I just re-read Everingham and the ending especially freaked me out. Fanny talks to her cousin/BIL/best friend Edmund, and Henry flies into a jealous rage, says Fanny needs to inform him of her whereabouts, and she apologizes for talking to her own family member!!! That is abuse. It's called coercive control and it is very much abuse. Especially for Fanny, who only has like a single friend, and then Susan and William.
In fact, the whole fic seemed to blame Fanny for being too judgy when Henry's behaviour towards Maria is fine? Henry actually says that Rushworth gets jealous without cause (WHAT???) and Fanny agrees with him! Henry was not reformed and Fanny lost her moral integrity. This is not a happy ending.
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I just re-read Everingham and the ending especially freaked me out. Fanny talks to her cousin/BIL/best friend Edmund, and Henry flies into a jealous rage, says Fanny needs to inform him of her whereabouts, and she apologizes for talking to her own family member!!! That is abuse. It's called coercive control and it is very much abuse. Especially for Fanny, who only has like a single friend, and then Susan and William.
In fact, the whole fic seemed to blame Fanny for being too judgy when Henry's behaviour towards Maria is fine? Henry actually says that Rushworth gets jealous without cause (WHAT???) and Fanny agrees with him! Henry was not reformed and Fanny lost her moral integrity. This is not a happy ending.