#cassius sencen's a+ parenting

[milo-igidk]

yeah man sorry for the abuse and trauma and stuff, heres a credit card with your crush's last name and a bag of cheetos

[lotusishere]

I like how Sophie reacts to abusive parents. She hears about the fucked up shit they do and she’s like “wtf fuck those bitches” and keeps the same energy when she sees them. Even if she doesn’t know them at all or does. She doesn’t give af. She keeps the same energy and doesn’t let that shit slide if she hears or sees it.

[book-lover85]

Keefe is the type of kid to cry in the aisles of a grocery store because his parents left him there

[thepumkinmoth]

Look I know Cassius is a horrible dad but remember that scene in lode star where Sophie realizes that he slept with keefe’s stuffed animal after he ran away like that was actually sad

[kale-of-the-forbidden-cities]

Cassius prefers Fitz over Keefe. Alden prefers Keefe over Fitz. They end up using their parent issues against them, to manipulate them.

They tell the other's son something they never told their own:

"I'm proud of you."

And that hurts them. but they keep coming back for those crumbs of validation. They don't see it.

[somewhereincairparavel]

okay so im reading everblaze, Gisela says that Keefe talks about sophie ALL the time. And Keefe does not strike me off as initiating convos with his parents and seems to avoid them as much as he could. So the thought of Keefe going out of his way to tell his parents how cool sophie is despite not wanting to talk to them makes me want to scream in a pillow EEEK

I can imagine him getting all giddy when Sophie is casually brought up by Cassius and goes into a rant abt how awesome she is.

Also, when biana only jokingly said that her powers as a vanisher is much better than sophie's and Keefe got all defensive.

I'M GOING TO DESCEND INTO THE SKY I LOVE THEM SM

[thebestsencen]

No, I'm going to be a good parent and move to my Atlantis apartment for a while, abandoning my disappointing son.

[the-way-astray]

Hi do you want to rip apart the Cassius is Sophie's bio father theory with me

major unraveled spoilers:

there's no way shannon would do that because it would ruin her golden ship that she's put too much effort into making out to seem perfect. but aside from that. why would the black swan choose two empaths? they already have one from oralie. they want sophie to have a wide variety of talents and abilities. having two empaths is repetitive and minimizes the breadth of power that sophie could have access to. we know cassius liked project moonlark (he says so in unraveled) so i suppose he has a motive. but i don't see how his identity coming out could topple the world. it would topple him, sure, and ruin his reputation. but how would it shake the world? it really wouldn't.

[ramblings-of-lola]

I am seething. I hate Cassius so much. The abusive slime ball has the freaking audacity in Nightfall to give Sophie the information she needs to save her human family on two conditions: He gets to be in the Black Swan and Keefe lives with him again.

No. Just no. He shouldn't make Keefe chose between being abused by him again and Sophie losing her family.

Not only that, but Cassius is part of the reason the Black Swan are an organization: to stop the myth that the Elven world is perfect. Why else would no one stand up for Keefe against his abusive parents, but Sophie, raised by humans, was able to instantly tell that Keefe was in an abusive home after seeing how they treated him in public? Because elves don't want to admit they can be capable of horrible things like humans too.

[the-prettiest-ice-cube]

Rebpong after voting

[castleofravens]

i like that shannon actually revealed kind of that cassius does care about keefe/love him and shows that he’s concerned about keefe’s safety bc i think it makes cassius more realistic? as a more three dimensional character but also as an abusive parent

[loveydovey-leviathan]

thinking about how keefe had to grow up being his father's "second chance"

[kay-oh-al-tea-sea]

cassius is republican coded. he owns a maga hat send post

[myfairkatiecat]

Something I love about how Shannon writes the Sencens is how explicit she is about the fact that their household is not physically violent.

Cassius doesn’t hit him. It doesn’t make it okay.

It doesn’t make it okay.

Keefe’s parents were verbally abusive and neglectful in ways that really screwed him up. Not physical ways, not while he was growing up. (Lady Gisela during canon is something of a different story, but I’m strictly talking about keefe’s normal home life before the plot.) Not getting physically abused didn’t keep him from getting seriously messed up by it.

And I love how clear Shannon is about it. She calls it abuse without dancing around the word. She makes a very important point: the sencens didn’t have to have physical violence in their household for it to damage their son.

