*Poppy, Graceful Lace, and Scruffy are watching kids play house in the GameStation.*
Poppy, turning to Grace: “You two are married right? What was your wedding like?”
Graceful Lace: “It was lovely. Small because we didn’t really have much but we made the most of it. We had it in a small park on a spring morning. I had my mother’s dress. Of course I got a veil to go with it because she lost the older one in a move. It was too long anyway, practically dragged on the floor.”
Scruffy: “Not for me, your brother practically had a knife to my back staring daggers at me all the time!” *Chuckles as he thinks back*
Poppy, concerned: “Why’s that?”
Grace: “He’s always taken everything too seriously. Didn’t really appreciate Scruff having fun.”
Poppy: “It’s a wedding.”
Grace: “That’s what I said!”
Poppy: “I used to imagine what mine would be like, I’d want to have it in a big church with big windows and lots of people. I’d be wearing the prettiest dress with ribbons and lace all over…I never got past who I’d walk up to. I could never imagine a groom. Probably because I never really met anyone my age, just dad, Mary, and the doctors.”
Grace, smirking: “I bet you talked your father’s ear off about it all the time.”
Poppy: “No, he didn’t really like listening about that sort of thing. He would always say I was jumping ahead too far. That we needed to focus on now, when things are ‘simpler’.”
Grace: “But you were just playing pretend, and what did he mean by ‘Simpler’?”
Poppy: “It probably just reminded him I didn’t have long. We usually talk about the things we’d do together when I got better.”
Grace: “…”
I feel like a lot people don’t explore Poppy’s relationship with her father enough.
This man who chose such a small, defenseless body for his daughter. Did he do it on purpose? Did he want her to depend on him forever?
What were his plans for Oliver? Was Oliver disabled when he was chosen? (I say this because of the ‘Hammer’ comment.)
My current thoughts on Elliot is that he wanted his daughter to stay a perfect little girl forever. He didn’t hate Oliver, but he wasn’t going to break his back for him either. In the end he gave both children the worst parts of him and so many lives suffered because of selfish desires.













