Re: mark reilly
1. Elizabeth never really recovered their relationship after she regained custody. She was so busy and so bogged down with everything that she just... couldn't handle him sometimes. She was too quick to let other people take care of him when he was troublesome, whether that was clubs or shows or New Avalon itself. It left Mark feeling adrift even when he was in a supposedly stable household.
2. His mother had a hard time, but she never really let him give up on himself. She never told him he couldn't do anything, she never told him he was too weird or too gay or too crazy.