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evita-shelby · 2 years

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Cursed

Part two.

Part one

Cw: suicide, mentions of past cheating, refrences to an abortion, murder and the usual Peaky Blinders dark themes

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“You lied to me, Grace. You told me he was mine, you told me you had been with no one else but me.” Tommy is bruised physically and emotionally, but his voice never rises against her.

He is not the type to hit or even yell at a woman, and Grace feels relieved to know that.

“I’m sorry, Tom. I thought he was, but when I realized that he was Jack’s---” she found herself lost for words.

“It was too late.” He finished for her.

“What will happen to us?” She asked, afraid of what will become of them.

“We’ll divorce, I’ll be generous and provide for the two of you. Given that you refused to let me adopt him and his birth certificate shows your late husband as his father, we will say that he is his son. Charles will be Charles MacMillan just as you still are Grace MacMillan.” He explained as of she was an employee and not his wife.

You don’t even deserve his kindness, Clive says in her ear.

“And what will we say?” the world isn’t kind to divorced women, especially women who cuckold men.

“That it didn’t work, that I cheated on you and that it was my fault.” That is was my fault for trusting you, she can hear it.

“I’ll leave Arrow House and go to London, I'm expanding my offices there anyways and I won’t be spending time here.” He added.

I’m leaving you. You have lost me forever.

“Did you think karma wouldn’t find you, Gracie dear?” Clive laughs over her shoulder.

The household looks at her with pity especially when Tommy leaves with his things and has what’s left moved to a room far from hers.

Its then that Grace decides that she will only be here until the divorce is finalized.

He hasn’t touched her since that day, she and Charlie live in Arrow House and he lives in London.

There is no chance for reconciliation, no chance that he will accept Charlie as his son after the reveal.

Whatever love they had was killed by her.

Her fourth casualty.

She calls Clive’s mother, tells her a sanitized version of the events and reveals that Charles is Clive’s son.

“We will take the boy, but not you.” The woman says in her thick Irish accent.

So she calls her family, praying that she could have a life with her son without being a burden for Tommy.

“Charlotte told me what happened, even worse, she told me she had an interruption after falling pregnant under your roof. Some maids had a field day with the gossip. The best we could do for you is to get you to Boston and have you live there under an assumed name.” her uncle, General Curran, said. “Better dead than a divorced whore.”

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“It has to look real.” Grace goes to the only person who can kill her.

Tommy hadn’t been able to pull the trigger, Michael had trembled like a leaf before retching into a vase, so it falls on the one woman who can: Polly.

“I may be able to help you with that.” This isn’t the same Polly she met. No, this one has dark circles under her eyes and a sickly undertone to her skin.

This one can see ghosts, sees Clive smothering her with his presence and communicated with him as if he were alive.

This one would kill her in truth, but either way Grace has lost all that she had.

She lost herself the second she returned to England, she lost Tommy with her lies and now she’s lost Charles.

Death would be a kindness.

“He wants to marry Lizzie, you know. Says she’s the only woman he can trust now.” Polly says as she aims the gun at her forehead.

“I wish them well and tell Tommy I never meant to hurt him.” Grace shuts her eyes on instinct as the bullet is fired.

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Grace Helen Shelby died, and Helen Nelson was born.

She is a barmaid, who helps her neighbor who has too many children and no husband to help her.

Helen likes to keep up with news in England, Boston and Ireland.

Helen isn’t hurt when she reads about Thomas Shelby who has become an MP and his wife, Elizabeth, and their daughter, Ruby.

But Helen cries herself to sleep whenever the Macmillans are photographed with the boy who was once hers.

“Did you really think karma wouldn’t find you, Gracie-dear?” Clive says as the woman aims her old gun at her temple and pulls the trigger

#tommy shelby x grace #lizzie stark x tommy shelby #tommy x lizzie #tommy x grace #cw: hallucinations #cw: suicide #anti-grace-burgess #anti-grace-shelby

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emotionalcadaver · 11 months

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Part 13: Dance of Darkness

Fandom: Peaky Blinders

Pairing: Tommy Shelby x Grace Burgess x OC

Summary: Tommy and Lucy spend a little more time with May.

Word Count: 3,445

Notes: Warnings for references to violence.

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Chapter 8: Temptation

“What happened here?” Lucy asked, brushing her fingers along the scrape that marked Tommy’s right temple.

“I went to the Digbeth Kid’s grave site to give his mother the first payment from the fund,” he said glumly.

“She hit you?”

“Only a few times. It was the ring that scratched me.”

“Mm,” she ghosted her fingers along the red markings once more before dropping them. “How was the meeting with Campbell?”

Tommy let out a bitter chuckle, leaning back in his chair. “You remember those Irish people who blew up the Garrison? The ones I had you look into?”

“Irene O’Donnell and Donal Henry?”

“Mhm. They’re working with Campbell.”

She straightened. “Irish working for the King?”

“Funny, isn’t it?”

“What did they want?”

He reached into a drawer, and pulled out a file, handing it to her. “For me to kill this man.”

Thumbing through the pages, she frowned. “Why?”

“They weren’t particularly forthcoming with that information.”

“Hm…” she rested the knuckles of one hand against her lips as she scanned over the papers. “You tell Campbell about how Henry meets with anti-treaty Paddies in the backroom of the Mother Red Cap in Saltley?”

“Yeah. I also told him that he needs to take care of Henry first before I even think of taking on the assignment.”

She closed the file and handed it back to him. “Good. Donal Henry’s an ass.”

“You’ve never even met him.”

“I know what you’ve told me about him. And I’ve heard the reports from our men who have followed him. That’s more than enough to convince me.”

∗ ∗ ∗

“Donal Henry’s dead,” she told Tommy as soon as the doors to the office were shut behind her. “They just found the body and confirmed it.”

Looking up from his desk, Tommy’s eyes darted away, nodding.

“So, shall we start planning the murder, then?”

“I suppose so.”

They began to pour over the file Campbell had given Tommy in earnest. Lucy kept chancing glances up at Tommy as she leaned back in one of the chairs in front of his desk, a leg crossed over the other. He was hunched over his papers, sighing and pressing his fingers to his temples, massaging circles into them while he cleared his throat. It was unsettling to see him looking so anguished and stressed, to the point that she considered suggesting to him that he just let her take the whole assassination on by herself.

