#lewis cooper

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Do you have any headcanons about prudence and lewis' relationships with their parents? And hal's with his grandparents?

I got nothing beyond Lewis' father was great grandpappy Cooper who either got murdered by his brother or murdered his brother over maple syrup. I once toyed around with the idea of his mom's side of the family being the ones who started the Riverdale Register. (mostly just to bash the blossoms but it picked up.)

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do you think hal was closer with his parents as a kid, teen, or adult?

I definitely think he was least close to them as a teen. Like most kids he drifted from his parents in those typical angsty teen years and I’m sure him making certain choices they were unhappy with (getting alice pregnant for example...) didn’t go over well and hurt his relationship with him.

I can see him being closest with them when he was a kid. Always more so with Prudence but he was still fond of his father (even if he was always a little jealous of how much closer gertrude was with him). I like to think as adults he reconnected with them though, maybe around the time the girls were born. Enough time had passed since his and Alice’s high school pregnancy and they’d already been married for a bit and his parents were excited to be grandparents and it just brought them all together again. 

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this is so random i’m sorry... but it’s 2am where i live and for some reason it’s really bothering me that i can’t picture lewis and prudence cooper in my mind so i was wondering if you could please maybe just give me a description of how you think they’d look/dress...again i’m so sorry this is just one of those late night thoughts lmaoo

@penelopeblosscm suggested Jessalyn Gilsig as a fc for Prudence forever ago and I feel it deeply. I'm undecided if she'd be quite as short as her... I imagine her being at least the same height as Alice. Long blonde hair, blue eyes. Never dresses as down to business as we saw Alice but never left the house dressed down. I imagine a lot of smart dresses and sensible heels. Probably had different purses to match her shoes, one of those people. Made regular trips to get her hair done... half because she liked to look her best and half because she loved the gossip of the salon.

For the life of us Alexa and I cannot come up with a fc for Lewis but we have such a distinct image of him. Imagine someone very 50s dadish. Very all American, properly dressed, glasses, always reading the newspaper he edits. (Hal got it from somewhere...) Strawberry blonde because those Blossom genes are still there. I see a lot of sweater vests. Modest in every sense of the word. Stoic and quiet... until he's pushed that is. Like Hal in that sense. A tad bit taller than Hal so maybe 6 even and more slender than him... he wouldn't be called beefy.

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Flat Block, Lewis Cooper

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Neo-Glasgow, Lewis Cooper

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Was it hard for Hal to say goodbye to his parents when he was going off to college or was he eager to get out of the house at that point? What was the biggest adjustment he had to make after he left home?

Hal’s senior year was a really rough time for the Coopers. Hal expressed his and Alice’s interest in going away to school the summer before and you better believe Prudence and Lewis were less than thrilled. Their daughter was already across the country in LA (and look at how one year had changed her! coming home talking about not believing in god and driving out to greendale to buy avocados. avocados! what happened to her?) and the last thing they wanted was to loose their son too. They were especially skeptical that no matter what post high school plans came up, they always seemed to center around Alice. 

There were many talks that summer about how Hal maybe needed a little space and needed to look at Alice as something going on right now and maybe not forever… But Hal was a boy in love and he told his parents time and time again that Alice was part of his future and that was that. Of all the places that came up, Emerson College in Boston was the one that they all seemed to agree on. Boston was so much further than NYC, but it was also quieter. Safer. And Emerson had such an excellent journalism program! Hal had no interest in majoring in journalism, but he’d cross that bridge with his parents when he came to it.

And then homecoming happened and everything fell apart. 

Alice went to stay at the Sisters (on the Coopers dime, of course) and for the first time ever, Hal was in the doghouse with his parents. His father was colder than normal. His mother stopped asking about his day, stopped showing concern for him. He was sure they hated him. He disappointed everyone around him - Alice, his parents, his sister. All those dreams he had of his future were out the window. He wrote to Alice weekly about how maybe, just maybe, they could still have it. Still go along with their plans. But he knew deep down they were just pipe dreams. Alice never wrote him back.

Months passed. His parents slowly warmed back up, but their relationship never went back to what it once was with either of them. And when Alice came back to Riverdale, she came to live with the Coopers. Alice didn’t want to go back to her dad and she was sure her dad didn’t want her back either.

He got into Emerson somewhere along the way, but without Alice there was no point. She was waitlisted and if she didn’t get in, Hal would burn his acceptance letter. But then it came. At the last possible minute, Alice got in. And much to their surprise, Prudence and Lewis gave the two their blessing to go. 

The summer was a crazy mix of shopping and day trips to Boston and sneaking around. Alice and Hal were supposed to dorm, but they realized how much cheaper they could live if they got an apartment together instead. They both picked up jobs and they knew they could make it work. And hell, if they survived the first year, they’d come clean to his parents and tell them. 

Living together wasn’t a huge adjustment after the months Alice had spent in the Cooper’s home, but there were a lot of little things Hal had to learn. Prudence never let him cook, hardly let him touch laundry or clean the house. Meanwhile, Alice was all too used to taking care of her dad, so everything was much easier on her.

Hal trying to cook for himself? A nightmare. Not having his father to ask questions? Having to figure out things like paying rent and managing money and all that stuff? Yikes. He had Alice and thank god she had such a better head for these things than he did. 

And even though Hal missed his parents, he was thrilled to be away from him. Alice always told him his mother coddled him and he never really understood it until those few months she was hardly speaking to him. He needed time away from them, he needed space from them, and college was the perfect excuse to do so. And even though he loved Riverdale - was proud of the town that raised him - he was glad it was in his past. Sure, he’d go back for holidays, for visits. But he and Alice were never going back there for good. 

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did hal ever find out that lewis blamed him for the missing raw cookie dough that he himself ate?

When you have several reoccurring dreams of seeing your father with his head in the freezer eating your mom’s frozen stores of homemade cookie dough… you start to get a little suspicious. But his dad just really wasn’t the type to eat raw cookie dough. Or indulge in sweets in the middle of the night.

But time and time again he’d have the dream and soon after get chewed out by Prudence for eating it. Why did he keep having the dream but have no recollection of eating it? Damn was night snacking a problem.

Lewis went through a very difficult time when Hal left for college. He had to start skimming the frozen cookie dough ever so lightly from the top so his wife wouldn’t notice. And you best bet he pigged out whenever Hal was home from break.

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did gertrude ever sneak out as teen?

Polly thinks she’s the champ of sneaking out of that house? That’s only because she doesn’t know her aunt Gertrude well enough.

Prudence and Lewis were always strict, but more so with her because she was older. It wasn’t that she wasn’t allowed to go out with her friends or go to a party. It’s that there was always a stipulation with it. “If you go to the mall, you must call me from a payphone when you get there and be home by 7:30 sharp.” “Of course you can attend a party. As long as there is adult supervision.”

Their rules always verged on going just too far and it drove her bonkers. So okay, she snuck out plenty of times where all she had to do was ask. But miraculously, she hardly ever got caught. And she loosened up her parents enough that they were never anywhere near as strict with Hal. Shame too, because Hal would have probably been plenty content staying home a lot of those nights. 

She likes to tell herself they were always easier on him because he was the baby of the family and not because he was the boy, but she was never entirely sure. And hell, as the end of the day she wasn’t the one who knocked up her Southside girlfriend, he was. So maybe they should have been a little more strict with him after all.