#dog pound

ik we collectively characterize roman as the most overtly loving / holding capacity for love, and i may not want to necessarily dispel that notion, and also doubly understand the roys’ love as collectively obfuscated and malformed in some way, but i don’t think someone whose constant affliction is a vulnerability to loving would push his brother at his birthday or ignore his pregnant sister abt electing a fascist or flounder @ the unadulterated nature of kendall’s breakdown, love takes care and empathy and selflessness and roman is none of those things, he’s obsequious and aimless and destructive, and he’s beholden to the biggest dog in the room. roman wants what he’s told he can’t have and when he gets it he’s already paranoid of losing it, so he destroys it himself. roman hungers and he blows things up as to hurt himself bc he’s plagued by an insurmountable imposter syndrome — he’s a dog after all, and a mutt may rely on its owner but that says nothing of its love, and it very well may love, but that says nothing of its propensity to bite.