#because they were her kids but kendall was just logans inheritor

[grinchwrapsupreme]

Kendall's backstory of being promised a kingdom at 7 combined with Shiv saying that Kendall "bores the shit out of mom" explains a lot actually

[kramer]

What do you think Logan was like when all of the kids were young? Do you think he was physically abusive (I mean we have to assume he was right due to the way we saw Roman shrug it off when Logan slapped him and the way Kendall reacts with his body language/stutter whenever Logan is upset with him) and how do you think they were treated individually I think they were each groomed to have a specific role which is why they’re always so at odds with each other. Please ramble as much as you like

I don’t think I have any particular new thoughts about it but I think Logan was volatile, so I think he would lash out in the same way he did with Iverson and Roman. I imagine Roman was more of the child who wouldn’t listen to him so I think Logan probably targeted him more? And Kieran said something about thinking he probably didn’t hit him when he was younger, but I think he did since in 2.01 shiv also says an anecdote of him beating with a slipper for ordering lobster at a restaurant and sort of shrugging it off. Tbh I find it hard to believe he didn’t hit the rest of them though, I imagine shiv not as much since she was a girl and also she seems less of the problem child, the competent one. But I think it’s just unrealistic to think he didn’t hit Kendall, Connor, and Shiv because that’s not how physically abusive parents are. Also the violence is very clearly normalized with the way Shiv talked about that instance in their childhood. I think Kendall’s the only one who knows it’s wrong hence why he steps in to protect Iverson and Roman, I think he was particularly always very sensitive about it when Logan did hit him which is why he always reacts so strongly to those instances, whereas Roman is much more used to it and probably resents Kendall for trying to step in those situations.

As for their roles, I think Connor was obviously ignored and thrown out once Logan re-married, “first pancake” he maybe at a certain point treated him like Kendall, but obviously at a certain age he gave up and forgot about him. Probably viewing him as tainted in some way because of issues with his mother. Kendall comes next and yeah I think he was just extremely hard on him growing up, but I don’t think that means he was anymore affectionate with him than he was with the others. Brian Cox said himself Logan is the most disappointed in Kendall for being so sensitive, so I think saying he’s the favorite child is just wrong. He definitely always saw him as weak growing up probably, but Kendall was always desperate to have his validation and approval but Logan regularly demeaned him. Roman was definitely one Logan had more issues with hence why he sent him to boarding/military school, not sure I think Roman lied about it being military school because the school exists and it’s listed as boarding, not military. But I just don’t think Logan ever really particularly liked him and was just as abusive towards him as he was towards Kendall, he just knew at a young age that Roman couldn’t run the company because of how he acts. I think Shiv naturally gravitated towards Logan as daddy’s girl bc of how Caroline treats her, but because she’s a girl Logan didn’t put much thought into her being an inheritor, so I think Shiv tried to get his approval but was never really impressed by her since it never would amount to anything in his eyes and she would just drift around, it would never matter to him. She’s not used to being a person who’s someone else is invested in, hence her commitment issues and why she’s used to getting what she wants and also impulsive at the same time and why she’s in politics. Lucy prebble, the writer who has the biggest hand in shiv’s character, said that Shiv is so competitive that she refuses to compete. And I think that sums her up very well.

But those are just my thoughts! Not set in stone since we’ll never Really know but it’s cool to speculate what it was like for them growing up.