This Comment Of Yours Was Mwah And Helped So Much Figuring Out Some Of Roman's Shit - Tumblr Posts
@sanguine-salvation​ commented here;
// maaaan, its no damn wonder Roman is so angry, being treated as a prop to make the family look ideal at the same time as being treated as deeply unwanted within, always compared to another kid who your parents seemingly wanted more, constantly being inundated with even their ambient negativity, and then having the deck stacked against him when it came to running the family business because of something he had no say in??? Oouf
(Slipped under the cut because 🙌)
Draig, I could hug you very warmly for making such a beautifully concise comment that sums up Roman’s anger issues so perfectly. Everything you’ve written just now wasn’t something I was able to convey so eloquently but you struck so many chords it needed responding to before immortalizing it on a wall of fame. Roman is a DEEPLY angry man with many issues thanks to his parents. By angry, I don’t mean road rage levels of anger. That’s a calm swell over the beach compared to the sheer, blinding wrath he feels whenever that red mist descends. Whenever Roman gets angry, it’s a miracle that a Red Lantern Ring doesn’t immediately descend from space to latch onto his finger. His parent’s selfishness and incompetence left Roman a violently disturbed, untrusting man who struggles with the most basic tasks even to this very day. Regarding Bruce and Viktor, though they ended up becoming very different people as a result of their parent’s deaths, were at least blessed with loving memories of them. Roman on the other hand was regarded as a burden and treated as such from an early age by people who had no business raising children whatsoever, and their behaviour resulted in their own deaths when Roman finally snapped and burned them alive in the family home just after he turned seventeen. It’s no excuse for being the way he is. Roman owns being a shitty man who frankly deserves a bullet in the head if anybody had the balls to shoot him but the way he was treated growing up most definitely had a significant impact on the man he is today, somebody who has buried a lot of self-hatred and has difficulties contending with his personal inadequacies and demons in healthy ways.