i wish we saw more of augustus' harsher side. it's really only shown from the perspectives of others, which is a shame. there is evidence that he does blow up at times, especially when it comes to psychics. dion emulates his behavior, and frazie fears his reaction to her abilities. raz ran away because of augustus and the cruelty inflicted on raz (i say cruelty because to raz, through his perspective, viewed his actions were continuously cruel). augustus steadily escalated, imo, and reached his breaking point with the pamphlet incident where, to me, he let it out at raz. to augustus, yes, he did it to protect raz, but it's clear he let his biases come out full force while the other family members watched in shock, worry, and could not intervene. it's fully understandable why a ten-year-old like raz would want to run away and view his father's actions as spiteful and possibly hope to kill him at worst - tho, this is an extreme, i can understand why raz believes this.
with pn2, now that he understood how his actions impacted raz, changes his tune with an interest in raz. it's almost like the curse doesn't matter to him when it was his primary fuel to hate psychics. i wish he had more of a "clash" with his newfound interest in his powers and his long-standing hatred to psychics. that dichotomy of wanting to tap into a side of himself repressed for decades vs those decades spent hating psychics for murdering his father and cursing his beloved family to drown. he was overtly cheerful, the peacekeeper, and while this is great in a way to explore donatella, dion, and frazie in that his change forces them to react and fret, i think it's a shame that those negative attributes weren't explored in tandem.
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