#Roy means everything to me

[roykentschesthair]

Sooooo…..I realize that you can’t base character age off of the actors age, but, there’s a significant age gap between Brett Goldstein and Sofia Barclay, who plays his sister.

Does that gap exist for the characters? Because if it does, that opens up so many possibilities for the family dynamic.

There’s 18 years between the actors, if that translates to the characters (which it might not) then Roy was already professionally playing when his sister was born.

Was his ability to be financially secure and therefore take care of his family a factor?

Did he take care of her in certain ways because he was independent and could?

They obviously have a solid and loving relationship if for no other explanation than his intense love of Phoebe and her idolization of him.

Was she an oops baby? Change of life baby?

Is there not meant to be a huge age gap between the characters?

I dunno. But I think about a young Roy Kent, angry and self conscious and doing the best he can and it makes me want to cry. A Roy Kent who was sent away at 9 (which is insane and not at all typical no matter someone’s talent)

Roy Kent, young and grieving his grandfather and feeling so alone.

Roy Kent, who now has money and fame and people he doesn’t know smile when they see him, say his name with joy and admiration and buy him a pint.

Roy Kent, who feels just as alone in that crowd of people as he did as a boy who never learned to ride a bike.

Roy Kent, who looks at his infant baby sister and rearranges his entire life to be able to be the solid, stable family that she needs and he never got.

I just cry about Roy Kent a lot.

[akajustmerry]

"You grew up with an uncertainty in mind and morals. I hoped initiating physical intimacy with you would give me the influence to correct your shortcomings. That failed. I apologise to you for what you have become." - Lady Demerzel, Foundation: 'Long Ago, Not Far Away'

"I could have got you there. But no. No." - Gerri Kellman, Succession: 'Tailgate Party'

Brother Day and the Lady Demerzel in Foundation / Roman Roy and Gerri Kellman in Succession (2023)

[egoarc4de]

kendall roy and the deep end

bryce emley, a list of waters // richard shelton, letter to a lost friend // succession 3.08, chiantishire // kaveh akbar, despite my efforts even my prayers have turned into threats // mia bergeron, passage // radiohead, codex // marie howe, magdalene: the addict // paris texas, ain't no high // succession 2.04, safe room // stephen dunn, the man who never loses his balance // william mackinnon, landscape as self-portrait // carrie fountain, burn lake 2 // emma barnes, the lake // jungwon jay hur, the wanderer // se so neon, nan chun // succession 4.10, with open eyes // califone, funeral singers // stevie smith, not waving but drowning // succession 3.01, secession // the hotelier, among the wildflowers // robert bly, when i was twenty-six // bill viola, departing angel // nick flynn, text to be whispered by the bedside of a sleeping child // succession 1.10, nobody is ever missing

[tortoisebore]

happy new year sirius is cutting remus’ hair in the bathroom in my ch 1 draft rn

[romanroy-co]

HUGE DAY FOR ANNOYING BITCHES (ME) ROMESTEWY NATION WAKE UP !!!!

POSSESSIVE HAND ON BACK WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK!!! ROMESTEWY ALIVE! ROMESTEWY THRIVING! ROMESTEWY WINNING! ROMESTEWY REAL!!!

[liedownquisition]

DC hamfisting a royd.onna revival before giving him a storyline about reconnecting with Lian (not the same thing as reuniting) is gonna be my fucking villain origin story.

[cakebatteronabrickwall]

In the end, the ending is not so tragic, so dramatic or destructive at all. The trick succession pulls, has always pulled, is making it seem so, making you feel about it the way its characters do.

But when the script (and i'm not the biggest fan of refering to something outside of the actual show) says there's something here, maybe it's okay, calls Ken a man followed by his particular history- that's just it. Or, to rephrase: it just is.

[tenderhooked]

Sid I can't stop wondering about how you see Roy dealing with the hardest parts of taking care of a small child. Kids get sick and have tantrums and whine and have accidents and embarrass their parents/caregivers unintentionally all.the.time and on top of all that Roy is (as far as i can tell so far) not super experienced in looking after his little brother and presumably still very much mourning the loss of his mother? Its a lot to have to deal with all at once

the bad news: you are correct. roy is incredibly inexperienced in looking after baby jamie, and he is still very much mourning the loss of his mum. he is also refusing to ask for help, and unwilling to receive it whenever someone does reach out, for a myriad of reasons that essentially boil down to. roy kent is furious that he's got this much love inside of him, and he's not quite sure what to do with it, but he promised georgie he'd protect jamie and he'll be damned if he breaks that promise. he is going to make mistakes, but jamie is going to be loved through it all, and soon there will be people there to get down in that dark hole with roy and guide him out.

