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* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:Leaving Adeline to burn to death was bad, but Adeline ''had'' tried to murder Emmeline's son twice and would not have rested until she did. Adeline also gave Emmeline severe facial burns in the fight.]]


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* PayEvilUntoEvil: [[spoiler:Leaving Adeline to burn to death was bad, but Adeline ''had'' tried to murder Emmeline's son twice and would not have rested until she did. Adeline also gave Emmeline severe facial burns in the fight.]]
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* ChildByRape: [[spoiler:It's heavily implied that he raped Vida's mother and she brought her baby to Angelfield.]]

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* ChildByRape: DisappearedDad: [[spoiler:It's heavily implied he never put together that he raped Vida's mother and she brought her baby to Angelfield.Vida was his daughter.]]
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-->'''Played By''': Emily Beecham

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-->'''Played By''': Emily Beecham
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While we can use redirects, we're not supposed to edit trope names like that. Also, Coitus Ensues got renamed due to misuse and I don't think that example is used correctly.


* CoitusEnsues: [[spoiler:The adaptation shows her kissing Ambrose and starting to unbutton her blouse. We don't see it, but the next time she's seen, it's quite clear she's pregnant.]]



* [[LikeFatherLikeSon Like Mother Like Son]]: [[spoiler:He's much like Emmeline, open-hearted and simple.]]

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* [[LikeFatherLikeSon Like Mother Like Son]]: LikeParentLikeChild: [[spoiler:He's much like his mother Emmeline, open-hearted and simple.]]
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Sophie Turner plays Vida, who later pretends to be Adeline. The real Adeline is Emmeline's identical twin sister and as such played by Antonia Clarke.


-->'''Played By''': Creator/SophieTurner, Madeleine Power (child)

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-->'''Played By''': Creator/SophieTurner, Antonia Clarke, Madeleine Power (child)

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* ItsAllMyFault: [[spoiler:Blames herself for the accident where Moira was killed. This isn’t helped by the fact that their mother blames her and never forgave her.]]

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* ItsAllMyFault: [[spoiler:Blames herself for the accident where Moira was killed. This isn’t isn't helped by the fact that their mother blames her and never forgave her.]]



* DisappearedDad: [[spoiler:Charlie was never an active part of her life. And then he blew his own head off.]]



* LastOfHisKind: [[spoiler:The last known March after Vida dies at the end of the story.]]



* DomesticAbuse: Once Isabelle confirms she's coming home for good after having the twins, he takes out a razor and tells her to hold out her arm. Due to the non-chalance she does it, and the numerous scars on her arms, he's done it many times.

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* DomesticAbuse: Once Isabelle confirms she's coming home for good after having the twins, he takes out a razor and tells her to hold out her arm. Due to the non-chalance nonchalance she does it, and the numerous scars on her arms, he's done it many times.
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* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: [[spoiler:Unlike her unstable father Charlie, Vida is the closest to sane of the three girls.]]
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* SettleForSibling: [[spoiler:When Vida rejects him, he pursues Emmeline.]]

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* SettleForSibling: [[spoiler:When Vida rejects him, he pursues Emmeline.]] Subverted in that he only ''thinks'' they're sisters.]]
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* SettleForSibling: [[When Vida rejects him, he pursues Emmeline.]]

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* SettleForSibling: [[When [[spoiler:When Vida rejects him, he pursues Emmeline.]]
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* SettleForSibling: [[When Vida rejects him, he pursues Emmeline.]]

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* TeenPregnancy: [[spoiler:When she was 17, Ambrose Proctor, a village boy hired to help tend the garden, seduced and impregnated her. The baby was taken by Vida when Adeline attempted to murder him.]]

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* TeenPregnancy: [[spoiler:When she was 17, Ambrose Proctor, a village boy hired to help tend the garden, seduced and impregnated her. The baby was taken to a home in the village by Vida when Adeline attempted to murder him.]]


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* EvilAunt: To Emmeline’s son, making multiple attempts to murder him to the point that Vida had to hide him in the village for his own safety.

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* CompositeCharacter: In-story, Vida was originally named Adeline, the rambunctious, vicious twin. It turns out that [[spoiler:Adeline and "Vida" are two different people]].



* NoNameGiven: [[spoiler:When she was younger.]]

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* NoNameGiven: [[spoiler:When she was younger.younger, she had no name.]]



* StatuesqueStunner: In the adaptation; Creator/SophieTurner (Young Vida) stands 5'9", while Creator/VanessaRedgrave (Old Vida) is 5'11".



* OutlivingOnesOffspring: [[spoiler:She fights Adeline when she thinks that Adeline murdered her baby son.]]



* BiggerBad: Rarely makes an appearance, but his actions (abusing Isabelle, which leads to the ParentalNeglect) and [[spoiler:raping Vida's mother]] cause most of the problems in the story.


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* GreaterScopeVillain: Rarely makes an appearance, but his actions (abusing Isabelle, which leads to the ParentalNeglect) and [[spoiler:raping Vida's mother]] cause most of the problems in the story.

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-->'''Played By''': Olivia Colman

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-->'''Played By''': Olivia Colman
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* ItsAllMyFault: [[spoiler:Blames herself for the accident where Moira was killed. This isn’t helped by the fact that their mother blames her and never forgave her.]]


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* GetOut: [[spoiler:Vida fired him after he had sex with Emmeline and got her pregnant.]]

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* OutOfCharacterAlert: Adeline typically doesn't show concern over anything else and is too impulsive to try an elaborate cover-up. [[spoiler:Which means that Adeline wasn't the one who was taught to take care of the garden by John-the-dig and didn't talk to the solicitor to cover up Charlie's death. The one who was taught to tend the garden was Vida, the "ghost."]]

