#was she the youngest child??? the oldest??? was she in the middle????

[dangerliesbeforeyou]

ok sardines headcanons & character thoughts let's go

(aka cos i've been writing a carl x stu fic i've ofc been thinking about them constantly so i have thoughts and i'm making them in a post lol)

carl:

so in the ep they mention he has 2 sisters, rebecca the youngest, and caroline who isn't there but i headcanon as being the middle child, which ofc makes carl the oldest which SO fits with his whole vibe imo!

& i also think because rebecca is younger it maybe explains why she's less affected by the whole thing w/ their father (and why she still calls him daddy, like look, i'm a youngest child, i know we have the reputation of being the spoilt favourites lol) & also why caroline wasn't there! (also the subtle hint as to why, when the nanny mentions how it's been a while since she saw 'the boys'... as in caroline literally moved to another country with her sons to stop her father's abuse Yikes...)

(also i LOVED the sibling moment where pip calls rebecca a bitch and they both turn and glare at him lol... )

also r&s always have amazing costumes in their stuff that speak SO much to the characters and carl's is no different!! that he's wearing a 3 piece suit to a party, keeping as much of himself covered up as possible!

even the way he shoves himself further into the corner of the wardrobe as more people come in... it all speaks to his struggles with intimacy brought on by that childhood trauma...

stu:

i love that on the surface stu doesn't feel overly complex: he's camp he's gay he makes jokes he drinks, that's about it BUT the closer you look at him and esp his relationship to carl it reveals there's so much more to his character than just that!

for me he totally has youngest sibling energy tbh! (not just saying this cos i love oldest sibling/youngest sibling relationship dynamics lol) he maybe didn't get said no to often as a kid, but at the same time is aware of how often he plays mediator between his parents and his older siblings (no i'm not projecting shut UP), so when he lashes out at carl and makes the intimacy issue remark it felt just like that: that he was lashing out trying to get a reaction (cos stu is crass but i don't see him as cruel, and 100% he would have understood why carl has those issues even if carl hadn't properly told him everything about it yet...)

+ all the times he made his innuendos and jokes and carl shut him down, he's fully aware of what he's doing and obviously enjoys pushing his buttons lol (see the 'you're pretty when you're angry' remark he makes about rebecca and carl lol) and i love that we get a glimpse of carl doing the same when he makes the roommate remark lol

there is obviously still turbulence there (mostly brought on by the fact carl is back in the place he was abused so it's like... understandable he would be on edge and snapping at stu), and with every rewatch i am constantly desperate for them to make actual amends before the final reveal, but what gets me is how much love you can still feel between them despite all the animosity :')

oh also stu is a hairdresser i decided lol it just fits perfectly lol (how beautifully styled his hair is in the episode, him loving to gossip and chat and make jokes, i can literally HEAR him say 'you doing anything nice on your holidays?' lol)

[highendphsrs]

thinking about the third andersen sibling......

[turrondeluxe]

[asydicsydney]

Remember my really weirdly famous post about if Gershwin is Cecil's middle name or a part of a hyphenated last name?

Well I was thinking about it again since the TTRPG called it his middle name in a trivia question

And today I remembered, it's like a common thing for men's middle names to be their dad's first names. Well, at least in my family (Grandpa's name is Dad's middle name, and Dad's name is brother's middle name)

So his dad's first name could be Gershwin, and then he was given that as a middle name. And any time it's hyphenated in the script is an error that I read way too hard into

I mean it's kinda weird that Esteban is calling his grandpa by his first name, but it's not like he's met him, and neither has Cecil. It would make sense for them to be pretty detached

[arson-09]

ive gotten EXTREMELY invested in my sleeping beauty au for tamlin week and i simply must share this rough draft because it makes me so happy (to reiterate this is not a finalized piece so forgive any weird proportions, unfinished lines etc)

[frutavel]

Night elves to test a new brush I got on CSP <3

Adagio, Andryza and Rex. They're siblings and they have a Complicated Relationship tm 💖

[arysbruv]

au where Pietro DOESNT die and him and Wanda accidentally get transported to the X-Men universe and it’s just them trying to find their way back home but also being found family w Peter Maximoff, Erik and the rest of the Xmen

[sassyandclassy94]

The youngest child can say whatever he wants and be as rude and disrespectful as he wants but my dad NEVER deals with him. Instead, he says I’m the mean one. Even though I was only trying to explain why good handwriting is important in life.

[gingermaple]

sorrelfeather and fennelclaw's sister! she's the responsible sibling

[cammie]

helloooooo rioses how are you doing on this fine morning. erm... what did you say to them why are they looking at you like that

[rollercoasterwords]

Loved your little essay on your characterisation of Bellatrix and all your interpretations of the Black sisters are like just wow 10/10 I 100% agree.