the good news: we are all going to learn how i see roy dealing with these hardest parts in chapter 3! stay tuned! :-)

[chuchayucca]

Discussions of implied fictional CSA & SA

I recently been wondering if there’s a chance Richard thinks Roy’s aggressive and distant behavior is normal and not a sign of CSA because he acted similarly to Roy when he was younger

Reasonings in the tags

[sangue-dolce]

it's so interesting how differently people perceive Roman's ending. he got out of the cycle. he's still in it, there's other cages to lock oneself into. cages patiently inviting and deliciously enticing even. schrödinger's salvation of the soul. it's all optics all the way down.

[staticxlace]

should’ve KNOWN tom was going to win the crown the second he skipped the funeral to focus on the business—the very thing logan had wanted kendall to do in the series premiere, the very thing that kendall had failed at.

[autistic-britta-perry]

hate Tom actually and hate tomshiv with all my being I spent all of s4 trying to be like ok yeah I hate him but it is an interesting dynamic and trying to look at it that way but you know what? NO I don't think it IS because I like toxic dynamics to be mutually awful and ever since the s3 finale it's been ALL tom being awful and all Shiv suffering!!! if it had been just the s3 betrayal then like maybe but even then maybe not because I never got that shiv was being MORE awful, I always thought they were mutually bad to each other during the three first seasons, Tom's just better at like emotions and at expressing his hurt. So it's just. it's not 'revenge' or 'karma' or whatever when Tom starts stabbing and never stops and I hate that she goes back to him SO MUCH

[aspaceboydream]

burn bright by my chem is just The Kenstewy song to me. I'll never shut up about this

[jana-ebb]

Excuse me what is that first picture and how else are we meant to interpret it besides the tomgreg of it all

“do you want to strategize? do you want to fry her ass up?”

[gay-dorito-dust]

How they’d react to you not kissing/hugging him before leaving for a mission…

Dick acts as though you told him his ass isn’t that fat in his spandex suit-

He’s insulted.

You always, always remember to kiss his cheek before he leaves. His ‘good luck, be safe and kick ass’ cheek kiss!

It’s your thing as a couple! Do you want to see him cry because he fucking will! He’ll do it!

Dick will pout, huff and whine loud as possible in hopes that you’d realise your error and rectify it tenfold. He won’t tell you what’s wrong. No, he wants and expects you to figure it out for yourself, which doesn’t get him anywhere when you’re looking at him confused and lost as to what he was whining about; Literally.

His mood will be down for the entirety of the day and you’ll no doubt have texts from his teammates and family members asking what was wrong with Dick to look so down.

You’re just as confused as them seeing as how Dick didn’t disclose his innermost thoughts and feelings to you despite being his partner, so you were at a loss on how to help them with something even you weren’t privy to knowing…it’s probably one of your biggest issues as a couple but that’s for another time.

Dick will do that pathetic thing where he looks back at you expectantly the closer he gets towards the door, even going so far as to walk extremely slow when he was within reaching distance of the door handle as to buy you enough time to notice before he genuinely had to leave.

When you don’t however, Dick acts like a kicked puppy for the rest of the day and will proceed to exaggerate to anyone with ears about how his lover was restricting him of his affection.

On the other hand, If you do manage to remember to give him a good luck kiss, planting an extra one on his other cheek for extra, extra luck. Dick will have a permanent smile on his face that will not go the fuck away, even when he’s beating someone’s ass, the smile remains glued on his face as though with gorilla glue.

Seeing Dick brutally beat someone’s ass with a smile was horrifying for anyone to witness but it’s okay bc he’s happy that you remembered to kiss him good luck.

Jason will immediately call you out on your bullshit.

And by that I mean cross his arms over his chest and stare at you saying. ‘Well?’

And you’re like: ‘well what?’

And he’s like: ‘where’s my good luck kiss that you owe me? Roy is waiting on me and here I am waiting on my kiss, so give me my kiss chipmunk.’

Jason doesn’t piss about and gets to the meat of the issue at hand. He wants his good luck kisses and he wants them now and he will not leave the apartment until he gets them.

You’d raise a brow at his not so subtle neediness for your affection and decided to tease him. ‘I thought you didn’t need my good luck kisses remember? You’re a big boy who can fight with or without my good luck kisses.’

Jason groans, not expecting you to pull that out. ‘I said that one time. One time and I was being a dick back then too because all you wanted to do was show me that you cared about me and didn’t want me to get hurt.’

