#for Elizabeth herself bc... her issues with her parents are so inextricably interconnected it is impossible for themnot to affect each other
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mommy issues AND daddy issues. sheβs the whole package
#Mouse talks!#this is a post about. Elizabeth. obviously#I've talked a lot about her mommy issues but also??#Mr. Corday can do no wrong! but she dedicated her entire life to being the son he never had and it still wasn't good enough#she had to LEAVE THE COUNTRY to be recognized as her own person for her own accomplishments and skills#and she still takes. years. to stop associating herself and her skill with him#something something the long and inescapable shadow of your parents haunts you forever#it's how she INTRODUCES HERSELF in Ambush it's there in s5 when her dad shows up and suddenly all she wants to do is impress him#would LOVE to rewatch Isabelle's visit with purpose to examine for this specifically bc I KNOW it's there too#bc of Isabelle's resentment of Elizabeth having 'chosen' Charles via surgery and disdain for medicine culminating in her actually witnessing#her daughter in action and being like OH. I'M... PROUD OF MY CHILD???? and exPRESSING THAT for possibly the first time ever lol#and I would LOVE to see if that separation of Charles-and-surgery and Elizabeth-and-surgery for Isabelle facilitates a similar separation#for Elizabeth herself bc... her issues with her parents are so inextricably interconnected it is impossible for themnot to affect each other#like. she absolutely takes ownership of her own knowledge/skill/capabilities. s4 sees her learning to behave less as her father's daughter#and more as her own person and this is followed through in s5 as she really comes into her own#but PERSONALLY. if I were writing it and she were the protagonist (she is the protagonist of my heart)#that would be the final severance of that particular thread (recognition of the self through the other etc etc)#and it does crop up again in s9 when she tries to go back - but by that point she's evolved too much to fit into the same space she occupied#before she left London for Chicago. she's not just 'Charles Corday's daughter' anymore. she's her own person!!!!#do u love the color of my tags... sorry not sorry I can't shut up about her and never will <3
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