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"Lady Jane"

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Image:Quote1.png The year is 1851. The place is the county of South Yorkshire, England. My name is Alicia Huston. And this is the first day of my descent into Hell. Image:Quote2.png
-- Lady Jane


Appearing in "Lady Jane"

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Villains:

  • Osgood Proctor (Only appearance; dies)

Other Characters:

  • Aleister Huston (Only appearance; dies)
  • Albert Huston
  • Emma Wesley (Only appearance; dies)
  • Granny Catgutt
  • Miriam Wesley
  • Ruth Huston

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Synopsis for "Lady Jane"

Abigail Holland gets into an argument with her husband, the Swamp Thing. Abby is unhappy with the decision to have the elemental, Lady Jane, playing nanny to their infant child, Tefé. Alec attempts to calm her down, but in doing so, he accidentally implies that Abby cannot take care of Tefé as well as Lady Jane can. This drives Abby into even greater fury. Alec pulls her outside the house to the front yard where Jane is playing with the baby. He pulls a blossom off of Lady Jane's back and has Abby eat it. Immediately, Abby becomes aware of Lady Jane's origins.

Flashback

Yorkshire, England, 1851
Alicia Huston is married to a wealthy man named Aleister. They live in a lavish country home in Yorkshire and have a young daughter named Ruth. Through a series of poor investments however, Aleister loses his fortune and is forced to sell his home.
Alicia, Aleister and Ruth have little choice but to move into a flophouse in Sheffield. They live with a middle-aged woman named Emma Wesley who has several children of her own. Aleister finds work at a steel factory while Alicia is forced to work at a textile mill with Emma.
Their financial situation becomes even more burdensome when Alicia discovers that she is pregnant with her second child. They name their son Albert after the Prince of England. The day after Albert Huston's birth, his father is killed in a tragic accident at the steel factory. Alicia is forced to work double-time just to make ends meet.
The foreman of the mill, Osgood Proctor, offers Alicia a way to earn some extra income. Alicia is not happy with the arrangement, but she feels that giving in to her boss' affections is a small price to pay in order to feed her children.
Alicia's luck take a turn for the worse however, when she soon discovers that she is now pregnant with a third child. The father is, of course, Osgood Proctor. She approaches her boss to see what kind of financial stability she can expect him to provide her, but he utterly dismisses Alicia, taking absolutely no interest in her unborn child.
Alicia cannot even conceive about raising a third child under such conditions. At Emma's urging, she seeks out an old crone named Granny Catgutt. Granny feeds her a special concoction that induces her to miscarry.
The following day, Alicia returns to work at the mill with Emma. While having a conversation with Alicia, Emma's arm is caught inside the machinery and savagely chewed away. Alicia tries to help, but her boss forces everyone to return to their duties as if nothing ever happened. Emma bleeds to death, and her body is wrapped in a heavy tarp and pitched into the back of a wagon.
Compounding the tragedies in Alicia's life even further, she returns home only to find that the house she shared with Emma is now engulfed in flames. She races towards the burning building, desperate to save her children, but the flames consume her as well. She falls backward into the River Don. The children (including Emma's) die in the fire. Alicia emerges from the river transformed. She is now a plant elemental and nurturer spirit.
Calling herself Lady Jane, Alicia Huston returns to the textile mill and uses her elemental powers to weave mill fibers into a noose, which she uses to execute Osgood Proctor. She then sets fire to the factory and saves the life of a child worker trapped by the flames.



Notes

  • In the 1851 flashback, Emma Wesley jokingly warns her daughter Miriam not to burn down the house. Ironically, the house does in fact burn down. It is unknown whether or not Miriam had anything to do with the fire.


Trivia

  • One of the street signs in Sheffield reads "Eaton Court" after artist Scot Eaton.

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