#tom Branson x Mary crawley

[martianbugsbunny]

why on earth did tom look so in love with both mary and henry all. the. time.

[gaitwae]

Chapter Summary: Tom begins to learn how to move on after ending his affair with Mary.

[lupine-phoenix]

Title: Fortnight Pairing: Tom Branson/Mary Crawley Summary: Tom Branson has some thoughts about his relationship with Mary Crawley.

[such-g00d-luck]

you know it hits hard

[autumnrose11]

For ship ask: Mary/Matthew and Sybil/Tom

First of all, I would like to say a great big SORRY for answering this so late! I’ve finally got round to answering this.

So.......Mary/Matthew.

What made me ship it: Strangely, this question is difficult to answer because I don’t know where to begin. I suppose.... what made me really ship them in the first place was that they are so healthy, and both during their convoluted courtship and their married life, it’s so obvious that they respect each other. They bring out the best in each other. They complement each other and accept one another just the way they are, flaws and all. They enjoy each other’s company. They share the same sense of humour. Their love is unconditional, their chemistry explosive and unlike anything I’d ever seen before. Their adoration for one another is so beautifully GENUINE and believable. More than anything, though, I think I ship them because they made me believe for the first time in true love.

So all of those factors morphed together and made me fall hopelessly in love with them, both individually and as a couple :)

Favourite things about the ship: All of the things mentioned above, plus some other stuff. Such as the fact that when they do fight and argue, the fights are always, always healthy. They get into a furious argument and still get into bed with each other. They hold their love above everything. There’s also the fact that they can be emotionally vulnerable with each other. They are the only people who can access the other’s heart and they know the deepest core of each other. There’s such a deep level of intimacy they share which is so beautiful to watch. I love the way they work as a team, they are in a partnership together and they are really good friends who are so comfortable around each other. All of this in addition to being physically attracted and having spades of sexual chemistry. They can be silly and goofy around one another which is adorable! (MATTHEW’S BED FLOP. AGH. And Mary’s silly miming during charades in the S2CS. She looked so cute!)

Unpopular opinion I have about the ship: An unpopular opinion.... Hmmm. I don’t know if this counts, but.... I just think Lavinia should not have been killed off. She should have broken it off with Matthew, leave and marry a man whose heart was hers and hers alone. That’s the only sort-of unpopular opinion I have about this ship. Other than that, no.... I love everything about them, even the angst and heartbreak and pining and when they are both being idiots!

Now for Sybil and Tom.

What made me ship it: I think they’re interesting together, but no, I don’t think they’re a truly good couple.

Favourite things about the ship: I like that they overcome all odds to be together... the daughter of an earl marrying a chauffeur was, needless to say, a massive step down in society and I admire Sybil for having the guts to do it. I also like that (in the first season) they have a shared interest in politics and women’s rights and the way Tom encourages her :) Also, BABY SYBBIE. That moment between them after the baby was born was very sweet.

Unpopular opinions I have about the ship: Now for the unpopular opinions. I have a few. (To all the S/T shippers.... I’m really sorry, I don’t mean any offence :))

During S1, I liked them and I thought their slowly burgeoning love was cute and sweet. During S2, though... I didn’t care for them much. Much of the season was spent by Tom being a bit pushy, badgering Sybil and trying to convince her to run away with him, and on some occasions even putting her down, showing his resentment towards her family and acting like he knew better than her, which sort of rubbed me the wrong way. The adoration and tenderness was missing in S2.

I also got the feeling that Sybil didn’t fall in love with Tom for the person he was. While agreeing to marry him, she says, “I’m ready to travel..... and you’re my ticket.” It sounds like the only reason she married him was because she wanted a way out of her life, not because she genuinely cared for him as a person.

Plus, there’s the fact that compared to the other main developing couples on the show in the first three seasons (Matthew/Mary and Bates/Anna) Sybil and Tom are the couple that gets the least amount of screen time. They spend S1 being friends, with Tom slowly developing a crush on Sybil. They receive permission to marry near the end of S2. We don’t get to see their wedding. They briefly return in 3x01 for Mary’s wedding. They’re absent in 3x02 and play a minimal part in 3x03. 3x04 is completely overshadowed by Tom’s exile from Ireland. That’s the last episode they’re together before Sybil dies in 3x05. So we don’t get to see much of their married life, which is another reason why I couldn’t fully get behind them and ship them wholeheartedly.