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* OutOfCharacterAlert: Adeline typically [[ItsAllAboutMe doesn't show concern over anything else or anyone]] and is too impulsive to try an elaborate cover-up. [[spoiler:Which means that Adeline wasn't the one who was taught to take care of the garden by John-the-dig and didn't talk to the solicitor to cover up Charlie's death. The one who was taught to tend the garden was Vida, the "ghost."]]



* ClingyJealousGirl: Takes this to murderous levels when someone else, namely Emmeline or Vida, gets attention. Due to jealousy, Adeline is responsible for the deaths of Missus and John-the-dig and attempted to murder Emmeline's baby son twice.

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* ClingyJealousGirl: Takes this to murderous levels when someone else, namely Emmeline or Vida, gets attention. Due to jealousy, Adeline attention and is personally responsible for the deaths of Missus and John-the-dig and attempted to murder Emmeline's baby son twice.son. Twice.
* EnfantTerrible: Hit the doctor's wife over the head with a violin at the age of nine.



* ForTheEvulz: Her only reason for injuring the baby in the carriage and [[spoiler: for killing Missus.]] They both did nothing wrong to her to deserve this.

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* ForTheEvulz: Her only reason for injuring the baby in the carriage and [[spoiler: for [[spoiler:for killing Missus.]] They both did nothing wrong to her to deserve this.



* VillainProtagonist: Subverted. The story is told mainly from Adeline's point of view, as Vida was originally Adeline. Then it turns out that Vida and Adeline are two different people.



* SoundOnlyDeath: [[spoiler:The first time we see it. There's only a scream, then cutting to Adeline (actually Vida) and Emmeline running over to see the Missus dead at the bottom of the stairs. Then in the OnceMoreWithClarity scenes, the real Adeline is seen hitting the Missus, causing her to fall to her death.]]

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* SoundOnlyDeath: [[spoiler:The first time we see it. There's only a scream, scream after Missus drops a lightbulb while replacing it, then cutting to Adeline (actually Vida) and Emmeline running over to see the Missus dead at the bottom of the stairs. Then in the OnceMoreWithClarity scenes, the real Adeline is seen hitting the Missus, Missus in the back, causing her to fall to her death.]]



* ContrivedCoincidence: Aurelius used to camp out at the ruins of Angelfield. [[spoiler: He would never have thought he was born there.]]

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* ContrivedCoincidence: Aurelius used to camp out at the ruins of Angelfield. [[spoiler: He [[spoiler:He would never have thought he was born there.]]



* BrotherSisterIncest: Has an unhealthy and sadistic obsession with his sister.

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* BrotherSisterIncest: Has an unhealthy and sadistic obsession with his sister.sister Isabelle.


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* RoomFullOfCrazy: He has a spot on the grounds where he'd rape Isabelle. [[spoiler:Vida finds him there, dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.]]
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* AxCrazy: She was dangerously unstable with murderous tendencies. Vida points out that "violence was always her first instinct."


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* ForTheEvulz: Her only reason for injuring the baby in the carriage and [[spoiler: for killing Missus.]] They both did nothing wrong to her to deserve this.


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* TheSociopath: She was ready to hurt and/or kill anyone whom she simply dislikes or poses as an obstacle to her ego.

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* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:Leaving Adeline to burn to death was bad, but Adeline ''had'' tried to murder Emmeline's son twice and would not have rested until she did.]]

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* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:Leaving Adeline to burn to death was bad, but Adeline ''had'' tried to murder Emmeline's son twice and would not have rested until she did. Adeline also gave Emmeline severe facial burns in the fight.]]



* NoNameGiven: [[spoiler:When she was younger.]]



* StatuesqueStunner: In the adaptation; Creator/SophieTurner stands 5'9, while Creator/VanessaRedgrave is 5'11.

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* StatuesqueStunner: In the adaptation; Creator/SophieTurner (Young Vida) stands 5'9, 5'9", while Creator/VanessaRedgrave (Old Vida) is 5'11.5'11".



* DomesticAbuse: Once Isabelle confirms she's coming home for good after having the twins, he takes out a razor and tells her to hold out her arm. Due to the non-chalance she does it, he's done it many times.

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* DomesticAbuse: Once Isabelle confirms she's coming home for good after having the twins, he takes out a razor and tells her to hold out her arm. Due to the non-chalance she does it, and the numerous scars on her arms, he's done it many times.


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* MadwomanInTheAttic: Male example and self-imposed.
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* BiggerBad: Rarely makes an appearance, but his actions (abusing Isabelle, which leads to the ParentalNeglect) and [[spoiler:raping Vida's mother]] cause most of the problems in the story.


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* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:Vida doesn't tell anyone about where his body was.]]
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* LikeFatherUnlikeDaughter: She's nothing like her psychopathic father, Charlie.

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* LikeFatherUnlikeDaughter: She's nothing like her psychopathic father, Charlie.



* {{Jerkass}}: Given how passive Emmeline is, Adeline probably planned the more cruel things the twins did, like pushing a baby carriage down a hill and ruining the topiary constructed by John-the-dig's father.

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* {{Jerkass}}: Given how passive Emmeline is, Adeline probably planned the more cruel things the twins did, like pushing a baby carriage down a hill and ruining the topiary constructed by John-the-dig's father.grandfather.



* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler:He and Missus are the only ones outside of the twins who know of Vida's existence.]]

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* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler:He and Missus are the only ones outside of the twins who know knew of Vida's existence.existence, or the fact that there were three girls in the house.]]

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