also also! do you have any thoughts on horace's backstory prior to joining the loop? as i know he's your favorite. ♡
eeeek YES of course i do.
i have absolutely seen this before and i know it is the more popular headcanon for his upbringing, but i think he was born in a wealthy, well put family. high class, but not overly high. a respectable family that was respected in high regards. that part is important.
horace was an only child, the one heir to the familial wealth and the only one to continue the family name. i...actually don't have a headcanon as to why the family is wealthy. maybe it's just generational and whoever in their family established it decades ago has kept the family rich forever. sure, let's go with that.
horace wasn't exactly the black sheep in his family, but he was always seen as a little odd, which only worsened when he got older. he was in fencing, had a mathematics tutor, and always seemed to enjoy when his mother took him along to go dress shopping (patterns and designs were always big in his life).
i think it is canon that his peculiarity formed when he was in his single digits, i believe it was when he was 6. young enough where his dreams could be passed off as nothing more than nightmares.
but they kept happening. they happened a lot. i have a headcanon about his peculiarity that it actually worsens the farther he is away from a loop, whatever loop that may be. they were happening constantly, almost every night, for years. he was prescribed medication to help him sleep "peacefully", though it never worked. he became a bit of a nuisance in the family.
i think of horace's parents to be a bit like jacob's mother; very high status individuals that would like to keep it that way. though i do think they loved their son, at least for a while. when the "night terrors" continued, their tolerance for him only weakened, especially when he would try to convince them they were more than just that, and the convincing only got told more the older he got. once he entered his tweens, the shouting matches started and even threatens of violence, and they stopped going to their sons' care when he would wake from a dream, even instructing maids and other house carers to do the same. i like to think horace was "angsty" for a bit; going against what his parents said to prove a point in listening to him. it didn't do much but divide the family more. word started to break out amongst the public of the family and their "insane son with the constant nightmares he thinks are real". this on top of everything else fully drove him and his parents apart, and
one night, he left. he packed some of his belongings and took off. he had a dream of visiting a location and a strange individual had come to his care (who would be miss peregrine), taking him somewhere he seemed much happier. it took guts for him to leave, it was tough for him, but why stay somewhere where you are called insane and aren't seen anymore?
it took a little more than a day of travel. police came looking for horace (sent out by his parents), but he managed to surpass them enough to make it to the place in his dream, where as he saw, miss peregrine would introduce herself to him.
as for his parents, i do think they would be upset about the loss of their son. despite the hardships they had gone through (as in, years of mental abuse and negligence, though they don't realize what they are doing), horace was their son. their first son that is. they would go on to have another child soon after.
i honestly could have went into more depth, though i have been going on way too long now about this lol! i think i made my main points on his backstory clear. tldr: horace was in a rich family that stopped caring for him when his dreams got out of control, and then he ran away.
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