Meredith as one of THEM....

[dreadedcandiru2]

As fun as it is to comment on how Francie is going to be treated like a problem by people who see her as one is, I'd like to talk about another child who's going to be a problem soon: Meredith. While we would have just started to get the beginning of a very foolish long-term arc right now had the strip continued, October 2015 would have heralded the start of a very annoying problem: Meredith's thirteenth birthday. This is about when the kewpie-doll that Elly calls a granddaughter would have become an out-of-control rebel overnight. The reason is that she's the child of two emotionally fragile people who live in an eternal present and who see everything as a surprise no one could have anticipated.

The only problem that faces us is not deciding what it'll take for Deanna to decide that that's it, she's through with motherhood or how lame Meredith's attempts at rebelliousness will be or Mike being glad that Exile Farm exists and that Laura has a cousin Meredith's vague age. The problem that faces us is wondering if Elly can actually contain the glee she's bound to be feeling at watching her son finally see what he put her through. I mean, she's barely keeping in the guffaws as it is so watching Mike confess like an ancient mariner for being a horrible son might just overload the pleasure center of her brain.

Comments

[kefkaownsall.livejournal.com]

I can see it except her rebellion is gonna be really non existant

[kazokuhouou.livejournal.com]

It'll probably be something silly like she wants to play *gasp* hockey! A girl playing hockey perish the thought!

[dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com]

So were Michael's, Liz's and April's. As kazukohouou suggests, that isn't going to stop the Pattersons from acting as if her wanting to play goalie instead of being an ice dancer means the End of Civilization as we know it.

Also, given that Anthony would be a means of beating Lane over the head for wanting privacy, he'd be her coach.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

oooooh . . . having been Merrie's mun in years past, may I suggest she listened to April's advice not to let her parents know she was rebelling? It could be simple. Claim she just needs her bike to ride to school, then skip off to the skate park after class to practice trick riding.

[dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It doesn't take much to fool a Patterson, does it?

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

Most of the fun in rebelling is the thrill of getting away with it, and if you rebel in ways that no one outside your family would give a rat's ass about, you can get away with a lot more.

. . . I just had a thought. What if, against her parents' expectations and to the shock of everyone, Merrie actually has a knack for math and science? She'd nitpick her father's half-assed attempt at a sci-fi novel and give her parents nightmares about tuition costs involved for someone going into a STEM field.

[dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com]

What's more, she'd make Elly's math- and science-fearing brain explode in a flurry of bullshit about her marriage prospects.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

doubly so once she hooks up with her motorcycle-riding girlfriend.