User blog comment:Demileto/Is Lincoln Campbell really an alias for Thomas Ward?/@comment-26905421-20150819063409/@comment-26918230-20151012191502

Well, we know Grant Ward is supposed to have the same birthday as Brett Dalton -- 7 January 1983 -- so there’s our starting point. For Christian Ward to have been running at least his first re-election campaign to the U.S. Senate in 2014 he would have had to have been born in 1978 at the latest (if I remember correctly from my social studies classes growing up, you have to be 30-years-old to run for the Senate). I just round it up to 1977 so he’s a nice even six years older than Grant and that’s about as wide as I could make the gap between them without rendering the flashback set-up in “The Well” impossible. As you note a closeness in age between Grant and Thomas I imagine a similar gap between Christian and the sister. Just to make things even I put the sister in the middle of Christian and Grant, so born in 1980, and to finish it off have Thomas born in 1986. It wouldn’t be satisfactory for some but it’s been my working model for headcanon. With that I’ve been sliding along the scale of the years until settling upon my headcanon year of 1993 for the well incident, with a 16-year-old Christian, a 10-year-old Grant, and a 7-year-old Thomas. Does that work out okay for you as it doesn’t seem too far off from your visual estimate... Plus I like the idea of Christian being the same age in the well incident as Grant was in the first two flashbacks of “Ragtag” six years later. That leaves the 13-year-old sister somewhere else, ranging from as simple as being back at the house while it was all happening to having been sent away as what would happen to Grant sometime in the years between 1993 and 1999.

Considering we probably won’t be addressing the subject of Inhuman royalty until the film in 2019, it would be nice to explore the idea of Inhuman nobility, if the Ward family would still be considered as such for potentially having been established so long in the “new world”. (That they’re a political dynasty and their family home that burned down -- the first family home that burned down, in 1999 -- appears to have been situated near Plymouth, Massachusetts lend themselves to the idea of their being possibly one of those old American families that can trace its ancestry back to the Mayflower.)

Yes, but remember it was consistently Kara Lynn to suggest they just kill Bobbi and get it over with while Grant would continue to insist on more. And that was with somebody with no emotional value to him, who he literally just met in Episode 2.07, “The Writing on the Wall”. On top of which we can now start to observe through his kidnapping and “mentoring” of Werner Von Strucker how he could possibly model himself on John Garrett, who flat-out left him alone in the wilderness for six months after extracting him and who thereafter only intermittently checked in on him over the next five years while leaving only his dog Buddy for Grant’s company. And that’s not even getting into however many weeks or months between the end of Season 1 and Episode 2.06, “A Fractured House”, he was being illegally held by S.H.I.E.L.D. underground so he’s become accustomed to processing the idea of punishment through neglect or abandonment, and how much damage that does to a person psychologically. If he has the set-up for it somewhere he certainly has the patience. That and I just don’t see the motivation for Christian to keep away from his comfortable life just to play warden to his father and mother. He could easily find his way back and sell his sob story to the general public about how he was held against his will by Grant Ward after the fire killed their parents (anybody would believe him); unless of course he can’t because Grant is preventing him. And while he’s certainly an antagonist for the season I don’t see in him the makings of a strong villain. Not unless he ever gets to the point of losing everything like Grant did but that hasn’t happened. Also, Thomas was the brother inside the first Ward family home that burned down, in 1999, and not Christian though he and/or the parents was the possible target.