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* AssPull: It's really quite fortunate that [[spoiler:Henry has his sudden, unexplained intimation of disaster]] and both [[spoiler:Jamie]] and [[spoiler:Owen]] have [[spoiler:exactly the same terrifying dream about disaster befalling]] because otherwise the last dramatic scenes at Bly Manor would have sadly ill-attended and probably fatal for [[spoiler:Flora]] or [[spoiler:Dani]] or both. And the actual cause of their [[spoiler:brakeneck race towards who knows what]] is never explained.
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* YourCheatingHeart: All over the damn place.
** Hannah howls in grief after she finds her husband having an affair, though we never see what she saw.
** Part of Jamie's backstory: her father was a miner and often away, and her mother became promiscuous with several men, which led to the birth of Jamie's younger brother. The rest of town, including her older brother, shamed Jamie for her mother's promiscuity.
** [[spoiler: Flora]] was conceived as a result of an affair between [[spoiler: her mother Charlotte and her "uncle" Henry]].
** Averted with Arthur and Perdita. [[spoiler: While they do marry after Viola's death, they did not have an affair while Viola was still alive. Viola assumes that they are, or that Perdita is making moves on her husband, and she abuses Perdita over it. Her ongoing abuse of Perdita eventually leads to her sister killing her]].
** Hannah howls in grief after she finds her husband having an affair, though we never see what she saw.
** Part of Jamie's backstory: her father was a miner and often away, and her mother became promiscuous with several men, which led to the birth of Jamie's younger brother. The rest of town, including her older brother, shamed Jamie for her mother's promiscuity.
** [[spoiler: Flora]] was conceived as a result of an affair between [[spoiler: her mother Charlotte and her "uncle" Henry]].
** Averted with Arthur and Perdita. [[spoiler: While they do marry after Viola's death, they did not have an affair while Viola was still alive. Viola assumes that they are, or that Perdita is making moves on her husband, and she abuses Perdita over it. Her ongoing abuse of Perdita eventually leads to her sister killing her]].
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* SharpDressedMan: Peter is immaculate in his personal grooming and dress, ensuring his physical presentation is no less than perfect. Given that having a personal valet is seen as a status symbol, Henry most likely pays him to remain as handsome as he can be.
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* SharpDressedMan: Peter is immaculate in his personal grooming and dress, ensuring his physical presentation is no less than perfect. Given that having a personal valet is seen as a status symbol, Henry most likely pays him to remain as handsome as he can be.
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* BadToTheLastDrop: Dani ruins tea whenever she tries to make it. According to Jamie her coffee isn't any better.
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* AdaptationAmalgamation: The series adapts several of James's stories, specifically ''Literature/TheTurnOfTheScrew'', ''Literature/TheRomanceOfCertainOldClothes'', and ''The Jolly Corner''.
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* AdaptationAmalgamation: The series adapts several of James's stories, specifically ''Literature/TheTurnOfTheScrew'', ''Literature/TheRomanceOfCertainOldClothes'', and ''The Jolly Corner''.Corner,'' and ''The Beast in the Jungle.''
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* SharpDressedMan: Peter is immaculate in his personal grooming and dress, ensuring his physical presentation is no less than perfect. Given that having a personal valet is seen as a status symbols, symbol, Henry most likely pays him to remain as handsome as he can be.
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** [[spoiler:Dani gives herself to Viola/The Lady in the Lake to save Flora. In turn, it releases all the ghosts caught in her gravity. Almost a decade later, however, the curse begins to overtakes her, going so far as to give her nightmares of [[KillTheOnesYouLove drowning Jamie]]. Rather than succumb to it, she makes the decision to go back to Bly Manor and drown herself in the lake to keep Viola's curse at bay and ensure that no one else will ever be taken by it.]]
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** [[spoiler:Dani gives herself to Viola/The Lady in the Lake to save Flora. In turn, it releases all the ghosts caught in her gravity. Almost a decade later, however, the curse begins to overtakes overtake her, going so far as to give her nightmares of [[KillTheOnesYouLove drowning Jamie]]. Rather than succumb to it, she makes the decision to go back to Bly Manor and drown herself in the lake to keep Viola's curse at bay and ensure that no one else will ever be taken by it.]]
