#Weirdly enough Hilbert might be the one whose childhood we know the most about

[hephaestuscrew]

We know very little about the childhoods of any of the Wolf 359 characters, but one of the few things we do know from canon is that Eiffel and Minkowski were both bullied as children (at least according to how I interpret Minkowski's speech from Shut Up and Listen, and Pryce telling Eiffel "Oh my, that was quite a beating Alison Thornton gave you. Second grade was not a happy time, was it?" in the finale). Which is unfortunately not unusual enough to be surprising, but is still a sad thing to have in common.

[herawell]

#Because there's very little information in the show about their childhoods. anything we do learn feels significant#Minkowski directly talks about how those experiences have affected her into adulthood#and I think Eiffel was affected by it in a different way#He was 7 or 8 and getting beaten up by a girl whose full name he still remembers#It's stuck with him#There are other ways you could interpret that line than him being bullied#but 'Second grade was not a happy time' implies that it wasn't a one-time victimisation#Minkowski was 11 and in an entirely new country whose language she didn't speak#and she felt like 'a wounded gazelle' to the other kids#and the legacy of that experience is still there in how she speaks#Weirdly enough Hilbert might be the one whose childhood we know the most about#but that's because his childhood was off-the-scale bad

We know very little about the childhoods of any of the Wolf 359 characters, but one of the few things we do know from canon is that Eiffel and Minkowski were both bullied as children (at least according to how I interpret Minkowski's speech from Shut Up and Listen, and Pryce telling Eiffel "Oh my, that was quite a beating Alison Thornton gave you. Second grade was not a happy time, was it?" in the finale). Which is unfortunately not unusual enough to be surprising, but is still a sad thing to have in common.