penfairy:

I always used to roll my eyes at people stanning villains and falling in love with them and saying “they’re just misunderstood! they just need love!”

but then guillermo del toro gave me Lucille Sharpe from Crimson Peak, whose name means light but who was locked away in darkness for so long that she was twisted into a monster

who suffered horrendous abuse as a child and as a teenager, caged at home and then in an institution where she was further neglected and assaulted

who clung obsessively to the only source of love she ever knew, her one comfort, which she ended up hurting, confining and killing in her selfish, yet understandable, need to keep it close

who is constantly stitched into rigid and painful clothing

who could not escape her demons, even in death

whom jessica chastain described as being like an abused animal that desperately wants to be touched and loved, but which will bite the instant it is touched

who has committed horrendous, unforgivable crimes, but who is still, at her core, an abused child

who might have been good, once, but who underwent a terrible metamorphosis and hatched out of her cocoon as a carnivorous black moth instead of a butterfly

who will, for eternity, remain that monster, because there is no undoing such a transformation fed by pain, misery and mistreatment

and I went

fuck

anyway good job on the sympathetic villain guillermo she wrecks me every time and I just want to hold her and love her and write meta and 1000 crappy redemption fics for her I hope you’re happy