OVERHATED CHARACTERS POLL: Meg Thrombey (Knives Out)
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bcs her closet is glass and she’s so gorgeous!! fem!reader but it’s rlly ambiguous sooo??
her love language is gift giving!! she mostly gives you jewellery and you two match rings<3
you get on with joni very well (bcs if she wasn’t supportive she’d get cancelled but COUGH COUGH) and she’s SOOO FUNNY but unintentionally
meg is a very good cook and makes you dinner every time you come over. her favourite thing is to bake your favourite kind of baked good.
you met her in college and you get into friendly debates all the time
she’s protective as fuck and defends you against her family when they get mouthy at you (especially jacob)
she reads a lot but is ashamed of it. you buy her books for every occasion and she writes a lot in margins.
she can go on long rants when you are alone together and it’s so endearing
she likes to wear your clothes and steals your jumpers especially all the time!!
she can play guitar and taught herself through youtube videos when she was 13. she is embarrassed of it though and won’t play it for you unless you beg her (then she will because she has a massive soft spot for you)
she says i love you first and spent a long time deciding when was the right moment.
she’s a strong advocate for midi rings. you never wore them until she told you how good they look over and over and forced you to wear hers.
she also makes you swap rings frequently. it’s how joni found out there was something going on.
can you tell i like her rings yet!?
she procrastinates her school work but gets it done so quickly it impresses you.
her perfume is burberry her because linda gifted it for christmas and she hasn’t looked back since.
okay that’s it for now but i’ll probably write more and with more clear fem!reader and also masc!reader probs
There are exactly two of the living and antagonistic (i.e. not Harlan or Nana) Thrombeys in Knives Out that I feel sorry for, even despite their actions. Basically all of them rally around the common cause of trying to get back the inheritance they feel they are entitled to, discarding all their previous animosity towards each other in order to go after Marta, and that's bad obviously, but even if they're acting as entitled assholes there's still reasons to be sorry for two of them IMO. Possibly more, but this is off the top of my head and a while after watching.
First, and probably less controversially, is Meg; yes she tries to guilt Marta into giving the inheritance to them, but at least part of that is likely the social pressure from the rest of the family, and considering the lie her mom told her about how Harlan hadn't provided for the degree she cares about when it was actually her taking it for herself, this is very understandable. I still don't like what she did, but she's the most sympathetic of them.
Second, and possibly more controversially, is Linda. Is she a colossal bitch to Marta and arguably the most entitled-acting Thrombey after the will reading? Yes. I'm not saying she's blameless, or even that she deserves as much of the inheritance as she thinks she does. But if you look past that, those few days are utterly hellish for her - her father, who she at least thinks she cares about, committed suicide for no apparent reason, and her husband, who she also cares about, is revealed to be cheating on her on top of that. In just a few days, she's lost - or found out she'd lost a while ago - the two closest, most cared-about relationships she thought she had, and that's a horrendous blow for a person to take.
I wouldn't give either of them what they think is their due, but of all the living Thrombeys they'd probably be the pair I personally would actually try and help in the aftermath if I'd been involved.
So I completely forgot that I was in the Glass Knives Zine this is what I get for ignoring notifications. My writing is on page 34 (Marta and Meg after Knives Out) but you should read everyone else's as you go!