Ok so you’ve enabled me so : the Erebus family dynamic
Sir John : Dad, watches Tv standing up with his arms folded behind his back, actually nice with his « kids » but it’s transactional, you have to deserve it
Fitzjames : eldest child who was the testing ground for all the parenting stuff, « if I’m perfect dad will love me », so many issues….
Gore : gifted child syndrome, didn’t ask to be Dad’s favorite but he is and the others (Fitzjames) resent him for that, being the favorite means he gets a pass on a lot of stuff
Dundy : knows he’ll never be as good (and as liked) as Graham so he doesn’t even try, Sir John doesn’t care about him much and he doesn’t care about him in return
Fairholme : tries so so so hard to be liked and to be included with his older siblings, but assigned « youngest brother » and sometimes gets dismissed bc of that
Des Voeux probably fits somewhere in this but idk where lol
LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS
Fitzjames on Gore violence Fitzjames on Gore crimes. God that's so sad though he wants to be dad's special kid but he's just. "Meh, could've done better with that one" im in tears
Do you think Graham ever did things to purposely make franklin mad do you think he ever tried to break that fondness because he doesn't like it too much and feels the bitterness from james and doesn't want james to despise him and doesn't want to overshadow James because he's kind of cool and hey dad um remember you have other sons right-
Dundy the chronic middle child oh my goddd ;_; (i can say that, i am a middle child)
Does Fairholme try to do stuff to win the others approval and do they just think "aw cute" instead of respecting him if so im going to explode