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motleyfam · 1 year
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Tim hardly ever wears seatbelts.
It’s not a conscious choice at this point really, he just never got into the habit. When he outgrew his last car seat at age five, his parents didn’t bother getting him a booster and just let him sit in the normal seat, so the belt always felt like it was cutting into his neck and he hated it. He put up a big fuss about it once on the way to some important event, and his parents just huffed, “Fine, don’t wear it then. Fly out the window for all I care” and that was that. They never forced him again.
He just so rarely has to wear one that it slips his mind. Buses don’t have seatbelts. Motorcycles don’t have seatbelts. The Batmobile has them, but they’re rarely used due to the necessity for split-second drop ins and getaways.
It’s not until he’s 17 and driving with Jason somewhere that he finally gets called out on it. Not only called out, but told in a no nonsense sort of way “This car ain’t moving till I hear a fucking click. What, did they stop showing ‘Red Asphalt’ in drivers ed while I was dead??”
(They do still show it. Tim just slept through that class)
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okayish-dependent · 2 months
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A lot of people like to characterize Manfred as an abusive parent who puts perfection above all else, to the point of micromanaging his kids lives' and while there's nothing wrong with that interpretation (It isn't at all out of character) I personally prefer to think of him as leaning more on the neglect side of the shitty-parenting-scale.
Manfred is know for being both ruthless and dedicated during his career as a prosecutor. He pours so much effort and passion and time into his work. Into being perfect. Canonically, he only ever took one vacation and that was out of absolutely necessity.
Work was his number one priority. I imagine that parenting would come second to all that.
I think Manfred probably spent long hours at the office, leaving Miles and Franziska home alone often. Burdening the two kids with the responsibility of caring for themselves and each other.
This would explain Franziska's whole...thing...really well, in my opinion.
Franziska grew up so quickly because she had no other choice. She was forced to look after herself. She had to be creative and resourceful to get her needs met. She had to become bold and violent in order to be noticed, because when she wasn't constantly announcing her presence, she was being ignored.
As for Miles, he probably got more attention than his sister but I imagine the kind of attention he got was mostly negative (Manfred telling him what he's doing wrong and needs to improve on) and very clinical. He taught Edgeworth how to prosecute and in doing so treated him more like an unruly pupil than a son.
Manfred never cared about Miles on a personal level. He didn't take an interest in the kid as a human being. To him, Miles Edgeworth was a means to an end.
Just like for Franziska, I think this kind of neglect would go a long way in explaining Edgeworth's behavior. He has so much trouble expressing his emotions (and feels embarrassed when he does manage to express them) because in a neglectful household having emotions and needs is treated as shameful. He has been taught that his feelings and hobbies and personal life are inconveniences at best which is why he goes out of his way to hide those things, even when he's an adult. This would also explain his approach to interacting with other people. If most of the time Edgeworth was alone (or with Manfred or Franziska) than it only makes sense that he'd start to feel detached from the others around him. That kind of thing can really deteriorate both a person's social skills and their compassion.
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When I was little my mom was busy a lot so she had her Garchomp be my nanny
I think I turned out pretty great tbh
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wri0thesley · 1 year
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cw: angst, illness, child neglect, starvation mention,
kaeya is very aware of how fragile the mortal condition is.
the way he grew up - always hiding, always running, the weight of not just a legacy, but being the saviour of that legacy on his back. never enough to eat, never easy access to knowledge or medication or anything of that sort, though his father did used to tell him about how khaenri'ah was once a hotbed of innovention and wisdom--
seeing people die next to him in cold hard parts of the abyss and teyvat and the wreckage of what should have been part of his inheritance. from perfectly ordinary things; a common cold turned into pneumonia, a body wracked by hunger pangs until it couldn't take it any longer, water that should have been pure and safe but simply was not.