I was wondering if you could talk a bit about your opinion on Narcissa’s relationship to her sisters and how that affects her thoughts on like love and the pureblood system. Like do you think she resented Andromeda as much as Bellatrix did?

Basically I just love reading your character analysis posts + your opinions on them. If you’ve already spoken about this though pls ignore this ask 😅 love your writing xx

thank u!! i enjoyed writing that little bellatrix essay lol

for narcissa i actually have a whole fic from her pov where i get into a lot of this stuff about her relationships + worldview, but!! i love talking about it so i will take any excuse to do so xx

okay so for narcissa in a canon universe, there are a few key details about her that i really focused on while writing her character. one is that she is, of course, a youngest sibling and the baby of the family. the other is that while bellatrix and andromeda look so similar that they can almost be mistaken for each other, narcissa is canonically blonde, pale, and blue-eyed, meaning she looks very different from the rest of her family.

taking these details into account, i interpret narcissa as a character who desperately wanted to fit in to her family as she was growing up. i imagine that--again, because of the pureblood patriarchal emphasis on carrying on family names--her father, cygnus, would have been disappointed to have three daughters and no sons, and as the last child, narcissa is sort of like...the final, greatest disappointment, in a way. she was his last chance for a son, and she let him down. i also imagine that because narcissa is described as looking so different from the rest of the family, she probably takes after her mother--meaning she's just another reminder to her father of what a disappointment she is. not only is she not a son, but she doesn't even look like someone who carries the family name, instead taking after her rosier mother who failed to produce an heir.

so from birth, i imagine narcissa grew up with just this...constant awareness of her father's disdain. as a young child, of course, she couldn't understand what she'd done wrong, only that there was something wrong with her, which i think would have pushed her to desperately try and fix whatever it was that was wrong by doing her best to be the perfect pureblood daughter that everyone said she should be.

i also imagine narcissa as someone who sort of lived in the shadows of her older siblings. based on what little canon information we have, bellatrix and andromeda both seem a little more fiery and intense, whereas narcissa is a bit more quiet and passive (or at least, she seems that way until she's backed into a corner). i imagine narcissa as someone who was sort of babied by her older siblings, with bellatrix taking on that older-sister sort of motherly role that i described in my little bellatrix essay that made her seem larger than life and like the epitome of a perfect pureblood woman, everything narcissa was trying so hard to be. i imagine that andy was a bit more of a rebel, sort of like the fun older sibling who narcissa could goof around with, because andy didn't have that same crushing pressure that bellatrix was dealing with. still, i think both bella and andy would have been very protective of narcissa while growing up, and while i think they would have all been incredibly close and loved each other very much, i also think that protectiveness would sort of...emphasize this feeling that narcissa isn't quite their equal. like, she'd always be the baby of the family in their eyes. and to her, that felt a lot like she would always be trapped in her sisters' shadows.

i think as narcissa grew older, she--like both her sisters--would feel this growing dissastisfaction and unhappiness with her life within the pureblood system. but in the same way that bellatrix couldn't question the system itself without having to confront her own powerlessness, i think that narcissa also couldn't bring herself to really question pureblood culture and tradition on a fundamental level, because her whole life--her whole self--had been so fundamentally shaped by trying to fit in so that she could make up for what was "wrong" with her (being born a womannnn). so like, if trying to uphold pureblood tradition is making her unhappy, it's not because the tradition itself is fucked-up--it just means that narcissa is getting it wrong, that she's failing to do her duty, that she isn't being a good pureblood woman. y'know? like, she's been primed from birth to blame herself for any failure to fit into this system, rather than take a step back and ask herself if this system is even something that's worth fitting into.

when andy runs away, i think narcissa would feel just as betrayed as bellatrix, but it would be like...a different kind of betrayal. for bellatrix, it's the betrayal of feeling like you've given your whole life to protecting and raising this little sister so that she can have a good life as a pureblood woman, and then having that little sister throw it back in your face--your protection, your guidance, your love. like everything you sacrificed for her was worthless, meaningless. that's the kind of betrayal bellatrix feels, imo.

but for narcissa, it's the opposite. it's the person who was supposed to love you, supposed to protect you, supposed to always be there for you--and she suddenly abandons you, with no warning, completely blindsiding you. and leaving you all alone for the first time in your entire life. for narcissa, andy's betrayal is more about abandonment than anything else. and similarly to bellatrix, i think andromeda running away would have pushed narcissa further into the arms of pureblood tradition, just because it hurt her. and it's easier to turn that hurt on the muggleborn who lured her sister away than it is to question the entire system they're all so embedded in. it's easier to believe that her sister's been corrupted by blood traitors and the impure, because what else is she supposed to think? that andy just didn't love her enough to stay? that andy abandoned her in a fucked-up house that they all knew was fucked-up, even if they never said it out loud?