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* UnnervinglyHeartwarming: The scene in which Miles apologises to Dani for his earlier misbehaviour by giving her a bouquet of flowers might have been cute and heartwarming... except for the fact that Miles appears to be flirting with Dani, even stroking her hair. Quite apart from the off-putting nature of a ten-year-old flirting with his adult au pair, Dani is clearly alarmed by the hair-stroking and not at all comfortable with anything in this scene. [[spoiler: For good measure, it's revealed that Miles is frequently possessed by the ghost of Peter Quint, meaning that an adult is essentially using the body of a child to make sexual advances on a grown woman.]]
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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Episode 8, "The Romance of Certain Old Clothes," puts the rising action on pause right before the finale to detail the history of Bly Manor and the Lady and the Lake in full MonochromePast mode.
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* AchievementInIgnorance: According to [[spoiler: Peter]], [[spoiler: Hannah]]'s ghost acts so differently by just ignoring [[spoiler: she]] is dead.
* AdaptationAmalgamation: The series adapts several of James's stories, specifically ''Literature/TheTurnOfTheScrew'', ''Literature/TheRomanceOfCertainOldClothes'', and ''The Jolly Corner''.
* AdaptationalHeroism: For whatever reason, Viola and Perdita from ''The Romance of Certain Old Clothes'' effectively swap names in the adaptation. As a result, Viola, while still no angel, is now [[spoiler:a mostly tragic figure with a strong FreudianExcuse, where her literary counterpart was consumed with jealousy and received a KarmicDeath]].
* AdaptationalVillainy: As a result of the name-swap between Perdita and Viola, Perdita becomes the one who [[spoiler:is hinted to be seducing her sister's husband, and the one who urges him to break his promise to the dying Viola]]. Additionally, [[spoiler:Perdita outright murders her sister here, something neither she nor Viola came close to doing in the original short story (there, Perdita simply dies due to complications from childbirth)]].
* AdaptationAmalgamation: The series adapts several of James's stories, specifically ''Literature/TheTurnOfTheScrew'', ''Literature/TheRomanceOfCertainOldClothes'', and ''The Jolly Corner''.
* AdaptationalHeroism: For whatever reason, Viola and Perdita from ''The Romance of Certain Old Clothes'' effectively swap names in the adaptation. As a result, Viola, while still no angel, is now [[spoiler:a mostly tragic figure with a strong FreudianExcuse, where her literary counterpart was consumed with jealousy and received a KarmicDeath]].
* AdaptationalVillainy: As a result of the name-swap between Perdita and Viola, Perdita becomes the one who [[spoiler:is hinted to be seducing her sister's husband, and the one who urges him to break his promise to the dying Viola]]. Additionally, [[spoiler:Perdita outright murders her sister here, something neither she nor Viola came close to doing in the original short story (there, Perdita simply dies due to complications from childbirth)]].
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* AchievementInIgnorance: According to [[spoiler: Peter]], [[spoiler: Hannah]]'s ghost acts so differently by just ignoring [[spoiler: she]] is dead.
* AdaptationAmalgamation: The series adapts several of James's stories, specifically ''Literature/TheTurnOfTheScrew'', ''Literature/TheRomanceOfCertainOldClothes'', and ''The Jolly Corner''.
* AdaptationalHeroism: For whatever reason, Viola and Perdita from ''The Romance of Certain Old Clothes'' effectively swap names in the adaptation. As a result, Viola, while still no angel, is now [[spoiler:a mostly tragic figure with a strong FreudianExcuse, where her literary counterpart was consumed with jealousy and received a KarmicDeath]].
* AdaptationalVillainy: As a result of the name-swap between Perdita and Viola, Perdita becomes the one who [[spoiler:is hinted to be seducing her sister's husband, and the one who urges him to break his promise to the dying Viola]]. Additionally, [[spoiler:Perdita outright murders her sister here, something neither she nor Viola came close to doing in the original short story (there, Perdita simply dies due to complications from childbirth)]].
* AdaptationAmalgamation: The series adapts several of James's stories, specifically ''Literature/TheTurnOfTheScrew'', ''Literature/TheRomanceOfCertainOldClothes'', and ''The Jolly Corner''.
