#floyd is just. getting more and more Concern about branchs childhood the more he learns about lola

[razzle-zazzle]

I bet Lola scares the shit out of branch's brothers, like purposely snapping her head 180 at them and just generally being a menace, the only reason they're not already dead is because branch still cares about them.

Initially I thought that Lola wouldn't know about the brothers, but now I realize it's very likely Branch could have brought them up when he was little. Either way, she kinda forgor that little detail, so when she comes to visit and Branch casually mentions his brothers are there? She's so surprised she forgets to crack her neck when snapping her head around to look at Branch.

And yeah, she scares 'em. But not particularly because they left Branch behind; she pulls similar shit on everyone! Girl's gotta have her fun somehow!

What's really funny is the brothers hearing Branch refer to anyone as "Mom" what with how their birth mother was out of the picture before Branch's egg hatched. Lola is very smug (ecstatic) about being called Mom. This does not help the situation.

#ask zaz #lola placeholder name #beneath the lobelias au #floyd is just. getting more and more Concern about branchs childhood the more he learns about lola #and he's not exactly wrong #what with how lola exposed branch to a lot of things (gore torture maybe a lil bit of cannibalism) that young children shouldn't be seeing #she taught him how to kill and not just so he could hunt his own food #and initially she was only grooming him into a tool for her purposes! she didn't even fully think of branch as a son until later! #bruce and clay are also pretty concerned about branch's childhood. jd's the only one not thinking that deeply into it