#Rebecca Bois

[doctorspaceman]

Thinking about this scene in the episode "Rebecca," where Kim finds Chuck working alone and in the dark at HHM. This is the episode where we're introduced to Rebecca, and it's an episode where Chuck is presented as devastatingly lonely. In the opening scene, he shows a lack of ability to charm and connect effortlessly with others - even his wife (at least compared to Jimmy). And Chuck's social isolation is shown to be exacerbated during this later bump-in with Kim, particularly when he asks her to make coffee. He can't do it himself, and (being divorced, mostly friendless) there's nobody around to do it for him. Nobody who cares enough to realize this is something Chuck cannot do for himself. Nobody who knows how he likes his coffee (in the morning, no sugar, a splash of soy milk). And so, Chuck has to ask this of a business associate - someone who (let's be real) only obliges him because she's on his payroll. And Chuck has to ask her to make two cups, because otherwise she'd just make his cup and leave him there to drink it alone.

And then, thinking about the scene in season 6, where Howard brews a coffee for Cheryl. Here, Cheryl dumps the latte art into her travel mug, both disregarding the effort put into the art and conveying that she doesn't wish to spend a single minute drinking it with Howard. A signpost at the "point of no return" for their marriage.

And THEN. Then there's the "World's 2nd Best Lawyer" mug that Kim gives Jimmy. The condition of Jimmy's travel mug pretty blatantly signifies the state of his relationship with Kim throughout the series (e.g., when it couldn't fit into his cup holder, and who knows how many times Jimmy smiles at it while thinking of Kim). So long as Jimmy has this mug, Kim is his "number one." Of course, the mug is shot and rendered unusable in the "Bagman" episode, which signifies a fatal puncture or turning point in their relationship, as Jimmy descends on his chosen "path."

The image of Saul drinking from his "World's Greatest Lawyer" mug in Breaking Bad all but screams of his solitary existence after the divorce. The duo of "first and second place" is gone - and now it's just Saul, alone in a solo practice.

Anyways. It's interesting to me that each of the "divorcees" are shown to be at their "lows" when they have nobody to sit with over coffee.

Coffee or tea with good, attentive company is a priceless and precious thing. Any of these three would've benefitted from having a drink with each other, giving each other a bit of time and an ear.

[spockvarietyhour]

[cauldronofmorning]

Ash, by Tracy K Smith

[chuck-fag]

I always wanted to know the reason why Chuck and Rebecca lived separately leading up to their divorce… It makes it obvious things were not going well even before the dinner with Jimmy. I wonder what their relationship was actually like. Was it just not meant to be? Was there any altercations? Did something in their life just unfold? These are questions I wish I had the answers to.

[kimwexlers-brownhair]

i feel like chuck has a hard time accepting that people he has a high opinion of like jimmy. like obviously he freaks out because rebecca likes jimmy. and with kim he obviously doesn’t respect her or care about her feelings but she does conform to his idea of a “fine young woman” and successful lawyer so he’s baffled that she likes jimmy and assumes their relationship is jimmy manipulating her

I think Chuck explained away his feelings of insecurity in his youth by convincing himself he was "too good" for Cicero. Cicero is Slippin' Jimmy's territory. Chuck is meant for better things.

So once Chuck's able to work himself to the top and becomes part of ABQ's elite, he's thrilled they're more on his level: good education, good taste, good judgment. These people couldn't even conceive of someone like Jimmy, so surely they'd be mortified actually meeting him.

Especially his well-bred, sophisticated, classy wife. This dinner will be awful, but at least after he can finally talk it over with someone who feels just like he does about Jimmy!

After that dinner, Chuck's convinced he's underestimated Jimmy's powers of manipulation. He first manipulates Rebecca, then Howard, and then that poor Kim Wexler. There's no depth to how low Jimmy will sink.

[warningsine]

[dcvina-claires]

i love when a character is a ghost but in a tragic way instead of a scary way. i love when a character has been dead from the beginning but is still holding on to stay in the narrative. i love when a character could choose to resent the living but ends up loving them instead. i love when a character drives the story but isn’t quite there enough to be at the center of it. i love when the ghosts are the protectors instead of the ones causing the harm. i love when a character is at the heart of the story because depending on where you began it, no matter how you told it, the story is about the ghost who struggled to keep their humanity

[mysterylilycheeta]

Rhiannon: Don't you just hate men sometimes? They can be so useless! Imogen: Right? They're terrible! Jesinia: *signs* 100% Violet: Definitely. Xaden, Garrick, Bodhi, Ridoc, Sawyer, and Dain: Liam: Violet: Not you Liam, you're perfect! The other girls: Honestly, he is! The boys: Wh-

[courtesanofdeath]

Revy, also known as Two Hands

[pavloathe]

thinking about butcher's weird relationship with nicknames. people that hold a particularly special place in his life get first named; becca, lenny, hughie, ryan.

then there are the others; kessler, starlight, MM, etc... and himself. we specifically see this with his hallucinations of becca & kessler. i notice becca refers to him almost exclusively as billy, while kessler refers to him as butcher. to me, this reads as billy separating the different sides of himself. "billy" is his perception of his own goodness, while "butcher" is everything else.

and then that train of thought gets me thinking on how homelander is really one of the only people to refer to him as 'william butcher.' he sees his depravity and his humanity all in one, he sees the ways his trauma has shaped him and still recognizes his inherently human nature. he might be one of the only people on earth who really sees him for how he is.

[doctorspaceman]

they're hot and they should've killed Jimmy and Kim in season 6

[spockvarietyhour]

Chuck's in (well-deserved) hell.

[cauldronofmorning]

Chuck haunting Kim and jimmy and Howard and Cheryl and all of their relationships. the only one who really escapes him is rebecca

It’s been said over and over but BCS is such a ghost story.

[robottheodorlasso]

This is what Ted and Rebecca are like to me

[kimwexlers-brownhair]

Reading all those interviews about Lantern and how unhealthily fixated Chuck is on Jimmy, makes me wonder if he loves Rebecca the most, but Jimmy is the only one he’s going to think about, and obviously his work and The Law is more important than either of them.

Chuck prioritizes the mind over the heart, so his intellectual passions are always going to take precedent over anything that stirs him emotionally. He's more comfortable when things are logical and orderly, and ironically nothing fulfils him more emotionally than being the one to take an unruly case and use the law to make it logical and orderly. Honestly, I think it comes down to a desire to be needed. He has contempt for Jimmy's neediness yet doesn't know how to relate to him without it. Rebecca ultimately doesn't need him, and so their relationship ends. The firm and his clients need him, but unlike Jimmy, his successes there are assured. Work is the only place he's really whole.