#anyway not to derail the tags with a romangerri tangent but i noticed that line when I was rewatching prague and like | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

bitchthefuck1 · 8 months ago

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I actually don't fully vibe with my point here anymore. I think there's definitely an element of this going on, and it was never supposed to be a full explanation of his whole "thing", but it still feels a little too simplistic and overcooked. Post cancelled.

I feel like a really crucial scene for unpacking Roman's whole "oedipal" thing is the bit in Prague where he sees Tabitha, because one of the first things he says is "dad would go fucking nuts for her." He is constantly using "well it's what dad would do" as an explanation for his actions, and I genuinely think the jokes about wanting to fuck Marcia/Caroline are less about his mommy issues and any actual attraction to maternal figures and more about "well these are the women dad's into, so they must be the right women to be attracted to." It's like a defense mechanism--Logan can't think there's something "wrong" with his sexuality if they're attracted to the same people. It's what he would do.

Except this is obviously flawed logic that only makes him seem more "wrong," because "if dad does it then he must think it's okay to do and he won't get mad at me for it" isn't even the mostly-coherent reasoning of an adult choosing a partner their parents approve of, its the logic of a kid trying not to get hit.

#like i feel like i clarified my point better in the tags but the post alone is too easy to misinterpret so im canning it #✌️#original tags for context ->#it is also just him saying awful shit as a joke/to mess with people but like. there are layers here #like so much of how he performs his sexuality is about doing what he thinks his parents want/would do. caroline tells him she likes tabitha #and he immediately asks her to marry him even tho they've only known each other like a few weeks at most #and all of this is amped up even more when you factor in the likelihood that he's not straight bc the pressure to hide that and perform #the 'right' sexuality is even greater. i personally think he's some flavor of bi but if you don't think he's attracted to women at all then #he's literally using his understanding of his dad's preferences as a stand-in for the attraction he's 'supposed' to have.#painting this as like an actual oedipal complex is similar to how people misattribute his attraction to gerri as being about his mommy issu #instead of his daddy issues. he doesn't associate her with caroline or maternal affection he associates her with logan and waystar #and waystar was never about waystar it was always about 'winning' logan's love. the whole reason he starts working with gerri #is because he wants logan to 'take him seriously.' when shiv says no one cares about management training he says 'dad does. gerri does.'#earning gerri's approval/affection is inextricably linked in his head to earning logan's affection/approval #except then their relationship grows beyond that and develop into genuine feelings for him and you can see that in how he reacts to hearing #that logan was into gerri in the past and they might have had a thing. in any other case he's happy to think that his dad sees #the person he wants as desirable because it means he likes the 'right' people but he has genuine feelings for gerri and now logan's #attention is an actual threat instead of a gold sticker #this isn't to say that he wasn't actually into tabitha like setting aside their issues they did very clearly 'fit' well personality-wise #anyway not to derail the tags with a romangerri tangent but i noticed that line when I was rewatching prague and like #there's a lot to unpack here

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