a starter for @billy-hargrxve that i was supposed to write years ago, oh my god i’m so sorry
She’d never really been that type of person, you know, looking at a kid and thinking about how kids these days just don’t seem to get it. For one thing, Joyce had always kept in mind what it’d been like through her own adolescence. Life in general was just very, very complicated, and she wasn’t one to judge somebody just because they’d been dealt a shittier hand than somebody else.
It was rare to see, because she’d always thought of her kids as good kids, anyway. They never really hang around the big crowds, if at all, so Joyce herself couldn’t really pass judgement over the majority of the people in her sons’ age groups. But as far as first impressions go, Joyce really wasn’t too fond of this one. It wasn’t the way he looked, only the way he presented himself that seemed to strike some kind of nerve. And well, knowing Joyce, she wasn’t the type of person to stay quiet about something for long.
At some point, she couldn’t stand to let him go on the way he was. She could usually tolerate attitudes, keep a level head when she needed to -- but at some point the bow breaks, and Joyce has to bring it up. “ Do you talk to your father that way? ”