#logan roy

succession is as much about sexual abuse and incestuous abuse as it is business. logan lords over the children in all aspects of their lives, including the sexual, he is invasive because he is surveillance, he is news, he is the world. he goes missing from their childhoods to spend his time aiding and abetting and wining and dining sexual abusers and rapists, who he then brings home to them, because work and family are one, and the home and the office are one. he spends their adulthood covering it up and pawning them off to aid in managing the fallout. roman is sexually perverse and anorexic, shiv is hypersexual and transactional, kendall is infertile and oedipal. there was a dog cage and roman kept wetting the bed because kendall locked him inside and fed him dog food and they both 'enjoyed it' and logan used this or orchestrated this to find the runt and send him away, "you got two fighting dog's you send the weak one away, you punish the weak one". shiv is a daddy's girl and the favourite, in his varying states of delirium she becomes his wives and he drags her hand down to grope him under his clothes. kendall is groomed his entire life and toyed with and discarded over and over in a perverse push and pull of intimacy and violence that logan enacts as business and as sex, because in succession sex and business are interchangable. "sometimes it is a big dick competition."

Succession pilot is crazy cause everyone is just so (relatively) functional. Logan and Marcia’s relationship is stable and they seem genuinely in love. Kendall is clean, sober and at least trying to be present in his children’s lives. Roman is out of Waystar, in a long-term relationship and basically a step-dad. Shiv is also out of Waystar and has a real job that she’s competent at. Connor is in his lane and is not experiencing as extreme delusions of grandeur. Like, damn, those two years really broke everything

the real tragedy of shiv roy is that she's never considered as her own individual. tom thinks of her as a way to get into the roy family, to achieve his ambitions. gil sees her as a means to assert his political agenda. nate wants to fuck her, doesn't consider her his equal, or even think of her as capable at her job for a second. mattson takes her away from a position she'd be capable of holding because he's sexually attracted to her. roman and kendall cant perceive her as anything else than their annoying, liberal sister. logan only sees a woman and the duties that need to go with it. no matter how hard she tries to emulate masculine charactersitics, how deep she buries her emotions, how ruthless she presents herself, she wasn't born with a dick. therefore she will never be enough. she is a daughter. she is a wife. she is a roy. she is never siobhan.