#cant believe tom spent all of s3 waiting 4 the death of his career and trying 2 kickstart family man wambsgans

[dumpywoof]

What if I told you Tom's want to have a baby with shiv in season 3 is him trying to recreate his relationship with Greg within his home

I think tom was able to except the death of his job due to him being able separate his work life and his home life, something none of the Roy's are able to separate obv. Waystar royco is a family run business and the Roy's are a business run family. I think this contrast is well illustrated when tomshiv are going over the prenup and we see Tom's phone call w his mom. His tone is very casual when wishing her a happy Thanksgiving but when she switches to talking about the prenup his tone is more serious. Then, when talking to shiv about the call he refers to her as his lawyer and shiv says something like, "u mean ur mom." Tom leaves behind his family relationship w his mom when she is working with him, a line shiv (or any of the roy siblings) never draw. While working for waystar she never referrers to Logan as her boss, she always simply calls him dad.

Then in season 3 tom knows his job life to be dead, talking of his cancer of the career and calling himself terminal tom. He knew he had failed said life and wanted to find fulfillment in his home life that he still had ahead of him. I was watching/reading some interviews w Matthew Macfadyen recently and they got me thinking about how he says tom views himself as sort of a mentor/almost a father figure towards greg. Tom's relationship w greg is messy and so many things at once, but, I think tom found fulfillment in being able to be greg's work dad in some weird fucking way.

Also, the scene where tom talks about getting shiv pregnant for the duration of his prison sentence then coming back home to a baby makes it very clear to me that his want to have a child isn't coming from love for shiv. He quite literally doesn't want to be there for her, but, just for the child. Oml I could continue ranting about how shivs feelings towards her own femininity and sexuality play into the hypothetical tomshiv child but I feel like I should shut the fuck up maybe.

But but but, I just think it's so insane that tom saw the death of his work life quickly approaching him, and with this came the death of his and gregs work relationship. So, tom tried to recreate part of that relationship by getting shiv pregnant. Tom wambsgans wtf is wrong with u why is he like that.

#thinkin about season 3 fail marriage #tom wambsgans i hate u i mean i love u i mean i hate u i mean i love u i mean i hate u i mean #im not grammar checking this just gonna trust any tumblr user who dare read my word vomit to be able to decipher it #kind think tom is split between want greg 2 be his second wife who he has complete power over #and wanting greg 2 be his young puppy dog that he tenderly cares for #both views of greg are profoundly insane #cant believe tom spent all of s3 waiting 4 the death of his career and trying 2 kickstart family man wambsgans #but ended up killing any hope of starting a family w shiv 2 further is career #fuck u tom wambsgans #ofc tom wanted an out of his fail marriage and wanted out of watching his career die #but that out wanst something he could plan 4 #him ending up getting the out wasn't a calculated play against shiv but more of a hot-blooded decision #all that being said #i do think tom loves shiv #they r both just so wildly unhealthy together they truly put the fail into failmarriage #succession