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Siblings in dghda2

I mentioned it before a couple of times, but it deserves a bigger post really. I believe that it’s not unintentional that season 2 has so many sets of siblings, and that it hints to the major plot point.

Let’s review the facts.

In season 1, we only have one pair of siblings: Todd & Amanda. The only other mention of siblings is Princess_ad.mov, with the “It’s like you wake up one morning, and suddenly your parents hate you and your brother’s gay” line.

In season 2, we suddenly get influx of new sibling sets. In first episode alone, we learn that Silas Dengdamor has a brother, Farah Black has a brother, and even Sherlock Hobbs has a brother. Episode three also introduces us to Panto’s sister. 

That’s five sets of siblings. That doesn’t sound like a coincidence at all.

And, of course, there are parallels between them.

@wendimoorandinglenook has made a great post comparing opening scenes of episodes 2&3, pointing out the parallels between Silas and Litzibitz: [link]

Farah and Sherlock talk about their families in ep2, and their stories are similar.

At the same time, Farah and Eddie also parallel Trost and Dengdamor siblings: one sibling runs away, the other stays with the family. Also note how all three families only have one parent mentioned this far.

Remembering the Princess ad, by the way: with current info, “suddenly your parents hate you and your brother’s gay” line suits Litzibitz the most - we’ve already seen her get shit from her dad and also she is a princess. But with all the parallels, she might not be the only one.

On the less obvious parallels, a case could be made for:

Farah, Sherlock, Silas and Litzibitz getting the “you’re a disappointment” treatment from their families

Todd and Amanda, Farah, Panto and Farson running away from their families, even though their reasons and willingness to do so vary

Now, where am I going with this? Well, I think that those aren’t all the sibling sets we’re getting.

My guess is: Cardenas family had two children. We know that Arnold Cardenas makes appearance in ep5:

But the marks on a doorframe, the ones Farah noted, come in pairs (here’s a post with screenshot), and only half of them are marked AC. Another thing that might hint at two children: see screenshots from the on-set video of ‘house within the house’. There are four wall pictures. Man with a tree, presumably Hector Cardenas who later ended up in a tree. A woman with a car under the motel sign, Marina Cardenas, found in a car. And two pictures of children. While not impossible, it would be kind of weird to have one portrait picture of each parent but two of their single child. 

And with the number of sibling sets this season, why wouldn’t there be two children?

Then, Wendimoor is an imaginary kingdom made up by those two children. Which one of them had the power to actually make it real is a question, but it’s not as important for this theory as the fact that they were inspired heavily by their surroundings. 

First of all, it would explain why both families in Wendimoor have two children - because the characters were made up by two children. I saw a theory in the russian part of fandom that Frija Dengdamor and Jeppum Trost might be modeled after Cardenas child’s parents, and that the family feud might actually represent the fights their parents had (btw if you’re the author of this theory and are on tumblr def message me so I could credit you) - one of which very likely ended with Marina stabbing her husband in the head with scissors, just to remind you. I believe that theory is right. 

And that means that similar stories of Dengdamor and Trost siblings might be similar to the story of Cardenas children, too. One of the siblings runs away, and their parents fight over it, completely dismissing both reason and their second child.

We might even know where the child that ran away went: one of the children in the pictures holds a familiar sound(?) gun, which Dirk found in the barn. The same barn that has a wet circle on a wall, which we know to be a leftover of a portal. So it’s possible they actually went to Wendimoor.

And with the number of parallels between other sibling sets, I wouldn’t be surprised if Cardenas children also paralleled people they did not create. Since it seems that Trosts-Dengdamors and Sherlock-Farah parallels are the strongest, my money are on Cardenas paralleling Brotzmans heavily, which is another bag of cats entirely, and I’d need to get into what i think is Amanda’s storyline this season, but for now let’s just say: it seems the sound gun is almost always with Todd this season (he has it in ep4 and the trailers show him with it in Wendimoor, so after ep6), so the child with it in the picture might be his parallel.

Also, “suddenly your parents hate you and your brother’s gay” line might also actually be about Cardenas children, make of it what you will.