#Mrs. Cratchit

[aslightlydifferentchristmascarol]

Mrs. Cratchit: Belinda, don’t you have something to say to your brother? Belinda: I’m sorry I flicked flour in your face. Mrs. Cratchit: Tim? Tim: I’m sorry you’re my sister.

[princesssarisa]

Character ask: the crachit family excluding Bob and tiny tim from a Christmas carol

Favorite thing about them: What a loving, heartwarming family they are, how much joy they share at Christmas despite their poverty (it's no wonder that their humble yet happy Christmas dinner is one of the most iconic holiday scenes in all of literature), and how they support and comfort each other through the pain of Tiny Tim's death... or rather, how they would have if Scrooge's change of heart hadn't saved him. In the case of Mrs. Cratchit, I also like how unabashedly she despises Scrooge. Her husband Bob, of course, is the embodiment of goodwill who can't utter a word against him, so I'm glad that Dickens allows some righteous anger from her. It's annoying that the 1938 film cuts that part and has her cheerfully propose the toast to Scrooge instead – apparently, Hays Code-era Hollywood had more rigid ideas of how "the deserving poor" should behave than Dickens did.

Least favorite thing about them: Nothing about them personally. But if it's true that the Cratchits are idealized versions of John and Elizabeth Dickens and their children as they were during Charles's childhood (the oldest boy Peter corresponding to Charles himself), as Michael Patrick Hearn argued in The Annotated Christmas Carol, then it makes me a little sad to know that the real family was more dysfunctional than their fictional counterparts. But that has no bearing on how I view the characters.

Three things I have in common with them:

*I love Christmas.

*Like Mrs. Cratchit, I can't stand greedy, hard-hearted people like pre-redemption Scrooge.

*I can make very good mashed potatoes and homemade applesauce.

Three things I don't have in common with them:

*I'm not British.

*I haven't lived in poverty.

*I've never tasted roast goose, though I'd like to.

Favorite line:

From Mrs. Cratchit, in response to Bob's Christmas Day toast to Scrooge:

“The Founder of the Feast indeed! I wish I had him here. I’d give him a piece of my mind to feast upon, and I hope he’d have a good appetite for it.”

“I’ll drink his health for your sake and the Day’s, not for his. Long life to him! A merry Christmas and a happy new year! He’ll be very merry and very happy, I have no doubt!”

And following Tiny Tim's death in Christmas Yet to Come, her response to Peter's remark that Bob seems to have walked home more slowly lately:

“I have known him walk with—I have known him walk with Tiny Tim upon his shoulder, very fast indeed... But he was very light to carry, and his father loved him so, that it was no trouble: no trouble."

brOTP: Each other.

OTP: For Mrs. Cratchit, Bob. For the children, none until they're older.

nOTP: Each other, apart from Mrs. Cratchit and Bob.

Random headcanon: Peter Cratchit is the great-great grandfather of the Pevensie siblings in The Chronicles of Narnia and Peter Pevensie is named after him. Maybe this is a silly idea, since it only stems from the fact that they're both London families whose oldest sons happen to have the same name, but why not?

Unpopular opinion: I wish more adaptations would include all six Cratchit children from the book. Even some of the best adaptations reduce the number of children to five, four, or even three. I understand why this happens, since not all versions have the budget to include all six, but I always enjoy seeing them all. In the book, it's clear that the "two young Cratchits," the boisterous little boy and girl whose names are never mentioned, are a chief source of the family's Christmas cheer – probably because they're the most free to be lively, playful children, since Martha, Peter, and Belinda are more focused on helping their mother with the work of the feast, while Tiny Tim is too frail. Yet those two are the children who most often get the axe in adaptations, and I think that's a shame.

Song I associate with them:

"The Lord's Bright Blessing" from Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol.

"Bless Us All" from The Muppet Christmas Carol.

"Christmas Together" from A Christmas Carol: The Musical.

"Yes, There Is a Santa Claus" from The Stingiest Man in Town (the subject has no basis in the book, but it's a rare solo for Martha Cratchit that shows her being a sweet big sister to Tiny Tim).

Favorite pictures of them:

This illustration by Sol Eytinge Jr.:

This illustration by E.A. Abbey:

This vintage illustration:

And this one:

This illustration by Roberto Innocenti:

From the 1938 film:

From Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol, 1962:

From the 1970 musical Scrooge:

From the 1984 TV film:

From The Muppet Christmas Carol, 1992:

[a-lawless-son-among-hate]

little Tim (played by Rooney) is growing real strong... or at least that's what Bob Cratchit (Ortiz) hopes.

[justice-for-jacob-marley]

I finally drew the three main female characters in my retelling of A Christmas Carol (save for the ghosts, of course)!

Belle is not Mr. Fezziwig's daughter, but rather his niece in my version. She also doesn't get married, but rather lives her life for a short period single before making up to Scrooge. (This aspect of her personality, as well as her character design, is chiefly based on how she is portrayed in the cartoon version of "The Stingiest Man in Town".) Right now, she's just his friend, rather than his girlfriend, although that may change over time.

Ann is Bob's wife and Tim's mother, and I don't really have a lot to say about her other than her design is actually based on how she looked in a Christmas Carol play that I, myself, was in (and the actress who played her was also the co-director!).

