#scout has daddy issues bc if i must suffer so must he

[lordspiders]

something i think more people need to remember about tf2's lore is that it takes place in 1972. Scout is twenty seven years old and the youngest of eight kids. that means he was born in 1945.

if we're assuming scout's mother had a child every other year, counting back, that's 1943, 1941, 1939, 1937, 1935, 1933, 1931 respectively. we know they live in the usa, specifically boston, which is important for state rights.

scout's ma raised eight boys in an era where she could not/did not have the right to:

- work more then a certain amount of hours (pay was cut at the same time) [1912]

-smoke in a public building [1908]

-vote under her birth name, only husband [1945, was repelled later]

-serve on a jury [the first state to allow this was NC in 1946, followed by texas in 1955]

-work at a bar unless her father or husband owned it [1948]

-serve in the army unless under specific restrictions (navy & airforce is a no no, can only be a certain rank) [also 1948]

-receive equal pay and benefits for any jobs [this was changed in 1963]

-protection from discrimination in the workforce [this was added in 1964]

-receive an abortion [rape exceptions in 3 states, slowly spread to others]

-work as a horse jockey [1967]

-have equal property rights to their husbands [the first state to allow this was texas in 1968]

-work as a news reporter [the first female reporters were in 1970]

and other issues that i didnt feel like researching.

spy knew all of this and left her to rot, raising eight boys all on her own. as far as we know he did not send child support and alice (fan name for scout's ma) never married.

spy had more then enough money to help them but chose not to. he also slept with loads of other people (a voiceline confirms he had orgies lmao) and never really made any effort to talk to her or see her.

do you think he looks at scout and feels any sort of shame? seeing how hard he works to send money back home for his mom? hearing scout insist that tom jones is his father, because the topic is so painful he can't stand to think about it? or do you think he doesn't give a shit?

ngl i got lazy but heres the wiki link i used