not the promised thing i was working on, but something i couldn’t wait any longer to get off my chest:
Shoresy literally only has found family.
he was in the foster system from, judging based on the pictures, at least eight or nine years of age. specifically, he was placed with the man he calls ‘Dad’ at that age. he could have been in the system since he was born, or tragedy could have placed him there more recently. we just don’t know.
what we do know is that as an adult, Shoresy attends a family reunion as his father’s son, with his siblings, who are also all fostered. Dad Shore at one point even emphasises the fact that the kids were never referred to as siblings in their childhood, which only serves to underscore the fact that they choose to refer to themselves as siblings in adulthood. Dad Shore also points out that Shoresy’s competitive nature drives him, explicitly saying: He only beat Mo once, but he’s been chasing that feeling ever since. This draws a bright line between Shoresy’s hatred of losing and his desire for Validation.
all of this makes a line from the previous episode hit SO DIFFERENT. Shoresy repeatedly reminds his teammates to call their parents, admonishing them with the question: Have yez really not called your parents? D’ya want them to hate yez? He then is shown on the phone himself, while his teammates talk to their families, calling out their bad behaviour as, ‘so dumb.’ We don’t know for sure who he’s on the phone with, but in light of the precipitating conversation, it’s a safe assumption he’s calling a family member, probably his dad. By flagging up his teammates’ laxness, he puts himself in stark contrast; his call is basically a cry of HEY DAD, LOOK WHAT A GOOD SON I AM DAD, ESPECIALLY IN COMPARISON TO THESE TWATS DAD, TELL ME WHAT A GOOD SON I AM DAD.
Shoresy: This is great. I’m going to get a good grade in ‘son’, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve,
it makes me wonder if Shoresy was formally adopted at all, or if his placement was a long-term foster. the shared last name, Shore, seems to indicate that he was, although it is possible that he changed his name to more visibly align himself with his family.
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