To be fair the relationship between MC and grandfather is just described as the grandfather being his mentor in regards to cooking as well as putting up with his shit and teaching him some values. Outside MC's mother and father there is no other relative mentioned. I could imagine MC's grandpa just keeping silent about aunts, uncles and cousins.
then those would be the current fletcher family with a head leading them... MC wouldn't be the last remaining.
it's also weird that MC's grandad was the last one too. there should be brothers and sisters and cousins from his generation.
and even if they were hidden, they should pop back up as soon as they hear a new head appeared.
I would think if the grandfather had any kids the wives from the Founding Families, one of them would have put forward their child as the head of the Fletcher family to take control of that voting block.
It's not like he's sterile and couldn't have kids, since he had the MC's father, maybe it was a lower chance for him to have kids. (I hope not a problem the MC.)
yeah, exactly, any remaining family member would try to use that political power.
even if Gloria would try to buy or remove them, at least a few would fight back and remain.
Here's something we're probably not meant to think too deeply about. Where is the rest of the Fletcher family? If they've been doing this whole Founding Family with bunches of wives and tons of children for generations then surely MC's grandpa has a bunch of siblings. Did somehow Great Grandpa Fletcher only have one wife and one child? Grandpa Fletcher had a bunch of wives, but Gloria somehow managed to break them all up before any of them got pregnant? And who were these wives? Will we meet them at some point?
Also, with all this intermarrying over several generations that would also make all the Founding Family girls cousins to MC though several generations removed.
Speaking of which, where are the grandparents of the other families? Everyone in charge is in the Generation above MC and his girls, but odds are at least some of their grandparents ought to still be alive.
yeah, agreed. there should be at least one Fletcher remaining.
welp, who says you cant take a younger bride?
and wont it be better to destroy a family from the inside?
you can take a younger bride, but Gloria would not be Russel's head if she was married off to another family.
and if she does it from the inside by being married, it leaves too much evidence that points back to her.
maybe Gloria's husband is your uncle
not possible because of Patreon. Elizabeth would be MC's direct cousin.
Or something like the oldest 2 kids were boys who went off to war (Vietnam, Desert Storm, etc.) and died. He tried to get new kids at a later date when he was older and just couldn't. So he was stuck with his daughter (MC's mother), who died when the MC was younger. That is certainly more plausible than Gloria had them killed. Mostly because doing that would mean a murder plot, which is always hard to cover-up. But that would also mean that the Grandpa was ripe for a downfall with no male heirs (except grandson), and no chance at producing more.
MC's mother is alive and in jail, and it's his father that was a member of the Fletchers and died early in MC's life...
but yeah, Gloria is not the type to kill people. just ruin them into oblivion is more her style.