#nigel is intimately familiar with his father's preferred method of dealing with a threatened pride and bruised ego
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#just a little post to pass the time until i can start dumping content in the main tag again#but do you ever think about the fact nigel became his father for a moment that night at the trainyard . because i do#i was rewatching the scene earlier where he takes alex to the underground room for the first time#and it's the fact he knew the instance his father had picked up the gun. it's the fact he knew with frightening surety#the way in which john would respond to the photos of helen that night at the house#nigel is intimately familiar with his father's preferred method of dealing with a threatened pride and bruised ego#but that night at the trainyard? nigel responded to alex's rejection the same way#i think anyone who's had less than great parenting in their childhood can attest to how terrifying the realisation is#that you've become your parents. that you're starting to see them in the things you do and the way you behave#do you think the thought ever crossed nigel's mind at that moment that he'd become the very thing he hated so?#am i even making sense anymore#anyway . i need to go back to uni im getting cabin fever#song rec? who knows! chase holfelder's cover of 'animal'#i'm running low on songs from the playlist to suggest#like minds#nigel colbie
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