* AdaptationalHeroism: For whatever reason, Viola and Perdita from ''The Romance of Certain Old Clothes'' effectively swap names in the adaptation. As a result, Viola, while still no angel, is now [[spoiler:a mostly tragic figure with a strong FreudianExcuse, where her literary counterpart was consumed with jealousy and received a KarmicDeath]].
* AdaptationalVillainy: As a result of the name-swap between Perdita and Viola, Perdita becomes the one who [[spoiler:is hinted to be seducing her sister's husband, and the one who urges him to break his promise to the dying Viola]]. Additionally, [[spoiler:Perdita outright murders her sister here, something neither she nor Viola came close to doing in the original short story (there, Perdita simply dies due to complications from childbirth)]].
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* AchievementInIgnorance: According to [[spoiler: Peter]], [[spoiler: Hannah]]'s ghost acts so differently by just ignoring [[spoiler: she]] is dead.
* AdaptationAmalgamation: The series adapts several of James's stories, specifically ''Literature/TheTurnOfTheScrew'', ''Literature/TheRomanceOfCertainOldClothes'', and ''The Jolly Corner''.
* AdaptationalHeroism: For whatever reason, Viola and Perdita from ''The Romance of Certain Old Clothes'' effectively swap names in the adaptation. As a result, Viola, while still no angel, is now [[spoiler:a mostly tragic figure with a strong FreudianExcuse, where her literary counterpart was consumed with jealousy and received a KarmicDeath]].
* AdaptationalVillainy: As a resultADeathInTheLimelight: [[spoiler:Episode 5, "The Altar of the name-swap between Perdita Dead," focuses exclusively on Hannah as she [[DeathByFlashback dream hops through her memories]], and Viola, Perdita becomes at the one who [[spoiler:is hinted to be seducing her sister's husband, and end of the one who urges him to break his promise to the dying Viola]]. Additionally, [[spoiler:Perdita outright murders her sister here, something neither she nor Viola came close to doing in the original short story (there, Perdita simply dies due to complications from childbirth)]]. episode it's revealed that she's dead.]]
* AdaptationAmalgamation: The series adapts several of James's stories, specifically ''Literature/TheTurnOfTheScrew'', ''Literature/TheRomanceOfCertainOldClothes'', and ''The Jolly Corner''.
* AdaptationalHeroism: For whatever reason, Viola and Perdita from ''The Romance of Certain Old Clothes'' effectively swap names in the adaptation. As a result, Viola, while still no angel, is now [[spoiler:a mostly tragic figure with a strong FreudianExcuse, where her literary counterpart was consumed with jealousy and received a KarmicDeath]].
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* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Everyone around them can tell that there's something between Hannah and Owen, but the two of them are studiously oblivious.
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* ThereAreNoTherapists: Initially played straight with regard to the Wingrave kids and their obvious grief and trauma, but eventually Jamie (who had to go to mandatory therapy [[DarkAndTroubledPast while in prison]]) does suggest to Dani that she take Flora to a psychologist instead of a medical doctor when her sleepwalking and troubling behaviour gets particularly bad.
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* YourCheatingHeart: A major theme.
** Henry was having an affair [[spoiler:with Charlotte behind Dominic's back--an affair that produced Flora]].
** In episode 5 it's revealed that the reason [[spoiler:Mrs. Grose lives at Bly Manor and never mentions her husband is because he cheated on her and left her for another woman]].
** Jamie reveals to Dani that [[spoiler:her mother started having affairs with [[ReallyGetsAround lots of men]] because she was lonely while her father was working down the coal mines, which made the family a laughingstock]].
** It's left ambiguous whether or not [[spoiler:Arthur Lloyd ever actually cheated on Viola with Perdita]]—-though it could certainly be considered an emotional affair-—but suspicion of this is what drives much of [[spoiler:Viola's abuse of her sister, and what eventually leads her to lock her clothes away]].
** Henry was having an affair [[spoiler:with Charlotte behind Dominic's back--an affair that produced Flora]].
** In episode 5 it's revealed that the reason [[spoiler:Mrs. Grose lives at Bly Manor and never mentions her husband is because he cheated on her and left her for another woman]].
