right, it also broke my heart bc little kids, and without inserting gender roles too much but prob more so little boys are usually proud of bruises. he may have been too young to be "macho" about them but youd think at the very least he'd have no shame.
ill never forget when i was 7 (and fwiw im a girl) and i had a huge scrape/cut from my ankle up to my knee/inner thigh from sliding down a tree that was way too high to climb and a few other bruises due to my "graceful landing". i nearly gave my mom a heart attack but all i could think about was how excited i was to go to school the next day and tell everyone how high i climbed (and oh i told everyone). one thing about JH that never sat right w me is even without the actual bruises, i feel like that natural excitement/Lucas natural personality should have been showing in Lucas regularly and if it wasnt, he should have noticed even if he wasnt home a lot.
@Amonet posted a good theoretical dialogue earlier between LH and JH and imo,
JH should have noticed if Lucas was excited or neutral about the bruises vs withdrawn or distracted. again, JH has been a wildcard for me but its upsetting that he couldnt read or deliberately ignored what he saw in his own child.