[ SECRET POST #5794 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5794 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[Shadow of a Doubt]


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[Endoparasitic]


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[Star Trek: Lower Decks]


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[Pride and Prejudice]


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[HBO's Rome]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I like this idea.

I think I see it that they didn’t necessarily stop being able to have children after Lydia, but more than Mr. Bennet flat out refused to even entertain the idea of more children after 5 healthy children (it was the 1800s, we don’t know if there were any losses not mentioned), so no sex - no children.

I also wonder if one of the married daughters produced a male heir, like if there was a Beau Bingley as a first born, Mr Bennet wouldn’t try to undercut Mr. Collins that way - or just plain sell the house to one of their wealthy sons in law. Again, I can see Mrs. Bennet strong arming the idea into Bingly to bug the property so they would be taken care of in their old age: Bingly’s so much of a puppy dog he would do it, with Jane endorsing it to just insure that she never has to live with her mother again.

[(Anonymous)]

Would that even be possible under the terms of the entailment? Passing to a grandson, I mean. They wouldn't have been able to sell the estate to a son-in-law.

[(Anonymous)]

Nope. As things stand, in canon, the male line is broken irrevocably with Mr B and only continues through Collins. Although how he can be called Collins, and not also Bennet is a matter for conjecture, if he is also a direct male line descendent. Grandchildren don't count, although if Darcy and Bingly, rich and connected men, had the right connections to the right judges and Members of Parliament, and were willing to spend the right amount of cash and owe the right amount of favors to them, then a specific Act or Judgement could be brought. Do we really see Darcy as the sort to gladhand and schmooze like that though?