I have a really cruel idea for the soc spinoff
IF YOU ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE BOOKS THERE ARE SPOILERS HERE
Is not what i think should happen but if someone wants to make Van Eck more awful than he already was, Netflix being Netflix would probably make him homophonic which i guess..alright i won’t speak over the lgbt+ people that relate to Wylan so i’ll leave it at “it would be basic and predictable” . The show already has diverged from book canon so there are things that will be done
Do you want something crazy? That, i honestly think, may fit Van Eck more?
The show doesn’t reveal their relation right away. We see shots and interactions of Van Eck with a young man that he calls “son” sometimes so the audience that doesn’t know are deceived into thinking this is his son, maybe some book readers will think this is Wylan’s brother, not understanding the point but well.
Then there is a scene where Van Eck is hanging a family portrait: Him, a pregnant Alys with their current baby (I’ll explain the logic of this if someone ask) and the young man. This is reemplacing another portrait he just took off
At the same time there is changes of scenes that go from that to Kaz talking and when Kaz says “meet Wylan van eck “ it cuts to a portrait on Wylan being thrown on the fireplace, bonus if the position is him pretending to read a book because that’s how Jan forced him to pose.
The young man is not Wylan’s brother, that’s his husband. Van Eck tricked Wylan into signing a marriage certificate , since his name is the only thing Wylan can write, probably told him it was for the music school. The man is the son of another merchant that Van Eck wants to train into handling his business and doesn’t want to wait his second child to grow up to have an assured heir (and may be afraid they were born with reading problems too) and wants the procedure to be legal, now that Wylan is “dead” his son in law has the rights of properties. Van Eck wants people to forget about Wylan and have people accept this new guy as his son.
I mean, i just have very cruel thoughts