god, i really love thinking about this modern AU where doffy used to deal drugs as a teenager, and rosinante snitched on him to their parents, so doffy spends the rest of his life calling him a traitor for it. then their parents adopt law, and after they die, doffy’s already old enough to take care of the younger ones himself — which he eventually does. plus, in this au, rosi would literally lose the ability to speak because of the trauma after their parents died. he would’ve watched them die without being able to do anything, and doffy would see how horrified he was while not seeming sad about their deaths at all — which would push rosi even deeper into shock
some of the incorrect quotes i post here are actually based on this au that’s been living in my head. at this point I should just write the fic...
