#obviously main gen are victims too but it's really not the same degree of reverence

[aschenbroedel]

eah parent gen is so damaged. they had nothing that was true. they had stories to revere, that was all. that awful storybook. even the evil queen, who stole and hid and desecrated it, was beside herself with delight when raven finally signed it. briar dropped it down a well, but i don't think the evil queen would have had the courage; she violated the book, but she couldn't have discarded it. it was a sacred object to her generation. they would all have been terrified, barring wonderlandians like the cheshire cat who were never raised with the same sense of worship, when raven dissolved it. they would have feared for their lives.

Idk if it's just because I don't interact with the fandom a lot, but I feel like there's some untapped potential with the parents of EAH. Like, it's one thing when you're 16, having been raised your whole life to fulfill a certain role, learning that you can be whatever you want to be and reject your destiny.

It's another thing when you're 40 years old with 3 kids and a spouse you probably don't even love, who did the whole destiny thing already, only now learning that there was a choice in the matter two decades too late. You're a whole ass adult with kids and responsibilities who's just now learning how to be a person and choose life decisions for yourself, grappling with the fact that you never really wanted this life and this feeling of helplessness, but you still raised your children to go through the same thing that you did. Maybe your kids are right to resent you for it. Maybe you resent your own parents for it.