#also i will defend melinda and meili bc it's not their fault they were created by tt

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the thing is that there are interesting ways to play with the idea that thomas and martha weren't the perfect parents that bruce will always venerate them as on account of they died when he was 8 (i feel like the ones i'm most interested are the throwaway lines that imply they might've sent bruce to boarding school + the idea that thomas was maybe a little too focused on prioritizing his work over family), however dc seems to constantly go for ~but did thomas cheat on martha?? was he imperfect in his potential unfaithfulness???~ (they do this for a lot dad characters in general i feel like) and it's just overdone and tiring and i hate it so.

#i genuinely think their go to when trying to interrogate if a dead father figure had flaws is to be like “oh he might've cheated” #stop stop i beg u #(this is also why i generally don't like secret siblings because it feeds into this tendency) #also i will defend melinda and meili bc it's not their fault they were created by tt #but the absolute flipside to this is the idea that the dude in question would never dare have a relationship that wasn't his one true love #'even though i knew he would never love me he only had eyes for your mother i was totally cool being a pity fuck dw' #anyways i would fix melinda by having her actually be zucco's daughter #or by having john and meili be in a relationship and then he broke up with her for mary. let's get messy.