seeing as someone else mentioned fth lyall and remus and like a moth to a flame I am here to beg for more of your imaginings about them.. I am greedy, I love them, I miss them!!! but plz share only if you wish <3 !! I am simply here to encourage you if you are ever wanting to share more… 🤓
ugh stop its terrible i could just talk about them every day until i die which is really annoying and insufferable of me. but i do think of them. i do. i just loveee to imagine lyall as a young man and a very very young father (!!) basically still a boy (the age r is in the fic!!) so so proud and pleased of his little baby son because obviously he wanted a son like all the men around him do and hes imagining taking him to the rugby and taking him into work with him and when hes a toddler they have a relationship not dissimilar to frank and neville he loves to come home from work and go and find his little son and throw him in the air and make him giggle and play with his little traintracks with him and put him on his shoulders. but then that sort of changes when r gets older and develops into his own human being a bit more AND becomes sick and at first there's a lot of concern and lyall sits with him on his lap under a blanket watching tv and brings him sweeties home to try and cheer him up under the assumption that he'll grow out of it. but he doesn't! and actually his personality is just that he's a very shy and and timid and mild-mannered boy coupled with having quite a fragile constitution because he is literally disabled. and that...yah...that starts to irritate and exasperate lyall its like. his son is weak and wimpy and simply won't grow up! and it becomes apparent he isn't going to have a relationship with his son like other men get to have with theirs and he isn't going to follow him into work and it's kind of embarassing to be around the other men and their sons when his is so delicate and gentle and unmasculine. his son reaches to hold his hand when they're walking together and he has to explain that boys his age shouldn't be doing that anymore because he's not a baby. he makes him do rugby after school club when hes like seven thinking it will toughen him up and give him some friends but its so so bad he's awful at it and doesn't want to be there and the kit is too big on him and he's rubbish and lyall gets so embarrassed watching him on the sidelines and r knows his da is so ashamed of him and they go home in silence and he never goes again. but r gets bigger and taller and his mam cannot help him up and down the stairs etc so lyall has to do it and r has to grit his teeth because they both hate every seconddd of it. and the most they r ever together is when hope is making them stand in the living room in their vests trying on the same jumpers and shirts one after another that she's brought home because she reckons they will fit both her boys and wants to get her money's worth. and he's aware his son is intelligent and is irritated that he thinks he knows better and is wiser than his own da like that age old thing of every child and parent ever. but also they are more alike than they want to admit and they're both stubborn and repressed and they both like books and like music (lyall likes jazz and his records have shaped his son's taste more than either of them realise) and lyall was also a quiet boy growing up who couldn't believe his luck that hope would deign to date him. sorry i have to stop this is a mental illness but know i could do this all day every day