** Jamie reveals to Dani that [[spoiler:her mother started having affairs with [[ReallyGetsAround lots of men]] because she was lonely while her father was working down the coal mines, which made the family a laughingstock]].
** It's left ambiguous whether or not [[spoiler:Arthur Lloyd ever actually cheated on Viola with Perdita]]—-though it could certainly be considered an emotional affair-—but suspicion of this is what drives much of [[spoiler:Viola's abuse of her sister, and what eventually leads her to lock her clothes away]].
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** Former ''Series/TheHauntingOfHillHouse'' alums, Creator/CarlaGugino and Kate Siegel make small but pivotal appearances.
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* IKissYourHand:
** Miles kisses the back of Dani's hand in a gentlemanly way when they first meet.
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** Miles kisses the back of Dani's hand in a gentlemanly way when they first meet.
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** Dani [[spoiler:spent a large part of her life repressing her sexuality and trying to feel the way she thought she was supposed to about her childhood best friend, even agreeing to marry him, but always knowing that it wasn't right for her. Then, when she finally told him that she couldn't marry him, he got angry at her and then immediately got hit by a truck and died, leaving her wracked with guilt and grief, to the point of running away to England to escape and manifesting a specter of him that haunts her. At Bly Manor, she is finally able to make a connection with a woman she actually has feelings for, but is held back by the specter's haunting, and once she finally is able to banish it and gets together with Jamie, they only get one day of being happy together before Dani first is knocked out and tied up in the attic by Peter and Rebecca and then sacrifices her future by inviting Viola's ghost into herself to save Flora. She does get thirteen years together with Jamie after that, but Viola starts haunting her increasingly after only about five, and after Viola inside her nearly chokes Jamie in her sleep she finally returns to Bly Manor and drowns herself in the lake to become the new Lady in the Lake and prevent Viola from harming anyone else]].
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* WhamEpisode: While every episode has one or more major reveal, "The Altar of the Dead" is particularly notable. Within one episode, several things are revealed that make a lot of earlier things start to make more sense, namely [[spoiler:that the Lady in the Lake is ''not'' Rebecca and is a serious threat, that Peter is dead and it's his ghost that Dani has been seeing, that Peter has been possessing Miles and that's why he keeps acting weird, and, finally, that Hannah herself has unknowingly been a ghost the whole time and died just moments before she first appeared in the story, and the crack that she keeps seeing on walls is from the well that she fell down]].
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** Miles and Flora have endured the death of their parents, abandonment by their uncle (their only living relative left to them), and the suicide of their au pair. And that doesn’t even cover being plagued by ghosts.
** Perdita [[spoiler: endures the death of her father and the frightening reality of her and her sister left destitute if they lose control of the manor. She then steps aside for Viola to marry Arthur even though it’s clear she has feelings for him. Then Viola falls ill and Perdita becomes her main caregiver for the six years she lingers on, becoming a bitter, abusive shell of herself. When she finally reached her limit and smothers her sister she thinks she is performing a mercy, but admits to herself after that it was for selfish reasons. And then her newly found happiness married to Arthur crumbles as money troubles drive them apart and Isobel rejects her as a mother and she never produces a child of her own. When she breaks and opens the trunk intending to save their home with the money, she has a brief moment of wistful happiness of how happy and comfortable she and her sister once were as she goes through the silks. Then Viola’s vengeful spirit chokes the life out of her and traps her to suffer forever.]]
** Miles and Flora have endured the death of their parents, abandonment by their uncle (their only living relative left to them), and the suicide of their au pair. And that doesn’t even cover being plagued by ghosts.
** Perdita [[spoiler: endures the death of her father and the frightening reality of her and her sister left destitute if they lose control of the manor. She then steps aside for Viola to marry Arthur even though it’s clear she has feelings for him. Then Viola falls ill and Perdita becomes her main caregiver for the six years she lingers on, becoming a bitter, abusive shell of herself. When she finally reached her limit and smothers her sister she thinks she is performing a mercy, but admits to herself after that it was for selfish reasons. And then her newly found happiness married to Arthur crumbles as money troubles drive them apart and Isobel rejects her as a mother and she never produces a child of her own. When she breaks and opens the trunk intending to save their home with the money, she has a brief moment of wistful happiness of how happy and comfortable she and her sister once were as she goes through the silks. Then Viola’s vengeful spirit chokes the life out of her and traps her to suffer forever.]]
