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rainbowxsyn · 2 months
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Chapter 8 (Final Chapter)
It's finally here!! The final chapter is out now, go read plsplspls <3
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Cooking By The Book
So, as it turns out, Bobby and Elena actually can't cook. But at least now Bobby gets to hang out with Liam, right?
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lazyasexual · 26 days
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Fans of DOAFP can I be honest? I prefer CJ and Bobby over Liam and Bobby; might be 'cause I really like CJ as a charachter, but I think they really work well together and I think it would be a shame to do all that build up to their relationship, to then break them up
(Maybe, if I have time, I'll write a fic about them)
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localspacelesbian · 3 months
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10, 40, and 50?
10. Do you work on multiple wips or stick to one fic at a time?
well, there are currently 75 docs in my wips folder, and i am currently actively working on about 20 of them, so...
40. What is your favorite world that you’ve created for a fic?
i think the closest thing to a world that i created myself is the one from my andi mack/hsmtmts/doafp superhero au (when you need somebody) which was pretty fun, but it's been a hot minute since i've looked at that (and i know it's not finished, i'm sorry)
but there's also my julie and the phantoms hannah montana au (i got the music), which i would love to go back to some day if my jatp hyperfixation get reignited
i think the one i've done the most with (at least lately) is my current merlin au where merlin is a god (thank you, emrys), which isn't really a completely new world, but i have changed a lot as i've expanded on merlin's powers and how they affect the world around him and also just changed some things i didn't like about canon because these character deserve to be at least somewhat happy lol (and someone complimented my world building in this fic once, and i almost cried, so...)
50. How would you describe your writing style?
i genuinely have no idea
i guess i kind of just write the same way i talk? if that means anything?
fanfic writing asks
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It’s been a long ass time since I’ve posted here, and I doubt anyone is favorable to seeing that I’ve only come up with content several months after saying I would, but uhhhh life sucked for a while, but I’ve been thinking abt watching doafp again and then I read a fic from a different fandom that inspired me and now im here. Soooo tentative tiny snippet I wrote abt Cartero after the season 2 finale?? It doesn’t go anywhere, and I don’t know if it well yet, but I happen to like it quite a bit :)
He hasn’t been this close to Liam since last year. He had wrapped himself up so completely in trying to stay away—To put a margin of distance between them till he could trust himself to not want to reach out and touch. To not put a hand on his shoulder, or thread his arm through Liam’s, or smooth out a crinkle between his eyebrows. Because CJ was right there, and made him feel perfectly lovely and wanted every time they kissed and it was horrible to want so immensely for something that wasn’t him.
It had felt better for a while. Felt like breathing for a couple of weeks, because he found himself enveloped in CJ’s easy affection and his smooth words and his dark, meaningful eyes. He liked, could love, CJ. It felt like a revelation to be with him in a way that didn’t feel slightly inauthentic or uncertain or tucked into a pocket of time where Bobby kept trying to remind himself to stay on this side of friendly.
— This is it!! There’s more I wrote after this but I lost the thread a bit afterwards and I don’t know if I like it entirely so it’s not here
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secretly-of-course · 1 year
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sorry to keep complaining on main but I need to vent about this
I’m just. So Upset. about this whole leak situation.
I’ve tried blocking tags. I’ve tried blocking people. I haven’t opened pinterest or youtube in two days. And it’s still not enough. I still have seen spoilers. Maybe not as many as I would have had I not taken those precautions, but still enough.
And I feel like I’m (and as I’m sure everyone else is) at such a crossroads because like. Now I have to make the decision of watching the leaked episode and not say a word about it or not watching it and risk getting even more spoiled? It’s only been two days how are any of us supposed to last two weeks? Am I just supposed to not go online for two entire weeks? What am I? A cavewoman? As much respect as I have for people who are capable of that I’m too weak-willed for that.
