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#jeremiah & josette; the empire-builder and the lost and lonely bride.
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the locket, motherhood, & marriage.
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#compilation tag
#➤ victoria winters. ┊ because she’s lost and lonely. because she looks in shadows.
#➤ roger collins. ┊ I and my ghosts want a drink.
#➤ re: david collins. ┊ he's just been afflicted with the family disease. he's been seeing ghosts.
#➤ josette dupres. ┊ it was a scent,not just any,it was hers: jasmine,seabreeze mixed.
#➤ re: laura murdoch collins. ┊ I want to watch a girl on fire with ruin on her lips. I want to see everything burn.
#➤ elizabeth collins stoddard. ┊ I belong to the house. the house belongs to me.
#➤ re: carolyn stoddard. ┊ never the same girl twice.
#GOD OKAY. the fact that burke gives vicki the locket after laura's death is EVERYTHING to me.
#burke — twin to jeremiah both physically and psychologically — giving it to vicki —
#the stranger brought inside the collins family; much like josette.
#(which. according to much much later dialogue laura *was* jeremiah's first wife before josette.
#it's an old song. it's an old tale from way back when. and we're gonna sing it again and again and again.)
#that vicki; by saving david's life; is preserving the collins line — providing the heir (literally; though not biologically)
#david turns away from laura and chooses vicki; replacing laura as mother-figure permanently;
#as he's granted new life after the fire; born again into vicki's arms; not laura's.
#the new woman in the collins fold — after the previous wife has been defeated and fire has cleansed the memory (à la jane eyre; or rebecca)
#positioning her naturally as roger's wife. the mother of his child. the inheritor of the collins bridal locket.
#the locket that distinctly belongs to roger's wedding *night* — tied up fundamentally with sex & childbirth & the provision of heirs.
#(fitting then that the madonna and child serves as the vicki-as-mother equivalent to the painting of laura: the virginal birth)
#and yet! simultaneously! the cri du sang — david's blood calling out to burke's.
#roger notably absent during the fire; unaware of david's danger; unable to help him. burke drawn to him when his life is at risk —
#and the one who carries him home; over the threshold; at vicki's side. delivers her the locket from the ash.
#of course she is drawn to him — david's symbolic mother; his biological father —
#jeremiah & josette; the empire-builder and the lost and lonely bride.
#and. the vampire-figure; the parasitic lover. meeting her at the cliffs; joking about her falling from them —
#who can give josette belonging by bringing her to the family tomb.
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