rainbowtown replied to your post “Honestly I have headcanons about most of the Weston boys’ home lives,...”
I am extremely interested in hearing about my favorite shit head Maurice Cole.
YOUR FAVORITE SHITHEAD AND MINE. :D
Ahem. Welp. Maurice is one of my favorites to talk about, tbh. We know he’s the youngest in his family, but we don’t know how many siblings he’s got. So, my headcanon is that he’s got twelve older brothers. He’s the youngest of thirteen children, making him the baby, and you can bet everyone refers to him as ‘the baby’ despite the fact that he’s like eighteen years old. Naturally, his mother, Clara, coddles him quite a bit because he’s her youngest child. She loves him and her other sons very much, but she rarely ever says no to Maurice. Honestly, she kind of wants him to stay with her for as long as he can, so, she’s reluctant for him to grow up. That maaaybe explains why, even though he’s smart and cunning, he’s also prone to using those skills in an immature and inappropriate manner. He’s learned that if he pouts, his mother tends to just give in, so he’s become pretty manipulative.
His father, on the other hand... is an abusive bureaucrat who only really cares about his oldest son since he’s the one who’s being trained to take over the family business. He couldn’t care less about Maurice, and honestly, Maurice has known that since he was pretty young. That’s why he seeks approval from people like his brothers and Edgar. His father still expects a lot out of Maurice, though, which is part of the reason that Maurice gets other people to do his work -- he knows that the grades he could get on his own are average and wouldn’t please his father. Mr. Cole rarely involves his sons in physical abuse, but doesn’t hold back in abusing them verbally, and quite a bit in his childhood, Maurice saw his father beating on his mother. It’s messed him up a lot; it’s pretty bad, mainly because Maurice has just been emulating his father’s behavior by acting polite and kind to the people who “matter”, then turning around and bullying those who are weaker than him.
Once Maurice’s father finds out that Maurice has lost his status as Prefect’s Fag, it... is really not going to be a good day in the Cole household, and Maurice is probably going to need makeup to cover more than his average features.
