flintxhamilton:

“ I want to share every single one of your sunshines and save them for later. I will tuck them into my pockets so I can give them back to you when the rain falls hard. I want to be the mirror that reminds you to love yourself. I want to be the air in your lungs that reminds you to breathe. When the walls come down, when the thunder rumbles, when nobody else is home, hold my hand, and I promise I won’t let go. ”

I want to talk about something that’s been on my mind for a very long time. Namely, that there’s this idea that appears every so often, and that’s if Thomas ever knew what James became or what he’s done, that he would reject James or simply not love him anymore or that things would never work between them again. And I just for the life of me can’t understand where this idea comes from because I can’t see any canon backing for it and from everything shown with Thomas, it seems to go completely against what we were shown. And I’m not trying to stomp on anyone’s opinion; it’s just that Thomas is my favorite character for a myriad of reasons, so I am very passionate about this.

I have three motivations for talking about this:
1) Fanfic writing reasons;
2) This post, which has been in my likes forever and which I’ve always meant to answer
3) And this idea has been around awhile and still crops up every so often, and I’m here to make a rebuttal

But it comes down to this: you are never going to convince me that Thomas, who has shown himself numerous times to be an extremely loving and forgiving person, who was willing to fight for imperfect strangers at great personal cost, who watched an execution of someone who was deemed guilty and came to the conclusion that he was going to help these people, that were already known to be violent and dangerous, and whom he cared about despite their actions- you are never going to convince me this Thomas would not still love James all the same or not understand him.

Rambling under the cut.

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Yes! All of this! I’ve never seen Thomas as naive, or without his own darkness. 
We’re talking about a man who grew up with Alfred – Alfred Hamilton, who, the more I think about him, the more I realize was a damn spider and a fan of the Xanatos gambit to a huge degree. Thomas grew up with that man – someone who was volatile, who could go from reasonable to spitting angry within two seconds, and let me tell you, growing up with someone like that will do things to you. I’m willing to bet that Thomas has got his own issues with anger and resentment. I’m further willing to bet that it’s a more conscious commitment to forgiveness and kindness than it seems for him to be the way he is. 

And re: Bedlam – yeah, I can’t picture that not changing him dramatically. He’d have PTSD at the very least and more than likely be a lot more like James when he came out than anyone, because even a patient treated mildly at Bedlam would still have been subject to cold, fleas, insufficient clothing, horrifying lack of hygiene, less than stellar food, and being gawked at like an animal, the combination of which would change a person on its own without ever adding in the more popular “treatments” of the time (forced purges, bleeding, and ice baths were among the more popular). I can’t see him coming out and not being angry and struggling with what was done to him.