- Sep 20, 2018
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I'm not sure anyone is trying to say Tybalt's being an asshole is entirely down to how he was raised, but I do think his upbringing played a big role in it. Tybalt is an overgrown child, with all the self-centered, shortsighted pettiness that comes along with that. Normally their parents will teach them to mitigate those tendencies as they grow up. Based on what we know of Tybalt and the Burkes, it seems plausible they did little to curb his worst impulses.I dont even agree with the 'explains'. If he was a 17/18 year old kid who grew up in a golden palace, I'd give him a pass, just like Jill for her mind numbing naivety. But he's a 21'ish year old man with 0 social intelligence, empathy or humility, who apparently believes his greatest accomplishment is getting adopted by rich folks and at 21 we should hold him accountable for his choices, and that he is who he chooses to be.
He is in dire need of either a code red, or his family to go broke so he gets a well needed reality check. He's the most caretoonish character in the entire game, when he 'proposed' to Jill, I literally said out loud "Oh, come on DPC, it's getting ridiculous."
Now it's likely Tybalt would have taken more curbing than other children; he certainly needed more than Sage, for an obvious example. But I think it's reasonable to speculate that he would have been less of an asshole if he'd been raised by Neil instead of Stephen and Jade.
Tybalt's not exactly the most reliable narrator, so I'm not sure if we should put any stock in his difficult childhood, but otherwise I agree.With a difficult childhood behind him, we don't know how much, but that's how Tybalt tells it, and an adolescence with an emotionally absent mother (Sage describes Jade in this way) and a careerist and unscrupulous father, who spoiled him in every way, there are all the premises for Tybalt to grow up as an asshole.
Alighty then. That gives me flashbacks.
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