Apologies once again for taking so long to answer this! :D

[angelswing236]

"This is getting ridiculous."

Fictober 24 challenge

Fandom: Downton Abbey

Fanfiction

‘Ha! I win again!’ Mary crowed as she slammed her unbeatable hand down on the table.

‘No, you can’t have,’ Tom protested, peering owlishly at her cards and then his own.

‘Oh, but I have! My cards trump yours. There’s no arguing with that. Come on. Get on with it,’ she said gleefully, picking up her gin and tonic and leaning back waiting for the show to begin.

He set his cards down, pouting. ‘But I’ve already taken off far more than you have.’

‘That’s because you keep losing,’ Mary replied, smugly. ‘That’s the nature of the game, my friend. The loser strips, the winner doesn’t.’

‘If I’d known you were such a card sharp, I’d never have agreed to play this game,’ Tom groused, making no move to take anything off.

‘Ah, so you agreed to play because you thought I’d be the one getting naked, did you? Well, what does that say about your intentions?’ she said, waggling her eyebrows. ‘Were they dishonourable, Mr Branson?’

‘I think I should be asking you about your intentions because I’m beginning to suspect they are definitely not honourable,’ he muttered before swallowing a large slug of whiskey. ‘How naked are you expecting me to get?’

‘Depends on how many more hands you lose. Now stop procrastinating and take your vest off. Unless you want to go straight for the trousers,’ she said, leaning her elbows on the card table and looking him up and down. ‘I don’t mind which option you choose.’

He sent her a look then grasped hold of the back of his vest and pulled it over his head, mussing up his hair as he did so. He balled up the vest and tossed it on top of the pile of clothes next to him.

‘There. Satisfied?’

Mary leaned back again, letting her eyes rove over his bare chest. ‘Hmm, not bad. In fact, your chest is quite nice to look at. You’re more muscular than I thought you’d be.’

He raised an eyebrow at her. ‘You’ve been wondering what my chest looks like, have you?’

‘Maybe. Now and again,’ Mary replied, meeting his gaze quite brazenly. ‘Are you telling me you’ve never wondered what mine looks like?’

Tom blushed and busied himself collecting up the cards and shuffling them in lieu of answering her question. Mary smirked, quite sure that she knew his answer anyway.

He dealt out the next hand and looked up at her. ‘I’m going to win this one, so you’d better start thinking about what garment you’re going to take off.’

Mary favoured him with a dazzling if slightly condescending smile. ‘Of course, you are, sweetie.’

‘I am!’

‘Well, if you do, I’ll let you choose what you want me to take off. How’s that?’

Tom flushed again, his eyes skipping up and down her body, and then he collected himself and directed his attention to his cards, a slight frown creasing his features.

Mary watched him, a small smile tugging at her lips as she catalogued all his tells, doubly certain now that she was going to have his trousers off shortly.

Two minutes later, Tom groaned and threw his hand on the table, the cards scattering across the baize. ‘For God’s sake! This is getting ridiculous. All you’ve taken off is a single glove!’

‘Can I help it if I’m gifted at cards?’ she cooed, smiling sweetly. ‘Come on, now. Off with them.’

Sighing, he stood and began to unfasten his trousers.

‘One more hand, Tom, and you’re naked. Totally naked,’ Mary said, her eyes gleaming. ‘And won’t that be interesting?’

[magiiicath]

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[hadecharon93]

Poor or Perfect - Chapter 1 - Lady_Lioness - Downton Abbey [Archive of Our Own]

Summary:

Poor Edith, one of the more unfortunate characters in the entirety of Downton Abbey’s nobility. No one favored the ugly, jealous sister who almost always remained abandoned and alone. She certainly hadn’t thought much of her when watching the show.

But now she’s here, stuck in the body of the middle Crawley sister. No friends, no gifts, no beauty, but can she somehow manage to change the story? Protect those she loves and become more than Poor Edith? Just maybe, she can become the Perfect Edith for Downton Abbey.

