Sinclair Brothers Headcanons - Angst
Iâm fresh off of a House of Wax rewatch and I come bearing headcanons
⢠Self-Appointed Eldest Brother
⢠Suffers migraines as a result of the separation surgery, but no one ever considered the side effects Bo may have faced since he wasnât the twin who was left visibly scarred. This is why he had the meltdowns he did as a kid.
⢠Taught by his mother that the migraines are a punishment from God for being an awful child.
⢠Since he grew up being told how awful he was, he has a skewed moral compass because he feels like if heâs Bad no matter what he does he may as well do whatever he wants. In a strange way, he feels good when he does bad things because he feels like heâs doing whatâs always been expected of him.
⢠Fights fights fights. His dad being a âDisgraced Doctorâ and his mom going insane(and also having a strange job before that) kids made fun of his family a lot. This, of course, extended to Vincent.
⢠Beat other kids bloody for picking on Vincentâwhen he finally got caught, it was the first time he was ever treated like he did something GOOD by his parents; so he learned that being violent was A Good Thingâ˘ď¸ as long as it was to protect the family.
⢠Didnât like Vincent going anywhere without him because how could he protect him if he wasnât there?
⢠Especially after their parents died and the town started falling apart, Bo felt like it was HIS job to protect his brothers.
⢠Hurt that Lester doesnât want to live with them full time; he feels like itâs something personal against him.
⢠He doesnât mention Lester when he gives his speeches about âThe Sinclair Familyâ not because heâs got anything against him, but because deep down he knows that someday theyâre going to get caught. He knows thereâll be no getting out of it for him and Vincent, but he hopes that the less he implicates Lester the more likely his baby brother is to be spared The Chair.
⢠Always used to feel like it would be any day that theyâd get caught, and he used to want it. Years ago he used to feel like getting caught and having Ambrose make Headlines would be the culmination of their motherâs dream. Now, heâs just tired of it allâitâs a choreâitâs Vincentâs whole lifeâs work. Bo no longer wants to be caught, he just wants to hold on to what heâs got left.
⢠Bo is Autistic, but heâs had to do so much masking because nobody cared about his needs. Heâs got a lot of rituals he does every day, involving counting all the Wax Sculptures in town, and making sure all the air conditioning is running several times a day for fear that the wax will melt. He thinks he doesnât have a talent like Vincent does, but heâs actually an incredibly skilled mechanic who can fix just about anything with the barest of supplies. He just never got any praise for it, so it felt like it didnât count.
⢠He attends his motherâs Funeral Service every Sunday.
⢠So much religious trauma. Fervently believes that God is real and he hates him personally for some crime of his birth. This man believes everything his mother ever said. Christian in the âI will fistfight God in the Parking Lotâ sense, the âWhen I die I hope I get the chance to scream at God for being a shitty Father before he sends me to Hellâ sense.
⢠âWhy would you make me this way?â Religious Trauma.
⢠âA Pleasure to Have in Classâ
⢠He actually CAN talk, he just doesnât prefer to because heâs self-conscious about the way he sounds due to his deformity, and also as a result of the childhood trauma of watching Bo be abusedâit was safer to be the Quiet Son.
⢠Heâs Autistic, but flew under the radar because most people assume heâs non-verbal due to his deformity. Heâs EXTREMELY specific about the kind of material he puts on his body, and he actually prefers the way his clothes feel if theyâve got a film of wax on them.
⢠Wax is as much a special interest for him as it is a lifeline. His art made his mother âloveâ him, so he poured his all into it. She made him feel like that was all there was to life for himânow itâs just about all he knows.
⢠Heâs EXTREMELY pretentious about his art and his processâit has to be absolutely PERFECT or he hates it. If heâs interrupted during a bought of creative mania he will sulk for a week. If heâs not good at a new skill IMMEDIATELY he hates itâwhich is why he cannot cook.