I saw a screenshot of a moment I know would have squealed at in delight had I seen it live, and instead it just made me way to throw up. One thing about me is I hate knowing other people are watching and enjoying something while I am missing out. You know, when Hollow Mind aired I had to work that day, so I set my alarm for 5:30 AM just so I could watch it and react to it before going to work and I was freaking happy to do so.
On the flip-side, when DOAFP season 2 aired I only got through an episode and a half before our internet completely shit the bed. I was so upset that I cried. It took 2 days to fix and when I finally got to see the episodes and got back online to talk about it, it felt like the hype on tumblr had completely died down already and I had missed it. That was 2 days, how is 2 weeks going to effect this fandom?
I was so excited to see this episode, and now my excitement has been completely ruined. I was literally talking to my therapist on Tuesday how I feel I have been so much better mentally recently than I was a year ago, largely in part due to having toh to focus on and the new episode to look forward to. And I know, I know. I knew from the beginning that staking so much of my mental health on one show was a bad idea but frick I couldn’t help it. I haven’t cried yet but man I’m getting close. I already laid face down on the floor a while. Is this a healthy reaction? No. But what else am I supposed to do. I’m trying so hard to remain optimistic, to tell myself that I don’t know the whole story and there will still be surprises, but the truth of the matter is I’m not excited for this episode now and that’s fucking sad.
We should be making theories right now. We should be writing fics and drawing art. We should be rewatching the previous episodes in preparation. And instead we’re fucking dodging leaks left and right.
I wanted so badly to finish my Gus x Matty reunion comic before ftf aired and that’s just been ruined for me. I was even hoping I might have time to do a Hunter x Willow comic too and it just feels pointless now. I am trying so hard to focus on drawing my comic and writing my Steve x Katya fic and I’m just struggling to focus on any of it because I’m too upset. And it sucks because I know if I’m not careful I could easily slip into a creative block again like I was exactly a year ago before toh altered my brain chemistry. I don’t want to go back to being depressed and uninspired like that again.
I don’t know what to do really. I know everyone in the fandom is going through the same thing, I just had to get my thoughts out, even though they are very self-centered. I just don’t know.
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luperael · 1 year
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Its official. I have read almost every doafp fic in under 2 days
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kippenscore · 4 years
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The patron saint of the questions you already know the answer to:
Bobby Cañero-Reed is not a talkative person. He usually doesn’t actively seek advice either: he doesn’t ask his mom if the acne that he now has on his back is normal, he doesn’t ask his teachers about the homework he doesn’t understand, and he actually never asks Elena to review his literature homework, she just does it on her own.
So, when that question that doesn't let him sleep at night keeps popping up into his head, he does what he always does instead of asking someone: He turns to Google.
(Read on ao3)
Bobby Cañero-Reed is not a talkative person. He is not like his sister Elena, who can say a thousand words a minute and who Bobby doesn’t understand half the time, and he is also not like his mom, who can spend hours at the phone with Camila ─well, now that he thinks about it, that is probably Camila’s fault─.
He is happy with silence, he doesn’t feel the need to fill it with words. For example, when Sam suddenly appears in their life, he doesn’t need to have lengthy conversations with him, he just nods at him every morning and asks for more of those amazing eggs; or when he has to wait for his mom to pick him up at Camila’s house, he doesn’t find necessary to talk about his day, he is happy to just play videogames with Danielle, the majority of talking being trashtalking each other from time to time.
He usually doesn’t actively seek advice either. He doesn’t ask his mom if the acne that he now has on his back is normal, he doesn’t ask his teachers about the homework he doesn’t understand, and he actually never asks Elena to review his literature homework, she just does it on her own. It’s honestly scary how well she knows his assignment submission schedule.
So, when that pesky question that doesn't let him sleep at night keeps popping up into his head, he does what he always does instead of asking someone: He turns to Google.
One night, once he is sure that no one is going to barge into his room unannounced he takes his laptop and opens a new tab. He starts writing in the search bar:
«How to know if─»
No, that’s not it. He erases what he just wrote and breathes deeply, trying to find the correct words.
