Exactly. If you're not family, you're suspect. If you get in their way or offer any harm? You're dead. That's pretty much it.
In my mind, John didn't engineer what goes on with his boys. Being isolated and pretty much depending on each other, natural curiousity and hormones led to stuff that, pretty much, always happens. 'Playing doctor', as it were. But they're so turned inward - and so tuned into each other, and so suspicious of the world that the vulnerability that comes with sex was simply impossible. They only way to be there, to do that, and be safe, was to turn to their family.
No, there's no participation from John. His only love is dead. But he knows, and approves in that it keeps his boys safe, and they're not exposing any weaknesses to strangers.
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In my mind, John didn't engineer what goes on with his boys. Being isolated and pretty much depending on each other, natural curiousity and hormones led to stuff that, pretty much, always happens. 'Playing doctor', as it were. But they're so turned inward - and so tuned into each other, and so suspicious of the world that the vulnerability that comes with sex was simply impossible. They only way to be there, to do that, and be safe, was to turn to their family.
No, there's no participation from John. His only love is dead. But he knows, and approves in that it keeps his boys safe, and they're not exposing any weaknesses to strangers.