Does Andrew love Ethan? Survey says: YES! PT. 2
TW: DISTURBING DRAWINGS, MENTIONS OF ABUSE/MURDER, ETC.
He went to see Alexander, sure...
But the second he's able to get Ethan alone? He takes it. He's BLUSHING. Look at his face in the first one. He looks desperate, relieved to see him again. Besides, wasn't he supposed to hate Alex? Someone who, by his father's insistence, wasn't even part of the Lee family? If anything, seeing Alex was an excuse to see Ethan. That is all he ever truly loved after his father killed his mother and made him hate Alex. That was all he had when Mary accidentally killed his father.
But to further my argument on how Andrew is in fact, a yandere by nurture: look at what his own father did, leading by example.The same father obsessed with his wife cheating, just to try and assault another woman most likely during that time, or after she was gone.
This is love in the Lee family. Full of abuse, lies, manipulation, generational trauma, deceit, and betrayal around every fucking corner.
Love is obsession and paranoia. Love is eliminating every obstacle or contradiction. You take love into your own hands and mold it and control it to be the picture you want it to be, even if it means driving yourself insane.
THAT is what love is on the men's side of the Lee family.
And to further prove his incessant need to keep Ethan from others?
Look at what he put his own cousin through. Yes, we know Andrew's father practically disowned Alex's part of the family. Alex's mother and father, (most likely due to Andrew's own mother cheating on his father). We know Andrew has been influenced to hate Alex by his father. But he's been able to grow out of that if he wished to, and clearly he still cared enough about Alex to warn him about the potential abuse he would face in the future with his own father.
But in this case, when Andrew had so many other ways to hate and hurt Alex, why choose to make him hate Ethan? To cut him out of Ethan's life, just like he might have done with Jo?
Jealousy. Alex not only was made to be outcast by Andrew's own father, which was all he had and all he was able to learn from, but now Alex was able to bond with the very person Andrew actually wanted. With the person that rejected him.
How come Ethan could actually like an outcast? Someone who wasn't even a real Lee? A murderer. A nobody...
Jealousy. Andrew wanted Alex to hate Ethan. And then fueled Alex's addiction for one reason or another, most likely because of his hatred for Alex. He wanted to reduce Alexander to the nothing he was forced to see him as, by enabling him and making Alex dependent on him and him alone.
Andrew was in love with Ethan the only way he knew. Look at Ethan, just for a moment. Go back to that photo or older photos of him if you must. Then look at Alex and Andrew's mothers.
Similar hairstyles and colors. It's a stretch, but...
His trauma, the way he was taught. Brown haired women, with early greys/potentially a dirty blonde, makeup, earrings.
Ethan. Brown hair, with early greys/dirty blonde, makeup, and earring and TONGUE PIERCING, before the earring was ripped out.
He found a man that fit the average Lee wife. The "perfect trophy wife". Andrew found what he figured must be meant for him, and applied the knowledge he knew of love.
So he used what he had. He loved foolishly, in the only way he knew how. Abuse, stalking, obsession...
And it spread to Micah later on, who reminded Andrew of Ethan.
Andrew loved Ethan because he thought he should, and did so the only way how.
That, or he realized he had gained true, genuine feelings, and when those feelings did not match what he knew, he changed his actions to make sure they lined up and made sense.
Andrew loved Ethan to unhealthy lengths. But he still loved Ethan. In his own, twisted, fucked up way, because that's what he was taught and all that he knew.
Yes. It truly seems he cared at one point. But it evolved into something far more sinister and wicked.
Did Andrew Lee truly love Ethan Collins?
Yes, absolutely
Potentially
I don't think so / add reasons in comments
Absolutely not
Other/results
Voting ended onJan 30
If you have other reasons to potentially back this up or debunk it, by all means, please let us know in the comments.
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