Shiv Roy is Not Your Devil, Nor Your Martyr

She’s the Shiv, who, down to the last minute, would sacrifice her brother for whatever fraction of power she could gain by staying with Tom –  even if it felt like a last-ditch effort to feel once again as important as she did underneath the approving gaze of her father. 

An Examination of Fatherhood, Screen Speck Edition

Dads are complicated. Let’s just get that out of the way. They’re harder to read than mothers are, mainly because many a time they communicate via vague gestures or a grunt here and there instead of words. They also happen to be the most…interesting individual in the lives of their children many times.