#mosley

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Arthur is suffering from a horrible opium addiction, but in 6x02, he also talks to Tommy about how he's been going to parties at Mosley's house—how they "respect" him there, and he provides the guests with drugs. This is despite the fact that in season 5, Mosley complained at Lizzie's birthday that he detests the use of drugs, and griped at Tommy about his family making a scene. Now he invites Arthur to parties where Arthur distributes (and no doubt is encouraged to take) drugs, fills his head full of false praise, and convinces him to show up at Mosley's speeches (that Mosley invited him to, while Tom was weary) and makes a scene, also wearing a black shirt. Stress is a huge trigger for Tommy, and he ends up spending a lot of time trying to figure out how to make sure Arthur is safe and gets clean and doesn't hurt their image while dealing with his own issues. Tommy also blames himself for Arthur's addiction, because Tommy was the one who pushed for the opium market. While I'm not sure it goes quite that deep, Mosley knows about Tommy's push into the opium business, because McCavern was involved with the push into the opium trade and McCavern used Mosley as a check guarantor. He also knows about the breakdown of Arthur and Linda's relationship, and he knows that Tommy is one of the few people who can get through to Arthur so taking care of him largely falls to Tommy.

If Tommy is one of the few people who can get through to Arthur, Lizzie is one of the few people who can get through to Tommy. Arthur is completely out of the cards until he gets clean, Ada is trying to distance herself from the family business at the beginning of the season, and Lizzie is Tommy's principal grounding force. After his suicide attempt, Tommy fixates on the fact that he didn't die, seemingly unable to internalize that Arthur took the bullets out of his gun, and develops what seem to be something close to religious delusions centered around the notion that he's cursed and he's been forced to live only to suffer further punishments at the hands of that curse. It's not necessarily clear that anyone in the family besides Lizzie actually knows about his episodes, much less how to deal with them. Lizzie's become much more verbally and physically assertive in their relationship in part because she is trying to manage these episodes, and when Ruby gets sick and then dies, broken down with fear and grief, Lizzie also has to seed additional mental bandwidth she doesn't actually have at that point to worrying about her husband running off god knows where, very likely in the middle of a substantial mental health crisis, where he is vulnerable, exploitable, and a danger to himself and others. (And in fact, Tommy does get exploited by Esme who clocks his vulnerability from 1000 miles away and he also kills people). All that said, the desire to separate Lizzie and Tommy is transparent. Mosley and Diana are quite open about how they don't consider Lizzie a suitable wife, and they argue that Lizzie isn't good enough for him, but let's be real—they don't give a shit. Mosley considers Tommy and his entire family beneath him on a genetic level. Mosley's happy to let Arthur go around making a scene and acting wild at his rallies, at his parties, etc. Tommy's just someone they think they can use, and his wife is one of the only people keeping him from completely unraveling at this stage. If there's any actual additional hate Mosley's carrying around for Lizzie, it's that she wouldn't sleep with him. So Diana and Mosley make very active and transparent moves to assist in tearing apart their marriage.

Couple all this with how Dr. Halford talks about how Tommy's going to succumb to illness—that he'll need people around him who "love him very much". That's Arthur, that's Lizzie, that's Ada. All of whom are under strain that is either directly or indirectly because of Tommy (at least from his perspective).

Anything deliberate being done with Ada I'm a little less sure about. At the beginning of the season, she's distanced herself from the business, so there's no need to try and do anything to her. However, that quickly changes as Ada jumps back into the business at Tommy's pleading while Ruby is dying. We do know Karl is receiving dangerous messages at school, and we know Nazis show up outside Ada's place trying to intimidate her. Maybe these are completely disconnected events (Ada is an obvious target for Nazis given she has no husband, she's gypsy, her child is half black, and her dead husband was jewish). But if getting out of the business is about the safety of her kids, there could be something more deliberate about it.

I forgot to post this!

The wife @disva and I decided to get a nice domestic comm of our Sona's, Rena and Maddie - alongside our baby duchess Mosley! - together. Wanted something domestic and cute to represent our daily home life <3

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