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suckinitup · 3 months ago

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see i dont think mark ever explicitly told ashe “no you cant go outside and have friends.” i dont think he ever said “stay in your room every day” or “dont go to the store” or “never learn to drive or take the train or go to a restaurant.” what happens, with homeschooling, and especially with homeschooling like ashe’s, is the Rot. the monotony of day-in and day-out where little ever changes. It wasn’t Mark that wouldve kept ashe inside, it was the Sludge. and mark, always going in and out of the house, would have had NO way to know about it. i dont really know where im going w this anymore just. grhehhrgrgr winters family

#pd #i saw someone talk about mark being controlling earlier and ive been thinking about it #hell yeah to any and all interpretations of media im not shitting on it #but it didnt mesh with thr way i see him and its fun to think about #with the lens of homeschooling i think that mark was actually like #excited for ashe #like oh thank god. some social connections that are good at dodging huge murder lasers #surely this will translate to letting them dodge huge murders hands (haha nope)#yes absolutely mark was also plotting some evil little scheme in the background #but then he saw how much ashe CARED for these kids #and promptly threw himself to the wolves to give them a better chance #*tried to lmao that didnt work out #its just really. man. if mark had help or he hadnt been a supervillain or if the book wasnt a problem #i think he wouldve been a Great dad #not just because he loves ashe. but because he was able to recognize that ashe was his own person making choices #and it might not be what mark thought was good for him but making ashe make different choices #would have been worse (and he COULD have done it. memory blitz them and then pretend the kids didnt want to talk to each other)#hes done nasty nasty shit. hes a supervillain. hes entrenched in too-far measures all the time #but #he changed his own behaviour to try to make ashe’s life as good as it could be in this new framework #and thats not something a lot of people can do parent or not

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