...worst motheres in aftg? :>>> perchance
I donโt think I could rank them because I do not make it a habit of ranking women, but Worst Mother is Mathilde undeniably because she had more children to fuck over for some reason like girl if you canโt handle one Stop Having Them. Again, everything about tsc is nil to me, but girlie had her one son turn her other son into a drug addict and her other other son was suicidial AND SHE DIDNโT DEAL WITH IT and her other other son killed himself and itโs like been a few years later AND SHE STILL ISNโT DEALING WITH IT like MAโAM??? MAโAM??? Reminds me of the ladybird ladybird your house is on fire and your children are gone song.
Mary obviously is utterly iconic. Biblical ref duh but I love how hardcore paranoid hateful spiteful mean she was. She was singularly devoted to keeping herself and Nathan alive and away from Nathan and she Did Not Care about what it took to achieve that. Bullying her kid to get out of the bulletproof vest he slept in after being shot. Adorbs. If you made her death into a tragedy I think sheโd bite you. I have a hc that it was her that wanted to marry Nathan and have the Hatfirds move up in the world and that backfired so fucking hard and she hates herself and hates him and hates everything. I want her carnally.
My favourite bad mother thoughhh is Tilda. Oh Tilda. One of the OGโs, of course. I love imagining how shit and what fuck ups the Hemmick family mustโve been for their children to become one drug addict on the West Coast and one religious republican nutcase aaaall the way over on the East. And Tilda wanted to Get Away so badly that she changed her surname despite the twinyards Dad being dead/not with her. And they were both abusive. And she had to go back to him. She couldnโt escape being a Hemmick. And then her family (her son) kills her for his family (his twin.)
My hc for her is that she got Aaron back as like, suicide prevention, she needed Something to Stay Alive for, but it wasnโt enough and she couldnโt make herself care for him beyond like, a doll to cuddle with. Probably drugged him so heโd be quiet and sleep. Sheโs so Ethel Cain Half-Cocked โTell my baby that I love her/But right now, mamaโs gotta go/I didnโt ask to be this crazy/But since weโre here, Iโll give them a showโ to me. I just know she was falling apart and unkempt and smoked and was half-dying and half dead and hot. Sheโs like a Latona Reversed to me.