Brows furrowing, Tommy pulled his hands back, staring at the bloodied smear that stained his fingertips. The rubbing had torn open the scabs on his temple from where the Digbeth Kid’s mother had struck him. He stared at his hand for several long moments, before closing the file and putting it in a drawer, clearing his throat as he stood to get a drink from the shelf, wiping a rag over his fingers.

There was a knock at the door, Lizzie poking her head in to tell them that there was someone here about the accounts clerk position they’d put an advertisement for in the paper. There was mumbling outside the office as Lizzie ushered the man in, and then approaching footsteps, the door closing.

“Michael?”

Lucy looked over her shoulder to see the boy smiling, and grinned to herself, turning back to face Tommy’s desk as she shook her head fondly. Good to know that the incident back at the auction hadn’t scared him off, she supposed.

He was a stubborn one, not dissuaded by Tommy’s attempts to tell him that the position was already filled, listing off his qualifications after setting his application down and taking the empty seat next to Lucy in front of the desk.

When he was done, Tommy put his glass of whiskey down and picked up the phone, setting it down in front of Michael.

“You phone your mother,” he gestured to Lucy and she stood, following him as he headed to the door. “Good luck.”

Lucy snorted. “Poor kid,” she said, once the doors were closed. Tommy chuckled.

“He did make a compelling argument for himself, though.”

“Mhm. And it would be nice to have the vacancy finally filled. The work’s starting to pile up. You think Polly will actually agree to it?”

Tommy sighed as they headed for the doors leading outside, shoving his hands into his pockets. “Maybe. She’s been better, since he got back, but she’s still…”

“Unpredictable?”

“She’s very protective of him.”

“Understandable.”

He hummed in agreement. “But could cause issues. And not just regarding this. You heard him in there. He’ll be eighteen by the end of the week. I think she still sees him as a little boy, in a lot of ways.”

“Not exactly the way that a young man wants to be treated,” Lucy huffed, pulling on her cap as they stepped out onto the street. “Only so much we can do, though.”

“Mm. I’ll try talking to her. Give her some assurances.”

∗ ∗ ∗

“May!” Lucy rushed through the kitchen into the main part of the betting shop, heading straight for the brunette standing in the middle of it all, wide eyed and looking a little lost. John was standing in front of her, incredibly close. “It’s good to see you again.”

“Hello, Lucy,” May greeted, looking relieved at the presence of a familiar face.

“Sorry that I’m late,” Tommy cleared his throat as he came in behind her. “There was a family matter. Esme, keep it locked up for a minute.”

“Yes, Thomas,” Esme said.

“I’ll show you around,” Tommy told May. John didn’t move, continuing to stare at Tommy with a mischievous look on his face.

“John, scram,” Lucy said. He snorted, but spun on his heel and headed to his office.

May began to wander about curiously, eyes still wide as Tommy explained where the offices were and how they conducted business.

“When I drove into Small Heath I thought I was going to get murdered. Then I mentioned your name. It was like being escorted to see a king,” May leaned against the desk across from them.

“You came here to get my girl, right?” Tommy asked. Lucy bit her lip at the potential double entendre that was there, elbowing him just lightly enough to be subtle. He shot her an amused look for a fraction of a second.

“Right,” May said.

“Come with us, then,” Lucy beckoned with her head, and May followed them outside and down the road to Charlie’s yard, where the horse was being kept.

“This is Charlie. Charlie, this is May Carleton,” Lucy introduced them. “And Curly.”

Curly waved excitedly at May while Charlie gave her a respectful nod.

“Go get her, Curly. Go on,” Tommy said. The stableboy rushed off, returning a moment later leading the gorgeous gray filly by the reins.

“She looks in very good condition considering she’s not been out on the gallops,” May began to approach the horse, assessing her. Tommy stroked the horse’s snout. Lucy gave her a little kiss between the eyes.

“So what time is your box van coming?” Tommy asked.

“Midday.”

“You’ve got time to take the lady to the Garrison. Show her the spa and the tearooms,” Charlie said.

“Very funny,” Lucy glowered at him playfully.

“I’d like that. Why not?” May interjected. Lucy shot Tommy a look. He shrugged.

“All right, then.”

“Do you keep other horses at the yard?” May asked, as they began the walk to the pub.

“Tommy has a stallion. I have a chestnut filly. We take them out riding, whenever we get the chance,” Lucy said. May nodded.

It was quiet in the Garrison, when they stepped in. Empty.

“I just had it done up. There was a fire,” Tommy went behind the bar, asking May what she would like to drink.

“It’s so early, but gin.”

Lucy hopped into a chair at the bar. May slid into the space next to her. Close enough that Lucy could smell the flowery scent of her perfume. Tommy grabbed a bottle and a glass, placing it in front of May and pouring the clear booze until it nearly touched the rim. May looked somewhat horrified.

“Goodness. With something?”

Tommy’s eyes darted to the glass of liquor, up to May, then back again. Lucy pressed her knuckles to her lips to try to hide her smile. He looked so utterly confused. Like the idea of a mixed drink was an entirely new concept to him.

“Like what?”

“Tonic water or…”

Lucy giggled. Tommy turned back around to stare at the shelf of booze behind him. “Uh…” he cleared his throat. “We have, um…cordial,” he snatched up the bottle, went back to May, nodding to her glass. “There’s not much room in there, but…” he poured the cordial in, stopping just when she was worried that the glass might overflow. He gave Lucy a glass of whiskey, before pouring one for himself.

“Do you want to fuck me, Mrs. Carleton?” he asked, turning to face her, leaning against the bar in front of May, who looked like she’d been dangerously close to choking on her drink. Lucy raised her eyebrows. Wouldn’t exactly have been the approach she personally would have taken in regards to them all getting into bed together. But she couldn’t deny Tommy’s success rate, so she’d let him work without interjection. “Perhaps because I…perhaps because I represent something to you?” he pulled out a cigarette. “We should have this conversation before the booze starts talking for us,” he explained at May’s perplexed expression, striking a match.

May looked to Lucy, eyes wide. Lucy just smiled at her, shrugging. Betting that the woman was smart enough to be able to figure out the whole arrangement on her own without needing it spelled out for her. May’s eyes darted between them. Yes, definitely smart enough.

She spoke slowly, clearly choosing her words carefully, as she explained that she was there purely because of the horse. And the money Tommy was paying her to train her.