«What does it mean that─»
He shakes his head and erases it again. Words have never been his forte. He is not like his mom, capable of twisting and turning all the words he uses against him in a second ─having a lawyer mother is actually not that cool when she uses it to her advantage when arguing about the chores he has to do─. And again, he is nothing like Elena, who can find the meaning the author intended in every piece of literature, who understands all the metaphors and allegories and whatever.
After a few minutes of pondering, google staring back at him, his fingers hovering over the keyboard, he finally writes: «Am I gay?»
He is never been interested on the trivialities of words, on mulling over for too long, he has always been more of a man ─okay, a boy─ of action. So, he just breathes deeply, and presses enter.
He scrolls through the professional, informed-looking links to the renowned organizations’ webpages until he finds the link to a shoddy web that promises him to uncover his sexual preference in 30 seconds or less with their infallible quiz.
Well, that sounds good.
Bobby presses enter and starts answering the quiz to the best of his ability. Honestly, he doesn’t know that much about Beyoncé to answer some of the questions, and he also doesn’t know which answer he should choose as his drink of choice because he is fourteen years old, but he tries his best.
His heart starts beating a little quicker, like the fly of a hummingbird, when he is finally done and presses the finish button to see the result before he can think too much about it.
«You are not gay!» the test informs him cheerily with flashing words and a gif of a dog he is not exactly sure how he should interpret.
Bobby feels his eyes widen slightly “What?”
This isn’t the answer he was waiting for. Well, no. To be honest, he is not sure what he was waiting for. How would he have reacted if the test had told him that he is gay?
He goes back to the beginning of the test and starts again, choosing the answers carefully.
When he finds himself reading one of the questions for the fourth time is when he realizes that what he is doing is stupid. Choosing carefully for what? What is he trying to do exactly?
Bobby closes his laptop shut and throws it to the other side of his bed. God, this is crazy, he thinks, while running his hand through his hair.
He needs to chill. He needs to stop overthinking everything, let himself just be. What he needs to do is─
He needs to trust the process. Yeah, trust the universe, stop thinking about it, give it time, or whatever.
Sure.
That is what he will do.
He looks askance at his laptop, lying on the other side of the bed. He extends his arm, reaching for the laptop before stopping himself. No, he is not doing this, come on.
Less than a minute later, he is back on the search engine:
«How to know if you like your friend»
He skims through a few of the pages google shows him, but all the advice is bullshit. There is nothing that can help him distinguish if what he feels for Liam ─the stuff he feels─ is normal between friends or if it means something more.
After reading through the entire fifth webpage is when he realizes why none of the advice applies to his situation.
Everything is about a boy and a girl.
He opens google again. His fingers hover over the keyboard, hesitant. He doesn’t even know how to word his question.
«How do you know if you like your guy best friend and you are guy»
Again, not a single website is useful. The advice is too general, and everything he reads is mostly reassurance about his sexuality, and websites assuring him again and again that falling for a best friend is the most common way to discover your sexuality.
Great. Now, in top of everything, turns out he is a cliché.
He closes the tab and looks to the ceiling, pushing his tongue against the roof of his mouth. Once he is alone in his room, when the silence is as loud as it is right now, it’s easier to admit that maybe, possibly, he likes Liam, no matter what quizzes and advice websites say.
But it’s still complicated, a complete murky mess in his brain. What if he is wrong? He doesn’t know how liking someone should feel. He wonders if the fact that he never felt the way he feels with Liam when he was with Monyca means something. He also wonders if the way he feels about Liam is the way Danielle felt when he met Camila. What he is sure about, though, is that he definitely doesn’t feel about Liam like Elena feels about that kid she likes, Joey Feldstein or whatever his name is.
Suddenly, his phone vibrates at his side and when Bobby grabs it, he nearly drops it back when he sees it’s Liam facetiming him.
"Hey" Liam says on his screen, once Bobby manages to stop freaking out and actually answer the call.
Bobby swallows awkwardly “Hey, what’s up?”
