by Chisaki Watanabe » Thu Aug 12, 2021 1:36 am
"Everything I know about the Spencers is a sort of...."Chisaki searched for an appropriate word in English, but failed to find one." - itameru of publicly available information from the internet, What little Kiki is allowed to tell me, and what little Eddie-kun feels comfortable discussing.
The Spencers used to be three families, but now they are two. They have trouble producing male heirs, so one of the family lines died due to this. A first born child like Basil being male is exceptionally rare in their familial line. Ancestral charts available online show that Basil's grandfather-Edmond's father- first had a daughter named Beanina, and then a son, lord Dinis. So the previous Lord Spencer had a boy easy enough, two in fact.
But Basil has six Spencer cousins, and five of them are girls.
It is my current theory that this has lead to competition between the males in the family. Edmond has never said as much, but I do know he was treated as an unwanted thing before it was discovered he was a mutant, because he was an accidental child. That is why he is so much younger than his brother.
Actually, I think perhaps had he been better accepted, what he was capable of would have been discovered well before adulthood.
But that does not matter. The point I am making here is the hostility between the brothers is what is leading to the distrust. And I do not know how valid it is, but I do know it is heated enough between them that anyone associated to his brother is also not trusted. It is not meant as hatred for everyone, it is just that he does not trust Lord Dinis to have anything but hostile motives towards himself or Basil, and that providing anyone in his circles with information could be harmful to them.
And I also know that Edmond trusts very easily. If he did not, none of you would be here right now. So if Edmond does not trust him, I cannot either. And so I will not rule him or any of his children out as suspects until I know for certain. "