#edmund o'mara

[therealdanipoppins]

Rp character information.

“ i am out with lanterns looking for myself”- Emily Dickinson

Name: Dani Clayton Taylor

Age 28 (hasn’t aged since leaving bly )

Birthday: july 2 1960

Background: Dani grew up in New she was Lonely kid and her Mother was always absent as well as never really around her father died whenever she was kid so she practically raised herself. Growing up Dani had a best friend named Edmund O'Mara and whenever they grew up thet became engaged until one night at dinner while discussing the engagement Dani told him she liked Women, and it caused a huge fight Edmund stormed off and whenever Dani went chasing after him he got hit by car dying and it still haunts her to this day. After the events of bly and inviting Viola(the lady of the lake ) in Dani and her girlfriend Jamie left bly along with everyone else and she still haunted by everything. She new resigns in Fairvale California where they run a flower shop.(more information to come)

Extra information: viola and jamie will be featured on the page. Viola does come out at times whenever she feels threatened, Viola is a ghost. Dani hasn’t aged since the Bly incident so she looks 20-21 but is the age she was whenever she left which is 28.

Dani will speak like this purple

Viola like this pink

Jamie like this green

(Asks are welcome and feel free to send in starters)

[shipperoffanonships]

Just occurred to me

Viola Lloyd and Edmund O'Mara are canonically the most hardcore ant-Damie.

[writing-on-a-moonflower]

Hannah: Oh, I talked to Dani today, and apparently she and Edmund might break up.

Jamie: Oh, how awful!

Hannah: Jamie, you're smiling.

Jamie: Am I? Hmm.

[wishgrub]

the rest is confetti !

[highrevs]

That's what happened, right?

[moonflowerlesbians]

“You don’t have to go if you don’t want to...I don’t need you to be my date to Owen’s mum’s funeral.”

Jamie offers her a choice. Not to do the cliché Jamie vs. Eddie comparison, but I think it’s one of the first times Dani herself recognizes the difference between the two, the distinction further heightened by the glimpse of Eddie she sees in the mirror. She doesn't feel pressured. 

There’s a difference between someone offering you an out and feeling like you can actually take it. She’s still working on putting her own wants and needs first for once.

At the engagement party, at dinner, Eddie offers Dani a way out, but custom and obligation doesn’t allow her to comfortably accept. But, in her bedroom, with Jamie, she feels safe enough to stay back.  You can see the moment she realizes Jamie means what she says, the sigh of relief, the tension draining from her shoulders. That is really is okay if Dani doesn’t go to the funeral. It’s as refreshing as it is surprising, and it puts Dani more at ease.

[bananarabbid]

Caption this:

Mayhaps a new meme format

Love that for you dear!

[crow-crypt]

Hemming and Hawing is a Dani and Eddie song

[foreignfields]

[splendid presence, i'm wheezing]

Sir Edmund Orme (1891) written by Henry James

The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020) created by Mike Flanagan

[whalechief]

Bly Manor

[madphantom]

I haven't watched The Haunting of Bly Manor but I will, just for this ghost's design.

This bitch really sees any guy with glasses and fangirls lol

[possessedxparrot]

Why is this ghost so fucking hot 🥵 ive never wanted to be haunted more in my life. Catch me hanging up mirrors in my house 💦

[angel-bubbles]

that's so funny someone said they see David as edmund o'mara from Bly manor cuz I see him as Rahul Kohli a lot cuz his Bly manor character owen is so 💖😍

asjkfdl this is blowing my mind because i don't think i've ever imagined david with a lot of facial hair? but seeing all these asks has me questioning my decision on that front

[novelconcepts]

AU in which Jamie is taken in by the O'Mara family, and Dani grows up wedged between two best friends with dark hair, learning slowly how to fall in love.

Dani Clayton is six years old when the O’Mara family moves in across the street. The world, for the most part, makes perfect sense in ways that will unravel in two short years. She understands the suburban block on which she’s lived her entire life, the breadth of her father’s hands, the shine of her mother’s eyes. She understands everything.

