#wwc asks

I mean I think it’s very easy to say you should do this and that to someone who’s had a shitty upbringing. It’s kind of like telling an addict “get clean” or anyone in any struggle, like yeah if you’re depressed you should go to therapy and get on antidepressants. There’s a common believe that people who are really suffering don’t know what to do to to alleviate it—they do. They know the steps to take but actually taking them is harder than that

Children who are abused many times take years to be able to leave those environments and even longer to get out of the mentality that was born out of that abuse

When you’ve been told you are worthless are your life, neglected by your mother and beaten by your father, you tend to actually wholeheartedly believe that you are so utterly useless and worthless that no matter what you do you will never been anything more that that. So, why try?

Idk I feel people who have never experienced think it’s very easy to leave abusive situations when that’s all you’ve ever known. The abuse becomes almost comforting because life is scary without it since you’ve never known how to live without it

The thing with Sally is that he’s let himself go due to stress he was quite the looker in high school but everything has really gotten to him so I would say he’s a step down now like maybe if he took a shower, changed his clothes regularly, wasn’t so gaunt…

Percy and Imre? Hmm that’s hard

Idk…

In the eyes of many of the important people in town, it doesn’t matter that he tried. It matters that he failed at the expectations placed on him

The family fortune is in ruins, and as the face of the family he hasn’t been able to stop it. His siblings are a mess and as the caretaker, they blame him for not being strong enough to bring the family back to former glory. A lot of hopes were placed on him and they were dashed

A lot of this goes back to traditional views on the family unit. There’s a reason why any founding family mentioned has a patriarch, not a matriarch. This is a very male dominated system

Victor: “not a man”

Sally: “weak and cowardly”

Orla: “unfortunate, vain”

Percy: “diamond in the rough”

So Percy is the second youngest actually but he is the sparest spare that ever spared

His siblings outshined him all the time

No and that’s kind of the point we will never know exactly who she was except through the memories and biases of others

We will find out more about her life but not her feelings or emotions. Did she ever love Lorcan? Did she ever want to fix her relationship with Crowny? Was there ever a moment of self reflection? It’s questions that won’t be answered and I think it’s better that way