December Challenge

Well, I've officially started my third "Crimson Peak" story, this one from Lucille's point of view (I just need to do an Edith, and then I'd have a complete set!)

I'm trying to bear in mind that if it gets reviewed by anyone it's likely to be by fandom-blind people on Writers Anonymous, so it needs to supply enough hints as to canon events (since this takes place post-canon) for people to be able to pick up on them where necessary. Conversely, for reasons known only to myself, I seem to have set out to try to write it without actually mentioning Lucille's name (on the grounds that at the beginning of the story she can't remember who she is :-p) I suppose having a protagonist with convenient amnesia is one good excuse for recapitulating events that the fandom already knows...

So far I'm quite pleased with the snippets of childhood backstory that I've been making up; I'm trying to avoid being influenced by the Nancy Horden novelisation (which I got from the library) or by darkety-dark-dark 'mature' fanfic (e.g. where Lucille is raped by her father/by random peasants in the grounds...)

Allerdale Hall layout, and other snippets

Other oddities I came across while trying to find an official floor plan of Allerdale Hall -- which was apparently constructed to full scale so that they could use long shots without fakery! -- in order that I could locate Lucille's bedroom correctly (I eventually determined that it was on the top (attic) floor, so my fleeting head-canon that she had taken over their mother's room as well as her ring wouldn't work):

Allerdale Hall as a Minecraft construction(!)

An interesting analysis of the ways Lucille manipulates Thomas (and hence arguing that he's not weak but thoroughly conditioned to obey as part of an abusive relationship)

When she’s murdered people, she’s laid it at Thomas’s feet; she was doing it to protect him, because he was too weak to do it himself. What else has she told him he’s responsible for?

And an actual floor plan, extrapolated (so far as I can judge) from the reference book on Allerdale Hall that Edith is glimpsed reading in the movie.
http://vipp.club/eafc/3d56f5682867/forgottenghosty-crimsonpeaksecrets-728584

Unfortunately it only covers the ground floor and I'm not convinced by it anyway; even if we assume the entire servants' wing is underground or otherwise invisible from views of the square-seeming frontage, the layout we see when entering the main hall doesn't really seem to bear any relationship to the room layouts shown here!