helveticaes-deactivated20180220 asked: Could it be that Uncle Jerry obsession of Turning a Graves come from a fear of being left all alone (without a kin) in the world?
This is probably it. And why he was almost desperate to see the Graves family line continue.
Come to think of it, Percival was probably not the first Graves that he set up with someone.
@hamelin-born Your thoughts?
Sort of. Originally, it was because he wanted to preserve some piece of his brother, in the form of Gondolphus’ children and grandchildren - his brother was his, was his twin, his second self. If he could not have Gonny, he’d damn well have the man’s offspring.
Then it became - interesting. It became a game; it was how he passed the time, and he was delighted with his nieces and nephew’s ingenuity. The spells they threw at him, the defenses they erected against him, the battles they had - it became an obsession, it became an out-right need, it became the core of his continued existence. The Graves family were his, and he was going to have them. No matter how long it took, no matter what he went through - it was a game, and the game would not end because he would not allow it to end.
Make no mistake: Uncle Jerry is a monster. Perhaps loneliness factors into it, but if it’s loneliness, it’s directly connected to his brother - the fear of not having any part of Gondolphus left in the world is something that enrages him. He will not allow it to come to pass. He doesn’t think of it as a fear of being alone, he doesn’t consider it in those terms - it’s anger and possession, not fear.
I don’t think Uncle Jerry has set a relative up in the past so much as - simply allowed the relationship to proceed. There have been occasions when he could go after a man or woman the current Graves was sweet on, and he deliberately refrained from targeting them because he wanted more descendants, wanted the game to go on. By the same light, he might have made a token attempt to attack the love interest in order to force a Graves’ hand, force them to realize what said individual means to them, but - I think Percival’s the only one where he’s taken outright steps to set a many-times descendant up with someone.
