#SiblingBanter

[silentspringg]

my brother got engaged and on the facetime he still made time to make a joke about me (in a fun sibling way dw) and it made me happy bc even though he's getting married it doesn't mean he's not my brother

anyway, he said "look they're here for you" and flipped the camera to this:

i'm deceased 😭

[neelamsrawat5]

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[commandermadi]

sibling banter (1/?) insp.

[thechazloushow]

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[bestworstcase]

mulling over RATGT tonight, as one does, & specifically how it reflects on eugene’s friendship with cassandra and how, like.

ok so tts tries pretty hard to sell that cass and eugene have this sibling-esque bond. the ribbing. the banter. the “no one gets to be a jerk to you except me” thing eugene does sometimes and like, him literally saying he thinks of cassandra as a sister. it’s all very like. the stereotypical sibling relationship. but - & idk if this is down to a lack of interest in developing relationships outside rapunzel or what but - after the front half of s1 there’s no? like bonding moments between cass and eugene without rapunzel. it feels very . shallow. anyway

RATGT

it’s implied in RATGT that eugene is aware , or at least suspects that cassandra is struggling?? like this conversation:

RAPUNZEL: I don't get it, Eugene. I have never seen Cass act like this before.

EUGENE: Yeah. Angry, brooding, impatient, I'm stunned.

RAPUNZEL: You know what I mean. Ever since we left Corona, she's been... different.

EUGENE: Because she is. We all are, Blondie. We've all had to make some adjustments since leaving Corona. We're not the same people we were six months ago. And, well, why would Cass be any different

RAPUNZEL: It's just that ever since I've known Cass, it's like she seems so...together.

EUGENE: You, of all people, should know things aren't always what they seem.

eugene first dismissed the notion that cassandra’s extreme distress and irrationality could be out of character because he literally cannot seem to pass up an opportunity to take potshots at her but moving past that. when he sees that rapunzel is truly confounded he drops the humor at cassandra’s expense and takes a more genuine tact, which involves him . directly suggesting that cass being “put together” is just a façade which. would imply that eugene understands that cass is, to put it lightly, having a hard time.

and despite this he doesn’t lift a finger to help her, unless you count like. vaguely hinting to rapunzel that cass might be hurting under her put together mask and then nudging her to talk to cass without so much as a “hey shouting her down and pulling rank on her in front of the entire group probably hurt her feelings” which is an observation that would have saved quite likely everyone a lot of pain but , whatever

i just really think the “oh eugene is an ass to her because #siblingbanter but when anyone else is mean or tries to hurt her he springs to her defense” thing falls flat in light of how utterly apathetic eugene is towards her in RATGT. he cringes when rapunzel publicly humiliates her but doesn’t talk to rapunzel about how that was, maybe, not a nice thing to do, he doesn’t speak up in cassandra’s defense, he doesn’t try to talk to cass himself despite evidently perceiving that she is, in fact, spiraling. he doesn’t like. at any point, express concern for cassandras hand after rapunzel mutilates it. in destinies collide he even, like rapunzel, blames cass for the injury - which in the kindest possible reading suggests that he heard rapunzel’s side of the story and accepted it with face value and either never spoke to cass about it or cass just decided to let it lie to avoid a repeat of the RDO situation.

also just the fact that after RATGT after knowing cass is struggling after watching rapunzel literally YELL at her to shut up in the great tree, eugene uses “we never listen to you!” as a jab at cass when he’s frustrated with her in the shell house?! like. jesus eugene isn’t an idiot he demonstrates over and over that while he can be a doofus sometimes he’s very socially astute and emotionally observant and i just. i just don’t believe, after RATGT, that eugene didn’t have an inkling that saying “we never listen to you” would be deeply hurtful to cass, as it would be deeply hurtful to anyone whose best friend pulled rank and shouted to silence them in front of the entirety of their shared friend group followed by exactly zero of their friends sticking up for them, followed by everyone just ignoring the disabling injury they sustained in the course of rescuing their best friend from a literal death incantation, while said best friend harangued them for having the audacity to be upset after all of this. like. either he has so thoroughly dehumanized her in his mind that her feelings and pain do not even exist to him or he said that to hurt her

and then he says she’s like a sister to him in the same breath as he suggests she’s the obvious candidate for betraying the group . i really - like. what was the intention, here. the softest reading i can think of is that eugene enjoys poking fun at cass and has mistaken that for a close friendship but delegates any and all feelings talk to rapunzel because he isn’t comfortable with the idea of being emotionally vulnerable with cass; but the one that makes the most sense to me is that eugene, at best, tolerates cassandra for rapunzel’s sake and channels his resentment and seething dislike into an endless volley of “jokes” at her expense whilst mouthing a platitude now and then to give himself plausible deniability. but i am positive that eugene is not intended to be a gigantic passive aggressive dickhead. what… were the writers thinking? were they thinking?

[xi-heard-a-rumorx]

//It's 12:30pm and I'm sitting here half contemplating making Allison a ic Wire account just for the SiblingBanter™.

[veiledbylilac]

Stiles: Which way did they go?

Charlie: Well, based on the direction of the wind, the broken sticks in the corner, and the slight disturbance in the dirt, I'd guess they went left.

Stiles: You could really figure it out from all that?

Charlie: No, you idiot, they sent me a text. See?

[commandermadi]

sibling banter (3/?) insp.

[kombilifeamumlife-blog]

Every time I look at this picture is saddens me a little and it is such a beautiful capture of a bond between brother and sister ... I know your thinking saddens and why ?!... but it is something I live with every day there's not a day goes by that he doesn't pop into my head and your probley thinking why write about sadness but griefs something that even with 20years of him my brother being gone I still miss him 17years of my life with my brother who was my best friend just taken from me ... it truly takes a piece of your heart .... You learn to live with out them but you don't learn to miss them .... There smile , there cheeky personality , the way they made you feel , there voice , that sibling bond ..... I wonder what kind of women he would have married and that feeling of being a Aunty to your brother children and him being a uncle to yours .... So next time you capture the beautiful moment we're you see your children with that sibling bond savour it ... Because it is truly a beautiful thing #siblingbond #siblingbonding #siblingbondingtime #siblingbanter #siblingbesties #grief

[commandermadi]

sibling banter (2/?) requested by @bellamyshope