So Touka is essentially being raised and groomed into being a surrogate mother for her own mother. Goddamn, these two are beyond fucked. Now we’ve seen what Touka is capable of when it comes to getting rid of any obstacles in her path, and we’ve seen the mother when it comes to setting things up. We haven’t seen vice versa for both of them.
I can’t help but wonder though, despite everything, does Touka actually love him? It would be a sick twisted kind of love, but is it there? She acts so happy around him, and it’s not feigned happiness as can easily be displayed by the way her “friends” and classmates react to her.
I doubt the mother genuinely loves him, he’s a means to an end, and she’s just using him. But Touka might love him, if she does indeed love him, and her mother gets some funny ideas about “dealing” with him… I can’t imagine Touka will just go along with her, sitting idly by as the man she has some sort of love for is “taken care of” we don’t know what happened to her actual father after all.
The mother might be trying to recreate some sort of relationship she had with her own step father in the past, if her words and the whole “glad she was born a girl” thing is anything to go by. In which case, we haven’t met any of the mother’s extended family.
Is Touka a victim in all of this as well, just as he is, are the two of them both victims of the mother? We’ll see how things progress, both good and bad won’t we? That text at the end might be spelling some trouble for the family in the near future, just please, don’t hurt the baby.