#this is just a rewrite of a headcanon on my old blog
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𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 & 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇 𝐎𝐅 𝐉𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐒 𝐊𝐄𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐃𝐘
James Kennedy, is Love’s late husband. Married on July 27th, 2016 and passed soon after. There is a running theory that Love herself had killed James. This headcanon will build off various forms of that theory and what I incorporate into my portrayal of Love. So that’s to say that not all of this is entirely original or unheard of, unfortunately I don't have the links anymore but it is easily searchable ! This headcanon is subject to change with any new information in season three.
The biggest giveaway to something unnatural being done to James comes from the line that Love says when explaining the situation to Joe: doctors couldn’t figure out what it was. While medical mysteries are most definitely real, to think that the Quinn family, with all their resources, weren’t able to pull together doctors to figure it out seems a little strange. Instead, it sounds like the doctors themselves were paid off or bought to not reveal what the real cause of death was.
The death itself is accidental. This part is completely based off another Redditor’s post, so credits to them for catching this tidbit about James’ mysterious detox. To recap, we see Love and James talk about children and not being able to afford children in episode six. The scene comes to a close with James saying he doesn’t feel well and Love is quick to respond with “you’re just detoxing.” Fast forward to the next scene where James comes to Love to tell her that he’s sick. She repeatedly denies it and looks incredibly grief struck but her expression can also be read as oddly guilty. It’s easy to think that his detox is related to substance abuse, or some LA juice cleanse, but an online poster had mentioned how maybe Love had made him detox. We know that Love is impulsive, and we see her say it herself in the season 3 trailer. We also know that Love is entirely consumed by the notion of having and starting a family. So when James is so hesitant to have children, almost immovable, Love poisons him.
This isn’t entirely out of character for Love. We see Joe hesitate with biting into the muffins she brings him in the last episode. It takes Love eating one and reminding him that she didn’t poison it for him to follow. We also see the subtle ways in which Love trades salt instead of sugar in what she baked Joe when she was upset with him about lying to her. So, it is theorized that James’ detox comes from Love regretting her actions and convincing him to go on a detox that cleanses his body.
To add to that theory, we know that Love kills to protect someone. This poisoning would be outside of her moral standards. That’s why I believe she regretted it. Love Quinn isn’t one to show much remorse, but holds herself to a very high, personal, moral pedestal. This checks off none of her boxes, so she tries to re-do it and fails. To note, in the episode where she finds out he’s sick, Love keeps saying “you can’t, you can’t, you can’t be sick.” Because according to her calculations – he can’t. She really did try to make it better.
Lastly, there’s some foreshadowing of this seen in Joe's first monologue at the start of the show. I looked into this and drew my parallels due to a comment online about it, so a kiss to the big brains out there.
We already know all the parallels to her name are endless. The foreshadowing with The Dark Face of Love, him rambling about love before meeting Love, etc. If you read the entire opening monologue substituting “love” for “Love” it takes on an entirely different meaning. In particular, when Joe says “love turned to poison”. While this is in reference to various parts of their dynamic, it could imply things about Love’s past as well.
I think she got away with it with two routes. One, being money and the control the Quinn family has in the city. Second, being that some things are so unlikely in the medical community that they’re often considered as the absolute, very last, option. Or not considered at all, maybe they just didn’t look into foul play. And once again, Love ran free.
In conclusion, she’s fucking wack your honour.
#[ 𝓛 : headcanon ] ❦ 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐦𝐞 .#this is just a rewrite of a headcanon on my old blog#i hated how i wrote it there so here we go#it's a long one and it's a theory i throw around every now and then#we'll see what we find out in s3 :eye:#my current amount of brain cells would never be able to put this together#a kiss to tas of last year
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