Jul 6, 2025
So. Verna was trying to get Morelle out of Prospero’s party, which means there was a timeline out there she saw where Morelle made it out. And it’s her hesitation that got her stuck there, which led to Frederick’s meltdown and his method of death.
So… if Morelle HAD left the party and Frederick never figured out she’d gone in the first place… what would Verna have crafted to be his horrible personally tailored downfall instead? What other Poe story, if any, would he have ended up emulating?
#the fall of the house of usher#tfothou#frederick usher#morelle usher#his situation feels so specific and strange#bc of where Verna directly intervened at the start and at the end#each Usher’s downfall became increasingly supernatural and torturous from sibling to sibling#I think most of them went in ascending order of age so he still would have been last to go (not counting Lenore)#which suggests his might have still been crazy and not just simple and self made like Prospero and Camille#original
