Castor headcanon request: ways in which Coady breaks her boys' faith in her, and who they find better feminine/maternal influences in
Hi! As this isnât specified about which boys you want or if you want my head canons on Castorâs who we havenât seen yet Iâm going to answer this from a Rudy and Mark perspective if thats okay :)
- It starts when Mark firsts get assigned to the Ranch. He watches Prolethean women holding their small children, smiling at them, and hugging them whenever the child asks for it. When he asks Gracie why the children arenât being trained for combat she tells him that theyâre far too young for it, that a six year old canât be expected to hold a gun and kill someone for the sake of their family. He starts to wonder why his mother never felt the same.
- After an accident involving Seth that leaves Rudy with the scar down his face Coady screams at the pair of them for hours. Belittling Seth for his stupidity and Rudy for almost costing them the mission after choosing to jump in front of his brother instead of using the diversion as a means to complete the task. After she dismisses a distraught Seth, telling him that heâs a sorry excuse for a soldier and has no use to topside if he canât sort himself out, Rudy stays and confronts her. She smiles at him and says that he did good by wanting to save his brother but that next time if he doesnât want to disappoint people that he should finish the mission before helping his brothers. He later finds Seth sobbing underneath his bed and crawls under with him, wrapping his arms around his distraught brother until the boy is calm enough to be brought out and go to dinner. Rudy wonders if the men that guard them had the same problems when they were eight.
- After Rudy discovers what happened to Parsons his faith in his mother begins to wane. Although she tries to explain to him that it was necessary in finding a cure for them he ignores her, horrified to think that one of his brothers has been strapped to a table, alone, suffering for months without him realising and that it was Helena that saved him. This is the first time Rudy starts to think of the Leda clones not as targets but allies.
- Things start to change after he gets taken in by the Hendrixâs. Helena stitches his arm and sings Ukranian songs whenever the pain in his head gets too bad, sometimes calling him a baby whenever he winces but he can sense it is in good humour. Her voice doesnât have the same sting to it as Motherâs did.Â
- Alison, although clearly nervous, brings him home made food. Offering to help him sit up though he declines. When heâs finally well enough and trusted to leave the bedroom he watches her hug her children, smiling and laughing whenever they show her something they have done or made. Sheâs always touching them, most of the time she doesnât even realise it, yet Rudy notices every slight brush of their hair, every tap on the nose and kiss on the top of their heads and starts to wonder why his Mother was never that tactile.Â
- The first time he drops his head hesitantly onto Alisonâs shoulder, wrapping his arms around her waist, like Oscar does she jumps a mile high. She quickly calms down enough to start stroking his hair, giving him a small smile of encouragement when he finally lets go to let her get on with what she was doing.
- He watches Helena as she plays with Oscar and Gemma, teaching them fun games that to the average civilian would seem harmless yet to Rudy he can see that she is training them, teaching the duo how to find things quickly, how to hide without anyone being able to find them, how to find their attackers weak spots and utilise this to their advantage. Rudy had a similar training when he was much younger. Yet whilst his training made him and his brothers cry Gemma and Oscarâs are filled with laughter as the pair wrestle playfully with the older woman on the floor, only half listening to her instructions to âchoke herâ as they finally get her over onto her back. Helena notices him watching them and orders them to attack him too, watching them all carefully but happily as he pretends to fall and get overrun by the harmless kids. Nodding encouragingly whenever he looks her way for guidance.Â
- When Mark and Gracie also move into the Hendrixâs for safety whilst the neolutionists make their move, the boys begin to learn together how a mother is supposed to treat her children.Â
- They watch as Sarah cuddles Kira and calls her monkey, the way she stares at her daughter as if she is the most beautiful thing on this earth and if Rudy is aware how she deliberately makes sure that he is no where near Kira alone he doesnât comment on it. A mother should protect her child from the monster that tried to hurt it.
- Siobhan is the first to truly take on the mothering role of the two. It starts slowly as her distrustful gaze on the pair begins to take on a fondness that she only has with her children (adopted or otherwise).
- She begins to call Mark âpoppetâ much to his surprise and everyone elseâs amusement, making sure that heâs feeling okay and that heâs had enough to eat.Â
- She changes Markâs arm dressing as often as she can, checking to make sure itâs healing well. Whilst heâs been trained in medical care from an early age and knows that itâs doing fine Mark never stops her, secretly enjoying her mother hening. When she approaches Rudy to do the same he snarls and disappears for half the day. Itâs Gemma that reveals that heâs hiding under the bed of the spare room and is refusing to talk, Mark tells everyone to leave him for a while but he too eventually disappears. Sounds of heavy things hitting walls and yelling can be heard before everything goes quiet. When Helena goes up to make sure that they havenât killed each other she finds the pair curled around each other in the corner of the room asleep, she tucks a blanket over them before closing the door quietly behind her. The next day Rudy refuses to leave his brothers side and the pair seem closer yet refuse to speak of what happened upstairs.
- Siobhan buys the boys clothes so that they can finally change into something else. Mark gets changed instantly, constantly expressing his gratitude and showing them off to whoever will listen, having never had someone buy him something that was for his own enjoyment instead of something for a mission.Â
- Rudy initially refuses to acknowledge the clothes, glaring at anyone who isnât Gemma or Oscar who tries to approach him.Â
- The next day he comes downstairs dressed in one of the new outfits, unsure of how to react when Felix and Sarah begin to wolf whistle and to the compliments people give him. When he finds Mrs S talking to Gracie in the kitchen he thanks her, kissing her cheek before dragging Helena off to sparr in the garage. Mark reveals that it was their mother who used to buy them all their clothes. The next morning Donnie finds a pile of ashes on the driveway and a singed scarf, he cleans it up and doesnât mention it to anyone.Â
- Through Siobhanâs guidance and the odd nudge by Sarah, Helena and Alison the boys begin to shape and change into men instead of weapons. They start to develop their own personality traits and skills that arenât to do with being efficient at killing.Â
Thank you so much for this, this was super fun to do! Let me know if you want any more! :D
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