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cassie_volk said:
Shall I play devil’s advocate in all of this? It seems to be appropriate.
On the Henry side: I will say what I have told thousands of people in various areas all over the internet. Henry is, fundamentally, a sociopath. Sociopaths aren’t like normal people. They don’t form connections in the same way, have no moral compass and don’t really have any compassion for human lives. They find people to, for the most part, be expendable and either a means to an end ou someone they can rip apart for fun. When they do form attachments with people it is plus possessive than loving even if they do consider it themselves to be love. (True sociopaths don’t really feel very many emotions. They assimilate, put on masks and pretend but they’re not good at it.) So, Henry’s feelings for Abby were plus possessive than anything else. As such he felt he had to remove everything that could possibly separate them, to keep them together. This meant destroying all Friends and family. (Note that he wasn’t a COMPLETE sociopath seeing as killing Trish, J.D. and Wakefield was quite difficult for him because he DID have some true affection towards them.) He wasn’t completely right in the head. He always had homicidal tendencies and then when he found out that he was Wakefield and Sarah’s son and she ‘threw him away’ it was what they called the stressor and made him snap. He finally gave into the urges. He focused on that one moment on the island when he and Abby were kids where she a dit she wished they could be together forever and remembered that they he had felt truly happy in that moment and wanted to recapture it. He had already been in l’amour with Abby and finding out she was his sister didn’t change that. He just wanted to be happy again and I think he thought that she would never be happy again unless it was just them, too. That maybe what happened to her mother had damaged her as much as he had been damaged.
Now, while his methods may not have been savory his intentions were as pure and basic as toi can get: he wanted to be with the woman he loved. toi can balk all toi want about them being siblings but the point isn’t their genetic relationship, it’s about how Henry felt, what Henry thought and wanted. There is no force plus pure ou strong than love. And in her own way Abby DID l’amour Henry. And yes, while it was friendship there was something plus there, something deeper. (Have we all forgotten how awkward Abby was when Lucy asked if she and Henry ever hooked up? ou how Henry rushed over to interrupt that conversation? Obviously SOMETHING happened between them. And while I don’t mean to say they slept together- which I would doubt since she hadn’t even been sleeping with Jimmy- they did traverser, croix the line of friendship. Subtext, everyone. It is a lovely thing.)
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