scribbles and half ideas

Family of three children: the middle one died, the younger one is a princess that arrived later in their parents' marriage and the older one held the family together for a long time. But when the middle one died, the mother turned to the older one and told him that she wished he had died. From that point on, her mother's resentment (and grief) was projected on the eldest. She treated him as a disease, as a disappointment, so he became it. He became the unreliable, disappointing son. But under the surface, he never was. The time he spent away from home partying was often a cover to do other more important things.