he carries all of this inside of him like a ball of fear in his chest. he carried it inside of him in the dawn winery, when he was the second ragnvindr brother (with crepus practically forcing sweet treats and food down his skinny little throat, medicines and check-ups and doctors and murmurs that kaeya pretends he didn't hear about how if crepus didn't find him when he did, he probably would have been soon for celestia), when diluc caught a fever and kaeya sat by his bedside petrified that his newly found sibling would slip away like so many others had. when the maids he was used to seeing weren't there one morning and crepus said they were taking a day off, they were under the weater.
and he carries it inside of himself now, watching you when you're sick. oh, he covers it - he pokes at your hot cheeks and clicks his tongue at your sweaty forehead, pretends to be casual and joking when he says "oh, come on, now of all times? sweetheart, i've got things to do!". he brings you soup and medicines and pretends to be your nurse when he spoons it down your throat, winks at you, pretends that this is all water off a duck's back--
but you do not see how fear stoops his shoulders in the middle of the night as he sits next to you in bed, counting the seconds between your breaths, tensing when your chest rattles with a cough as he wonders is-this-it-are-they-going-to-leave-me-like-everyone-does. you do not hear his nightmares, your name on his lips as he wakes up from a dream in which he buries your lifeless body. you do not see that tightly woven knot of fear inside of him, because he keeps it hidden.
but he kisses your knuckles when you sleep and murmurs that he loves you, raw and real and open and honest in a way so few ever see - because a part of him, still, fears that this chill, this cold, this fever or illness . . . this will be it, and that kiss is the last one he'll ever give you.
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aita-blorbos · 8 months
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AITA for leaving my father and sisters?
For context me (M20) and my father’s (M50) relationship is pretty complicated. He borderline neglected me and my older sisters, leaving them to take care of me more than he ever did.
I recently met someone who we’ll call White (F14). White challenged the ideas that my father pushed onto me since a young age, the idea that animals should not be owned by humans, because most of the time they’re just going to get beaten and abused anyways. My father was soon arrested while White inspired me to leave my home country and start anew.
The part that I feel the worst about is leaving my sisters behind. They were always so sweet and caring, and I didn’t even think about at least informing them that I was leaving. They helped me in realizing that I was more than just a stepping stone in helping my father achieve his goal, a goal which is too sickening for me to want to talk about.
Apologies if this is short, vague or confusing. I don’t have all of the time in the world to write out a detailed explanation, though I will send up follow up asks to clarify anything (only if needed!).
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thedeafprophet · 1 month
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i really do think about like. The way the princess talks about being 'raised' in the honey in Reunion and acts of it being a good thing really just fucks me up a little bit because
that was neglect! that was bad! that was active endangerment! that was horrible treatment towards a child! and the implication here is that she was raised that same way
and i dont know if thats geniuenly what she believes. or if its what she came to believe, and has to believe.
idk i have the inclination to go 'ha she was probably really creepy as a child too' but then i think about the actual reality of her growing up and its just. eugh. especially conjected with her adult actions of seeming to not want to be alone in what she is..
obviously none of it comes close to excusing what she does or became, but it paints such a tragic story.
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reesegotnopieces · 1 month
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I just found your blog and I love your artwork!! I am super curious about your OC jared… and I wanna know about their story! I would also love to hear about relevant/connected OCs to jared if you want to share that too :^D
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𓃥 commissions | website | art trades ★
i thank you for asking ;_; and im greatful for the interest in my work/ocs!! As asked, here's jared, my beloved, a snippy of his lore on the left!!
A little more ive crafted is below the cut, more to come over time
🚷⚠️: murder, abse/neglect,
jumbled up, but:
His mother was his only form of support system throughout the years growing up , And after her murder as well as his father becoming growingly neglectful, he has issues forming relationships and being truly intimate with people.