You smiled and got up from the couch and walked over to him, resting your hands on his biceps. ‘So now that you admit that you were a dick and the way that you acted was wrong…’ you trailed off as you pressed a kiss to his lips once, twice, three times because you loved to kiss Jason whenever possible and will try to plant as many kisses as you could.

‘Thanks chipmunk.’ Jason murmurs against your lips, feeling everything has gone back to being right again. ‘Now I better be off or Roy will tease me for lingering too long-‘

‘Too late.’ Roy said from the doorway and Jason closed his eyes and silently curse while you smiled and waved at Roy. ‘Hi Roy!’ You said. ‘Hi y/n, mind letting Jason come out to play?’ Roy joked. You played along by making a thoughtful face as Jason mutters under his breath; ‘are you being serious right now?’

You snapped your fingers. ‘As long as you make sure Jason doesn’t get into trouble then yes, he may go out and play.’

‘I hate you both.’ Jason groaned as he walked past you and playfully shoved Roy aside to leave the apartment. Roy then cupped his hands to his mouth and shouted after him. ‘Are you sure you don’t want your goodbye kisses?’ You and Roy laugh together upon hearing Jason cursing him out from a distance.

Damian acts indifferent about it.

He doesn’t need a good luck hug, hell! he doesn’t need luck at all!

He’s skilled enough to win any fight without relying on something silly as Luck. Luck was just probability under a different name and definition. (A/n: Don’t quote me on that.)

So when you forget to give him a hug before a mission, Damian doesn’t think anything of it but it will linger in his mind unnecessarily much to his annoyance.

Why was he so hung up on not getting something a silly as a hug? Or was he instead more upset over the fact that you, his closest friend/partner, completely forgot about it as though it wasn’t anything worth remembering.

Either way he was conflicted and didn’t know how to go about saying any of this to you without getting frustrated over his apparent loss for words. He was a man of action more then anything so when he finally catches up to you, he will stride towards you and stop just a couple of inches and silently stare at you with his resting bitch face.

‘Damian?’ You asked. ‘Are you okay?’

Damian doesn’t say anything because he couldn’t think of anything to say in that moment and instead stays silent as to save himself from further embarrassment.

‘Damian?’ You asked again, getting worried over his unusual silence. ‘I can’t help you if you don’t tell me-‘ before you could finish your sentence, Damian had lunged towards you and brought you into a very tight hug. You smile softly and gladly hugged Damian back, not saying a single word other then;

‘You don’t need me to say it but I’ll reaffirm it anyway, you’ll do great out there Dami. I know you will.’

[incorrectbatfam]

Jason has the vibes of the older brother who will do everything for his brother "but only for a price"

I mean: Jason will help Tim and Steph in their homework because they give him $10 or Jason once saw Dami and Jon breaking into a lab that was illegally using animals as guinea pigs, the two boys bought Jason's silence with half a KitKat and Jason even helped them because the candy is edible

Jason likes to help his siblings, he just does that to mess with them

Even better: it's casino-style. If they want something from him, they gotta place their bets and hope they win.

Jason: Since you're filing taxes, can you do mine?

Bruce: Sure.

Bruce: *squints*

Bruce: Why do you have a casino under your name in Atlantic City?

[earlier]

Jason: Hey, Roy, just stopping by to check in on everyone. How's the new Poker table coming?

Roy: See for yourself.

Barbara: *deals the cards*

Steph: I'll raise you two. I need that midterm project done more than you need that stupid mission report.

Tim: You're forgetting who has more disposable income.

Tim: *slaps a stack of bills on the table*

Tim: I can do this all night. I even brought leftovers from the buffet.

Jason: *goes to the Roulette wheel*

Damian, explaining to Jon: If we place our bets on black, we can maximize our chances of borrowing the laser lockpick to free the crocodiles.

Jason: *goes to the machines*

Cass: Third time's the charm. Give me his case file.

Cass: *pulls the lever*

Duke: I'll take a stab at the Wheel of Fortune. It'd be nice to have Jason clean my room. Or buy me snacks. Or whatever it lands on.

Jason: Well, everything's looking good around here.

Dick, walking in: Hey, I heard about this place. What's this about placing bets to get favors?

Jason: What are you, a cop?

Dick: Actually, I was wondering if I could try. My bike's in the shop and I really need to borrow yours.

Jason: My bike? Alright. Follow me.

Jason: *takes him out back*

Jason: *pulls out his gun*

Jason: Get on the ground and give me all your money.

Dick: Jason, what the hell?!?

Jason: The house always wins.