#IF SUCCESSION S4 HAS 1000 DEFENDERS I AM ONE OF THEM IF SUCCESSION S4 HAS 100 DEFENDERS I AM ONE OF THEM. and so on

[eastgaysian]

as always i'm joking a little. but there is just no world ever where shiv "you lack killer instinct, you're wet, you're green, you're intellectually insecure, you're not emotionally strong enough, you have addiction issues. i don't think all that, i'm just trying to be dad's voice." "ken, if we're going to work together you can't ever be the boss of me. it just does things to me when you start using that voice and acting - all, i’m sorry but i can’t have that." roy chooses kendall to become ceo. she can hear the arguments that it makes the most sense, it maintains continuity, it looks the best, but she knows he's inevitably going to fuck it up, and inside it just twists her up. if kendall actually wins it on his own merit, by the rules of logan's game (which he can never win), that's one thing. but having to roll over and concede to her brother and say 'you're the right fit, and i'm not' is just not something she can stomach.

regardless of how long ago it was, how imaginary it all was, how twisted up everything's gotten since then, this is 'the plan' (or [shiv in vaulter voice] 'a modification of the plan') that she and tom always had. when push comes to shove she's chosen tom over kendall before. it does mean something, however hollow, that he honestly told her matsson was going to choose him as ceo. as pathetic and meaningless as it may be, technically, tom 'rightfully' won. he played his cards right and positioned himself correctly. tom went behind her back to sell her out to logan and she still couldn't let go of him. there's a part of her that respected that even though it shattered her trust in him. tom went behind her back to get matsson's approval, but at least this time he admitted it afterwards to her face. what do you think she's going to do?

like with tom's proposal, with logan's offer of ceo, with choosing who to sacrifice in this is not for tears, with the photo in what it takes, with her pregnancy, shiv has a choice that isn't a choice at all. if it hadn't actually been her choice, if she wasn't the final deciding vote in the tiebreaker, i think she could have forced herself to swallow it. up until kendall denied killing dodds i think she wanted to be able to be convinced. she never chose to be kendall's sister but she chose tom as her partner. ever since they were born her relationship with kendall has been set in stone, but there's uncertainty and complexity in her relationship with tom that she thinks she can shift in her favor. your baby sister is one thing, the mother of your child is another. if she has to be one, if she's always going to get fucked by someone, she'd rather it was her husband doing the fucking.

absolutely nothing in life comes before fucking over your cringe loser older brother 😤💯💪