⢠Very much a âYou Wouldnât Understandâ artist. âNobody gets me.â
⢠The reason he doesnât put as much care into HIS mask as he does his sculptures, is because his body heat coupled with the heat from his workshop makes the wax too malleable to hold the fine details well, so heâd just rather not bother. He made a detailed mask based on Boâs face exactly ONCE, and it pissed him off so badly when he kept losing detail that he destroyed it himself just to have a little peace.
⢠The detailed mask actually hurt his feelings more than seeing his bare face, because when he first made it it looked âLike he should haveâ, but it was never perfect because of the way his body heat would soften it.
⢠Absolutely furious whenever anything happens to his artâdoesnât check as often as Bo does because he once saw a rat crawl out of a hole it chewed in the eye of one of the sculptures, and the resultant smell of the open rot made him vomit on the spot.
⢠Enjoys killing more than Bo does. He doesnât really care about hurting peopleâthat part isnât a thrill for him, but he does prefer strangers to be dead. Heâs so used to working with dead bodies that itâs much more peaceful for him if people who ARENâT family just die. Sculpting on a living body is a special Hell reserved for âtouristsâ who vandalize his art.
⢠He is well aware of how over-protective Bo is of him. Sometimes it annoys him, but he also knows itâs one of the few ways Bo knows how to show that he cares. Since Bo has always protected him, and survived everything their parents did to him, Vincent sort of sees Bo as indestructible, untouchable, so itâs alarming to see him injured.
⢠Vincent is genuinely afraid of what would happen if Bo werenât aroundâhe doesnât know how to take care of any of the myriad of technical things Bo does, and Vincent knows that without the air conditioning, every creation heâs ever made will melt in the Louisiana heat.
⢠Vincent is an atheist. He tolerates Boâs God Talk because heâs aware that God was a weapon used against Bo as a child for being the âBad Sonâ. He knows Bo is trying to be comforting when he quotes their mother, so he doesnât throw it in his face. Canât believe in a God who would allow them to do the things they do to people. âThe only God in Ambrose is Meâ.
⢠The Forgotten Youngest Child.
⢠Being the brother who isnât a twinâhaving no deformity and lacking Boâs behavioral issues, Lester was forgotten and neglected a lot as a childâto the point where heâd just go wander off into the woods alone so at least he wouldnât have to watch his parents ignore him. With the added benefit of not having to hear Boâs outbursts.
⢠Really good at building traps, and ate a lot of squirrels when he was growing up, because Trudy and Vincent would sometimes forget to feed him. Really kind of raised himself.
⢠Came to terms with the abuse and neglect he and his brothers suffered much more fully after their parents passedâhe never really felt very attached to his parents, so he didnât feel the need to carry out Trudyâs dream.
⢠The most Awareâ˘ď¸ that the killing his family does is wrong, hence his speech about how easy it is to âGet Used Toâ all kinds of things. Itâs just the life Trudy raised them into. He thinks itâs sad that his brothers are still perpetuating her goals, but what can ya do? Theyâre his brothers.
⢠He doesnât spend a lot of time in the Sinclair homeâpreferring his little place in the woodsâbecause thereâs a lot of bad memories in that house and he doesnât believe in letting himself fester in the past.
⢠Still visits every couple of weeks when he does his laundryâusually Bo gets takeout when he knows Lesterâs coming up so they can have a family meal. Lester actually prefers his own hunted/foraged cooking, but he enjoys getting to actually have some family time with his brothers, so he chokes down whatâs usually fast food, because he knows Boâs trying.
⢠He doesnât actually participate in the killings, but he is the one that rigged the animatronics in Ambroseâheâs actually a hell of an engineer, though heâs never been to school for it.
⢠The animatronic puppies are his favorite, and he modeled them after Jonesy.
⢠Heâs actually pretty well adjusted, all things considered. Heâs just happily living his life in the woodsâhe does wish things were different for his brothers, but he knows theyâre in too deep now, so he just looks out for them as best he can.
⢠He guts the cellphones of his brothersâ victims both to disable any tracking functions and to use the parts for his animatronics.