"Dude, I've been thinking about something” Liam says and Bobby’s heart stops. Flat out stops. He is not sure how long someone can stay alive without a heartbeat, but he is going to discover it now.
“I’m not sure that sweet potatoes fit with the trifecta" Liam says finally. Bobby’s heart slowly restarts again.
"Oh” he chuckles, too nervous to do something else. “Yeah. Too sweet between the salty"
"Oh my God, yeah” Liam laughs, and Bobby fixes his gaze on the poster on his wall, too worried about his eyes being too honest if he keeps looking at Liam “I have been meaning to tell you"
"You can tell me everything” Bobby says and immediately after that, he freezes. If he was trying not to be too obvious, well, he has already messed up.
However, Liam just smiles at him, oblivious to everything in Bobby’s head, his eyes crinkling slightly.
"You too, man”
Because, even if he doesn’t wax poetic about Liam's eyes like Elena does with Joey's, Bobby knows he feels something special with Liam, something he had never felt before, something that makes his stomach flutter and his mind go into overdrive.
And for someone who uses the word so much, Bobby Cañero-Reed is not chill at all. He panics easily, he overthinks some things and underthink others, and sometimes he feels a weird anger he doesn’t know how to control bubble inside him.
But Liam ─with his easy smile and his reassuring voice─ calms him down, makes everything go quiet inside him, in a way nothing and no one else can.
“Oh, by the way,” Liam says, eyes shining with a smile “I’ve finally finished level ten of Triton "
Bobby feels his stomach do a somersault when Liam smiles at him that way ─playful and lightly, light-hearted and nerve-wracking at the same time─.
“Really? How did you do it?” Bobby asks, suddenly sitting upright on his bed.
Liam laughs, and Bobby’s stomach strikes again, a fluttering inside him he had never felt before. He is still not sure if that has something to do with the stuff he feels, if that means he likes likes Liam.
Because, again, he is definitely not feeling all the emotions that Elena puts so eloquently into words when he talks about that kid in his class she likes so much. Unlike Elena, Bobby has no fancy words to describe Liam’s eyes ─they are dark brown, that’s all─, and he is not even sure what the clammy hands and stuttering every time Liam is a little bit too close mean, he can’t find the words to describe the emotions he feels, all the fluttery feelings inside him.
But he is already established that he is not Elena, and Liam, thank God, is not Joey Feldstein.
So, he is just going to carry on. As long as Liam is at his side ─playing tennis, eating too much of the trifecta of fries, planning pranks and just messing around─, he doesn’t care how long it takes to find the correct words, to completely understand what he is feeling.
It's a whole process anyway.
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angstyphantoms · 2 years
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Did anyone else see jatp trending and get really excited cause you though it was renewed
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swingset-sunset · 4 years
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how to make me combust reading your fic in 2 words
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the fact that doafp only has two (2!) f/f fics on ao3 …… besties that’s only 3% of our total fics!
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rainbowxsyn · 4 months
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Chapter 7
I’m alive and so is chapter 7! It was like, 90% written literally this entire time and i just never finished the final scene to ever post it lol, but here it is now. Chapter 8 shouuuld be the final one, so stay tuned!
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freshlybakedfandoms · 2 years
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always here for you
a doafp fic. this was written before s2 so like. yeah. yeah.
bobby comes out to some of the most important people in his life.
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litrallytyrus · 2 years
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for the spotify wrapped thing
10, 38, 76, 90 !!!
OMG TY BONK
10. “haunt you” by x lovers (feat. chloe moriondo)
38. “nice to see you” by vansire
76. “when we’re human” from the princess and the frog soundtrack LMAO 😭
90. “rly don’t care” by chloe moriondo
VERY COOL && GOOD SONGS!
