(January 31, 2022 – 2:22 PM)Ozymandias Dempsey Wrote:  Part of the reason Oz is such an ass is because he's afraid if he were openly sentimental about things one of his family members would write poetry about him.

After that came up in thread, I headcanon that Lowri Dempsey wrote some poetry just before/after he was born regarding her feelings about motherhood, baby Oz, etc etc, and that he read those when he was six or seven as an introduction to literary themes (in my heart all the Dempsey children were taught about metaphors and allegories and things shortly after they learned to read, as a matter of course) and felt really weird about it and that's when he started being more reserved about how he really feels.

So - Yeat's basically plagerised Lowri when he wrote Prayer for my Son and Prayer for My Daughter :D Micheal Yeats- was apparently INCREDIBLY embarrassed by the maudlin nature of the poem - which basically claims people would try and kill him because he was going to do amazing things in the future - Ozy could definitely relate