When you get so attached to a roleplay ship that you actually draw out a birds eye view of what you think the Carver House looks like for your rp partner based on shit you’ve written before about it—
My head-canons for (*cough* Autistic *cough*) Jason’s home life and childhood:
Cw for emotional abuse/infantilisation
• Mother: Clarissa Carver
• Father: James Carver
• Clarissa’s side of the family is filled with lawyers. She met James in high school and they fell quickly and deeply.
• James is a man of few words but gentle action. His side of the family focused more in business and he followed in their footsteps. The pair are both quite wealthy due to their family money and own acquired wealth.
• Jason is an only child. In fact, he was the only child Clarissa was able to have due to fertility issues. He was deemed her miracle, her angel sent from above.
• Because of this, he grew up with Clarissa doting on him heavily, using her reputation to help him make friends.
• Clarissa’s doting was originally out of love; but as Jason got older and started acting out, it became out of worry and anxiety.
• Between the ages of one and six, Jason had violent meltdowns and Clarissa, once going to a doctor, began locking him in his room during these until he’d stop crying.
• She became frazzled over time because of her ‘difficult’ child, crying constantly over her failure to produce a ‘normal’ child. She made it her priority to make sure he wasn’t left out and acted ‘normal’ to do so.
• Seeing his mother cry all the time over his behaviour, he began to stifle his feelings out of guilt, offering his mother hugs and apologises whenever she started to cry or get upset with him. Even skinning his knee, he’d offer to console her in hopes she’d stop yelling at him to be more careful.
• By third grade, Jason had learnt to be a ‘good boy’ for his mother. He loves her dearly and she loves him back just as much, but her helicopter parenting does not end there.
• Jason and his father aren’t particularly close as Jason gets older. Jason remembers having a peaceful relationship with him in childhood, his father speaking little but taking him to aquariums and beaches, letting Jason read his school books to him and bouncing him on his knee as he sniffles over scrapes from basketball.
• As Jason gets older though, he begins to see his father more as a doormat, an invisible stranger in their home. (Their relationship improves vastly in adulthood after Jason gets his diagnosis and helps his selectively nonverbal father get his own as well).
• After years of being doted on by his mother, a constant figure who kept good peers around him and bad peers away so Jason wouldn’t be used for his ‘naivety’ or be peer pressured, Jason is left with a staggering amount of independence when his mothers career picks up.
• In his second year of middle school, Jason calls her constantly to make decisions and to inform her of his days, but as time drags on, he finds himself feeling abandoned by his mother.
• Every times she comes home, Jason is there to greet her and sucks every ounce of affection from her that he can. But as he goes from middle school to high school, he finds himself dragged into the hierarchy of it.
• Jason begins lying to her about what he’s doing with friends on a school night, let’s them drag him into stupid ideas, finally feeling less lonely and more free. Feeling included by his peers.
• Jason attends church every Sunday with his family, and still talks to them often. His mother keeps her claws latched into his life, listening to town gossip to figure out what he’s up to.
• Jason cries when his mother scolds him for drinking the first time. He cries and begs her to forgive him, and she relents by coddling him, shifting the blame onto his friends. Her son can do no wrong in her eyes, and she makes sure all his teammates families know this.
• Jason is trapped within the cycle of scolding, coddling, and blame shifting. His mother infantilises him into his teen years, and even once he’s 18, she continues to.
• Being treated like a child yet being forced to be mature like his peers, Jason is constantly conflicted and finds it hard to apologise to anyone who isn’t his mother, refusing to take blame for even small things.
• This comes to a head when his mother starts to refuse his relationships because he’s ‘too young’ to date, and that they aren’t a good match. Having put all her love into her son, she cannot fathom him loving anyone else but her in return.
• Jason and Clarissa’s relationship begins to fray around the edges over the matter, and Jason’s constant frustration with her babying him. Clarissa, feeling like she’s losing her son, cries and fights and refuses to accept Jason’s agency as a legal adult, first grounding him, and then with time, taking his keys and locking him in his room. Whatever she can do to make him stay and keep him ‘safe’ from everyone who wants to hurt her ‘special boy’.
• Depending on the way things pan out with Jason surviving S4, he either lets his mother continue to manipulate and guilt him for years into adulthood before he snaps and cuts contact,
Or his partner helps him realise sooner that his mother will never allow him to have real agency over himself if he doesn’t make a point of telling her no. He parts ways and leaves to go to college in hopes of having her come to her senses.
• If the partner is male, Clarissa threatens conversion to give him a ‘normal, happy life’ and that’s the breaking point for him. If the partner is female, Clarissa will dig at her until Jason finally has to put his foot down at his mothers snooty, judgemental nature towards anyone that gets too close to him.
• Clarissa eventually learns to accept that Jason is his own person, his own man who can look after himself, but it takes her nearly a decade to really unlearn her habits. James and her hold a rock marriage during this time, especially since James is still in contact with Jason when Clarissa isn’t, but after many sessions with a therapist, couple and one-on-one, they fix things and remain happy like they used to be.
“I didn't go to prom. Not because I was too cool for it (although I am), but because by the time I would have been attending, I was in something called continuation school. If you are not familiar with the term let’s just say it’s a wonder I can even put together a sentence, let alone pretend to review films. If we would have been permitted to have a prom, we at least would have had the other schools beat on baby bumps, controlled substances and stabbings. Everything I know about the high school prom comes from movies, and this leads me to believe that I got a better deal. In the films, the coveted dance is a source of all consuming drama. It is the night that changes everything, where people pull off the best prank, commit acts of extreme emotion or in other ways settle the score. The highschoolers of movieland wait their life for prom. It's the battle for prom queen, the moment the nerd makes his move or someone’s reason for revenge. Then, after the dance, there is always some kind of madness inducing party, a hotel filled with date rape or the schools gym itself descends into teenage chaos. From my perspective, the whole thing seems like a ridiculous amount of stress. Even though I'm glad I never had to live it in the real word, it's pretty fun to watch, in a sometimes fucked up way. Luckily there is no shortage of films on the subject, including the fourth film in the loosely connected Prom Night series, Prom Night IV: Deliver Us from Evil (1992)...”- RevTerry
