#god what’s with jrwi riptide characters and issues involving family and self identity and self worth

[transwhorefinn]

it’s almost midnight and I just can’t stop thinking about Drey Ferin and his relationship with his brother and family

I wonder how much it hurt for him to realize that despite all his efforts to seek approval from his family, they’d never see him as anything, and in the end his own brother would seek to not just kill him, but torture him. His own fucking brother made him experience what was basically hell and all because he was a pirate. Drey had nothing when Jayson found him. He lost the real family he found, the real love and appreciation he deserved, everything his own family couldn’t give to him and just like that it was all taken.

And Jayson was just adding salt to the wound. Trapping him in the BLOCK and resolidifying just how little fucks his own blood-related family could give about him.

I wonder what he saw when passing through the desert. Did he see himself killing Captain Rose again? Or maybe Captain Rose still covered and dying in that black tar goo telling him that he had betrayed him and that he was unlovable and unwanted.

And now he’s been tasked to raise his brother’s daughter. A constant reminder of his brother’s cruelty but also the hope for a brighter future for the Ferin family.