Don't worry about stream of consciousness comments on my journal - you should see some of the things I come out with! Besides, you mentioned Jack and Archie in almost the same sentence and I'd forgive anything for that :P

both of them having more difficult family relationships though it might make them more tempestuous at times too.
This never occurred to me, but I think you're right. Their relationship was always going to be tempestuous but their mutual lack of a happy familial relationship could contribute to unseen scars surfacing. They're just a bit too similar in a way. (Good grief, I just finished school and am *still* analysing things to death...)