Say what you want about Shannon but she slayed that.

[cavennmalore]

the dynamic between the sencens is so endlessly fascinating to me — especially with the idea that they do love each other. like they are three people who are forever tied together even though they cannot stand each other and underneath that they care about each other so much they despise it. lord cassius is the cruelest and most callous man in the lost cities and when you look into his subconscious it’s filled with love for gisela and keefe. keefe hates his parents and still grieved when he thought gisela died. gisela did nothing but use her son and husband relentlessly for her own gain and still was upset when they discovered her identity bc it meant losing the pretense of family. your family are the worst people you know but also the ones you can’t let go of.

[multi-fandom-lunatic]

its time. KAM HEADCANONS

Keefe and tam totally started dating but like. no one knew. they thought that they were best friends or already dating (linh is the only who falls into the latter)

Keefe tries to mess with tams hair. he's in awe about it. like, what does that mf put in it. and why's it so stiff-

They totally wear each other's iconic colours. keefe wears silver jewelley, belts, accessories even if it doesnt fully suit him, and tam just has ice blue stuff on him. im talking. pins and badges, stickers and a pair of earrings.

Keefe is such a swiftie. not up for debate. he just is.

Keefe is bi, and i mean the most useless bisexual ever. he finger guns at everyone. he makes bi jokes. he has frog EVERYTHING. everyone is his type and he is everyones type,

tam is gay and ace. he's totally cool with keefe's flirty/dirty jokes because tam knows and consents to them.

They are the most. physically affectionate people ever. especially keefe with tam. im thinking. the classic boyfriend hug (i like to call it the partner hug), squeezing tam way too tight hugs, lifting tam up hugs. as well as kisses everywhere. like you could map out where keefe has kissed tam and its a whole adventure.

keefe and tam totally have a matching sweater and pj set. its something totally obnoxious and they love it.

THEY. HAVE. HAIRCARE. NIGHTS. these two shits totally exchange hair products and keefe is like "what even is this" and tam is all "this would take like give hours" "beauty takes time." "and money i see"

as for surnames, i cant imagine them taking their parents. especially tam. if at all, they'd both have sencen. but i feel they'd come up with their own surnames. maybe "sensong" or even "samsung" without knowing about the brand (sophie makes fun of them)

sophie was the first to accept them. shes been around humans and understands how hard coming out is because of her highschool classmates (there was 100% gay kids in her class). the rest of them are confused and are like "whats gay" but they support their friend (and learn a bit about them too.........)

sophie 100% takes them both to the forbidden cities after they come out. to buy pride pins. keefe is absolutely enamoured by them and tam is more worried about the environment.

on this fateful trip, keefe learns about different human aesthetics. and it becomes his everything. one day a vsco girl. one day emo. one day barbiecore.

keefe uses the word coquette frequently without knowing what it means. like hed just point and say "thats coquette" and its a crushed soda can.

tam eventually tells him about coquette. does not stop keefe.

tam and keefe are not picky eaters. these two mfs will guzzle anything down

but sophie and fitz are, so when they visit, they just eat mallowmelt. just. mallowment.

kam, fedex, linhella and jenstina. sosingle and marusingle.

cassius didnt know about kam until their wedding day. and boy that was DRAMA

when kam wanted to get married, they went to the council, half of whom freaked out and half of whom applauded. it was a lot of battle, but eventually, a year later, the definition of marriage was changed in the law.

so obviously these two made headlines for being like. the first gay marriage in the lost cities. and lo and behold, cassius finds out.

hes so against it, but he doesnt show it to people in public. ofc, keefe got an angry imparter call from him that he laughed off.

quan however. oh dude was raging. he tried to call tam but BLOCKED.

then fedex and linhella got married and everyone was wth. did the human kid just bring the gay with her?? and not be gay herself??

anywho, on the topic of marriage. keefe totally proposed.

keefe was sick of waiting for tam to propose and caved and bought a ring. it was silver with a blue stone in it in the shape of a kite.

keefe brought tam to a cliff and proposed to him there (saying that if tam said no, its alright bcuz he could jump off)

tam was competely pink and told keefe to "shut the fuck up" and pulled out a ring. BECAUSE TAM WAS PLANNING TO PROPOSE (at a later date)

okay im sucked dry of HCs. lmk if yall have any