“There’s a lady falls from a window in the west wing. […] And a strange creature that roams the grounds. Half man, half ape.” - Barclay Beg-Chetwynde in 1x05
Does this mean that Robin, just like Fanny, can sometimes be seen by living people? Perhaps on nights of a full moon, when the light hits him just right?
Either way it would mean Robin has not just one but at least two ghost powers - electric light manipulation and (conditional) visibility - and that Mike could actually see him under the right circumstances.
[Image description: a drawing of Lady Fanny Button and the headless body of Humphrey Bone from BBC Ghosts. They are holding hands and walking forward. Lady Button is on the right and is wearing a pink and yellow Edwardian dress. She is laughing with her head tilted back and her eyes closed. The headless body is on the left and is wearing a white ruff and a long red coat over a red jerkin, striped short breeches, and red tights and boots. They are walking outside and are surrounded by hedges and cherry trees. There are cherry blossom petals blowing across the scene and there is text in the middle which reads, “I Love Lucy.” End image description.]
None of the ghosts were able to attend their own funerals because they wouldn’t have been held on the grounds. Perhaps Kitty and Fanny could have witnessed their wakes or after funeral gatherings but that’s it. None have seen their own graves(apart from the plague pit). Kitty, Thomas, Fanny, The Captain, Pat & Julian have gravestones out there somewhere.
Wouldn’t it be sweet to have Alison and Mike do some research and travel to their graves to take photographs so they can come back home to show the ghosts where they are buried.
Robin’s body was probably dragged off somewhere by a bear and most of Mary would have been consumed by fire and incinerated so no burials for those two sadly.
Of all of them, Fanny would be the most curious to see what epitaph her family made for her and if it looks regal and dignified enough.
At first I thought The Captain being an army officer during the war meant he would be buried along side them but since he died most likely AFTER the war was over, maybe not. It’s possible he was taken to be buried elsewhere if he had relatives that would claim him. That might have pained him somewhat because I think he felt the most comfortable in the army. We never hear him talk about anything else. No childhood memories or family. Clearly the army was his tribe.
Hi! So I just wanted to introduce you all to my ghosts au, which I’ll hopefully be doing some fanart for in the future! If you have questions please feel free to ask! My inbox is always open
This au starts as normal, Allison and Mike inherit button house, move in, and Allison has a near death experience by falling out of a window. What’s different is that there are clubs using the house (similarly to the kitty centered episode) when they move in, and there are no ghosts at all. However, instead of ghosts, there is a lovely therapy group for people who have experienced near death experiences and are trying to cope with their narrow escapes of death. This group is the ghosts we all know and love, their near death experiences being related to how they died in show.
Allison decides to sit in on one of these meetings, as she is too coming to terms with her near death experience, and finds a family among this group of people. All of the ghosts we know and love attend this group (with the main ghosts being the regulars and the plague pit ghosts cycling in and out of the group) and they slowly work through their issues together with this found family.
Now, here’s a little bit of specific plot (featuring the Captain):
Captain and Humphrey both work to run the group, though Humphrey is more the person helping with the actual therapy portion, while the Captain is a sort of facilitator for this group. Allison initially was unsure if he just worked for this group or if he too had experienced a chance with death, however as the group has grown closer over the meetings she has determined that he has, but she doesn’t know too much.
What she does know is that the Captain used to have a boyfriend (Havers). While she doesn’t know much, she has heard from the other members and Captain himself that they never officially broke up, but rather Havers had moved. Allison has a feeling however that there’s more to the story than is being let on. (Her theory being he may have died in whatever accident the Captain had gotten into, but the Captain isn’t ready to open up about him yet)
Feel free to ask me questions about this au and the modern versions of the characters that would be seen in this au!