Lucy eyed her carefully, not entirely sure she believed her. But certainly not willing to push the subject anymore, should she be wrong. Tommy let it go as well, simply raising his glass in a toast to their horse and the Derby. Lucy clinked her glass with his before drinking.

“So is that what you say to women?” May asked.

“Sometimes,” Lucy volunteered. Tommy shot her a look. She just grinned around another sip of her drink.

“Only if I don’t know what they want,” he said.

“And what if they don’t want to fuck?” it sounded funny, to hear such a seemingly posh woman curse like that.

“Then life is simpler.”

“You want a simple life?”

Tommy scoffed, placed both hands against the bar. “Do I look like a man who wants a simple life, eh?”

“So what do you want?”

“For what I’m paying you, Mrs. Carleon,” Tommy leaned forward. “I want a horse that will pay out at Epsom on an each-way bet.”

May reached out and pulled the cigarette box Tommy had left on the bar and pulled it closer to her, fumbling with it as she began to talk about the background checks she had done on him. He had no credit record, but she had heard about the medals he’d won for his time in France.

Tommy looked down, face contorting for a moment, just a moment. Like it almost always did whenever someone brought up his medals. “Does that really impress you, Mrs. Carleton?”

“Call me May.”

Lucy felt one side of her lips pull up in a smile. Aha. Progress.

“And you…” May turned those big doe-eyes onto Lucy. “I heard quite the shocking stories about you when I made some enquiries about you in London.”

Lucy bit her lip, setting her glass down and fingers almost immediately starting to fidget with her rings. “Yes, I’m sure you have.”

May frowned. “We need not discuss it any further, if you’d prefer. You hardly know me, but…” she straightened up in her seat. “I am sorry for what happened to you.”

Lucy blinked. So few people had actually said that to her. She wetted her lips. “Thank you,” she was not quite sure what else to say.

“You seem to have done quite well for yourself, though…”

“Mm. Yes, I suppose you could say that,” Lucy looked to Tommy, who was leaning against the bar in front of her, watching the interaction shrewdly. One side of his lips pulled up when he caught her glancing at him.

“When I saw you two at the auction I was certain that you had to be married,” May was looking between them curiously.

“We’re not.”

She raised an eyebrow, looking half amused. “Yes, you said that before,” her eyes danced in a way that made it clear her words were not intended to be malicious or even prying. “And yet it still seems to me that you are married, in just about everything but in name.”

“You didn’t seem shocked when I asked you about fucking,” Tommy pointed out.

May chuckled. “I think you’ll find, Mr. Shelby, that the posh can be just as debauched as the poor. In that we are the same. The scandals I could tell you about…”

“Well, we need to arrange a time to talk that,” Lucy grinned. “I’m always eager to collect good blackmail material should I ever need it.”

May laughed. “I would enjoy that, I think, so long as you’re willing to tell me tales of life as a gangster,” she looked them both over. “I think that this partnership will be quite informative and educational for all of us.”

The door opened, and Finn stepped in to inform them that the box van had arrived. Tommy dismissed him.

“You know, I still don’t know what you’re going to call your horse,” May commented.

Tommy hesitated, thinking it over. “The horse will be called Grace’s Secret.”

Lucy almost dropped her glass, jerking with the name, eyes widening as she stared at Tommy, heart suddenly aching with the reminder of the woman that they both missed so much.

∗ ∗ ∗

“Well, don’t you both look fancy,” Lucy grinned as she stepped out of her flat, locking the door behind her.

Polly smiled, smoothing down the material of her dress, tightening her fur coat around herself. “Thank you, Lucy.”

Tommy had gone by to pick up Polly before Michael’s birthday party, and to talk about the possibility of employment for Michael. “I see that no one is sulking or has a black eye, so I’m assuming talks went well?” she asked, as all three of them began to walk towards the Garrison.

“We had to bump up the rate to four bob,” Tommy, said flashing Polly a good natured smile. “And I promised to keep him away from the old business.”

“Fair enough.”

As she walked past him when he held the door open to the pub, he whispered into her ear. “You look nice.”

She felt herself blush. She wasn’t even wearing anything all that exciting. Just a somewhat nicer, more form fitting suit than the ones she wore normally. “Thanks.”

Arthur, John, Finn, and Esme were all already crowded into the snug. Plopping down in a chair next to Tommy, Lucy nudged Arthur with the toe of her shoe.

“How’s London treating you?”

“Oh, it’s the best, Luce. You’ve got to come down, sometime. See the club now, eh? Now that we’re in charge,” he grinned at her from over his glass. She nodded politely. Arthur and the Black Country boys had taken Sabini’s club, the same one that they’d visited when leaving their message to Alfie. Arthur was technically in charge of running it. Considering the man’s new proclivity for snow, she wasn’t entirely sure how long that arrangement would be able to go on.

The door opened. “There he is. Look,” Arthur straightened as Polly came in with Michael. Everyone stood, cheering in congratulations, wishing Michael a happy birthday. Tommy handed him a leather case, inside of which Michael found a golden pocket watch, and when he informed that his employment had been accepted, his face broke into a massive grin. Tommy raised a toast, and they all clinked their glasses together.

Lucy leaned subtly into Tommy’s side, smiling as everyone at the table started to play a round of cards.

“If I find out you’re cozying up to me to sneak a look at my cards, I’ll be very cross with you,” Tommy threatened into her ear, even as his thigh pushed against hers under the table.

“Pfft. I don’t know what you’re talking about. It’s just a little cramped with so many people in the snug, that’s all.”

“Mhm,” he snorted. She beamed at him, looking him up and down. She couldn’t wait to get him in the privacy of their own home later, where she could snuggle up to him openly without fear of anyone noticing.

When she looked across the table, it was to find Polly staring at them, eyes narrowed. Lucy shifted, her warm mood cooled somewhat at having those dark eyes staring at her, somehow accusingly, though Lucy couldn’t possibly imagine what for.

Polly was too smart not to have some notion of what was going on between them. While they were not open about their relationship, they also weren’t always the most restrained when it came to certain things–touching specifically. They were constantly struggling–and more often than not failing–to not hold hands, brush against each other, link arms as they walked…and they’d admittedly gotten even sloppier with it as the years went by.

No, certainly Polly had to know what was going on between them. There was no way she didn’t, even if none of them actually acknowledged it.

And yet, for some reason, the thought of it finally being made official just how much Polly knew about their relationship terrified her.

