#cassius sencen's a+ parenting

[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.

[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

[book-lover85]

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

[er-idkhehe]

there are times where I can guess characters have bad parents. I just know ok?

Bronte? Bad parents

Cassius? Bad parents

Tiergan? 1000% bad parents

Grady? YEAS

Fintan? YESS

Elwin? Yup

there are tons of others too

[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.

[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

[loveydovey-leviathan]

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

[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.

[kay-oh-al-tea-sea]

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

[lotusishere]

Omg 👁️👄👁️ Cassius what are you doing here?

This entire scene is so funny to me.

“More like the torturer of innocent readers”

He ATE DOWNNNNNNNN SO BAD.

[sophies-earbuds]

do yall think alden's parents were at alvar's tribunal

or edaline and juline's parents at sophie and dex's planting, losing two more grandchildren

gisela's parents finding out what she's done, how she's hidden her ability since childhood all to be underestimated, and wondering where they went wrong

cassius's parents refusing to even speak to him once he's removed from his title of emissary. and when word gets out that keefe made it to exillium, his fathers only words to him in decades are, "he's still more of a Sencen than you."

brant's mother and father falling further into their guilt, wondering how they missed something so important. they missed everything, and people died for it. why didnt he just tell them? maybe they could have helped. maybe they could have saved him...

elwin's parents as he calls home and tells them of this talented, brave girl he just can't stop bringing back to life, and they worry about how much of a toll it takes on him to see so much violence, to lose these children over and over

grady's parents when the council put the ability restrictor on sophie, and they're suddenly taken back to a hundred years ago, watching their son manifest and being told, "he's too powerful."

[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.