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widowshill · 1 year ago

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was thinking about r/v au and particularly this line in rebecca, how despite his being married twice, both weddings were in the category of the former –– to laura, rushed in the days after the trial to reward her cooperation, and then to exile in augusta –– and then to cassandra, similarly quick and clinical the day after he met her. and v of course very nearly had the dream wedding at collinwood, only for it to rot down in bradford's grave into only the bones of a 3 am visit to the courthouse. how they neither of them have really experienced a wedding or marriage as concept as celebration in earnest, not only as a ceremony of romantic love but bonding into the family, to home and the threshold. how each of their prior marriages were hollow façades, as with maxim and rebecca –– to a phoenix, to a witch wearing a false name, to a centuries old ghost –– whereas, with each other, if not happily ever after an earthly grasp at happiness.

#me talking at length about my own au in my brain: guys you're never going to believe this. the intertextuality.#was liz at his wedding to laura ?? i honestly do not recall. i think maybe not.#anyway! i'm giving them big fancy wedding (at home bc church ? yuck) because they deserve it.#liz as her matron of honor. carolyn and maggie as bridesmaids. david bearing the ring! we'll call burke in from brazil to officiate.#i justttt. ohhhh. sighs dreamily about v in a beautiful regency inspired gown. with naomi's french lace veil. annabella's pearls.#the gigantic ring edward proposed with to kitty #watched over by the collins ancestors as she descends the stairs – from the eyes of portraits that terrified roger as a boy (that still #judge him and often – condemn him) absorbing her into the house and the family and the family history as was done to josette.#➤ arc: mrs. collins. ┊ collinwood will always mean home to me.

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