and personally, i really like the idea that andy was engaged to lucius malfoy and ran away to marry ted, meaning that narcissa was then engaged to lucius in her stead. i just think it's a fun little way to twist the knife on all this!

but yeah, after andromeda left...well, i think it would have been pretty much unthinkable to narcissa to do the same. because she was angry, and hurt, and so of course she was never going to do what andy did! of course she wasn't going to abandon her family, and her duty, and her sister. of course she was going to be a good pureblood woman and marry lucius malfoy and make her family proud.

and then once she marries lucius i just. imagine narcissa being so incredibly unhappy. and it's like. she's done everything she was supposed to do. and she finally starts to realize that it didn't matter. that no matter how hard she tries, abiding by all this pureblood culture and tradition is never going to make her happy. but by that point the war is raging, and lucius is getting in deeper with voldemort, and...i think narcissa just would have kinda. checked out. just not really cared about who's fighting and who's winning and who's losing, because she's already lost the game. and the only person she really has left (aside from, in my fic, alice) is bellatrix, who's becoming more and more fanatical about voldemort, and it's like...even if narcissa knows, now, that it's all a sham, she can't leave bellatrix. bellatrix is the only person who was always there for her, who always protected her, who never abandoned her. and so i think that's part of the reason that narcissa, though she never became a death eater herself, would stand by her death eater husband and her death eater sister. because for her it all becomes less about the greater good and these systems of power, and more just about the individual people left in her life that she loves.

i think this sort of characterization tracks for a lot of her actions during the second war in canon, where narcissa herself seems less invested in the actual blood purity rhetoric and more just. focused on keeping her son safe, at all costs, no matter what it takes. because by the time she has draco everything else is falling apart, and i think her son would have essentially become her entire world and pretty much the only thing she had left. and those are my thoughts on that!

[averygayplant]

The eldest children just want an older sibling of their own, the middle children want to be only children, and the youngest want to be the oldest child.

...Shit, bro, you could make big money on fucking all the target demographics if you wrote a book about that

[kakusu-shipping]

Thank you for the nice tags on the pic published to catchonehand!

Zen as the middle child? I'm curious and would love to know what you're referring to 👀

I got this ask like two days ago I'm so sorry I caught a cold and didn't get to answer fdjgfkdgjkdf

This is the post in question btw for anyone confused because again I reblogged that like two days ago

The fastest answer is I've been seeing a lot of Ramattra as a Protective Older Brother to Zenyatta art, and have always seen Zenyatta Genji in the same Brotherly Found Family kind of relationship (vaguely all my relationships are grey and moldable by recent art I've seen)

So if this Found Family Tree goes Ramattra-Zenyatta-Genji, that makes Zenyatta a Middle Child which I feel is fitting.

The funnier half of it though is that sense Ramattra was made for the Omnic Crisis, and no Omnics were made after the Crisis, this means Zen (at 20) HAS to be older than Ramattra, physically. Meanwhile Genji is 35 if I remember right (the official character page doesn't show their ages anymore so this may be subject to change in OW2)

Meaning by AGE it'd go Genji-Zenyatta-Ramattra, keeping Zen the Middle Child once again.

Out of all the lore we could have possibly gotten for Zenyatta, after 6 years, they choose to make him a Middle Child. Short Middle Sibling Energy.

[violentdevotion]

as a youngest sibling who did u vote for in that poll.. 😰

for the annoying poll i said middle but i also just got in an argument with one of my brothers (middle) like 2 hours ago so maybe im biased. for befriending people though i think only child's are the worst but unfortunately they're drawn to me </3

[theatrebooknerd56]

Idk what's worse,

The fact that I know I wasn't supposed to exist and be born

Or the fact my mom was supposed to have 2 sons and got 2 daughters instead

[fruitisthenewvegitable]

I am a long haired Jon truther, that in mind, they have braiding circles. Gerry couldn’t do braids before so Agnes taught him, and they practiced braids (and other hair styles) on Jon.

One day Jon forgot to take his hair down from the intricate hairstyle (something along the lines of milkmaid braids or smth) that Gerry and Agnes did on him the night before, so he walked into the archives with really pretty hair and Martin dies of love immediately :]

au where jon agnes and gerry form a friend group called ‘being the chosen one sucks a lot actually’