Acabo de volver a ver Downtown Abbey y vuelvo a coincidir sobre mi personaje favorito, Lady Edith Crawley y vaya sorpresa que me llevo al encontrar esta historia, lo único malo es que mata la espera necesito más capítulos, este fic es hermoso 💗

[panic-in-the-multiverse]

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Warnings = **

x teen!reader / x child!reader / x daughter!reader / x gn!reader / x platonic!reader / x sibling!reader / son!reader / romantic!reader / ftm!reader / mtf!reader

I don’t own Downton Abbey or any of the characters in it , I only own the imagines that I have created in tumblr or wattpad.

Main Masterlist

DOWNTON ABBEY CHARACTERS

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*✧.｡.:*･# IMAGINES ﾐ

The Rebel Crawley ** - Thomas Barrow x teen!crawley: being the youngest Crawley sibling and Thomas is your best friend + the one you come to when you face confusion about your sexuality

The Other Sister ** - Matthew Crawley x Crawley!sister: Matthew got turned down by Mary and in desperation propose to you, which you turn down knowing it was only because Matthew got turned down. Matthew however realises that he loves you and not Mary and is now desperate to prove it to you

The Matchmaker ** - Thomas Barrow x teen!Ellis!reader, Richard Ellis x teen!Ellis!reader: You are Richard Ellis little sibling and encourage Thomas and Richard to be together

✧.｡.:*･# SERIES ﾐ

The New Worker ** - Thomas Barrow has a soft spot for the new worker - Thomas Barrow x teen!reader (platonic)

✧.｡.:*･# HEADCANONS ﾐ

[martianbugsbunny]

Downton Abbey au where Tom is so obsessed w getting Mary to marry Henry Talbot bc he's actually in love w Tom himself

[gaitwae]

Mary Crawley finds she is pregnant with a dead man’s child. The chauffeur finds she’s desperately in need. Two unlikely partners make a deal.

[things-keeping-me-up-at-night]

Just wanted to say I fully agree with your take on Mary/Tom from Downton Abbey. Felt like the show totally lost the plot around both characters after Matthew and Sybil died and one of the few good things that gave Mary in particular any growth was her relationship with Tom. Honestly wish they'd gone there

Absolutely! Julian Fellowes even said he considered putting them together later on in the show, so it makes sense how romantically charged the tension between them feels during that part of the show.

They share a genuine connection and motivation for the future, they are each other’s allies, they truly trust each other, and, again, have great chemistry, all of which wasn’t the case with their respective love interests by the end. It would have been a more powerful statement at the end of the show too; that someone neither of them would have related to (or even necessarily respected) at the beginning of the show would end up becoming the person they want to spend their life with.

(I also think Mary’s guilt over her feelings for him would have made a much more believable motivation for her behaviour in season 6 than her poorly written and executed relationship with Henry and it would explain why Tom was so adamant about getting them together as well- for the same reason. I know many fans would not have agreed with that, which is why I honestly thought they would both end up alone and just running Downton together as family in the show, but that didn’t happen either. That big “aha” moment they were building up to being that, despite nothing pointing to that, Mary actually did want to be with Henry (again, one of the “least” of her love interests) just felt disappointing to me considering all the directions they could have gone with this.

Considering one of the main reasons I kept watching the show at that point was their relationship (as friends, family or romantic partners), I haven’t really rewatched that part of the show which makes it a lot easier to convince myself that the show actually did go there in the end lol

Anyway, it was really nice to see someone else share that opinion, so thank you!

[this-is-krikkit]

mary crawley 💕

ooh thank you for this one!!

favorite thing about her: her wit and killer lines, including at the worst of times (aka being brutally honest with her one sister left when Sybil died lmao we love a heartless (sometimes, often, but not always) Queen)

least favorite thing about her: her hipocrisy about being so privileged and thinking everything is owed to her, although i'm conflicted about it bc i sort of get the frustration: if she was a man half as smart as she is she wouldn't have struggled that much and everything truly would have gone to her with no efforts or marriages needed

favorite line: "YOU MUST PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE THINGS I SAY" AAAAAAH (oops sorry i get emotional every time)

brOTP: i have an antibrotp? as in i can't stand her friendship with tom. i hate that guy so much i wish he would have died after his kid was born instead of his wife 😭