The grandparents actually moved because they had suspicions foul play was going on, but they would soon meet their own demise once at that pool party- The father had a feeling they were onto him, setting up the murder for both of them in a way that heavily seemed as an accident, but it really wasn't ... and for the father, his motivator for all of this was money, money that Jared would almost never see until *his dad* actually ends up dying from anaphylactic shock, which Jared sat there and watched him suffer from- having the medicine right in his hand but not delivering
So now Jared owns the house, has a ridiculous amount of money but at the cost of his only , now dead, but abusive relative. Then Jordan comes into the picture, his one and only friend who he's held onto for what's noted down 12 years at this point, they've actually been friends through this whole affair, but it wasn't until Jared's dad finally had died more time was given for the two to spend time Every day Jared grows, but he has a lot of undiagnosed issues that continue to (in his eyes) Threaten the relationship of him and Jordan even though Jordan has made it abundantly clear that it would be extremely hard to get him to pry away from Jared, regardless if it's stemming from his crush on jar or not I like to think maybe his father had also coerced him into killing somebody, he was never able to fight through that guilt
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archivist-the-knight · 2 months
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does anyone know if we have the "parrels between tal and xiv" today. we do?? damn. gonna cry in a corner
anyway. thinking so hard about how xiv and tal.. tal has a loving mom, lived at a farm probably very close to a warzone, and likely was around a ton of different people, even if most of those people died. xiv had a neglectful father, lived in a tower closed off from civilization, and probably didn't know anyone except their father. (i personally hc that xiv was occasionally allowed to get out under supervision from their father to go to the nearby town, but. story for another time). tal grew up with people, and xiv grew up without.
and. man that has some evil interaction ideas? imagine xiv hearing tal talk about how much he loved his mama and all the different foods she'd make him and it just hammering in the fact that xiv's papa wasn't a good man. xiv envying tal because yeah. he mightve been surronded by bloodshed. but at least he had his momma. xiv had a Father.
but what about tal's side of things. Tal realizing xiv not-so-subtly grimacing at his stories about his mom and family. tal hearing xiv passing off stories of their "papa" abusing them and pretending like its fine.
Tal's blood boiling when he finds out what xiv's father did to them. He gets so goddamn mad and nearly goes into a rage because who the hell does that man think he is. he's gonna rip him to shreads when he sees him. how could he do that to someone so genuine as xiv??? how oculd he do that to his friend, nay, his sibling?? oooh it just pisses him off. when he gets back to his momma he's gonna ask her to cook her famous curry and he's gonna have xiv eat it because they deserve it. tal makes sure to hug xiv extra tight, give them extra food at mealtime, because he never wants them to feel like they did back when their father was around.
anyway anyone else having a normal o💥
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vekovoysoldat-a · 7 months
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GUEST MUSE.
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NAME : EZRA JAMES GRAYSON BARNES. AGE : verse dependent but usually ( 39 years old ) CAREER : former second generation S.W.A.T , now owns his own private security firm. PARENTS : Elizabeth Proctor and Harry Grayson. SIBLINGS : Winnifred Grayson , Sarah Grayson and Jacob Grayson. PSYCHOLOGICAL : ptsd, anxiety and depression. NICKNAMES : jamie , jj , jay.
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Jamie had a difficult and traumatic childhood - his father, addicted to opiates , rendered Jamie, his Mom and his siblings, homeless on countless occasions. He also had no problem putting his hands on his wife and kids when he was refused money to gamble. Jamie spent a lot of his time as a child protecting his mother and his siblings. he often relied on secret financial support from his grandmother , rebecca barnes - to hide enough money so that he could move out when he was eighteen. by the time Jamie hit eighteen, he decided he wasn't going to go the same way as his dad. he tried to persuade his mother to come with him when he left, and to bring his sisters and brother but she struggled to leave her husband. at ninteen , jamie dropped his legal name , ezra grayson and began to go by jamie barnes. he chose this because his middle name was given to him in honor of his grandmothers brother. james 'bucky' barnes was someone jamie grew up admiring. his tragic story of heroism motivated jamie to get out of the situation he and his family were stuck in. jamie went on to join LAPD S.W.A.T, a career he had for over twenty years until he quit after his partner on an operation was killed when things went bad and a fellow officer turned out to be corrupt. it was that moment , and other things before it that led jamie to make the decision he did. after that , he went from one job to another. when his grandmother died - she left him a good portion of inheritance and he used that to get himself settled and then built up his own private security firm in new york. by this point, he's no contact with his mother which means he doesn't get to see his siblings. this choice was made because he could no longer mentally intervene with what was going on. he tried. if his mother came to him for help , or his siblings , he wouldn't turn them away, however. shortly after the events of the 'civil war' , jamie goes looking for his great uncle. he wants to meet the man he was named after.
