#i'm seeing this discourse about henry in the dashboard and i wanted to add my two cents

[messrsbyler]

if you understand that brenner was el's abuser and el was his victim, then you can't not understand that brenner was also henry's abuser and henry was his victim. is henry still the villain? yes. is he a monster? 100%, that's not the question here. we are talking about the origin story, if you will, and that's not henry himself who was born rotten and broken. someone has to break the jar in order for it to be broken. thinking henry is naturally bad like that actually takes the blame away from the abusers (virginia and brenner).