basically Declan being so parasocial his entire marriage is built on him imagining himself as his favorite poet, Yeats— and romanticizes Maud constantly cheating on him by imagining himself as Yeats who constantly gets rejected by Maud Gonne.
BUT then I saw an edit on tiktok that actually compared Cameron to Maud Gonne and my third eye has opened.
did some light research as inspo for a co’hara fic (because… 7 FICS of cameron x declan vs. 700 rup x tag IS AN EGREGIOUS ratio 😭)
AND WALK WITH ME WALK WITH ME!!!
the concept of this:
Yeats supposedly being soooo in love (+clinically obsessed) with Maud Gonne that he proposed to her daughter (who also turned him down 💀) just to be close to her mother.
IN A SENSE…. if we modernize this and shake it around a bit:
Isn’t Declan offering his son, and saying he’s a much better fit for Cameron just to be close to her, kinda the same sentiment? Because he knows their situation is too complicated, that even tho he wants her himself, it probably won’t happen (yet :D). Living vicariously through his son, basically 💀
I’m realizing how parasocial Declan O’Hara is 😭 Poetry has rotted his brain omg