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| “ | 90% of drugs fail, even though they pass pre clinical tests. So, sorry animals. And what about all the stuff that has nothing to do with health? I mean you lot can't make a lipgloss or a dandruff shampoo without making something suffer. I love how deliciously, pointlessly mean you lot can be....And you could too. You picked the worst job to hide your true nature. You clean up dirt for a living...Victorine... she picked better. She's mother Theresa as far they're concerned. One precious heart at a time. Inside though, you two are the most alike. You hate her because... she hid it better. | „ |
| ~ Verna to Camille L'Espanaye about her and Victorine's similar evil natures. |
Victorine LaFourcade is a supporting antagonist in the 2023 gothic horror series The Fall of the House of Usher.
She is the illegitimate child of Roderick Usher who led illegal scientific cardiac research projects, and formed part of her father's fateful deal with Verna.
She is portrayed by T'Nia Miller.
Personality[]
Victorine is charming, elegant, witty and erudite. Though initially appearing to be one of the more rational, balanced of the Usher children, it becomes apparent she is prone to intense paranoia, dissociation and violent outbursts when provoked. This ultimately leads to her downfall.
Biography[]
Background[]
On New Year's Eve 1980, Victorine's father and aunt, Madeline Usher, made a deal with Verna guaranteeing them both unparalleled power and wealth. However, the deal was subject to the condition that any bloodline created by Roderick or Madeline would die early, but also share in their power. Despite this, due to Verna's suspiciousness, Madeline and Roderick struggle to believe their deal was legitimate, and ignore it.
Eventually, Roderick had an illegitimate child with an unknown woman, who birthed Victorine. Victorine became interested in scientific research, and eventually headed a cardiac research lab. This research inevitably centred on manufacturing pacemaker-style devices that pump the heart eternally. Victorine used chimpanzees illegally to conduct her research, and kept this secret from the public.
Victorine also started a long-term relationship with Dr. Ali Ruiz, who also worked in the same field.
The Fall of the House of Usher[]
Victorine's half-sister, Camille L'Espanaye, becomes incredibly suspicious of her projects. Believing there to be something to unmask, she investigates Victorine's lab and is confronted by Verna, who is posing as a nightguard. When Camille enters the lab, she discovers signs of abuse and unethical approaches and that the experiments have proven unsuccessful.
However, Verna seemingly follows Camille, but is instead shown to be seen by Camille as a chimpanzee, who savagely beats her to death. Victorine shows little to no remorse over Camille's death, and continues to try and receive full-funding from her father for her research projects despite their unethical and ineffective process.
Verna arrives at the lab, and shows interest in being the first volunteer human subject for the cardiac device. Despite Ali, also a co-researcher in the field, who protests against requesting a move to human trials due to the animal abuse caused, Victorine forges Ali's signature which permits the escalation in their research.
This leads to Ali initiating a break-up with Victorine. Upset as Ali leaves, she throws a bookend at her, which hits her squarely in the head and ultimately kills her. This sends Victorine into a dissociative episode. She becomes haunted by a beeping and squelching sound which nobody else can seemingly hear. When her father comes to visit Victorine (he himself feeling tormented and haunted), he reveals he can hear it. This worsens Victorine's delusions, where it is revealed that after killing Ali, Victorine had tried to revive her by implanting one of the cardiac devices to her corpse. This made her heart keep beating, despite her being dead.
Roderick is disturbed and distressed to see Victorine's actions and delusional state, and tries to have her calm down by saying he will give her funding. However, when he tries to get Victorine to see that she has killed Ali, Victorine turns a knife on her father, but ultimately stabs herself in the heart instead.
Trivia[]
- Victorine's name is derived from Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Premature Burial.
- The episode in which Victorine's death is shown takes its name from The Tell-Tale Heart, Victorine would most represent The Narrator here due to her self-doubting and anxious state after killing Ali.
- Though Verna does intervene in Victorine's fate by posing as the human test subject, she does not directly influence Victorine's death as directly as with her other siblings.
- Instead, Verna's role as the human test subject causes the breakdown of Victorine and Ali's relationship, which leads to Victorine throwing the bookend in anger and killing Ali, leading to Victorine's insanity and ultimate suicide.
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