OTP: MARY X MATTHEW FTW I LIVE IN DENIAL BYEEE. also if i absolutely had to pick a post-matthew otp, you already know how hard i ship her with mabel lane hehehehe

nOTP: flat faced 1 dimensional henry 🤮🤮 snake faced pale-copy-of-early-matthew-banter charles 🤮🤮 pretty but shallow forgothisname sexfriend 🤮

random headcanon: no man deserved for her to give them the time of the day after matthew died and she was actually attracted to mabel lane, but too formated by her stereotypes and traditions to cross that barrier. a Shame™️

unpopular opinion: she should never have gotten along so well with tom, when he was always so overly critical of their family, when she knows how pushy he was with her sister at the beginning of their relationship. although it was a good idea to not let him leave with sybil's kid bc fuck if i trusted that dickhead to raise a kid.

song i associate with her: i can't find one!! she's too good for a song i guess

favorite picture of her: the one post-matthew era thing i did like was her makeover (which i think matthew would have gone NUTS over) + look at her in this gif, side-eyeing the shit out of Mabel with her Period Dyke haircut & outfit & riding a horse aaaaah im gay

[nowtsoqueerasfolk]

I've shipped Mary and Tom post s3 since the show aired. I understood why it never came to be, much to my disappointment. I loved Mary and Henry in the series and I adore Tom and Lucy. It kills me though, that Mary was written a love story that saw zero development in the films. It makes the Mary and Tom potential so much easier to visualize.

[legends-of-time]

The Journey of Living at Downton - Masterlist

Pairing:

Tom Branson/Original Female Character

Warnings:

Major Character Death, Minor Character Death, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Period Typical Attitudes, Cannon-Typical Violence, Implied/Referenced Suicide

Summary:

Emma’s life used to be fairly normal one for someone living in England in the early 21st century, nothing peculiar but that all changed when in 2021, at 19, she woke up in the past, more specifically 1909.

Emma turned up in Yorkshire, England on a mild day (what else) in the grounds of an estate called Downton Abbey. After literally falling onto the floor right in front of said owners of the estate, the Earl and Countess of Grantham, Robert and Cora Crawley.

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A young girl from the 21st century ends up in the world of Downton Abbey. Not a typical one where it is another Crawley sister or where she’s from a world where Downton Abbey is a TV show.

Chapters:

Chapter 1: April to Summer 1912

Chapter 2: September to October 1912

Chapter 3: April to May 1913

Chapter 4: End of May 1913

Chapter 5: July to August 1913

Chapter 6: May 1914

Chapter 7: July to August 1914

Chapter 8: Autmun 1916

Chapter 9: April 1917

Chapter 10: July to September 1917

Chapter 11: Early 1918

Chapter 12: August 1918

Chapter 13: October to November 1918

Chapter 14: February 1919

Chapter 15: April 1919

Chapter 16: April 1919 to January 1920

Chapter 17: March 1920

Chapter 18: April to Early May 1920

Chapter 19: Late May 1920

Chapter 20: Late July 1920

Chapter 21: Early August 1920

Chapter 22: Early August 1920 Continuation

Chapter 23: Mid August 1920

Chapter 24: Mid August to End of September 1920

Chapter 25: September 1921

Chapter 26: February 1922

Chapter 27: March 1922

Chapter 28: April 1922

Chapter 29: April 1922 Continuation

Chapter 30: May 1922

Chapter 31: June 1922

Chapter 32: July 1922

Chapter 33: Early August 1922

Chapter 34: May 1923

Chapter 35: February 1924

Chapter 36: February to Late April 1924

Chapter 37: Late April to Early May 1924

Chapter 38: Summer 1924

Chapter 39: September 1924

Chapter 40: Late September 1924

Chapter 41: Late September to Early October 1924

Chapter 42: Mid to Late October 1924

Chapter 43: November to December 1924

Chapter 44: January to Early May 1925

Chapter 45: Mid May 1925

Chapter 46: Mid to Late May 1925

Chapter 47: June 1925

Chapter 48: July 1925

Chapter 49: August 1925

Chapter 50: September to December 1925

Chapter 51: July 1927

Children of Downton - Spoilers!!!

Just a little additional post explaining when the children born during the show were born and parents. Not that important but if anyone wants to keep track, it’s here rather than sifting through chapters.

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