#i have So Many thoughts about phil (& dorothy) now omg

[hecatesbroom]

Oh I'm so sad after your fic. Its amazing, what an idea to use Phil's eyes to explore Dorothy. And it makes me think of Dorothy at the funeral, and how upset she was at him for dying, she really did have so much love for him that I don't know she ever said to him. Your headcanon that Phil knows on some level that Dorothy is 'like him'is so interesting and heartbreaking, do you think he ever tried to talk to her when they were both adults?

Thank you so much for taking the time to send me an ask! <3 seriously, I woke up to this and it was a great start to my day :)

But yeah!! I always get the feeling that they loved each other very much (Dorothy's speech at the funeral is the prime example here) but never really opened up about it. I have sooo many thoughts about their relationship in general!! We never find out the reason why Dorothy and Phil grew apart (because from the things she says about him, she seems to be almost exlcusively positive about Phil as a person — if a little less positive about his accomplishments). Looking at this through a queer lense, my personal headcanon is that Dorothy distanced herself from him because he's very openly queer, and from the sound of it, enthusiastically so — with full, loving support from his wife. Juxtapose this against Dorothy who likely never even allowed herself to entertain the idea that she might be queer as well, and you've got yourself a very complicated dynamic to begin with.

I absolutely think he would've tried, at least a couple of times, to connect with her by hinting at the fact that Dorothy might be queer as well. I think I mentioned this in a different post already but they have quite a large age gap between them (7 years if I'm right?) so Phil was about 10 or 11 when Dorothy married Stan and moved out. Which I'm guessing created quite a distance between the two of them already! It does seem logical for a person like Phil, who's so openly and happily queer, to want to connect to his older sister through their shared queer experience — and upon her dismissal, probably more than once, he might even have started to feel bad for her?

If he did confront her straight out (pun not intended) at some point, maybe that's what drove a wedge between them? As in: Dorothy doesn't resent him, but also can't quite bring herself to spend a lot of time around Phil?

We know waaaay too little about Phil for me to be able to make any sort of educated guess here, but he's a very interesting character to invent headcanons about in any case haha.