The O’Mara family makes sense, too. The father is quiet, but kind; the mother is all bright smiles, the kind of hug Dani could get lost in. There are three boys, and one is even her own age: a small-boned, curly-haired boy introduced as Edmund, who scuffs a hand under his nose and corrects, “Eddie” when his mother isn’t looking.

“Dani,” Dani tells him in the same furtive whisper, though her mother thinks nicknames ought to be reserved for pets and special occasions. It’s like a secret handshake between them, a moment of perfect clarity, and she is confident in her own assertion to Eddie’s mother that she will be his new best friend. It’s important, she believes, to say these things out loud. To tell the universe what’s what.

She is six, and the world makes perfect sense. Eddie is her new best friend. Judy will befriend her mother the same way. Her father will watch football with the boys, they’ll all pile into the Clayton backyard for weekend barbecues, and the world will make sense forever.

[grvstnaya-svka]

Y'all i just thought of something...

1×4 "The Way It Came", The Haunting of Bly Manor

** I noticed that, in all the flashbacks of Dani and Eddie, he always calls her Danielle. Never Dani. And on the flip side of that, Dani always calls him Eddie, and never Edmund. I thought it was interesting to show the choice whether to use the other's full name vs a nickname. And it got me thinking...

We as an audience see that Eddie centers his whole world around her. From childhood, it is clear that Dani is everything to him. You can tell by the way he looks at her. While trying on his glasses, she asks whether he can tell it's her without them on. He replies "of course, I see you everyday". His face lights up when he says this. (I can't blame him for that tho, honestly). He then invites her to stay for dinner, saying that his mom probably wishes she could swap children. This is where we start to see the difference between them... Because Dani replies, "then you'd have to deal with my mom". While Edmund is obviously important to her, he isn't everything to her. She has her own life, her own issues. No dad, and her mom is barely there. Her feelings aren't reciprocated to the same degree as he feels for her. He's a friend. Someone to talk to. Someone who cares, or a place to go. His mom is like another mother to her. A far more competent one, at that. Eddie and his family are involved. That's why Dani hangs out with him. Why she likes him.

And then another flashback. The party with his family, where Mrs. O'Mara gives Dani her old wedding dress and says that she remembers the first time she met Dani. She talks about how sweet she was and how Dani looked at her and said "Good morning, Mrs. O'Mara. I'm Dani. And I'm gonna be Eddie's new best friend."

But then there's Eddie's toast to her, which was slightly sexualized. Talking about how they kissed on a dare when they were kids, and the whole stupid pregnancy bit, and his response was to propose to her, year after year until they were old enough and she finally said fuck it. I mean, they were literal CHILDREN. Dani knew that. It was a game to her. They were playing a game. But our boi Eddie here, took that and just fuckin ran with it.

I also think that the whole possession vs love conversation between Dani and Jamie definitely play a role in this. Eddie sees her as basically his wife the whole time. So he calls her by her given name. Danielle. But Dani has only ever seen him as a friend. Another person in his life. And like everybody else who knows him, she calls him Eddie. I just thought that was an interesting little bit in their relationship.... What do y'all think?

[moonflowerlesbians]

I know we’ve talked about Dani thanking service workers at literally every opportunity, and I agree that part of it is probably Midwestern courtesy, but I also think it’s a reflection of how she feels like she’s burdening people by merely existing. She's an inconvenience; she has to apologize for needing things. 

After her father died, she grew up fending for herself. When the O’Maras took her in, she felt out of place. She's not someone who likes to be indebted to people for their kindness. She has to pay them back somehow. So, in this case, she felt like she owed it to them to be with Eddie. 

Makes sense why she went into teaching. Caring for kids to repay the universe for taking care of her. Repay her debt to society for being a drain on its resources when she was younger. 

Probably made burdening Jamie with Viola’s reappearance that much harder when the time came.