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when will people listen to what the dialogue in Crimson Peak actually says about the canonically 2-year-not-grooming age difference between Lucille and Thomas and understand that she was just as lonely and abused as he was when the incest started
you had headcanon all you want about how their relationship evolved by the 1901 but please stop trying to make something that was consensual and born out of desperation for comfort weird
THE HORROR WAS FOR LOVE!!! LUCILLE THOUGHT IT WAS HORRIBLE TOO!!! SHE DIDN'T WANT TO KILL ANYONE (except maybe her parents but they absolutely deserved it) SHE HAD NO CHOICE!!! SHE HAD TO KILL TO SURVIVE AND KEEP HER BROTHER SAFE!!! LEAVE MY GIRL ALONE SHE HAS PROBLEMS AND IS A BIT DUMB
CRIMSON PEAK (2015) dir. Guillermo del Toro
In music, the note E-sharp is identical to the note F-natural. Let us suppose, then, that when Edith Cushing becomes E. Sharpe, she is also the most natural and correct version of so many Fs—female, family, friend, even financier for Thomas.
Lucille’s first initial is not a musical note, but let us suppose it is a twisted version of one: L is the twelfth letter of the alphabet, so if we start over again with H, L matches up neatly with…E. Lucille is a strange E-sharp, F-natural that can never truly exist. Her versions of female and family and friend and, yes, even financier are all made strange by things outside the norm. Chief among them, murder: for example, where Edith would bring Thomas money by simply marrying and loving him, Lucille ends up killing people in order to fund his work.
These two notes are odd and distinct versions of each other, and Thomas Sharpe loves them both. Therefore, Edith and Lucille should kiss on the mouth and make beautiful music together. In this essay I will
JESSICA CHASTAIN as LADY LUCILLE SHARPE
Crimson Peak (2015) | dir. Guillermo del Toro
“Thomas?”
Crimson Peak Main Character Ages
Edith is 24. The flashback at the beginning with Eleanor's ghost happens when she's 10, and then the main action takes place "14 years later" according to a title card onscreen
Thomas is 34, based on the date of the newspaper announcing Beatrice's murder (1879), his age at the time (12), and the present year shown in Carter Cushing's checkbook (1901)
Lucille is 36, from the same logic above. (people seem to enjoy interpreting their age gap as much larger, which is weird to me because it's stated onscreen? by Alan when he's confronting them near the end? even if you don't pause the movie to read document dates- understandable -"12 and 14 when Beatrice was murdered" makes the gap clear)
Crimson Peak (2015)
dir. guillermo del toro
Did a Crimson Peak rewatch the other night and then had to draw my favorite Terrible Woman.
Jessica Chastain as Lucille Sharpe in Crimson Peak (2015)
Happy Birthday to Lucille Sharpe! (April 1st, 1865)