∗ ∗ ∗

He watched as the men around him unloaded the crates from the boats, giving a vague, noncommittal answer as Johnny Dogs asked him how his life had been.

“But Tom, really, come on. How is it? You know I hate to see you not even married yet,” Johnny crowded in closer, grinning. “I have a fine looking cousin, she would make your life hell. You deserve her. We haven’t had a good old wedding in a long time,” he chuckled. Tommy smiled, eyes glancing over to where Lucy was helping to coordinate the unpacking, running a hand through her auburn hair. “Surprised that you haven’t hitched yourself to your lovely Red Demon yet. Pretty and wild as she is.”

Tommy shot him a look. Johnny laughed. “Not as subtle as you think you are, Tom. I see things,” he pointed to his eyes, still smiling gleefully.

“Lucy isn’t interested in marriage, Johnny,” Tommy said. And it wasn’t like he was ever going to push the issue on her. And he couldn’t argue with her reasoning; the expectations and duties that came with being a wife certainly were not the type of things that Lucy would enjoy. Sitting at home all night, cooking, cleaning…no. His Lucy needed to be a part of the action. Running about with them men. Or else she would lose her mind from boredom. It wasn’t something he was in any rush to do, either. They loved each other. They were together. That was all that really mattered to him. Though she knew that the offer was open, should she ever want it.

“Too wild to truly be tamed, eh? Nothing wrong with that,” Johnny laughed good naturedly.

“Have you had a look inside these boxes, Johnny?” Tommy asked, eager to steer the conversation in a less personal direction.

“Why do I want to look at car parts, Tommy, when I haven’t even got a car?”

He put an arm around Johnny’s shoulders, explaining in a low voice how he wouldn’t mind should one piece of merchandise go, ahem, missing, every now and then. But no more than that. That would be tax. And they didn’t pay tax. Johnny mumbled his understanding.

“Good man,” he patted him on the back, stretching up until he caught Lucy’s eye and beckoned for her to follow him. She jogged over to him, and he began to make his way up the stairs, where Billy Kitchen met him halfway.

“I put an iron door on. We’ve got bars on the windows and across the skylights,” Billy reported.

“Good.”

“So what will you be keeping in here, Tommy?”

“Temptation, Billy,” was all he answered, vaguely. “Temptation.”

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lucien-calore · 1 year

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loveisalwaystheanswer · 2 years

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Have you considerd that maybe the slutshaming and the anti sexworker rhetoric you use to say Grace is better than Lizzie in like half of your posts about Grace x Tommy might why people reported you?

Hello, anon!)

Maybe you will be surprised to know, but I'm a feminist and I'm always on women's side. I think this slutshaming is disgusting and I never said that I support it in any kind of form. And I never judge people by what they do for a living. This trait can't define anyone.

Also, I never said I don't like Lizzie. On the contrary, I find her very strong (finally!), kind and courageous character. That's because I think she should've never married him. No one deserves such attitude. And all these posts you're talking about were made just to emphasise Tommy's behaviour towards her, not mine. These are the facts that were shown us through all the series. You may like it or not, but this is what SK gave us.

After Grace's death he started acting very VERY awful, especially when he's with Lizzie. And please, try not to confuse my attitude towards her with Tommy's.

And what about that reporting (don't really think there was it, because c'mon who are we? kids?), I didn't know that having your own opinion is forbidden. Please, let's be kind and respectful to each other and don't mix real people with characters. We can discuss characters' behaviour, but not our opinions and feelings about it. Having feelings about the show is ok. We're all different and it's soooo good! Because sometimes this is what makes us think about anything differently and find our own insights.

I'm sorry you're feeling yourself this way :( I didn't mean to hurt anyone here.

Have a great day! 🤍✨

#tommy and grace #tommy x grace #tommy x lizzie #anon or not #asks #lizzie stark

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huntzbergered · 6 years

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@lovelyreetpetite

Bc Tommy has legit never shown that level of romantic interest in Lizzie and she's been around longer than Grace. Yes he fucks her occasionally and it means more than some random nobody or crazy Russian chick but he doesn't give her any thought outside of the few moments they spent together. Shown by the careless regard of her just in this season alone (I don't even like Lizzie and I would say she deserves more).

Also wasn't Lizzie into John at one point? Lol. And Michael?? Like shit why and when and for what reason did Lizzie/Tommy become a thing ugh. When we have May (!) or idk, Jessie, or maybe someone from Tommy's past...like, shit. Lizzie isn't strong enough a character for Tommy. She acts like one, but nah.

Plus the childish way she interrupted his meeting with May, what in the fuck. That was embarrassing. I don't even know why she wants his kid. Like his first comment was that he'd pay for an abortion lolol.

Not to mention the haphazard way they threw them together this season was so out of nowhere? Like he gets a blast from the past and then drags Lizzie to his little rendezvous point...and that's the first time we ever see them kiss. I was in shock.

#anti tommy x lizzie #peaky blinders spoilers #peaky blinders #lizzie stark #tommy shelby

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vole-mon-amour · 2 years

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I am not sure I will have the energy to write a decent post on this later, so here is this: Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Stark reserved so much better. She deserved to know what her husband is up to. She deserved to know that he is grieving, too. She deserved to know that he DID love her and was not saying this for whatever reason. She deserved to be trusted and loved the way the show portrayed he always wanted Grace which is an absolute nonsense. Lizzie deserved to have her husband by her size when their daughter was dying. She deserved to carry all his secrets and not be cheated on—again, for whatever reason. If he claimed to love her, there was no such reason to cheat on her. Lizzie deserved to feel safe, well cared for, LOVED. At some point it was Ada who cared about Lizzie much more & I even started wishing that it was Ada and Lizzie who shared the same house and the same bed and were supporting each other through every battle. Even Charles saying Lizzie is more of his mom than Thomas is his dad. I don't understand why they needed to create such drama for s6 where the plot weren't moving at all & they wasted all the opportunity (Ruby was supposed to be a Hollywood star! Like Polly predicted!), but I know that Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Stark deserved so so sooo much better. I loved her and I loved their couple with Tommy that I am really sad and disappointed about what the writers did to her and to them. Portraying as if Grace was his tribe soulmate, hunting him everywhere, when she wasn't even accepting him and his life and his personality. While Lizzie has to sit through every one of his nonsense and be by his side. Say goodbye to their dying daughter and making excuses for why Daddy isn't there. I can't say s6 was good & I can't fully feel for the finale. As glad as I am that Thomas is okay, as much as he can be with his ptsd & hallucinations, the creators completely ruined that part that I loved very much and cheered for. Thomas and Lizzie were so soft, so in love, and in the end?? Like, I shipped Tommy and Alfie a little, but I wanted for my canonical couple to be happy together. We couldn't even get that.

