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The reason that each of the Roys are so easily manipulated by Logan begins and ends with the fact that he will always know each of them more than they’re known by anyone else—because they don’t know how to let themselves be known or understood by anyone else, not even each other, not even their partners or lifelong friends, (he’s made sure of that.) and THAT is why he’s always able to say the cruelest possible thing, cut them where it’ll hurt the most, or manipulate them most effectively. Because in order to betray someone fully, in order to hate them properly, you have to really know them. And even when he’s hurting them, all they can see is love. All they can feel is known, understood, and they’ll spend the rest of their lives chasing that feeling that only their father can provide, begging for scraps and doing whatever it takes to get them.