When bad people need therapy

Substitute sons.

I’ve heard from my sources that Rasputin is not staying, which means that Vlad is losing his two chief henchmen.

This got me thinking about why he’s created this artificial extra layer; or less about that than the people who make up the layer. It can’t be that Vlad is looking for son(s) that he never had since he already has a son, which sent me in search of some other explanation – that he’s looking for the son he wanted.

His actual son is, by all accounts, a talented athlete, which has reduced Vlad to the role of being little more than a taxi driver with an inferiority complex. My conclusion is that he wants a son in whose life he can play a traditional paternal role, passing on his allegedly superior knowledge and wisdom; but in his son’s life he has neither because the boy isn’t following in his father’s footsteps.

Vlad has now turned his attention to the Lone Star Kid as our next HoD as he seeks replacement substitute sons. Am I in contention for the post? Possibly, but Vlad still wouldn’t be keen on the idea. Well, he may have to bite his tongue because I’m intending to apply for the post this time even if the interview would be designed to make me look like a fool. I can’t allow Vlad to over­promote some schoolboy who doesn’t have half of my experience in IB or IGCSE and who was dependent on me for much of what he knows about the former.

I’m not going to make the same mistake when I declined the post four years ago even if her Ladyship did a good job (and, I think, a better one than I would’ve, though don’t tell her I said that).

But Vlad’s psychological issues are a large part of his toxic influence and the reason why Sarasvati has had enough.