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caterpillarinacave · 5 months ago

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Do you have thoughts about Baby Henry and his Great Aunt Matilda?

Oh BOY do I.

I could literally go on and on forever but I should redirect you to this entire fic which is basically a coherent, carefully constructed, novel of those thoughts:

(Those with an astute eye will notice that I call Matilda Henry’s aunt, as in his fathers sister, as opposed to his great aunt. Maybe this is due to the copious amounts of inheritance fuckery brought up in the first chapter. Maybe I forgot because rereading nothing but shadows makes me sad. Maybe I can make it work and I’m going with it.)

#*smacking four year old Henry on the head* this bad boy can hold so many childhood symptoms of autism #look at him. he had no friends. didn't respond when people called his name. zero imitating of the adults around him.#would scream bloody murder if you tried to take something he liked away from him. absolutely did not babble.#probably didn't talk until he was like five. is picking up on no one elses emotions. never seems to waver from “:)” regardless ofenvironmen #anyways. I’m crawling all over the wall connecting random sentences from the books together with red string #Dissecting this shit to the core #Used my Jstor account to go study the York dialect in the 1850s #Which is different than just the accent btw #because I connected the dots #I can make that mistake work actually #Add it to “mistakes I make that actually make sense”#Gloria Branwell does not like her in-laws. Or her husband. Or anyone honestly #plus the inheritance fuckery happening brought up in the first chapter #So a lot of relationships are being being blurred #its worth noting that for all intents and purposes Henry did think she was his great aunt #Which is mostly because a) his mother hated her and b) she died when he was like ten #and therefore died way younger than one would assume she would have.#anyways I love that fic #of all my fics (despite the glaring mistake that I genuinely cannot believe I made what the fuck caterpillar) that one is like #the most detailed #most carefully built up #most “could be inserted into canon”

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