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everyone say it with me now: the only reason angela followed randall around was because her parents were pressuring her to marry the richest man in stansbury, which at the time was him. this is supported by when she stated that after randalls death she was-
being pressured to marry the /next/ richest man, dalston, before henry fake-proposed to her.
she never actually expressed any interest in randall or his hobbies and passions and kept trying to pull him away from his dreams of becoming a famous archeologist and-
she never actually expressed any interest in randall or his hobbies and passions and kept trying to pull him away from his dreams of becoming a famous archeologist and-
focus on being the heir to the family business, which randall wanted no part of. the only reason randall appeared to like her back was probably out of respect and also the feeling of being cared about can COMPLETELY change someones perspective of another.
he went on to believe that she really loved him which ended up playing a huge role in descoles plan to manipulate him and actually succeeded for the most part (before hershel arrived, obviously)
meanwhile, henry (and hershel, at the time albeit secretly) was the ONLY one who cared about randalls interests in archeology and even had plans to study it in college had the accident not happened and he found himself getting caught up in the foundation of monte d'or.
henry talks very fondly of randall and never stopped looking for him for the following 18 years after the accident. even as kids randall allowed henry small freedoms outside of his training to be a household servant because he believed him to be his equal.
the amount of respect henry has for randall goes beyond that of being his servant. he mentions that he never wanted randall to let his dreams fall flat and was willing to do anything to help him fulfill them. angela never said anything of the sort.
and in hershels case, its pretty clear that hershel is randalls impulse control. the two seem like polar opposites but still ended up being the best of friends and even came up with little games for each other (along with randall introducing him to puzzles)
hershel literally dedicated his entire academic future and career to randall after his death and ended up coming to love archeology just as much as he did (even if he claimed to be uninterested before) to the point where he ended up surpassing him in knowledge.
both henry and hershel respect randall with a passion angela lacks which goes to show where her feelings TRULY lie. she only wanted him for his money. randall unfortunately didnt see through this and went on to believe there was really something between them and it-
inevitably would become his downfall as descole successfully convinced him that henry "stole" his love from him and sparked motivation to get revenge, sending his own plans into motion.
LOL i didnt mean to rant but tl;dr randall ascot is a closeted gay man who was never able to come to terms with his sexuality prior to his "death" but now that hes back he can finally learn that the REAL ones who loved him were hershel and henry and not angela