Well, at least Lizzie said that she would blow up the house and Thomas did it. And he was wearing the wedding ring till the very beginning which, you know, kinds shows that Lizzie DID mean something to him. Still, it wasn't nearly enough. The grief and disappointment I feel about the writers ruining Lizzie and Tommy's potential as a couple and their future... It is kind of unbelievable. Not to mention what Lizzie succumbed to be as a character for the couple of last seasons. God, she was so cool. I loved her so much. Now it's just empty and numb. Will forever love and miss my girl.

#peaky blinders #tommy x lizzie #thomas shelby #lizzie stark #anti tommy x grace

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craziigamerchick · 4 years

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Tommy x Grace - Tommy x Lizzie Anti-Parallels

I wanted to make a breakdown post about how both relationships have the same things happen (baby, marriage, May, working for Tommy) but have totally different outcomes. This is really long. Just warning you.

lets start with season 1:

The church confession vs sidewalk pickup

Similarities

He sets them both up for failure. “You’re a good catholic girl aren’t ya?” and “That’s 8 bloody pounds.”

Offers them a job. Grace - book keeper and Lizzie - prostitute (she’s supposed to have quit). They both accept.

They both get upset when they realize he is calling them out. “you pull a pint like someone who’s thinking about it” “John will make his own decision but he will have all the facts”

The face caress. This actually what made me realize how similar these scenes were.

Differences

He takes Grace from the street to a church while with Lizzie he just stays on the street.

He’s happy Grace accepted the offer but upset Lizzie did.

When Grace gets upset and goes to leave he stops her but with Lizzie he lets her go.

Him and Grace kiss after the face caress where Lizzie slaps his hand away.

In the scene with Lizzie he constantly has the upper hand but with Grace, she knocks him off balance a bit “and perhaps mine”.

END RESULT: GRACE - Tommy leaves first and both are feeling pretty good. LIZZIE - Lizzie leaves first and both are upset

season 2:

Sex scene with Lizzie vs sex scene with Grace

Similarities

SEX. I think this is the only similarity but I could be missing something.

Differences

L&T are almost fully clothed where G&T are naked

L&T have groaning. G&T there is only music.

Lizzie does most the talking afterwards in their scene. Tommy does most of the talking with Grace.

Tommy leaves Lizzie right after and stays the night with Grace

The lighting is more warm with L&T and more cool with G&T

Pays Lizzie money and not Grace.

END RESULT: GRACE - he stays the night with her LIZZIE - he leaves right away

First scene after both women have accepted the job

Similarities

Tommy wants a letter delivered

Differences

Tommy tells Lizzie the information of the letter and she is actually the one that writes it. With Grace he doesn’t let her in on the details of the letter he wants her to deliver.

Grace is brought up in the scene with Lizzie (her letter from NY). Lizzie is not in G&T scene.

Tommy and Lizzie are together when scene ends. Tommy leaves during scene with Grace.

Grace asks questions. Lizzie none, just relays information.

Lizzie seems to be awed by who the letter is to (churchill) and Grace comes off as suspicious of him having her deliver a letter to his sister.

Grace over steps her bounds with the champagne and Lizzie does everything pretty much perfectly

END RESULT: GRACE - Tommy leaves and Grace is upset with him. LIZZIE - Tommy stays and him and Lizzie are in good spirits with each other

Using Lizzie at the end of s2 vs using Grace with Kimber (both are at the races)

Similarities

Tommy uses both women. Grace to close the deal with Kimber and Lizzie to get Russel alone.

He instructs them about their apparel. Lizzie to undo 2 buttons. Grace to wear a red dress.

Neither lady is too pleased with him and both let him know it.

Differences

Tommy makes it in time to save Grace from getting raped but not Lizzie

He never planned on saving Grace but did where as he planned on getting to Lizzie on time but didn’t

Once he seen what Kimber was doing to Grace he rushed in but when you could clearly hear what was going down with Lizzie and Russel, he kept at the same pace till he made it to them (wtf though. this will never fail to piss me off. like you can clearly hear Lizzie in pain and he can’t even run to her)

There was dancing and flirting with Grace but none of that with Lizzie. Lizzie tried to convey her feelings to Tommy but he wasn’t even paying attention.

Grace kept her voice a whisper when told what to do even when pissed. Lizzie raised her voice and even threatened Tommy.

Tommy kills Russel but not Billy Kimber (not then)

He tried to comfort Lizzie (she ain’t having it) but not Grace

Tommy made it to Grace because he came early where with Lizzie he would have made it in time even though he had to go around if he wouldn’t have went to Campbell to just to gloat about Grace’s feelings for him.

He put his plan in jeopardy to save Grace and put Lizzie in jeopardy to gloat to his enemy.

MY THOUGHTS: There has to be way more that I’m missing but these aren’t just one scene each and there is so many layers behind all of the scenes.

END RESULT: GRACE - Doesn’t get raped and leaves with Tommy. Lizzie - Gets raped and leaves separately from Tommy

Season 4

Lizzie with May and Grace with May

Similarities

both women have little snark fest with May over Tommy

May comes to the area both are already at

The women that start the snark are the ones that Tommy favors the least at that moment

Differences

May is the aggressor with Grace in her scene whereas Lizzie is the aggressor in her scene with May.

Grace wins/has the last word with May whereas May gets the last word with Lizzie

After L&M had words Tommy still tried to hook up with May but after G&M had words Tommy never tried to hook up with her again (while grace was alive)

Tommy is pissed with Lizzie about it but we never find out what he thinks about G&M

END RESULT: GRACE - Has the last word and May leaves instead of waiting for Tommy. LIZZIE - Lizzie doesn’t get the last word and May waits for Tommy

Pregnancy announcement

Similarities

both announce to Tommy they’re pregnant when he has other things on his mind

both tell him he’s the father and he believes both of them.

