[ SECRET POST #4446 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4446 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

They all had choices, tbh.
Luther could have chosen to listen to Allison.
Diego could have been less dismissive ('she doesn't get a vote' 'Why are you here?')
Pogo could have stopped enabling Reginald's abuse.
The only one I'd see as not having options in the present time period was Grace, and even then, they seemed to imply that she had some kind of developing free will.

Vanya wasn't perfect, but it's not like the rest of them weren't also assholes at times. Allison is the only one we see actively making an effort to include Vanya, and that's after 29 years of ignoring her along with the others. So while I could see how they would lack sympathy for her (Klaus would probably love to swap places), it's not as if they're showing her their vulnerable, damaged sides, either. And any one of them could have realised they were adults and 'got therapy' at any time, that's kind of the point of child abuse, they'd all internalised their abusers beliefs to a certain point.

Luther has to believe their suffering had a purpose to it, and that their father did care in some way, so he literally just remakes himself as the father figure.
Allison used her power to control her loved ones, probably in part due to the influence of her childhood under a controlling parent.
Diego hates Reginald, but still feels compelled to re-enact their childhood as a fantasy (cops and robbers, etc.) and for Freudianism, is the one most devoted to Grace the wife/mom figure.
Klaus is stuck in arrested development and defines himself as weak and incapable as Reginald viewed him. (Also Diego and Klaus, despite themselves, can't help but bow to Luther even when he's wrong, showing they've also internalised the number structure Reginald set.) When Klaus does begin to wonder about his potential, even then, it's due to Reginald's suggestion.
Even Five's hyper-focused on the end results rather than the means (becoming a killer of individuals in order to avert a future apocalypse), just like Reginald, and it's interesting he's the first one to say 'the old man was right.'
None of them were really capable of rejecting their upbringing entirely, because that's what an abusive upbringing does - resets your parameters for what's acceptable. I don't really think Vanya is any worse than the others on that one.

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