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Every so often I get brainrot from thinking about the Losers' parents going through a similar ordeal to their kids on the Pennywise cycle before theirs, surviving through sheer dumb luck, and forgetting it all.
It's Zach Denbrough, Frank Kaspbrak, Will Hanlon, Ben's father, Maggie, Elfrida and Andrea.
The only one who doesn't forget is Ben's father, because he leaves Derry (parallel and contrast to Mike, where his group forgot because they willingly stayed in Derry). Everyone else has that vague notion that they used to be friends in school, and there's a longing they can't +
place, but they keep on living their lives doomed to repeat the things their own parents and peers did unto their children because they couldn't break the cycle of abuse that permeates the town itself and all its inhabitants.
Zach and Frank share the "roles" their sons would, after. They're both leaders and navigators, but only if they're together. Zach doesn't remember his and Frank's bond from when they were kids, but he still feels aimless after Frank dies.
Maggie doesn't have Voices, she has Faces. She stands behind people and mimics their every move with stunning precision, can invoke the mannerisms of people, famous & familiar, at the drop of a hat, some worse than others. Attuned to her body, comfortable pretending to be sb else
(Maggie could also have an EVEN MORE REPRESSED little baby crush on Elfrida and/or Andrea. Just a baby bi, so far away from the time when it'd be marginally okay to be so.)
Elfrida and Andrea both live in the oppressive shadow of overbearing parents, although their methods are different. Expectation hangs heavy, and ultimately break both of them in adulthood, but while it doesn't, they're fighters. Sharpshooters & protectors, fearless in their rage.
Will & Ben's dad (I'm so pissed he doesn't get named) are builders. They want to make places where the people they live are safe, but they can't quite get there. They dig a hole near the Barrens that becomes nothing, then build homes for their children that ultimately crumble.
They don't have a historian. They don't have anyone with the right questions, no one to look for the answers, so they fall apart and forget, remain stuck in the same cycles as everyone else — but this token resistance was resistance still, foundations for the Losers to break it.