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PERSONALITY : jamie has a soft heart , but he's not a push over. he's rash at times, reckless and sometimes he can be over confident but he's not afraid to take risks to get the job done. he cares about the people around him - even if trust isn't his strong point by the time he's living in new york. MORE TBA.
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tierra-paldeana · 13 days
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For every “⏳” I receive, my muse will openly talk about a bit of their backstory.
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☠🌏– ''...The first time my parents didn't come back home for two days... I had to find my way to eat outside. I didn't have any money on me, and I didn't know how to cook that well. So... I simply... walked out of the house, and wandered around in the dark for some time.
That pond where my friends lived... It always brought me comfort. But that night... I just sat by it and hid my face between my arms.
I was feelin' so lonely... I dunno how to put it into words. I've never been stabbed, but I guess it's somethin' similar, yeah?''
She grabs her own arm a little as she says that.
''I just... I wanted to disappear so bad, suddenly. N' my friends were asleep, I didn't wanna bother them...
Well, all except for one, who came up to me all sleepy. He tried to get me to react, but the words wouldn't come out... I was feelin' damn miserable.
What I didn't expect was for him to go and wake up everyone else... And sooner rather than later, they... started gatherin' berries and bringin' them to me... heh.''
Her smile is a bit melancholic... but it is, nonetheless, a smile.
''Needless t'say... I slept among 'em that night. And the night after that...''
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Umm currently having a Vox and Velvette obsession do you have any headcanons for them hehe
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((Mostly for Vox, buuuuuut some for Velvette too.
Chronologically and physically the youngest of the Vees. Though physically not by much, she's still within the 30's-40's age range like they are
Velvette
Was unsurprisingly a fashion influencer in life. However she unfortunately started out as one of those child influencers her parents vicariously live through/make money off of.
Eventually killed her parents to finally escape them. To this day no one in the living realm caught on that she murdered them.
Died about 2015 when an obsessive fan sent her a trap package in retaliation for getting a boyfriend. Yes, really.
Gained a big following rather quickly on Hell's social media, catching Vox's attention.
After Vox pulled her into the Vees, she's the one that brought eyes to the boys' bigger projects, and often does photography and costuming for them.
Aside from the obvious knives, Velvette also wields a selfie stick. And man can she do damage with it.
Velvette cooks as a hobby, primarily baking. Sometimes posts food aesthetic pictures. The only people she cooks for are those she's fond of. Sort of a love language for her. She stopped cooking for Valentino, however, after an incident where online he insulted the cookies she made for him. Now he can only get a taste of her food by either persuading Vox to share, or otherwise stealing the food off him. Girl holds grudges.
Vox
Chronologically the oldest of the Vees, though physically a little older than Velvette and a little younger than Valentino.
Born and raised Catholic, though admittedly didn't have the attention span for Sunday School. He was essentially agnostic until he died.
Grew up reading comics, watching TV, and in general fucking around with any electronics in the house he could find rather than playing outside. He was neglected by his parents growing up and didn't really have any friends so yeah.
Always wanted to be in the film industry. He wanted to act in and make films. Unfortunately he only got as far as commercials and infomercials before he died. He was a pretty good salesman, though, so it suited him just fine. He got progressively more and more unethical in trying to sell the products and services he was advertising. Shaped up to be a real corporate shill.
