#unfortunately nancy w/ any daughters/daughter-in-laws is loosely inspired off how my maternal grandmother was like & its just. Awful.

[meatriarch]

my nancy may be a boy mom but she is Not a Boy Mom™, iykwim.

but theres a very harsh, stark contrast with my portrayal of her on how she raises / treats any son / son-in-law ( ie. johnny ofc or others ) vs how she would treat / raise any daughter / daughter-in-law ( ie. maria in mirrors image au ), or other in-law through her kid. yes the affection and maternal love ( staring at the Boy Mom™ types of mothers & indirectly emphasizing a very specific Brand of them in particular that i Do Not Entertain that some pockets of the fandom like to place onto nancy generally - again, iykwim ) more often than not will come far easier to her towards any son that she may have. theres an inherent bias / thought process in her that sees having a son as more beneficial and far easier to shape and mold into the type of killer shes conjured up in her mind for their respective futures. daughters ( in-law ), on the other hand, like maria in her au of being taken & raised by nancy, have to constantly fight to win over her approval across the board in ways that a son - particularly johnny - never quite had to.

maria, especially, but really any sort of softer-hearted daughter would have an incredibly harder time really connecting to or bonding with nancy. best way to slide an example over off the top of the head on this is cautiously gesturing over to The Bear series / Donna type dynamic but in the way those manifest being purely manufactured by nancy - intricate and purposeful in order to crumble them down and manipulate them to do as she wants rather than the types of methods she'd use for sons / on johnny ( ie. her way of shutting down on lamb's johnny to get him to listen etc ).