#omg pen is lady whistledown how shocking

[bridgertonandchocolate]

I can just imagine Anthony and Kate when the Queen walks into Polin’s wedding breakfast.

Anthony is like wtf is the Queen on about?

And then as Colin leaves and Pen follows him Kate would be like ohhhhhhh she’s Whistledown. You know I figured as much.

And Anthony would be like what?

And Kate would be like yeah I suspected it was her but forgot in all our newly wedded bliss.

And Anthony would then be like we should do something about this.

And Kate would be like nah. They have this handled. Let’s pack for India.

[dreamwritesimagines]

What about a hc of the girls finding out Penelope is Lady Whistledown??

Omg oh that would be very dramatic, let’s do this! ❤

Considering she didn’t exactly write really terrible stuff about them, I think they would be more shocked than betrayed and Cherie would go like,

“Why would you not tell us?”

“I have another question. Does anyone else know?”

“No! Well—Eloise does but just her.”

“All those things you wrote…”

“I’ve heard the same speech from Eloise.”

“Pen, it’s dangerous. How about that speech from me? What you’re doing is dangerous, if anyone found out-“

“No one will find out if you two keep your silence.”

“And we’re supposed to just pretend we don’t know?”

“Exactly.”

“But—“

“We will. No one will know.”

[bridgertonbabe]

Ok but theory time: if Jack is a major character for the season and beyond, what if he is a villain of sort. Like, he is all charming and sweet and likeable heck the Featheringtons start to warm up to him. Colin for some reason dislikes him, in his gut feeling. By season 4 Jack is asking Pen for her hand and instead of Cressida, it’s Jack who blackmails Pen about her being LW. He wants to marry her cause the estate wouldn’t be fully his unless he married a Featherington.

Omg yes!!!

I can see Portia and the girls initially being frosty towards him, not knowing what he intends to do with them; whether to provide or chuck them out. He seems charming and good-natured at first but Portia is still skeptical. It's only after a whole season with them that she decides that actually he's a decent man and becomes comfortable with him. All of the Featheringtons end up liking him a great deal, as do most of the Ton, including the Bridgertons (seeing as Jack is part of the hunting party from that one promo); everyone, that is, but Colin. There's something about the man that doesn't sit right with Colin and though he shares his doubts with his brothers, they dismiss him. He even goes to Penelope and advises her to be wary of Jack but when he can't provide her with any actual reason why he doesn't like the man, even she waves off his concern.

Colin's dislike for the man continues throughout S3 and when he speaks to Penelope again (after the incident in which he states he would never marry her), he once more rears up his opinion that Jack shouldn't be trusted and this time Penelope lambastes him, demanding to know who he thinks he is to judge another man's character. He tries to quell her upset but she continues, angrily asking him why he is so self-righteous to be going around proclaiming how honourable a gentleman is or which women aren't worthy of marrying him. Colin is left shocked by her outburst and feels awful for agitating and upsetting his best friend so. When he leaves again on his travels, it's the first time they part on bad terms and the regret consumes him.

And then in S4, it's revealed at first to the audience that Colin was right to lack faith and trust in Jack. The Featherington heir has managed to catch wind that Penelope's been up to something all these years and he's spent a long time keeping a careful watch on her. Little by little and piece by piece, he finally discovers that she is in fact Lady Whistledown. One night at the gentleman's club he informs a gathered group of men that he's about to make a very prosperous marriage, which Colin hears and is puzzled by, seeing as Jack hasn't shown an attachment towards any woman and he hasn't heard of any arrangement. Colin starts to worry when he notices that the only woman Jack ever really speaks to or stands by the side of ballroom with is Penelope - and he's the only other man who ever asks her to dance. With Penelope officially "on the shelf" as a spinster, Jack proposes to her, thinking it'd be a no-brainer for a woman in want of a husband and children. He's shocked when she kindly turns him down, and then he sees her with Colin and realises she rejected him because she's in love with someone else. When he sees Colin clearly falling for her, Jack corners Penelope and blackmails her by revealing he knows of her alias. He needs to force her hand so he can access her Whistledown money for his own dwindling fortune and he's not about to let some Bridgerton swoop in and take what Jack believes is rightfully is...