#maura

not till now! + bonus ft. human flametangle (flynn)

(Most likely by his father, but I wouldn't doubt inappropriateness from his mother too judging by the Maura-Niall tickling scene. And later he likely experienced things at the Young Offender's Institute.)

All the signs are there if you know what to look for.

The unabashed exhibitionism, the sexualizing of everything he says/ does, the way he thought arranging the loss of his stepbrothers virginity and playing an active role in it was completely normal.

(Also I'm positive Mona is also a survivor and those kids found each other and found mutual understanding in the harmful sexuality they internalized.)

The sexual undertones in his interactions with Niall all the while calling him son. The fact that he doesn't care who he sleeps with, his being attracted to them isn't a factor (ie. Joanna). He's not even particularly homophobic, it's giving sex is just sex, because if sex meant something that means that what happened to me has to mean something.

We see it in the spin the bottle scene as well. There's something so sinister about him provoking Niall and Alby during spin the bottle asking "You're not man enough to kiss a bloke or something?" Because who taught him that? Someone said this to him at one point and now he's perpetuating it. Again sexual acts don't really mean anything because if they did...

And underneath that is everything Ruben never deals with.

Maura: I'm gonna skip out on gardening duty, y'all wanna hide in the chicken room with me?

i finished them all! please look at them

going left to right top to bottom we have emilia, keelan, maura, arthur, jack, fabin, and birdie as well as a family photo of everyone together!

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