#LOOK AT BABY CHARLOTTE

[thewales-family]

The Prince and Princess of Wales, Princess Charlotte of Wales and Prince Louis of Wales attend Trooping the Colour on the occasion of King Charles III's 75th birthday celebrations, at Buckingham Palace in London, England -June 15th 2024.

[somthing-lavender]

Henry, father of the year.

Anyways, long rant about this, which 50% of it is just me listing examples.

Charlie is Henry's daughter. He brought her to life. He raised her for the first 2-4 years of her life (hurray for bad math + recons). He is her father, even if it's not by blood.

She's fully sentient. She has emotions, thoughts, opinions, and free will.

When Charlie no longer gives him joy, he wants her to be locked up and burned. I understand he may of not known she was actually alive, but she really wasn't hurting anyone. She had friends she brought joy to. There was no harm in letting her live. And again, we as the readers know that Charlie is truly alive.

But he doesn't see that. He doesn't see the girl: with friends, whom doesn't like seeing toys be taken apart, whom would end a friendship if they didn't like her toys, whom droped a jar of beads, because she was qurious what the after math would be, whom gave her friend's writing 2 stars, whom had a crush on the boy always covered in dirt, whom found her friend barfing on the rude kid funny, and then felt bad about finding it funny, whom imitated her father by doing paper work with crayons, whom was scared of foxy, nor whom hated being called Charlotte by anyone, but her father.

He saw a doll to replace his previous daughter. When she stopped making him happy, he wanted to lock her up for decades, and then finally have her burnt. If she were to survive, and manage to crawl out the rubble, he ordered her aunt to put a bullet in her.

She was "7" when he told his sister these instructions.

[zestyaahbutler]

[nefertittythegreat]

So I'm reading P5V6 and the part that really just stuck out to me is how the current generation of the Ehrenfest Archduchal family directly parallel to the previous generation. Sure, the ages are mixed around but we have a perfect Archduke candidate who is perfect in everything but her sex; A young genius brought late into the family, who despite being the most gifted lacks the ambition to be heir; A lighthearted, strong personality who lacks the temperament to be Archduke but favored by thier father anyway; and the sibling who just wants to stay out of it and focus on the present.

The adult members of the family find themselves looking at an unforgiving mirror. It's why characters like Sylvester try to replicate the past, but at the same time defy it. Slyvester adopted Rozemyne to be a minister for Wilfried, just like how Ferdinand was brought in to boost him up. Sylvester is following in his father's footsteps and making the same mistakes that got the family in this position in the first place, except the new generation won't let him.

Despite the similarities, Rozemyne is not Ferdinand(she's not going to coddle Wilfried like Ferdinand does Sylvester). Charlotte is not Georgine(despite her frustration, she loves her siblings). And Wilfired is not Sylvester because, unlike Sylvester, Wilfried can admit that he is not the best option to be Archduke.

The most selfish thing Sylvester does is "keeping" Wilfried as heir. By making Wilfried heir he simultaneously removed his son's choice and trapped him in position that in the eyes of the other nobles he could never earn and whats sad is Sylvester's own father had done that to him...

Because what if someone had told Sylvester when he was young that he didn't have to be aub? What if he was allowed to have a choice? What if he'd admitted that Ferdinand and Georgine would have been much better Archdukes?

History is not repeating itself because the young refuse to let it. Wilfried will not be trapped by the seat of Aub, Rozemyne will not just be someone's minister, and Charlotte will support her siblings.

And that's the beauty of the current arc.

Because Sylvester and the others are learning from their children and learning from their mistakes, and together they are breaking generational curses.

[seapulp]

children of yonko, besties really

[themicro]

Words cannot express how much I love the scene where you ask for Charlie’s help at the cafe. The voice acting always gets me.

Such starring lines as:

“Is this…. Seat taken?”

And

“Honestly, I’m just as surprised as you are. I never thought you’d look so good…. In a dress.”

(It’s more apparent when you actually watch the scene!!! Trust me on this one)

Also just Charlie’s big bug-eyed stare

Spooky

[adobongsiopao]

Mr. Rochester looks adorable in this scene. He's so proud of his Jane.

[waffleslashermaster]

Bit of an (inconsistent) reference board for Charlie

I like to think she was quite the little prodigy! A very smart girl for her age. Too bad her end came so soon..

[sensitive-trait]

just cuz 💙

[snarkylinda]

The true criminal mind was the person (s) that said "hey let's have Spencer have the sweetest relationship with kids, downright admit he wants his own....and then say no 💜"

[newnamesamecharlotte]

Matti

[thatgayb1tchwhosimps4her]

I'm actually so in love w/ these little fuckers, you have no idea (even Ben, which I won't ever be saying again).

[isabellaofparma]

Coronation Street | 2024.01.24.

[scribbyizhere]

[megslittlespiders]

Sometimes, I like to fuck around and draw my characters in random ass scenarios

I just wanted to get silly with lighting 🤷🏽

It's not perfect, but I'm learning. And that's what's important