#sorry 'bout this jumbo-sized reply

[cletuscortlandkasady]

Louise deserves better ;-; like killing Roscoe and taking lil Cletus away somewhere safe ;-;

Because of Cletus' broken memories (read: conficting canon information), I am not so sure that she was indeed the safest place for him to run off to during Maximum Carnage.

While there is little to support my theory of her being in any way (read: physically or emotionally) abusive, I'm pretty sure she was neglectful. Compared to Roscoe, she seems a saint, but they were a match made in hell and the worst parent a child with Cletus' tendencies could've asked for.

Yeah, it's all headcanon, but I believe Louise noticed her son's strange behavior early on, and refused to speak to anyone due to her own experiences with psychiatric doctors (read here). Both her and her husband (who can't even deny that redheaded devil as his son when he looks the spitting image of him) saw their worst selves in their child, but refused to take any responsibility for the part they each had to play.

Though I would've loved it if her act of defiance against Roscoe would've have been her last and she snatched Cletus out of his grap and made her escape. Why? Well, I love gothic horror and doesn't this dysfunctional family sound like they'd make for good villain protagonists?

Louise would have nowhere to go, so she'd break into some poor folks' farm house, steal clothes, food and supplies and, when the old man brings out the shotgun, she wrestles with him and it goes off. She becomes a murder that night before her impressionable son's eyes. More than that, they live in the home of that dead couple for a while.

Then, they're on the move again. And Roscoe is right behind them, following their bloody trail. When he finally catches up with them, so do the authorities. Or so you'd think spotting the sheriff's car in the rearview mirror. It's him, and he killed both the sheriff and the deputy. For her. "Woman o' mine turned me into a killer. Get out the car, baby. I'm takin' you home."

The End?