1 — Match 152 of 276

Albert Wesker (Resident Evil)

Problematic because: "The original “the hot man in sunglasses has betrayed everyone” Resident Evil problem. He starts as captain of S.T.A.R.S., the elite police unit sent into the Spencer Mansion, but he’s secretly an Umbrella spy using his own team as test subjects/data collection for the company’s bioweapon research. He survives through an experimental virus, gets superhuman abilities, steals/reuses bioweapon research, works with rival organisations, manipulates Ada’s mission around the Plaga sample, and eventually ends up in Resident Evil 5 trying to release Uroboros across the world. His plan there is basically forced “evolution” - most people die horribly, a tiny number survive, and Wesker gets to stand there pretending this is science instead of eugenics. Also, after Jill and Wesker fall during the Spencer estate incident, he keeps her alive, uses her as a test subject, and later controls her with the P30 device so she fights Chris and Sheva while fully aware but unable to stop herself. Then he betrays Excella too by infecting her with Uroboros once she’s no longer useful. Wesker’s whole thing is treating every person around him - teammates, allies, enemies, women who trust him, literally the entire planet - like material for the next stage of his plan." Propaganda: 1. "Wesker is terrible, obviously, but he’s terrible in such a satisfying old-school video game villain way. He has the betrayal twist, the sunglasses indoors, the secret lab job, the ridiculous superhuman dodging, the obsession with Chris, the god complex, the voice. What makes him fun is that he’s both genuinely important to the horror plot and completely over-the-top by the end. The early games have him as this cold traitor working in the background, and then by RE5 he’s talking about world evolution while punching people through walls and planning mass bioterrorism on a global scale. It should be too much, but it’s Resident Evil, so somehow it’s exactly enough." 2. "wesker is THE resident evil problematic fave to me because every time he shows up the plot immediately gets more stupid and more serious at the same time. like yes, he betrayed his team. yes, he worked for umbrella. yes, he did virus crimes, jill crimes, global saturation crimes, and “chris i have thought about you an extremely normal amount” crimes. but also. look at him. the man is dressed like a matrix villain. he’s awful, he’s iconic, he’s impossible to take fully seriously, and yet he still feels like a real threat whenever he’s onscreen." 3. "Imagine surviving the mansion incident and finding out your captain was secretly working for the evil pharmaceutical company the whole time. Already bad. Then he comes back with glowing eyes, super speed, a trenchcoat, new virus nonsense, and the confidence of someone who has never once thought “maybe this is a bit much.” By RE5 he is fully trying to rewrite humanity because apparently being a normal evil scientist wasn’t dramatic enough. He is not morally grey. He is not misunderstood. He is a bioterrorism peacock with a superiority complex and a weirdly personal beef with Chris Redfield. But that’s why he belongs here. Sometimes a problematic character is compelling because they’re nuanced, sometimes they’re compelling because they walk into the room, adjust their sunglasses, say something unhinged about evolution, and make the entire fanbase go “oh thank god, this idiot again.”"

vs. Perry Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher)

Problematic because: "He wants to open a high-end nightclub/party brand, gets offended when Frederick doesn’t take him seriously, and decides to throw an exclusive masquerade orgy in an abandoned Fortunato property. The building isn’t safe, the water tanks on the roof haven’t been checked, and the entire plan is built around rich people, drugs, sex, secrecy, and potential blackmail footage. He also invites Morella, Frederick’s wife, partly as a revenge move against his brother, which is already grim before the acid sprinklers even turn on. It turns out the tanks aren’t full of water but toxic Fortunato waste/acid, and when Perry triggers the sprinklers, nearly everyone inside dies horribly, burned alive by the acid." Propaganda: "He’s such a good first domino because he’s awful in a very young, messy way. He’s not sitting in court denying opioid deaths, he’s not doing illegal heart trials, he’s not mummifying his sister, he’s just trying to throw the most exclusive rich-people sex party imaginable and maybe collect compromising footage for future leverage, because apparently that counts as entrepreneurship if your dad has enough money. And then the punishment is so much bigger than him, which is why it works. Perry is reckless and sleazy, but he doesn’t know those tanks are full of toxic waste. That’s the family business reaching up through the ceiling. He dies inside the exact kind of hidden Fortunato mess the Ushers have spent decades ignoring. Horrible little rich boy, yes. Also a perfect “welcome to the consequences” opening act."

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)