What’s your take on FACE family? Thinking of this post especially.
this is a bit alfred-centric because he’s the character i think about the most but yeah i quite enjoy fruk & i think they’re all closer to being a “family” in modern day than they ever have been historically. i think they’ve gotten to the point where they are beginning to divorce who each of them are as people from what they represent as nations, even though the two can intertwine very closely, of course. i guess what i’m saying is that there’s less baggage between them. they still quarrel and bicker and bring up the past and have unresolved issues with each other, but they are generally closer and get along better than they ever have
my thoughts on arthur and alfred’s relationship can be a whole different essay entirely, but i think they were on generally pretty horrible personal terms until the 1900s. i also think alfred kind of wanted francis to fill the parental void that was created back during the revolution, but francis was too preoccupied reveling in the concept of arthur’s defeat and humiliation to notice. i think alfred and matt have always psychoanalyzed fruk together. matt, of course, resents alfred for a lot of reasons and alfred can very quickly result to being like “this is just because i’m better at everything than you”. but at the end of the day i think they can be real with each other (namely, alfred can be real with matt) in a way they normally aren’t with others. they’re also REALLY good at impersonating each other
i think francis and arthur both blame each other for how matthew and alfred turned out also lol. arthur is bitching about something alfred said that pissed him off and francis is like “now who does his behavior remind me of? 🥰” and arthur is like fuck you. kill yourself.
anyway this is just a small summary of my thoughts. thank you for the ask!
