francoise galpin loved to brag about how normal her children were. how unremarkable and average emma and tyler were, how they never did anything noteworthy, how they weren't memorable, how they weren't good or amazing or above average when it came to any after school activity did or sport they tried out. but francoise galpin also screamed and sobbed and slammed her children into walls and tables the moment she felt they were anything but normal, the moment they opened their mouths too wide and little sharp teeth poked out, the moment they drew any attention to themselves, the moment anyone looked at them the wrong way, the moment they did something she didn't like, something she claimed was abnormal and special and just wrong

most people gave her odd looks when she boasted about her children's normality, most people didn't understand why she was so happy that her children's grades were nothing but jumbles of a's and b's and c's, but most people weren't galpins

the first time emma galpin bit someone she was five

she remembers it like it was yesterday, the moment the sweet, coppery taste of blood filled her mouth. how her teeth had felt dug into the soft flesh of tommy wood's arm. the way his screams rang in her ears in a way that drove her mad. the way an instinct she never knew she had kicked in more with each passing moment, forcing her to dig her teeth deeper, deeper into the boy's arm until it had taken two teachers to rip her off of tommy

she remembers how her mother had held her that evening and sobbed, cradling her and running a hand through her hair, whispering over and over again that she wasn't like her, that was different and normal and not special or anything remarkable

in the moment she'd felt upset, not because she'd taken a considerable chunk out of a boy's arm, but more because her mother kept insisting she wasn't special, that she wasn't different or remarkable or memorable. to emma that had felt like being called unlovable, like her mother was saying tyler was special and she wasn't, that she was something so forgettable and boring that her mother would forget her birthday like her dad always seemed to do. but the older she got the more she realized it had less to with her mother loving her less than she loved tyler more to do with the violent tendencies her and her brother developed over time as they got older

the sixteenth time emma galpin bit someone she was twelve

by the time her twelfth birthday rolled around, it had seemed like childish habit she'd left in the past. most people would joke about their children's biting habits, something that parents would bring up at book club or block parties and joke about, jostling their teens in the side and laughing along about how they used to be biters. but if you ever brought up the way emma and her sharp teeth used to latch upon the arms of her classmates, francoise galpin would scream and sob and beg you to never speak of it ever again until everyone around her went silent as a deafening uncomfortableness that settled in the air around them

emma doesn't even really remember why she did it. she was having so much fun, her mom was in one of her good moods, her dad had remembered that chocolate cake was her favourite and had got that instead of vanilla like last year, and she was having fun running around in the backyard with the kids who lived along her street. everything has be through a glowing, rose tinted lens one moment and then the next her teeth were dug into the freckled flesh of jenny prescott's leg and suddenly she was a curse placed upon her mother once again

emma and tyler galpin were a dark cloud that came into the world on may twenty third and never left. a curse bestowed upon francoise galpin, a burden she didn't want. they were two tiny mirrors, a constant reminder of who she was and where she came from, an everlasting glimpse into the deepest and darkest part of herself that she just wanted to smash into the ground over and over again until nothing remained but two bloody heaps 

the galpins weren't a normal family, there was something wrong with them, so wrong and rotten that it choked and poisoned all of them

the galpins were a family of monsters and the men they pretended they were

sophie thatcher ♱ emma galpin

emma stone ♱ scarlett aeternus

maya hawke ♱ xaviera thrope

dafoe keen ♱ charlie st. james

chester rushing ♱ terrence rhodes

jenna ortega ♱ wednesday addams

emma myers ♱ enid sinclair

christina ricci ♱ marilyn thornhill / laurel gates

joy sunday ♱ bianca barclay

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NEVERMORE ALLUMI

(  additional cast  )

winona ryder / francoise galpin ​†

olivia cooke / clementine addams ​†

rain spencer / agnes crackstone †

joe kerry / tobias sinclair

hunter doohan / tyler galpin

david harbour / donovan galpin

ethan hawke / vincent thrope

gwendolyn christie / larissa weems

georgie farmer / ajax petropolus

riki lindhome / valerie kinbott

moosa mostafa / eugene ottinger

raul julia / gomez addams

angelica huston / morticia addams

and the rest of the cast as originally played or described !!

authors note 🫀

"harley you literally just republished your stranger things fic and you're publishing a wednesday one-" shush shush i don't know what you're talking about

i'm actually beyond excited for this week, i literally spent a week studying the addams family for the theatre camp i was at and it has refuelled my obsession with this show!! idk if anyone even reads wednesday fics anymore but i'm praying someone will because this has single handedly brought back my writing and editing motivation!!

i'm giggling and kicking my feet over my gomez and morticia recasts because raul and angelica were the best gomez and morticia to ever gomez and morticia they were actually in love and they should be the standard for ever gomez and morticia to ever come out

my donovan recasting is really only cause i fancast winona as francoise because jopper is actually my everything and I feel like making myself and others sick and unhappy‼️‼️

i love all my ocs for this fic and all the toxic yuri y'all are gonna get to gobble up!

on the lovely topic of the ocs, xiavera is a rewritten xiaver since he's a stupid misogynist and since percy hynes is a bad person. she is now an awkward, virgin loser lesbian and she actually has feelings and cares about other people 

note 🦷

this fanfiction will contain murder, abuse, mommy and daddy issues, homophobia, bigotry, gore, blood, teenage angst, monsters, manipulation, girls kissing, and typical wednesday shenanigans

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