“a baby Thomas” and “a little you and me”

Differences

At first he tells Grace to pass it off as her husband’s but implies to Lizzie to get rid of it

He’s shocked with Grace and lost for words but just stone faced with Lizzie

Grace tells him I love you but Lizzie never says anything like that

He tells Grace he will figure out what to do later whereas he tell Lizzie how it’s going to go down right away

He gets lost in the moment with Grace but with Lizzie his mind is still stuck with what happened (killed 3)

He plans on Marrying Grace (after he doesn’t die) and plans on just giving Lizzie a house and Money

He leaves WITH Lizzie but leaves Grace to keep with his plan

MY THOUGHTS: Tommy isn’t in a good headspace for the news with either one. He seems happy about it with Grace but to me it’s more happy that she loves him than that she is pregnant. I don’t think he came across as unhappy with Lizzie but more like oh ok we’ll deal with it. I definitely think it showed the disconnect between Lizzie in Tommy this scene but more on that during this next section.

END RESULT: GRACE - He’s happy and the scene ends with them going separate ways with future unknown. LIZZIE - He’s not happy (not mad though) and the scene ends with them leaving together and future plans known

Garrison murders aftermath vs I killed 3 (during pregnancy announcement)

Similarities

Tommy is in a bad mental place because of what just happened

Both try to give comfort (Lizzie the handhold and Grace the hug)

Differences

Grace is able to bring comfort to Tommy (the closed eyes when they are hugging) whereas Lizzie tries but it doesn’t work.

Grace seen what Tommy did but Lizzie only heard about it

Grace brings Tommy comfort because they just saw each other murder someone and can understand what the other is feeling whereas Lizzie hasn’t done that yet and can’t connect on that level

Grace and Tommy are interrupted by Moss whereas Tommy breaks it up with him and Lizzie

Grace kind of puts Tommy in that situation whereas Lizzie has nothing to do with it (not directly at least but it did all start because she was dating Angel)

MY THOUGHTS: Grace brings Tommy comfort for this sort of thing because she’s seen him at his worst and vice versa and she understands. They just get each other on a deeper level. Lizzie tries to comfort him with the handhold but when she bends down to him they bump heads (ouch) and she doesn’t know what to say to bring comfort. They also don’t keep the forehead touch going on like G&T do. She brings up the baby but that’s not what he needs right at the moment. It’s telling right before she goes in to tell him, he is looking at Grace’s picture. Longing for comfort from the person who gave it to him before. This scene is where Lizzie also tells Tommy if he thinks she would get rid of their baby he doesn’t know her (showing he doesn’t really know her. which is also shown in the “WTF was that” scene about May). Yet, he’s told Grace they “know each other”.

END RESULT: GRACE - Moss breaks up their hug and Tommy is still upset and not hiding it. Then he walks her home and they share a cigarette (showing they’ve become closer as it’s more intimate). LIZZIE - Tommy breaks up the hand hold and pulls himself together even though he is still upset and drives her home but we don’t see it.

Season 5

Lizzie shoots gun vs Garrison murders

Similarities

Both women are wearing maroon

Both walk out with the gun and start shooting

Tommy is stunned both times

There are 2 other men involved

Tommy’s life is threatened both times when each woman comes out

Both shoot twice

Both save Tommy’s life

Happens at night

Differences

Lizzie doesn’t shoot anybody, just in the air but Grace shoots and kills one of the men

Lizzie speaks and then Tommy. For Garrison murders, Tommy speaks and then Grace.

Lizzie keeps the gun pointed at Tommy but Grace never points it at him (towards him at Byrne but not at him)

Tommy looks hurt that Lizzie is pointing gun at him and upset with Grace for shooting when he told her to just point

In the pub both men are IRA and at the house both men are Gypsies

Both men live with Lizzie but both men die with Grace

Happens inside with Grace and outside with Lizzie

Grace and Tommy get hurt but Lizzie and Tommy are both fine

Tommy and Lizzie help both men (Lizzie calls ambulance for Aberama and Tommy helps Johnny inside) whereas Grace and Tommy kill both men

Lizzie walks inside during scene and Tommy heads that way too but Grace and Tommy both just stand there till the next scene

Lizzie was shaking holding the gun but Grace was steady (she has training)

L&T sex scene in bedroom vs G&T sex scene at Ada’s

Similarities

close up on their faces at the beginning

the lighting is similar in color

the kissing is very audible in both scenes

the hand gripping the furniture

Differences

Lizzie lays down how things are going to go whereas Grace is trying to figure out

Grace touches Tommy’s face but Tommy is the one touching Lizzies face

Tommy focuses mainly on Lizzie’s body but focuses only on Grace’s face

the music is loud during G&T scene but low on L&T

heavy moaning during L&T during the sex but music takes over during G&T

G&T kiss most of the scene but L&T there is only a bit of it

Tommy throws Lizzie on the bed but walks Grace to the couch carefully

bed vs couch

there is some stripping in L&T but putting the clothes back on for G&T

Grace wants to make sure there is nobody else and Lizzie is ok with their being others as long as he follows her rules

MY THOUGHTS: The Lizzie and Tommy scene also reminded me of the May and Tommy scene from season 2. Lizzie and May are both wearing the same color of nightwear and they go the desk then the bed in both scenes. Which could also parallel the wedding episode where Grace and Tommy start kissing at the desk but move to the bed also. He is more gentle with Grace than the other two and there is more kissing. Grace is also wearing purple where the other 2 appear to be wearing light pink.

END RESULT: LIZZIE - Her and Tommy seem to have a deal in place about how their relationship is going to be going forward. GRACE - Her and Tommy’s future is still uncertain

Lizzie’s Birthday vs G&T Wedding

Similarities

A big party with lots of people at the arrow house

they keep guests waiting while they have sex

enemies are in attendance

someone gets shot

Neither woman knew about the enemy until the party

Tommy does business during the party

after sex we see both ladies pulling up their stockings on one leg

Differences

Tommy doesn’t want the Russians near his house but invites Mosely there

Worries about Grace being embarrassed and threatens his people over it but let’s Mosely embarrass Lizzie and says nothing (she has to save face by saying Mosely fell asleep early even though Lizzie just told Polly they fucked)

Polly is friendly with Lizzie but not with Grace

G&T dance but we watch other people dance (swans) instead at Lizzie’s party

the person that gets shot at the wedding dies but Linda lives

Lizzie interacts with the enemy whereas Grace doesn’t

Tommy tries to hide the stuff from Grace but doesn’t Lizzie

L&T have sex once whereas G&T have sex twice

Loud moaning during sex with L&T, none with G&T

Sex is fully clothed with L&T but with sex scene we do see G&T are completely naked

Tommy warns Lizzie about the enemy beforehand but Grace has to get the information out of Tommy after it’s started going down

Enemy has ties to Lizzie but Russians have nothing to do with Grace

END RESULTS: LIZZIE - Tommy gives her more information about what’s going on and gets comfort from her (they end the scene together). GRACE - Her and Tommy get interrupted during sex and he goes to take care of their son and look out the window (a sign of worry/anxiousness)

So that’s all the scenes but here are some other details where they are the same but opposite:

Had a child with Tommy. GRACE - a boy and named after a real actor. LIZZIE - a girl and Ruby because she might grow up to be an actress herself according to Polly (also Ruby is red and Grace was wearing a sapphire which is blue and we all know red and blue are opposites).