Also. Drugs. So much drugs. He's just better at hiding this habit than most people.
Died in a studio accident where a light fixture fell on his head. Yes. Really.
Goes without saying Vox isn't his real name. But it wasn't his first Hell alias either.
Not only did he start out with the old boxy tv for a head, but he couldn't communicate vocally at first. You know silent films where after the talent "says" their lines, it cuts to a frame where we have to read the dialogue? Yeah he started out having to do that.
Now more machine than man, he works differently from other sinners. Rather than respawning when he dies, he needs to be repaired to come back. Even when he's been torn to pieces, all you can do is gather him up and put him back together. The only thing setting him apart from broken machines is that he does bleed when he's been hurt.
Aside from the ability to bleed, there are other occasions where his machine body functions like it's organic. Like if he's injecting something, he can treat his wires like veins.
Theoretically, he doesn't need to eat, but he does get hunger pangs if he doesn't, and eating does provide more power for his batteries.
I could go on and on about his anatomy and his relationship with it tbh but for now the most important one; he has a tail. Very Hellborn like but a cord with a plug at the end. It's how he charges, or stays powered on when he doesn't have battery. He just hides it under his clothes and wound around his waist [like a Saiyan] because he's gotten tired of some assholes tearing it off or fucking up the prongs. Why did I give him a tail? Because I saw someone edit him with one and now I want it to be canon fite me.
Made his start in Hell as an inventor and repairman. That's when he first met Alastor. Just dumped some broken equipment on him asking him to fix it. One time became semi regularly. After a little bit of that, Vox was taken under his wing.
Yes, thanks to Alastor, he has eaten "human" flesh. [Only in quotes cuz technically no one in Hell is human anymore.] He doesn't exactly hate it, like he wouldn't refuse it if it was cooked for him, but he doesn't seek it out either.
Alastor's cooking is also the reason why his white ass can handle spicy food-
Vox looked up to Alastor back then. The relationship was far from healthy, however.
By the time they split, Vox was an Overlord in his own right
Met Valentino a few years after the split. This relationship is also unhealthy but good luck getting Vox to realize that.
Essentially provides the platforms for the other Vees, and often time helps with video editing and sometimes get involved directly with the filming. Val learned all his film tricks from Vox.
Custom made the Vees' phones and set up Valentino's online accounts. With some bombass security.
And that's about it for now. Hope you like-))
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spurgie-cousin · 9 months
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There's a significant average age difference between the Collins and Rodrigues children and so I can understand the Collins' having more accidents comparatively (just because they're younger). Still, I have to agree with the other anon, I'm never worried Jill will deny her children the appropriate medical care like Karissa does.
ok i'm so sorry, i'm cleaning my inbox out and i don't remember what this was in reference too lol.
but yea i agree with you for the most part. jill may take a bunch of completely inappropriate pics every time her kids have to go to urgent care or the hospital, but at least she fuckin takes them immediately.
karissa literally won't take her kids until they're on death's door and that's not even an exaggeration. her baby (anthym) literally had sepsis from i think a UTI???? and moms in her comments are always commenting on the new baby's diaper and how full it looks (i am not familiar enough to know so i just take their word) and karissa doesn't even deny it. she said something recently like "they can wear it for longer than most people think and it saves diapers and time" like MA'AM are you really being this blatantly negligent????? your last baby almost dies from a UTI and you're putting your newest child in the perfect position to get one also?????????? she is frighteningly bad parent which is really saying something in the fundie realm.
