rees and stan? tw: suicide
i promised sam i would write about this lmao no i really need to figure out what the deal is... let me at least write out the basic premise so far... god damn these. stupid Grammarly popups are doing my head in. begone foul demon. i don't even remember downloading it since having firefox for the last 5+ years...... hold on
ok i uninstalled it and they asked me why and i told them the popups ruin the vibe lol
anyway so basically: stan had a girlfriend called christina. she got pregnant. there was talk of an abortion but she ultimately decided to keep it. their daughter, audrey, is born. christina takes her own life before audrey is even a year old i think. i feel really awful for writing anything that feels extreme about my ocs but they literally just did a postpartum psychosis storyline on bbc casualty so you know what. it's fine.
so christina dies. stan is a single dad. he has a great support network of his mum, brother, auntie and uncle, rees and kat too. him and audrey are ridiculously loved. he moves back in with his mum, ciara, for the time being. but at some point, i think he would want to move out again.
this all was kinda sparked cuz i dunno, i think rees really likes kids and loves audrey to death. i think they've probably been a babysitter a number of times. audrey loves them too. probably refers to them as uncle. rees still lives at home with their parents cuz being unpartnered makes affording a house really hard!!! wooo!!! but anyway i saw it like, hey, two birds with one stone. no adult kids living with their parents. two adults who love and care for audrey.
i'm just not completely sold on it cuz i do think rees really wants to build their own little independent life. and it also feels a bit, pair the spares? not that there would be anything romantic happening lol rees is aroace as hell and theyre besties in a band together and it's all extremely platonic. anyway when i say pair the spares i mean in the sense of like, why is it just the fact that rees is nonpartnering and stan is a single dad that makes me consider that they'd move in together lol. am i being amatonormative. am i trying to create the nuclear family. get outta here with that.
so anyway that's been something i was considering for a while but i'm leaning towards it being a no. more likely, rees comes over a lot, and they're still audrey's uncle, and. i was saying to sam once how, i think stan and rees enter a new era of emotional vulnerability while this whole thing is going down. stan has a bunch of people around him of course, but rees is there moreso emotionally than anyone else.
i also just thought, would rees be like, audrey's godparent... probably huh!