Tommy asks Lizzie if she wants to fuck (also uses that vulgarity on other women) but never uses that vulgarity with Grace.

Lizzie has threatened Tommy with a Gun 2x even though they have never been enemies but Grace who was his enemy never did.

In S5 Lizzie represents the black swan (she has it on her coat in episode 1) and Grace the white swan (there is an article about it). Now go look up the ballet Swan Lake....

Tommy has insulted both of them (”I still pay for it in my head” and “you’re used to be undercover”), Lizzie takes it while Grace smacks him.

Both are/were his wife. Lizzie is alive but Grace is dead.

His wedding ring with Lizzie is a plain one but a special one with Grace (can anyone tell me what’s engraved on it?).

He makes promises to both of them and breaks them. Lizzie gets angry and storms out whereas Grace says something about and Tommy makes her come with him (scene with RIP Charlie)

When the women order drinks, Grace ordered the champagne and Lizzie the Vodka tonic.

He’s given them both gifts. He gave Lizzie money as a gift in 4x1 and Grace the sapphire in 3x2

RANDOM OBSERVATION:

When Tommy introduced his wife to Mosley he called her Elizabeth (he calls her Lizzie right after that). Her and Polly are both standing there and both of their names are Elizabeth. It felt like that was on purpose by the writers (Polly’s actress even says she is like his wife but without the sex). His work wife (who he is related to) and real wife share the same name...ughh gross. I know Mosely already met Polly and everything but the writers love to show us about how Tommy and Polly are the Head of the family. It just felt wrong.

Which I also think the only reason Polly likes Lizzie for Tommy is because she knows she’ll never lose him to her. She knows Lizzie has no sway over Tommy and she can stay his true wife/partner. I say “true” because Tommy does tell Lizzie things but as we see in S5E1 he tells Polly more (and Lizzie is not happy about it).

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nat111love · 4 years

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PART 2

Do you think you could do a meta of the difference's between tommy's romantic relationships? Mainly between Grace, May, and Lizzie. Especially G and L. I see so many people say he's starting to fall for L (saying she was his property and hand holding this season).

OK, l don’t know if you’re new to this fandom , if you are l want you to know that 95% of the fandom is anti grace shelby which means that the fandom will only give you a distorted and very partial view of grace and lizzie !!

The FANDOM would have you believe that tommy wasn’t in love with grace, that tommy loves the idea of grace not grace, that tommy has been in love with lizzie for years but he just didn’t want to admit it because she wasn’t from a higher social class, they would have you believe that grace didn’t love tommy but his money....that grace and tommy had nothing in common when they were basically the same person but in different sides of the law(l could point out all their similarities here but not the topic) .The fandom as a whole hate that woman so take anything people say with a large pinch of salt lol.

Quick summary:

The fisrt season is set in 1919 and season 5 is set in 1929 which means that lizzie has known tommy for at least 12 years (She was in tommy’s life before grace we know this because tommy mentioned it in their first scene and she’s still in his life years after grace’s death).

Lizzie has known tommy for 12years... 12 years during which they had an off and on no strings attached sex. Tommy used her sevice when there was no woman in his life and stopped using it when he was with grace and maybe may .

For tommy it was just sex but lizzie wanted it to be more than what it was.

We saw it in 2x01 when she asked to be treated like a woman with whom he had a relationship with instead of a prostitute

“ l wish just once you wouldn’t PAY ME .”

“As if we were ordinary people” but tommy brushed her off.

We saw it in 2x06 when she was excited he was taking her to the derby and she proudly showed off her dress , lizzie “what do you think” tommy “about what” lizzie “about the dress” his answer to her was “ undo two buttons”.

We saw it when she tells him “there’s been no hardship (giving up prostitution) you know why?“....she was probably going to mention her feelings for him but he ignored her again....Because she agreed to do what was asked of her, tommy offered her money

”l’d like to pay you an extra five--”.

So….why did I bother quickly re-capping up to this point?

Because that summary...the scenes l mentioned are not lizzie’ and tommy’s marriage origin story but their whole story.

l’m going to point out a few of the differences between tommy x grace and tommy x lizzie pairing and similar moments with dramatically different outcomes since that’s what we are here for:

-Tommy and lizzie had sex with no emotional connection and without knowing each other personnally for years / when tommy and grace spent a year getting to know each other and only slept together when they were already in love .

-The child that lizzie and tommy had together was conceived while he was “fucking someone else in his head”/trying to reconnect with his past / when the child that tommy and grace had together was conceived when tommy was trying to reconnect with grace a woman he loved and failed to get out of his system.

-When grace was with kimber tommy was in the car the entire time, and couldn’t stop thinking about her / when lizzie was with the soldier she was supposed to seduce to help tommy, tommy was with campbell talking about grace and her feelings for him.

-Lizzie’ pregnancy reveal

Tommy loves children and having another child was a good news.... to lizzie it was also a chance to establish an emotional connection with tommy something she’s failed to do for years .

Tommy “l got three. lizzie”

Lizzie “l know tom”

Tommy “one of them point blank”

Lizzie with tommys’ hand in hers and a tender smile on her face “A baby a little you and me.”

Tommy doesn’t react to what she just said, he breaks the eyes contact and then repeats “point blank lizzie” .You could see the smiles gradually disapearing from her face. She was trying to connect with him but he wasn’t listening to her , and all he wanted to think or talk about was luca changretta and his men .

