YES especially given the context we laid out is he’s a squib who conned his way into hogwarts. idk if you can read these but here’s my main talking points.
this is kind of really rambley BUT:no, momlonde was a bad parent not because she didn’t know how to parent, but because of the combined driving forces of alcoholism/depression & history of trauma (thanks, @mmmmalo!). if anything she was neglectful at worst–i don’t think she was physically/verbally/emotionally abusive, at least in a traditional sense? like the emotional abuse rose went through was more of like…a horrible side effect of her own mother’s slow self destruction rather than her mother telling her that she was worthless or something to that degree
HOWEVER. having a good parent, or even a good EXAMPLE of a parent, doesn’t ensure that you yourself will be a good parent! roxy and calliope grew up in extremely dire circumstances, and calliope is from a species so weird and cryptic that she believed that she couldn’t love due to misinformation (spoiler: calliope can love! she’s beautiful and overcame so much to get where she is in comic). idk i’m rambling but yeah. Thoughts
like!!! gamzee could’ve been a REALLY interesting character who i could’ve had sympathy for. neglected kid who’s also an addict by thirteen? relatable content! but he yknow, chose actively to commit atrocities and become his own god, all the while murdering his friends and beating up his girlfriend. so like. yeah. he sucks.
listen gamzee is a GREAT villain and antagonist but i can’t stan him knowing that he’s 1) an incarnate of evil 2) chooses actively to BE evil and become his true self by dooming timelines and absorbing himself over and over again and 3) also c’mon!!! [s] game over gamzee was literally abusing his girlfriend, by choice! cal was an influence in the sense that he showed him what he could be, and gamzee took it!!!!
meanwhile vriska is a character who was fucked over by her society and was being constantly psychologically and physically (and in the case of doc scratch, sexually) abused by her guardians, forced to murder other children in order to save her own ass, and then yknow, was manipulated by the dude who had caused her species to become exceedingly violent and Never Had A Chance To Succeed.
but upon entering SGRUB, gamzee (who had a good childhood tbh and SUPER great status) and vriska (who yknow. had the shittiest upbringing of any of the trolls) both lost alternia and what it meant to them, which was simultaneously freeing & healing (vriska) and a cause for new power & destruction (gamzee).
you probably were expecting a joke response but rn i’m buzzed and writing homestuck analysis so!!! yeah
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