I have a whole backstory for Mr. Waternoose and his wife, Wendy, and how they met in the summer of 1961... and she was an anti-war/ anti-establishment revolutionary (part of the Hippie movement, I guess.... when Henry meets her, she has feathers in her hair, she writes beat poetry, and she's high on weed)... she already had a Hippie boyfriend who played in a band, but somehow Henry was smitten with her and he won her heart... Henry and Wendy had their child, Roger, out of wedlock in February 1963 because Henry was actually already betrothed to the daughter of a socialite, and he had to keep Wendy and Roger a secret from his father because the Waternoose family wouldn't approve of Wendy's ''make love not war'' anarchy... but then his father became very ill and he broke his engagement to the high society girl and he was finally able to marry Wendy in the summer of 1967 (The Summer of Love).... around the same time, Henry inherits the factory and becomes King of the Mine and he makes Wendy his Queen of the Underworld.... I imagine their wedding kind of looked like this (the dress reminds me of Sharon Tate):
But then the marriage went sour because Henry was obviously more devoted to running the factory and he wasn't a very good family man and he struggled to connect with his son, Roger... Henry cared more about his employees than he did his own family... Roger in particular didn't have a very happy childhood and he didn't get very many hugs from his father... Wendy ends up leaving Henry to go back to her native New Squeeland and she drinks to drown her sorrows.
I know Wendy is most likely alive in canon, because in MAW, Roger has his mom listed as his emergency contact...
But because my backstory is an AU, I have her pass away in my story, leaving Henry a widdower, and it's said that Henry basically drove her to drink herself to death... and Roger is obviously distraught and blames his dad for his mom's premature death and it drives a wedge further between them.... after the funeral, Roger is forced to come back to the Waternoose estate in Monstropolis and take care of his aging father, because that was his mother's dying wish on her deathbed... but Henry is semi-senile and he's abusing anti-depressants, and he's in denial about his wife's passing and he's becoming emotionally and mentally abusive towards his son, and Roger can't take it anymore and he ends up leaving his dad to go back to New Squeeland and he doesn't want anything to do with the Waternoose family legacy, hence why he takes his mother's maiden name to further distance himself from his father. So Henry and Roger are pretty much estranged and rarely ever speak to each other. Henry doesn't believe Roger is capable of running the family company, so he has no immediate heir to his $100 million estate.
But Henry ends up taking Sulley under his wing, naturally, and even Randall when Randall starts working for M.I.... and he mentors them and he's more of a father to them than he is to his own child (until his relationship with Randall crumbles, of course...)
Anyway, I loosely based my version of Waternoose and his wife Wendy on Hades and Persephone from the musical HADESTOWN (Hades in this version is a corrupt factory boss, and he has a tragic love story with his wife Persephone).
I don't know what Wendy would look like of course... I wish they showed her in MAW... but yeah.... I have a whole family drama about Roger and his parents... and I kinda ship Henry and Wendy in a doomed toxic romance kind of way...
But honestly... since the whole fandom seems to hate Waternoose, I don't know if I will ever post this story, lol. I don't want the fandom attacking me for it. XD
It's sad because I think all the characters in this franchise are genuinely interesting and I have backstories for all of them... but there's so much fandom discourse about certain characters like Waternoose, that it honestly scares me and discourages me from posting any content about them....
I'll probably just keep it to myself.
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