Tommy added “and he looked up to me” then said “fuck” . He drank his wisky and ended up the conversation by saying

” you will get an allowance every week from the company business is booming l will buy you a nice house , eh . “

Once again he offered her MONEY, when all she wanted was to share a special moment with him, she wanted him to share her excitement....that news could’ve been the beginning of something beautiful between them but it didn’t work because he still didn’t reciprocates her feelings.

-Grace’ pregnancy reveal

Grace with her tenderest, most loving expression on "Because the thing is , I love you , not him "

Tommy still shaken to the core by the baby news can’t stop looking at her in wonder. In his softest voice he answered “that is a thing”

Grace “a baby thomas” tommy’s eyes went downward to her baby bump while saying “yes”. They stared at each other for a few second without saying anything... She loves him, they are having a baby and she LOVES him...and she chose him...tommy put his affairs in order because he thought he was going to die. He was prepared to die and was at peace with the idea of his death . But now he’s not because a life with a person he's been moping over for years is suddenly possible but he's going to die. That pregnancy reveal was a very bittersweet moment for tommy.

All the scenes mentioned above prove one thing that tommy was emotionally invested in grace and emotionally close to her SHE WAS HIS HAPPY PLACE....that’s why her presence calmed him. They were so emotionally connected that she was able to silence his demons ,he stopped hearing the shovels when he was with her...

THE SHOVELS STOPPED WHEN HE WAS WITH HER.

Silencing tommy’s demons is something lizzie’s presence was never able to do and is stil not able to do, we saw it in season 5. Grace’s death is tommy’s after war trauma 2.0 and he’s till struggling dealing with that trauma 6 years after grace’s death...6 YEARS AFTER HER DEATH . The only times lizzie comes close to what grace was able to do is when they are having sex,

“lizzie l want it known that money was for you.

Because SOME nights it was you who stopped my heart from breaking” . (SEX....Sex...having sex with two women just after he burned grace’s letter stopped his heart from breaking, sex with tatiana stopped his heart from breaking , sex with lizzie just after grace’s death...SEX... It’s less about love for tommy but more about having a woman’s presence by his side to avoid his thoughts and the unbearable pain in his heart that won’t leave him...SEX....SEX IS HIS COPING MECHANISM and what he said to lizzie before giving her his money confirms it).

Grace was the only woman tommy ever loved (maybe with the exception of greta but it wasn’t the same). He contemplated walking away from everything for her,

HE COMTEMPLATED WALKING AWAY FROM EVERYTHING FOR HEEER , knowing she had been undercover and sent to destroy him. And she’s also the only woman he ever envisioned his life with . The idea of her waiting at home for him made him so happy... tommy “Now is this how you’re going to be? You waiting at home for me, saying, 'What time do you call this?'” The smile on his face was the perfect illustration of pure happiness.

Lizzie is a good hearted woman but her and tommy have a very few things in common . She is a bit ( for a lack of a better word l would say) peevish when tommy is calm , calculated ,manipulative ....The only similarities between the two is the place in which they were raised and the fact that they are both on the “wrong” side of the law.

She’s the mother of tommy’s child and a loyal member of his clan. Lizzie was/is submissive and that’s one of the reasons tommy trusts her . I honestly think tommy cares for lizzie but he doesn’t love her and he only married her for image purposes.

I’m not sure that there has been any point in the show where we’re meant to believe that tommy is falling for lizzie... ( l mean you just don’t wake up one morning and realize that you’re in love with the woman you have been having no strings attached sex with for the past 12 years nope ...it’s not realistic because love doesn’t work that way and because it’s not in tommy’s character)

...during season 5 we had quote like:

“Well you know in my head l still PAY YOU FOR IT!! “

“You said, in your head, you STILL PAY FOR IT. So I've decided to continue to take the PAYMENT and balance my heart against my head, as though it were a book of accounts.”

“When was the last time you had worry about shillings”

“The deal is you belong to me. My property, No one touches my property, everything is mine lizzie. Evrything.”

“Lay your claim”

Those quotes speak volumes!! during their conversations they were talking about money, MONEY, money again,

ownership and MONEY

they talked about money in season 1, 2, 3 ,4 and 5... they are always talking about money, it’s not love but

a financial transaction.

The phrase “lay your claim” was used for tommy and lizzie’ dynamic , that phrase relates to things not people. The use of that specific line reinforces the narrative established in this and the previous seasons, that Lizzie is someone he bought, his property, something he owns...it’s not love , it’s all about tommy’s ego, his love of power and his needs to control eveything and everyone.

People have misinterpreted their scenes. There is definitely a shift in their dynamic but not in the way people think . Lizzie has come to terms with the fact that tommy will never love her nor treat her like a wife should.

Tommy and lizzie have a whole deal in place where lizzie will stay and enjoy the perks of being Mrs Shelby and tommy can be with other women under certain conditions. Their marriage is somewhere between convenience and companionship.

MAY X TOMMY

May and tommy are too very attractive people, who were attracted to each other. Tommy respected her but was never in love with her. He loved her influence-her connections in the racing world, her social status and the opportunities that came along with it. May wasn’t in love with tommy either. She was fascinated by tommy’s violent, criminal world . She loved his ganster persona, his power- the fact that he was feared and respected “When I drove into Small Heath I thought I was going to be murdered,” she told him. “Then I mentioned your name. It was like being escorted to see a king” ...She loved the idea of tommy shelby but wouldn’t have loved the man...the broken tommy, the violent tommy, the emotional tommy . She glamorized tommy’s life but she didn’t know the half of it. The thruth is may would have hated it... not everyone can live in constant fear and not everyone is made for that life .

l believe he could’ve loved her but it would never have worked because they were from two different worlds.

Steven knight depicted / depicts 3 types of relationships that’s why the 3 ladies have different perspectives of tommy ( love , business and sex)

may believed that tommy would’ve picked her over grace because he was all about business. grace knew that tommy was all about love when it came to her and lizzie knew/knows that it was/is just sex and nothing else.

Love aside, lizzie is the perfect partner for tommy’s illegal activities she knows the peaky world, may is an aristocratic which makes her the perfect partner for tommy’s legal activies and his career in politics. Grace was the mix of both...she was an agent to the crown who thrives in tommy’ world. She knew politics and could’ve deal with them and she also knew the peaky blinders’ world and could've dealt with gangsters if needed. SHE WAS THE PERFECT MATCH FOR TOMMY.

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