#also it really adds to his kicked dog motif. trained since birth to go back to the hand that beats him

[goddisposez]

edward little's backstory to me always involves a cold, emotionally distant/abusive father with incredibly high expectations that he struggles to meet, and it really compels me to see that so many people have arrived at this same conclusion just based off of his canon characterization, dave k's idea for his death hallucination, and dynamic with crozier. that being said, this passage from cut by catherine lacey is incredibly and painfully him: