It’s interesting. While a lot of Jerome’s rage and resentment and pain over the years has come from Jeremiah’s perceived abandonment of him - something else that obviously really rankled was that Jeremiah was seen as ‘the clever one’, worthy of a fancy education, while he wasn’t.
We get hints that they think alike in many ways: the scale of their schemes, their ability to misdirect attention to get what they actually want. Jerome might seem chaotic, but he’s instinctively as methodical as Jeremiah, planning ahead, creating pre-emptive solutions to likely problems.
But Jerome was right. Do you know, he anticipated your betrayal?
Jim, as an engineer, you expect things to fail. So you build in redundancies.
The contrast of their likely childhoods is just really eye-catching: Jeremiah at school, having his intelligence nurtured and shaped, all the while likely maintaining a scrupulous distance from his schoolmates, carefully concealing his past, probably consciously copying speech and movement patterns; Jerome at the circus, intelligence overlooked, suffering abuse, brimming with rage and pain and resentment.
I’d say they’re even fairly evenly-matched as adults -
Jeremiah has had the benefit of formal schooling, but he seems to have kept a distance from people, and hidden himself away: he’s not quite as shrewd when it comes to how people work.
Jerome, on the other hand, would have quickly become adept at reading moods and behaviour and reactions to try to avoid abuse when he could - as well as reading customers, what will draw them in, catch their eye. Look at how he plays Jeremiah with the ‘gift’ from Wayne Enterprises.
(Gifs are from @endiness)
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