Would probably piss myself laughing if not for the sleep deprivation, but been thinking about how Herakles and Michele are very much opposites in what having a shitty father did to how they see father figures. Herakles wants a good dad so, so badly that he trusts them instinctively.
And then I remembered the canon Greece & Turkey dynamic where these two make everything into a competition and I CAN'T. Herakles wants to ingratiate himself sooo much to Alattin, not because it's good for his relationship with Sadık, but he knows that for all the strict parenting, Sadık was and IS still loved by his father so much that he wants a piece. Like FUCK YOU GET OUT OF THE WAY, I NEED TO GET THE BEST GRADE EVER IN BEING A SON IN LAW, I NEED TO MAKE YOUR DAD LOVE ME SO DAMN MUCH.