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** Hannah passes a message [[spoiler: to Owen through Henry’s spirit as he hovers between life and death. She ends with “the rest is all...” and is cut off by Henry’s revival before she can say the last word, [[Series/TheHauntingOfHillHouse confetti]].
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** Hannah passes a message [[spoiler: to Owen through Henry’s spirit as he hovers between life and death. She ends with “the rest is all...” and is cut off by Henry’s revival before she can say the last word, [[Series/TheHauntingOfHillHouse confetti]].]]
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** Hannah passes a message [[spoiler: to Owen through Henry’s spirit as he hovers between life and death. She ends with “the rest is all...” and is cut off by Henry’s revival before she can say the last word, [[Series/TheHauntingOfHillHouse confetti]].
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* AnAesop: To truly know the joy of loving someone in life, is worth the heartbreak of losing them to death.
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[[caption-width-right:350: ''We lay my love and I beneath the weeping willow. / But now alone I lie and weep beside the tree. / Singing 'Oh willow waly' by the tree that weeps with me...'']]
->"Alright then. A ghost story. Again this story isn't mine, but it is full of ghosts of all sorts. And if a child gives the effect, another turn of the screw...what do you say to two?"
->"Alright then. A ghost story. Again this story isn't mine, but it is full of ghosts of all sorts. And if a child gives the effect, another turn of the screw...what do you say to two?"
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[[caption-width-right:350: ''We lay my love and I beneath the weeping willow. / But now alone I lie and weep beside the tree. / Singing 'Oh 'O willow waly' by the tree that weeps with me. / Singing 'O willow waly' till my lover return to me...'']]
->"Alright ->"Alright, then. A ghost story. Again Again, this story isn't mine, but it is full of ghosts of all sorts. And if a child gives the effect, another turn of the screw...what do you say to two?"
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In the 1980s, Dani Clayton (Pedretti) leaves America for England, and begins to work as a governess for orphans Miles (Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) and Flora (Amelie Smith). As Dani slowly gets to know the children and their trauma, she also begins to unravel the dark history of Bly Manor and its inhabitants.
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In the 1980s, Dani Clayton (Pedretti) leaves America for England, and begins to work as a governess an au pair for orphans Miles (Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) and Flora (Amelie Smith). As Dani slowly gets to know the children and their trauma, she also begins to unravel the dark history of Bly Manor and its inhabitants.
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-->'''Dani:''' People do, don't they? Mix up love and possession. [...] I don't think that should be possible. I mean, they're opposites, really. Love and ownership.
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* CentralTheme: The difference between love and possession. This is primarily explored through contrasting the relationships between Rebecca and Peter and [[spoiler:Dani and Jamie]], but it crops up everywhere.
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-->'''Dani:''' People do, don't they? Mix up love and possession. [...] I don't think that should be possible. I mean, they're opposites, really. Love and ownership.
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* RichLanguagePoorLanguage: The British characters fall into this across the board. The Wingraves, who are among the peerage, all speak with [[IAmVeryBritish very posh accents]]. Meanwhile, among the manor's staff, Rebecca, a well-educated prospective lawyer, has a higher-class accent than Hannah and Owen, respectively a housekeeper and a cook, while Jamie, a groundskeeper and the daughter of a coal miner, has [[OopNorth a strong Northern accent]].
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* AFamilyAffair: [[spoiler:Henry fell in love and had an affair with Charlotte, his brother Dominic's wife, who did love both of them but ultimately chose Dominic before her death.]]
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* SiblingTriangle:
** [[spoiler:Henry fell in love and had an affair with Charlotte, his brother Dominic's wife, who did love both of them but ultimately chose Dominic before her death.]]
** [[spoiler:Perdita met Arthur first, and the two were charmed by each other, but once Viola entered the picture, Perdita's chances with Arthur severely diminished. Arthur almost immediately fell in love with Viola and married her, but his feelings for Perdita seemed to never go away, and thus after Viola's death, or in reality murder, he married Perdita. However their marriage was never quite as happy or loving as Arthur's to Viola.]]