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thedirectorofshield · 3 months
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here's the thing , tony disliking steve at the start makes so much sense when you think about it. howard idolised steve - so much so he changed when steve went missing. he became obsessed with steve , with finding him & this led to him canonically comparing tony to steve as he was growing up , pointing out how tony wasn't 'good enough' in his fathers eyes. tony grew to resent steve from an early age , it was never going to be an easy friendship , especially at the beginning because steve was a very real reminder of all the things tony wasn't , he was a reminder that tony was not good enough in howards eyes. yes this changes. tony grows to care about steve and he becomes one of his best friends ( or even more depending on the verse ) , but that resentment takes a while to die down and tony is always going to struggle with insecurities when it comes to steve.
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My wife lets her weezing and muk watch the baby when she is too tired and takes a nap. No accidents have happened so far so no harm no foul? Definitely not going to tell her that I let weavile watch him when I’m too tired though.
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mmaurysiek · 1 year
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so, more concept notes on the de-aged Carmilla fic
young Carmilla looks about 12-14yo to a human eye
still a vampire, still has a prosthetic eye - de-aging didn't inverse irreversible conditions; if it had, we all know what Jonny would do with that
the de-aging itself happens off-screen, by unspecified means
young Carmilla has no memory of the in-between events, but may suddenly remember stuff upon reaching the age when that memory had initially happened
the place where the de-aging had happened put young Carmilla in a local foster home
all Carmilla's emergency contacts are wanted by G-Pol, so none is used as intended
young Carmilla follows the trail of documentation, learning even more out-of-context detail about the future self than the penitentiary and foster systems divulged in the several years since the de-aging
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initially, Aurora responds to the correspondence the same way as to the earlier G-Pol's bait attempts
some detail convinces Aurora that this might be a real deal
Aurora talks it over with Nastya, Ashes, and Brian - and together they decide to check it out, with an expectation that it's another fake / bait attempt
it's not a fake / bait
young Carmilla essentially stowaways, on misconception that this is home & family
Aurora is no place for a child, even an immortal one
shenanigans ensue
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the crew doesn't find out all at once, and while they have different reactions, young Carmilla forms different "first" impressions
they keep forgetting that young Carmilla is a teenager, and young Carmilla is caught between having to personally figure out what's going on - and being expected to act like an adult self without knowing what that adult self would do - and getting pre-emptively threatened or buttered up by some crewmembers
almost nothing makes sense, but "at least" the "roles" of this dysfunctional found family are somewhat possible to figure out (Marius is having a field day >:D)
young Carmilla is also making very puzzling "self-"disoveries - does one's older self count as self, really?
young Carmilla overhears Ashes and Brian talking about leaving young Carmilla with Scuzz, amongst other things, which drives the sense of being unwanted closer to home than the thing where a lot of them have been obviously avoiding young Carmilla
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it's in that state of dynamic that their lot accidentally cross paths with a certain Doctor and younger Jonny, from back when it was just the two of them
the duo hitchhike on Aurora because they've had suddenly found themselves on the run from the authorities again, it's a subject of debate whose fault it was this time
the back-in-time Doctor Carmilla and younger Jonny seem to be getting along like a house on fire, to the consternation of most of the crew, who only knew them much later
shenanigans ensue
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(i'm very open to ideas and input)
also, here be some doodles:
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galaxofmuses · 5 months
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hey wren! can you tell us about your father?
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Send anons (or not ) about my muse's father. //Accepting!
Warning: Toxic Family, Trauma, Child Abuse, Child Neglect
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Wren froze at this question and takes a very deep breath.
"My dad wasn't good and he wasn't perfect either. Every day I tried to make him happy and he didn't care and neither did my mom." Biting his lip to try not to cry about this. This was a trauma that he had been repressing for years and there are times when even Sky gets worried about him.
"He never had a career and he always complains about my tails and how I talk too much and even throwing things at me and even at my mom and....and....I just...."
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"I just want him to love me.....and I ended up I getting abandoned instead...."
He couldn't hold back the tears any longer and just sobs for a good minute or two, it just felt like an eternity for him. Wiping away the tears and man he really needed that.
"I know they're out there and I don't want to meet them...."
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