...worst motheres in aftg? :>>> perchance
I don’t think I could rank them because I do not make it a habit of ranking women, but Worst Mother is Mathilde undeniably because she had more children to fuck over for some reason like girl if you can’t handle one Stop Having Them. Again, everything about tsc is nil to me, but girlie had her one son turn her other son into a drug addict and her other other son was suicidial AND SHE DIDN’T DEAL WITH IT and her other other son killed himself and it’s like been a few years later AND SHE STILL ISN’T DEALING WITH IT like MA’AM??? MA’AM??? Reminds me of the ladybird ladybird your house is on fire and your children are gone song.
Mary obviously is utterly iconic. Biblical ref duh but I love how hardcore paranoid hateful spiteful mean she was. She was singularly devoted to keeping herself and Nathan alive and away from Nathan and she Did Not Care about what it took to achieve that. Bullying her kid to get out of the bulletproof vest he slept in after being shot. Adorbs. If you made her death into a tragedy I think she’d bite you. I have a hc that it was her that wanted to marry Nathan and have the Hatfirds move up in the world and that backfired so fucking hard and she hates herself and hates him and hates everything. I want her carnally.
My favourite bad mother thoughhh is Tilda. Oh Tilda. One of the OG’s, of course. I love imagining how shit and what fuck ups the Hemmick family must’ve been for their children to become one drug addict on the West Coast and one religious republican nutcase aaaall the way over on the East. And Tilda wanted to Get Away so badly that she changed her surname despite the twinyards Dad being dead/not with her. And they were both abusive. And she had to go back to him. She couldn’t escape being a Hemmick. And then her family (her son) kills her for his family (his twin.)
My hc for her is that she got Aaron back as like, suicide prevention, she needed Something to Stay Alive for, but it wasn’t enough and she couldn’t make herself care for him beyond like, a doll to cuddle with. Probably drugged him so he’d be quiet and sleep. She’s so Ethel Cain Half-Cocked “Tell my baby that I love her/But right now, mama’s gotta go/I didn’t ask to be this crazy/But since we’re here, I’ll give them a show” to me. I just know she was falling apart and unkempt and smoked and was half-dying and half dead and hot. She’s like a Latona Reversed to me.