Amelie is an OC of mine, and Marley's love interest. She first met him upon seeing him break his foot after kicking a bucket out of his office, and over the years, they grew together. After Marley left Scrooge's business, he ran away to the town where she grew up, a small village outside of London. He stayed with her for seven long years, until he decided they should go back to London and check on Scrooge. They're currently engaged and living together in Marley's house. Although Amelie had some issues with Scrooge when she first met him (and still has a few today), she thinks he's become a good friend and a good person since being haunted by the three ghosts.

I was originally going to draw Fred's wife (Lily) as well, but decided against it since she doesn't have that big of a role in my retelling.

[weltato]

Starkid couples making me weep tears of joy, whether real (the actors) or fictional (the characters).

In this case, it's both.

[lilacthebooklover]

trying to sleep right now but all i can hear is lauren lopez singing "i'll toast my hope that he DIIIEEEEES" like an actual angel

[andy-clutterbuck]

Ebenezer Scrooge | requested by Anonymous

[bestmothertournament]

[sp00kysk3lly]

“You will be haunted, by Three Spirits.

Expect the first tomorrow when the bell tolls One.

Expect the second on the next night at the same hour. The third, upon the next night when the last strike of Twelve has ceased to vibrate.

Look to see me no more;”

- Jacob Marley

[lancelotslair]

anyways mrs cratchit nad her wife bob cratchit<3

[dumbass-duo-showdown]

QUARTERFINALS

Apple bracket, 1/6 4pm to 6pm (one new battle every 30 minutes)

Heinz Doofenshmirtz (Phineas & Ferb) vs Iroh (avatar, the last airbender)

Hakoda (avatar, the last airbender) vs Bruno Buccerati (Jojo’s bizarre adventure)

Loid Forger (spy x family) vs Sailor Uranus (sailor moon crystal)

Sully (monsters inc) vs Ping (kung fu panda)

Bapelsin bracket, 1/6 pm, 7pm-9pm

Benjamin Sisko (star trek) vs Gomez Addams (the Addams family)

Pyrrha Dve (the locked tomb) vs Bob Cratchit (a Christmas Carol)

Alfred Pennyworth (Batman) vs Meta Knight (Kirby)

Lee Scoresby (his dark materials) vs Terry Jeffords (Brooklyn 99)

Also there was a mess up, I accidentally pitched Kim Dokja vs Sully instead of Meta Knight.

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Second chance

[aslightlydifferentchristmascarol]

Cratchit: This is one of those things you always figure will happen to someone else. Mrs. Cratchit: Unfortunately, we're all "someone else" to someone else.

[princesssarisa]

What are your favourite costumes worn by female characters in any a Christmas carol adaptations?

Well, a definite favorite of mine is Belle's "When Love is Gone" costume from The Muppet Christmas Carol.

It's pretty, its warm orange stands out against the white landscape, and both its color and its leaf pattern evoke autumn, which suits the end of the happiness she shared with Young Scrooge. (As the Mr. Magoo version of Belle once sang, "Now trees with a sigh/Stand and shiver while their dreams fall and die"). Especially since the party dress she wore when they first met was spring green.

From the same movie, I also like Miss Piggy's Mrs. Cratchit costume.

I like that it isn't the type of plain, frumpy dress that so many other Mrs. Cratchits wear – a diva actress like Piggy would never have tolerated such a thing. She's clearly made an effort to dress "out" for Christmas, as Dickens described, and wear her very best. Yet the fact that it's an 1830s-style costume, about 10 years out of fashion from when the story takes place, shows that she's poor and can't afford anything new.

Another Mrs. Cratchit costume I like is Hermione Baddeley's fringed dress in the ever-popular 1951 Scrooge.

Again, it's convincing as a dress a poor woman would wear, but it's not entirely plain and shows that she's made her best effort to dress up for Christmas.

Staying with Scrooge (1951), another favorite is the striped dress worn by Alice (Belle) at the Fezziwig party. I only wish we could know what its colors were.

Speaking of Belle at the Fezziwig party, I also like Isabel's blue dress in Scrooge (1970).

I'm not such a fan of the ruffle around her neck or her big '70s hair. But the dress itself is pretty, and it makes her stand out in a dance sequence where everyone else is wearing more subdued colors, yet without being so bright as to be jarring.

Last but not least, I'm also fond of Mrs. Fezziwig's salmon pink rose patterned dress and lacy headpiece in the 1999 Patrick Stewart version.

The outfit is a little gaudy, but in an endearing way that suits her lively personality, and the rose pattern ties in with the comic song her husband sings about wanting to marry a girl named Rose. My guess is that "Rose" is this Mrs. Fezziwig's first name, hence both the dress and the song.

[hitchell-mope]

Very good movie. And I can confidently say that this film did not waste Luke Evans like the prom wasted James Corden and Meryl Streep. So yeah. On that alone. I’d definitely watch it again.

[daydreamingismyhobby33]

Hear me out... A South Park Christmas Carol:

Cartman as Ebenezer Scrooge

Stan as Bob Cratchit

Wendy as Mrs. Cratchit

Kyle as Jacob Marley

Tweek as the Ghost of Christmas Past

Clyde as the Ghost of Christmas Present

Kenny as the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come

Butters as Turkey Boy

Ike as Tiny Tim

And I don't know why but I have myself laughing over the idea of Craig narrating the entire thing. Just his bored, nasally voice reading A Christmas Carol and everyone breaking the fourth wall to snap at him for doing a shit job... But Craig doesn't care and just keeps on narrating.