#like please put some respect on my girl unnamed cameron

[patheticrafeenjoyer]

okay so in s1 when sarah and john b go to chapel hill, sarah drops some lore that ward went there, and so did his father, and his father, and so on and so forth. it's a legacy thing for them. but also within the same stretch of episodes, she tells john b that ward is from the cut. which is pretty synonymous with a lower economic standing. to me it doesn't seem that plausible that you could have generations of men going to college and still be living in borderline poverty (which many people on the cut are) -- just from a financial standpoint.

also, i think have the camerons have a legacy at a college kind of takes away from the significance that ward is also from the cut and worked for everything he has. to me, those two things just can't really be synonymous given the canon facts of the show. to me, it makes more sense that ward is the first in his family to attend college. coming from a place where he/his family didn't have much money makes the vast amounts that he gains in his adulthood all the more significant.

so, here is my alternate theory. ward is from the cut, from a poor family, first in his line to attend college and to make it out of this kind of impoverishment. his first wife (rafe, sarah, wheezie's mom) comes from the legacy family. we can even add an extra layer here and say that she was her parents' only child, so she felt obligated to continue the paternal line of men in her family attending chapel hill. at the college, ward and the future mrs. cameron meet, fall in love, have kids, the works. and this way it can still be a legacy thing for their family, but just from the maternal side instead.

future mrs. cameron i love you and i want to know everything about you but at the same time i have such fun hypothesizing about you. on god we will get you a name eventually.