Family Line by Conan Gray X Fitz Vacker
(How didnât I think of it sooner?)
« My father never talked a lot »: Alden⊠isnât really open. Like. I doubt any of his kids, and even Della, ever knew what was happening, what he was doing, even when they were on missions.
« He just took a walk around the block »: keuf. Thatâs the secret missions. For the Council and for himself. That a kid canât understand.
« Till all his anger took a hold of him, and heâd hit »: so. As I said for Driverâs Seat analysis, I doubt the cracks and the emotions go out as anger in the Lost Cities. Though it could happen, adding to the guilt that broke his mind. Yeah. Alden probably screamed. Criticized harshly without realizing. Thatâs the blows.
« My mother never cried a lot »: Della always stayed in the shadows. She says it herself, she isnât known as standing up.
« She took the punches but she never fought »: that is about how Della never corrected Aldenâs favoritism. She just compensated by caring more for Alvar and Biana.
« Till she said âIâm leaving and Iâll take the kidsâ, so she did »: thatâs book 4. Thatâs Della joining the Black Swan.
« I say âTheyâre just the ones who gave me lifeâ »: Fitz all throughout Flashback. Standing against his parents. Protesting.
« But I truly am my parentsâ child »: but he can never undo the pressure, the legacy. Even his name, Fitz, that means « son of ». Heâs what the Vackers made him.
« Scattered cross my family line »: the way the Vacker family is exploded. The ancestors. Alvar by the Neverseen. Alden and Della never truly close to their kids. Biana and Fitz raised in competition.
« Iâm so good at telling lies »: heâs good at dissimulation, at tricking the world to appear fine.
« That came from my motherâs side »: dunno if Della lies. Probably yes. And she always gives the impression to be pretty delicate beauty, when sheâs clearly a fighter (cf her registry pages in Unlocked)
« Told a million to survive »: not to survive but to keep the appearances up. Everythingâs fine. There is no reason to worry.
« God, I have my fatherâs eyes »: Fitz has always been perceived as perfect heir. Miniature Alden.
« But my sisterâs when I cry »: the fact that, with everything collapsing, Fitz and Biana grew closer throughout the series.
« I can run, but I canât hide, from my family line »: that is the feeling that whatever he does, he will always be a Vacker. Seen as royal perfection.
« Itâs hard to put it into words, how the holidays will always hurt »: itâs hard to admit in Glitter City that itâs not really perfect, expressing that is something theyâve never been taught.
« I watch the fathers with their little girls, and wonder what I did to deserve this »: I think I remember Fitz voicing that. Voicing that he doesnât know why he is there, treated with so much respect and admiration and feeling so out of place.
« How could you hurt a little kid »: how could you turn me into a simple puppet and forget I have an identity ?
« I canât forget, I canât forgive you »: thatâs to the whole family tree. The old ones that passed down the pressure and perfection-expectations for centuries.
« Cause now Iâm scared that everyone I love will leave me ». This line is about how Fitz doesnât know how to love. How to be stable. How to live.
« All that I did, I tried to undo it »: that he tried. Being perfect representation of the system? He joined the rebellion. Hurting Sophie and mistrusting her? He went through the whole process of Inquisition and accepted Sokeefe. Making Biana feel invisible? He talked with her in Flashback.
« All of my pain and all your excuses, I was a kid but I wasnât clueless »: how living in both worlds made him stranger to everything, how he felt something was wrong with the missions, how he just wanted to make Alden proud.
« Someone who loves you wouldnât do this »: to the system. To all the girls flirting with him without knowing. To his parents not understanding his fears.
« All of my past, I tried to erase it »: killing Alvar as erasing the pain. Joining the Black Swan as erasing the pressure. He is a runaway boy too, but it shows less.
« But now I see, would I even change it? »: I think he can learn to think like this. To be satisfied.
« Might share a face and share a last name, but we are not the same »: now. By Stellarlune, he knows. He knows he can have an identity and not be a copy of his father. He can not make the same mistakes.