A Couple Of Parts From Kendall’s Tvtropes Page That Leave Me Aching

Anti-Role Model: According to Culkin and Snook, Shiv and Roman look at how much of an open wound Kendall can be, and how he's treated in the family because of it, and clam up their own emotions in response.
Because You Were Nice to Me: He's so used to Logan either not giving affection or using touch as control, that he's cried at least three times from someone actually being kind to him and comforting him.
His Own Worst Enemy: Many of his failures can be attributed to a combination of unchecked substance abuse, hubris, shame, self-loathing, and a desperate need to please his father.
I Did What I Had to Do: Kendall really hates him-self, and a lot of the time he can't even convince his own mind of this, but he tries to tell himself he's good because he agonizes over every choice (which of course people don't see and so they think of him as weak).
Love Martyr: Kendall has an unfortunate tendency to think if he's getting humiliated that means whoever is doing actually loves him. Strong: When you grow up in a house full of abuse, you come to associate forms of abuse with forms of love. They become indistinguishable.
Nice to the Waiter: Ironically enough, and while he's still vain and self-absorbed, he's the one who will pay any kind of halfway decent attention to staff characters, even if a lot of it is out of wanting to be retraumatise himself.
Puppy-Dog Eyes: He's pretty good at the "eyes wet with unshed tears" look, although it never works on anyone in-universe. Logan openly complains about them, calling them the "doggy evils".
Thousand-Yard Stare: Almost his default mode, even his younger self in the credits is sitting dissociating while the rest of the family talk at the table.
Tragic Dream: It's made clear that Kendall would be happier doing anything other than becoming CEO, up to and including being kidnapped and held in a cow shed, but he's been groomed (with plenty of subtext of the other kind of grooming) his whole life into thinking this means he's worth literally anything to his dad.
Tragic Hero: Kendall Roy has the potential to be a good person; hell, he even has the potential to be a good CEO. Unfortunately, his immaturity, excessive pride, and total lack of self-worth ruin anything he attempts to do, leaving him in a constant cycle of being broken and alone.

a couple of parts from kendall’s tvtropes page that leave me aching

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2 years ago

so much of kendall and shiv's sisterly animosity is based on kendall never getting to be daddy's little girl and shiv never being his #1 boy... makes you ponder

3 years ago
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Waddah culluh

8 months ago

do not take his fucking grapes i swear to god i will crash my car into your house leave his grapes ALONE right now

3 years ago

Okay something I’ve been thinking a lot about with the ending scene is how the old guard at Waystar has literally seen so much of the Roy family. Like they have seen Logan’s abuse close up as adults when the siblings were just kids and they’ve done nothing, they’ve always done nothing. Because they’ve had to protect their own interests and Logan was always more important than protecting a child. But that scene where the kids are begging and crying for their father to not take away the one thing they’ve been told matters in life while Karl, Gerri, and Frank sit like statues on the couch, unflinching and unfeeling towards their pain is haunting me.

Like sure Frank has acted like a pseudo-father to Kendall and Gerri had Roman as her pet but at the end of the day the pact stands together because if Logan falls it’s just a matter of time before they’re all dispensable as well. There is no one big bad because behind him you have all the silent supporters.

But with Roman begging Gerri to help them and Gerri turning them away I can just imagine the Roy childhood, surrounded by people who knew who your father truly was, knowing your father hit you, knowing your father hit you in front his general counsel and knowing it didn’t matter anyways because they had all decided it wasn’t a smart business move to help you.

1 year ago

Good times

remember when we had succession and the next day you'd have to get up and go to work like you hadn't just experienced all 5 stages of grief simultaneously the night prior

4 months ago
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1 year ago

you mean to tell me i suffered through 2020 and no one thought to show me this???

3 years ago

richard: francis is so intruiging. he looks like a mysterious prince, look at the way he eats his cherries. he’s a walking miracle.

richard: everything henry does needs to be worshipped. he’s an actual god. the physical manifestation of a celestial being. a deity not of this earth.

richard: i could watch charles all day. my favorite thing about camilla is how boyish she looks, and how much she looks like her brother. he’s the most fascinating person alive. I could literally stare at him 24/7.

richard: I, a heterosexual,

1 year ago
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1 year ago

Logan and shivs relationship is so interesting bc he always goes to her when he wants to tear down another woman. He immediately tells her that he thinks Kendall’s new girl is an airhead at the gala. He shit talks Rhea jarells character specifically with her. And she’s always so eager to play along. Bc she’s different. She’s special. Unlike all the other women that Logan deems too weak to deserve his respect.

And in those moments when he makes it clear that she’s no different then the rest, she’s devastated. Bc no matter how much she may participate in his misogyny, she was always just a girl to him.

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