Thoughts on Liz and Red

[serafina20]

Red left his wife and baby daughter (did they say baby or just daughter) on Christmas Eve, 1990.

Liz was born April 28, 1983. She would have been 7 in 1990.

She tells Red that she got the scar on her hand when she was 14. He asks if someone was trying to hurt her and she says, "Not exactly." She later tells the little girl that her father gave her the scar.

Red's speech in the Stewmaker:

"A farmer comes home one day to find that everything that gave meaning to his life is gone. Crops are burned, animals slaughtered, bodies and broken pieces of his life strewn around...everything that he loved taken from him--his children. One can only imagine the pit of despair, the hours of Job-like lamentations that burden of existence. He makes a promise to himself in those dark hours. A life's work erupts from that knotted mind. Years go by, his suffering becomes...complicated. One day he stops, the Farmer who--is no longer a farmer--sees the wreckage he's left in his wake. It is now he who burns, it is he who slaughters. And he knows in his heart, he must pay."

Is obviously about himself. So, his family was stolen from him somehow, maybe. He did take a picture of a little girl from the Stewmaker's book (I missed this, actually; someone said it on another blog). This could be his daughter; they don't mention what happened to him. Maybe someone turned the Stewmaker onto Red's family after he did something.

Maybe Liz's mother was married or involved with Red, only to be "stolen" away by the man Liz thinks is her father. Red is trying to get back at him by taking Liz.

Or, like a lot of people say, Liz's father is #1 on Red's list. But I do think he genuinely loves her. Which makes my theory that her biological father was Red's lover who was taken from him (as was she) more plausible.

I wish I could ship Red/Liz because I like May/December romances, especially if they're forbidden, but... I don't feel it.