** [[spoiler:Henry fell in love and had an affair with Charlotte, his brother Dominic's wife, who did love both of them but ultimately chose Dominic before her death.]]
** [[spoiler:Perdita met Arthur first, and the two were charmed by each other, but once Viola entered the picture, Perdita's chances with Arthur severely diminished. Arthur almost immediately fell in love with Viola and married her, but his feelings for Perdita seemed to never go away, and thus after Viola's death, or in reality murder, he married Perdita. However their marriage was never quite as happy or loving as Arthur's to Viola.]]
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* SiblingTriangle:
** [[spoiler:Henry fell in love and had an affair with Charlotte, his brother Dominic's wife, who did love both of them but ultimately chose Dominic before her death.]]
**SiblingTriangle: [[spoiler:Perdita met Arthur first, and the two were charmed by each other, but once Viola entered the picture, Perdita's chances with Arthur severely diminished. Arthur almost immediately fell in love with Viola and married her, but his feelings for Perdita seemed to never go away, and thus after Viola's death, or in reality murder, he married Perdita. However their marriage was never quite as happy or loving as Arthur's to Viola.]]
** [[spoiler:Henry fell in love and had an affair with Charlotte, his brother Dominic's wife, who did love both of them but ultimately chose Dominic before her death.]]
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* TragicKeepsake: Dani has a pair of glasses with a broken lens, [[spoiler:which belonged to her former fiancé and were given to her by his mother after he died. She ultimately ends up [[BurnBabyBurn throwing them in the bonfire]] so that she can move on, because they served mainly as a reminder of the guilt she feels about the events leading up to his death]].
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler: According to Owen, Flora and Miles have no memory of the supernatural events that happened at Bly Manor and have only a vague memory of Hannah. This is confirmed when the bride is revealed to be an older Flora who doesn't seem to recognize the story being told.]]
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* CreepyDoll:
** Flora has multiple creepy handmade dolls on her dollhouse, including one for every person in the house as well as other unknown dolls. She refers to them as "talismans". One of them seems to have a screaming mouth and is kept separate from the others. [[spoiler: We're shown that her mother taught Flora how to make them, and they seem to move and change locations on their own around the dollhouse, helping the kids figure out where everyone (including the ghosts) are, and they're pivotal to keep them and the adults safe from Viola's ghost.]]
** When Dani goes to the basement to recover one of the aforementioned dolls after Miles throws it down the chute, she finds a pile of creepy broken toys and dolls. [[spoiler:One of them sits up once she leaves.]] [[spoiler: Furthermore we're shown later that this "doll ghost" is the ghost of a boy who was given a broken doll's face to wear as a mask by Flora from the pile of broken toys.]]
** Flora has multiple creepy handmade dolls on her dollhouse, including one for every person in the house as well as other unknown dolls. She refers to them as "talismans". One of them seems to have a screaming mouth and is kept separate from the others. [[spoiler: We're shown that her mother taught Flora how to make them, and they seem to move and change locations on their own around the dollhouse, helping the kids figure out where everyone (including the ghosts) are, and they're pivotal to keep them and the adults safe from Viola's ghost.]]
** When Dani goes to the basement to recover one of the aforementioned dolls after Miles throws it down the chute, she finds a pile of creepy broken toys and dolls. [[spoiler:One of them sits up once she leaves.]] [[spoiler: Furthermore we're shown later that this "doll ghost" is the ghost of a boy who was given a broken doll's face to wear as a mask by Flora from the pile of broken toys.]]
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* RaisedCatholic: Hannah is often found praying in the Manor's chapel, and lighting candles in remembrance of the dead. She also clutches her rosary when she fears that Peter is back on the grounds once again.
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** Even in the story, while most of the weirdness is confirmed to be real, it's never definitively said if [[spoiler:Dani's visions of Edmund and Henry's doppelganger]] were real or just trauma-induced hallucinations.
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** Even in the story, while most of the weirdness is confirmed to be real, it's never definitively said if [[spoiler:Dani's visions of Edmund and Henry's doppelganger]] were real or just trauma-induced hallucinations. A case can be made for the second since both disappeared as soon as [[spoiler:Dani and Henry]] face their respective demons, something that can't be said for any of the other ghosts.
