#mallory laughlin

[astraeajackson]

mallory laughlin: i love all my children equally! emily, toby, and-

mallory laughlin: *squints*

mallory laughlin: rebonka

[thechildofshadows]

WHO'S THE WORSE TIG PARENT?

Mallory Laughlin vs. Tobias Hawthorne I

Mallory Laughlin

Tobias Hawthorne

Voting ended onOct 6, 2025

[inlovewithquotes]

"Come to Hawthorne House," Eve said again. "For me?"

"For you," Mallory agreed, not even sparing a look for Rebecca. "But I'm not setting a foot in the mansion. All these years, Tobias Hawthorne let me think my boy was dead. He never told me that I had a granddaughter. It was bad enough that he stole my baby, bad enough that those boys killed my Emily--I am not stepping foot in the House."

"You can stay at Wayback Cottage," Oren said soothingly. "With your parents."

"I'll stay with you," Rebecca said quietly.

"No," her mother snapped. "You love Hawthornes so much, Rebecca? Stay with them."

-The Final Gambit

[darlingletters]

I honestly feel so sorry for Rebecca. The "Emily situation" is one problem but I'm mostly talking about the way her own mother treats her. I'm not sure if Mallory Laughlin is just a messed up person in general (what with Toby getting taken away from her when he was a baby, Will Blake being a faker and a jerk, Emily's death and everything falling apart) - like ok, that's understandable but that doesn't really give her an excuse to treat Bex like dirt.

Bex is still her daughter, the one who took care of her and tried so hard to be a good daughter after Emily's death. The one who stood by her and did exactly as she told her to. Grayson and Jameson were heavily affected by Emily's death but I think it's fair to say that Rebecca was equally affected.

When Eve appeared on their doorstep, Mallory just pushed her daughter away and disregarded her like she was nothing. She called Eve her daughter when her real daughter was standing right next to her. She said that the world couldn't take anything else that mattered away from her when Bex was standing there, right there. She kicked Bex away to Hawthorne House when she offered to stay with her at Wayback Cottage because "she liked the Hawthornes so much". I'm sorry lady, but in her times of need, I'm pretty sure only Xander was there for her.

I may not agree with the stuff Rebecca did or didn't do but I really don't think she deserved to be treated the way she did.