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localspacelesbian · 1 year
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hii just wanted to say i absolutely love your doafp/andi mack/hsmtmts crossover fic, it's one of my very favorites <3
aw thank you
I keep meaning to go back to that fic and finish it, but it's been hard to find the motivation, so I really appreciate you saying this <3
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kris-p-banana-bread · 3 years
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Here DOAFP fandom, have some organic, locally-sourced, home-grown pain. This is basically just me, a scarred older sibling, projecting on Bobby, another scarred older sibling. I really reached into my post-loss psyche for this, so I hope you enjoy the headcanons and meta (AKA I hope you shed at least one tear).
It won’t let me link it here so the post that inspired this is under the read more at the bottom ✨
- When I first watched doafp, I couldn't understand Elena's aversion to Sam becoming a prominent figure in her mom's and her life. Now I understand it almost too perfectly. There was never supposed to be someone after Robert. He and Gabi were deeply in love and happy. Robert was it; he was the first and true love of Gabi's life. Sam showing up probably felt like a huge and utterly disrespectful slap in the face of Robert's memory, because he wasn't even supposed to be there. I don't know if that's as eloquent as I wish it was, or if it makes sense, and it probably sounds really mean to Sam, but it's not even really about him. It was always supposed to be Robert; Sam hasn’t earned the right to be apart of or associated with her family
- After Robert dies, Gabi and Bobby make it a habit to find and keep photos and recordings/videos of Robert, even if the latter only has him saying one sentence. They won't make Elena join them for the search, but after they find some of those old audios of Robert, they'll sometimes play them back for little Elena
- Bobby put up the keep out sign (I credit this to a few other blogs for discussing this tho) because that's where he would cry sometimes. He actually used to be pretty close with Elena, but after he put up that sign and started distancing himself from them a bit so they wouldn't see the times he cracked, he got a little more short and jaded with her. It's that, plus just growing into a teenager and stuff. And I'm not saying that he and Elena have a bad relationship, but he's become more snappy and has more walls up than he used to
- Sometimes Elena feels bad because she doesn't always remember her dad's voice. She was pretty young when he died, so even though she recalls it a bit, and the recordings help, it's been a while since she's talked to him in person, so of course she doesn't quite remember what it's like to actually talk to Robert and she's forgotten some of his mannerisms. She likes to think she's all done (she marked the stages down in her grief journal after all) but grief isn't linear or all that rational, so it hits her hard sometimes
- I keep reading as an action close to my heart because that's a strong bond me and my mom shared. She would rec books to me, and we would joke and talk about them, or she would hint to some future event and then refuse to tell me until I caught up to that part. So Elena and Bobby do something similar in their grief. Elena has writing and words, because that's something Robert loved if I remember correctly (but if I’m not and that’s not canon, then I now declare it so) and Bobby has tennis. But besides tennis (I sent a couple anons to @freshlybakedfandoms about it but I'm not sure where she went) Bobby also was taught to play guitar by Robert (I liken it to Devi Vishwakumar and her harp) so when he misses his dad or is just sad, he'll take out his dad's old acoustic and strum
- (This next one is something I also think a lot about so this is pretty much 98% projection) Bobby thinks sometimes about the fact that he was never able to come out to his dad. He hadn't really started growing into that part of himself yet, and he never got to show it to his father. He wonders what he would have thought of him. Would he be angry? Would he dismiss him and say it was just a phase? Bobby didn't think so, but a little part of him insisted that you could never be too sure. After he comes out, Gabi and Cami assure him that Robert would've been so proud of him and would've loved him regardless (Since we know virtually nothing about him, I maintain that Robert was one of those dads who teases their kid relentlessly about their crushes and I think he would've done that with Bobby and eventually Elena)
- When Elena's quince rolls around (if she chooses to have one of course), Sam dances with her during the father-daughter dance. A part of her still hurts, still aches and wishes that Robert were dancing with her too; still knows on some fundamental level that he and Gabi had planned for this day, but he had simply never made it. But she's known Sam long enough that she feels comfortable here. Nobody can replace Robert, but Sam is her family, and it feels right like this.
