(5:20:51 PM) SailorStarPoet: I think Barty's going to kill crazy grandpa, like... the night of Mummy Dearest's funeral. And, naturally, he'll be put off that, le sigh, he needs to plan another funeral. (5:21:16 PM) Tyra (Gumboil, Yaxley): lolol poor Barty <333 (5:21:49 PM) SailorStarPoet: In all fairness, he wouldn't need to plan funerals if he'd just stop killing people, but that's not going to happen, so... XD (5:22:02 PM) Tyra (Gumboil, Yaxley): yeah, well :P Ben understands that sometimes you just need to kill people (5:24:56 PM) SailorStarPoet: Barty says Senior needed to die for the good of all wizardkind, Demeter shouldn't have died but it's Senior's fault for not being decent enough to get left alive, and Crazy Grandpa... there's a lot of piled up issues there, but they've cooled off, for the most part, just because he hasn't really had it easy, between the love of his life up and dying on him and getting himself drop-kicked to Azkaban by his own son... but, by the same token, he's not going to change, and Barty doesn't need to take care of two screaming infants, especially when one of them is drunk as a skunk. (5:25:43 PM) Tyra (Gumboil, Yaxley): Ben says he's sorry Barty has bad family luck. It was just his parents - Hector was an awesome Grandpa. (5:27:07 PM) SailorStarPoet: Barty says thanks, Ben, he appreciates it. But, hey, on the plus, it'll be just him and his baby brother (and Winky >_> ) by March, so the family gets a clean slate. (5:27:57 PM) Tyra (Gumboil, Yaxley): Ben says yes, that's very fortunate and good for the family. And that he just needs to get married now :P (5:29:43 PM) SailorStarPoet: Barty says yep, he's making plans for that. And since Antonin has some weird desire to do most of the parenting of Bb Crouch, Barty will be free to court his lady, get married, and then raise his brother and kids as siblings even though they're not. Everybody wins! (5:29:51 PM) SailorStarPoet: (Except Senior, Demeter, and Crazy Grandpa.) (5:30:19 PM) Tyra (Gumboil, Yaxley): Ben handwaves at Snr, Demeter, Grandpa - not important, obviously. (5:31:22 PM) SailorStarPoet: Barty says his mummy was v important, but in a way it's probably better for her that she died. She might've gotten thrown at Mr Rosier so he could have another heir and she was very ill, so that wouldn't be so good. :\ (5:32:37 PM) Tyra (Gumboil, Yaxley): Ben does not really understand parental relationships :| He didn't really have any. Even he's deciding what to do with his mum, he's thinking more in terms of "Oh, she just stuck by her husband. Can I kill her just for that?" (5:35:14 PM) SailorStarPoet: Awwww, Ben. <3 Barty... kind of understands them, in the really weird Crouch way, where Mummy and Grandmother were very encouraging (or coddling, for Mummy's part), Senior was borderline neglectful, and Crazy Grandpa was fine... until Grandmother died and he decided that reality was just not where he felt like living. And, yeah, Barty's going to be very sad when Mummy dies... but in his way, he's better off with his surrogate Bella-mummy and Antonin-dad. XD (5:37:20 PM) Tyra (Gumboil, Yaxley): If Ben was at all objective about it, he'd hate his Grandfather. But he was basically kidnapped and brainwashed and told that his parents were epic failures (ESPECIALLY YOUR DADDY, HE GAMBLED AWAY ALL THE MONEY). So he adored Hector and grew up cordial with his parents, but never really... liking them, let alone loving them. (5:40:15 PM) SailorStarPoet: Barty kind of understands love... in a mildly warped way that more resembles either blind devotion or extreme emotional dependence, or both, depending on who is the recipient. Mummy didn't treat him like an epic failboat, so he loved her. Grandmother told him he could do great things, so he loved her. Reg was his biffle, so there was guy love. Antonin and Bella don't think he fails, and Bella encourages his crazy, so they are at the top of his metaphorical Top 8. (5:41:52 PM) SailorStarPoet: Senior, on the other hand, was never pleased, responsive, around, positive, or anything decent and spent Barty's life going YOU'RE GOING TO BE A SRS BIZNIZ AUROR OR ELSE YOU'RE NOT WORTH THE EFFORT IT TOOK TO BREED YOU, and paid Slughorn off to basically say the same in Barty's career counseling session... so the hostility and patricidal rage. Barty thinks they're completely understandable. (5:43:37 PM) Tyra (Gumboil, Yaxley): Yeah, Ben says that's not cool :| Although honestly, Hector sort of did the same thing <.< Except he wasn't so specific. He was just like "IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO SAVE THE FAMILY NAME" and thrust all the responsibility at him. Ben doesn't have nearly as good of reasons for killing his parents - it's just that they're hindering his efforts and he's done trying to work around them. (5:45:37 PM) SailorStarPoet: Barty says hey, that's good enough. You gotta do what you gotta do, especially when it comes to saving the family name and things like that. That's more Barty's motivation for killing Crazy Grandpa than any pent up rage. It's more like a mercy killing than anything. (5:46:40 PM) Tyra (Gumboil, Yaxley): Ben: *Captain Hammer-esque pose* A MAAAAAAAANNN'S GOTTA A DO WHAT A MAAAAAAAN'S GOTTA DO. (5:46:41 PM) Tyra (Gumboil, Yaxley): xD (5:46:44 PM) SailorStarPoet: XD (5:46:54 PM) SailorStarPoet: Barty: ...Yeah, that's basically my point. (5:47:00 PM) Tyra (Gumboil, Yaxley): lololol (5:47:28 PM) SailorStarPoet: Barty: *needs a Reg puppet to get involved in a musical episode. Unless he does a solo version of "Terrible Lie" or something.* (5:47:38 PM) Tyra (Gumboil, Yaxley): lol aw (5:48:17 PM) Tyra (Gumboil, Yaxley): Ben would do one with you, but he says he's too young. He's a bb. Ben is in that middle-ish group with Lucius and Rabbit and Marius (5:48:23 PM) Tyra (Gumboil, Yaxley): who are all going to go muggle hunting one of these days (5:49:17 PM) SailorStarPoet: Barty says it's okay, Ben. There aren't enough good duets about patricide anyway. (5:49:25 PM) Tyra (Gumboil, Yaxley): Truth :| (5:49:32 PM) Tyra (Gumboil, Yaxley): He'll just drink with Lucius instead. (5:50:06 PM) SailorStarPoet: And Barty and Demetrius can have a sprightly duet about carving up some muggle chick and sending her body parts to people. (5:50:14 PM) Tyra (Gumboil, Yaxley): XD awesome