#i wrote this before ep3 dropped but yknow. remains relevant.

[thatdude-noah]

i don't think shiv and kendall recognize the abuse they went through—or at least, they don't recognize the extent of it. they always use the abuse that connor and roman went through when they're trying to bring their dad down, but they never bring up the abuse they faced.

roman and connor's abuse is much more clear than kendall and shiv's. roman was physically abused by their father and connor is constantly ignored by him, sometimes even going months without talking to him. but kendall and shiv faced abuse, too. all of the siblings faced emotional neglect from their father, all of them were pitted against each other, all of them were put down by him and belittled. that is abuse. and all of them faced it!

but i think kendall and shiv can't recognize that. they can't recognize that they were abused, that they are traumatized by growing up with the father they did. because of this, they only point out connor and roman's abuse when they want to get something from their father, but they never point out their own. they utilize their sibling's trauma even after it's made clear that roman and connor don't want that to happen. but it's the only angle that kendall and shiv have—as far as they're concerned, they weren't abused. sure, maybe they had a rough childhood and maybe their father wasn't perfect to them, but they weren't abused like roman and connor were. they didn't get trauma from their father.

so they utilize roman and connor's abuse. they objectify it, use it as a tool to hurt their father. they use it as a shield, as a way to continue their own denial about their abuse. their father wasn't bad to them like he was to roman and connor, so surely that means they're fine. they point out connor and roman's abuse, even at the expense of connor and roman, because they fail to point out their own abuse.

#i wrote this before ep3 dropped but yknow. remains relevant. #tw abuse #succession #logan roy #connor roy #roman roy #shiv roy #kendall roy #noah rants