- I might do some more research and deliberate, but for the moment I'm saying that Robert had cancer, I’m thinking along the lines of colon. My mom was terminal, but idk if I should make Robert terminal? Maybe towards the end. Or maybe he was diagnosed as incurable early on but Gabi kept it from the kids because, tbh, being told your parent is balancing on that kind of edge is traumatic for them. So anyways, I’m going on that assumption for this last point, and I’ll see if I can recover some of my old knowledge and talk about technical stuff later if anybody would like to hear it
- Elena and Bobby were both pretty young. Bobby understood about PET scans and tests somewhat, and knew generally what different answers from doctors meant. Elena mainly just understood what was happening by reading her parents' and brother's expressions when getting lab results in from the doctor. They both remember on some level what it was like when Gabi would leave the kids with Cami and take Robert out to the car (later she would have to help him) and they would all feel like they were holding their breath until they got back and confirmed that everything was ok (and later, the little shocks of fear when the answers were no longer as positive and there was more apprehension and risks. After all, cancer doesn’t deal in absolutes)
- Bobby can still remember Robert when he had to stop walking around a lot. He still remembers the phone call that Cami got from his mom, saying that something had gone wrong, and if this last treatment didn’t work, he wouldn’t have much time before he passed. Still remembers Cami rushing into a room when she got that call, and trying to hide what was happening until Gabi could get home and explain it; but Bobby was a sharp kid believe it or not. He heard about the treatment, heard Cami crying. He still had hope... but when Robert came home in a gurney, when he could barely stay awake sometimes, when his voice was quiet and his skin was a little jaundiced, Bobby felt incredibly empty. But Robert always had a smile for his wife and his beautiful kids, even if it was small and very tired, his eyes still crinkled the same. He always had a smile; right up until they had to say goodnight and get some sleep one night. And then... he passed.
- After he passed, the Cañero-Reeds needed help, and a lot of Gabi’s coworkers would bring food or materials if they were running low. Cami and Danielle would babysit and would distract the kids when Gabi needed a good cry.
- Like you’d imagine, and because of what is sort of implied in canon and in my own head, the kids dealt with it in different ways. Bobby put up that sign, and withdrew. He wasn’t awful, but his patience with certain people got a bit shorter and he was a bit quieter. And he was a really good helper when he had the energy and he cared deeply, but he would sometimes get physically and emotionally exhausted after helping Gabi/Elena/Cami/anybody else with something and would go into his room or mentally tap out to recharge. He took comfort in things that seemed natural and that he sometimes took for granted before, like video games and skateboarding (hehe bobby skateboards. Anybody second me on this?) and clothes etc... and other stuff. A lot of materialistic things or experiences that he would skip out on before. But they bring normalcy back to his life now so he loves them for that.
- Bobby doesn’t wanna think about big themes or anything anymore, which I can’t remember but I think it was Vi (freshlybakedfandoms, again, idk where she is and I hope she’s ok) who said he was a math and science person and I think that as much as that could transfer over to those subjects as well, it’s much harder to avoid existential and emotional themes in English and History class and Bobby doesn’t like it as much as Elena does for that reason. He had to live with the back and forth of his dad’s treatments and tests, so math and science is comforting because it’s more concrete (There could be a million arguments for why he would distrust math and science because of his dad’s passing though, I realize) Ultimately, though, it reminds him of Robert too much.
- On the other hand, after a period of shock and confusion, Elena threw herself into new things. First it was a grief journal, to make sure she was going through the motions. Then she read a lot, and when she felt too alone or like she wasn’t doing enough, like she was stagnant, she’d just find something to focus and persevere on again. That feels like her personality type to me; something is wrong so let’s fix it right away. But that could also transfer sort of negatively into “Something feels off or I’m very sad, let’s get this thing done and be productive so we can put off having to confront that but at least we get work out of it” but I could be entirely wrong (this is based off some of my family members and how they dealt with the loss.) And Elena throws herself into history and english because her dad loved it, and she wants to remember more of him. Because she believes words have power and history is a lesson and that’s incredibly interesting for her
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