Sweetheart frequently has unheroic thoughts.
That's what she calls them to be a comfortable level of vague. These thought range vastly from weird little ponders to malicious wishes. Things her brain just conjures up while she dealing with reality.
She doesn't feel comfortable talking about these thoughts to anyone but her boyfriend and their best friends. And even then, certain thoughts are limited to just Bitterbat as he's the closest person she has and he comes from a rather fucked up background. He would never judge her and he keeps her grounded with reminding her that her thoughts aren't her.
Which is true, her bad thoughts aren't her.
The desires she has for Decking City to get destroyed are just products of her being drained from a long day of heroics, only to have another problem only she can deal with rear its ugly head.
The wishes she has to rampage through the city itself as one of the Strangers are just her wishing she could break some rules. Stress from staying within the lines and the desire to cross them.
She doesn't hate being a hero but one of her ever passing thoughts is that she is just forcing herself to be one. It's not true but it's a thought that pops up with all the negative opinions about her online. A 20-something year old magical girl obviously has to hate her job somewhat. Who could love being in such bright frilly clothing for long periods of the day? Constantly having a smile on her face as she faces the civilians of the city has to make her mouth sore. And GOD, all that pink has to be bad for the psyche.
Sweetheart loves being Charmed though. She doesn't regret her decision to keep going when all her teammates had retired. And the constant optimism can get a bit much sometimes but she truly does prefer it over all the pessimism littered about the internet.
She's good at filtering out her bad thoughts from her good ones. Her evil ones from the real ones.
Bitterbat helps tremendously with his "Devil on the shoulder" act. He always proposes some over the top stunt to her and she shoots him down immediately. Even when he pokes and pries and gives her puppy eyes, she stands her ground.
She reminds herself that if her bad thoughts were really her, she would have greenlit one of Bitterbat's more destructive schemes. Her lack of hesitation to tell him no is a sign she's really a good person.
But her bad thoughts continue to return. And she continues to fight them off. Either by distracting herself from them or by talking them out.
It's a common symptom of being a hero where one's mind is so focused on doing good deeds and being a good person that there's a pile up of all the nastier thoughts in one's head. It's why the Decking Defense Force has a free therapy program for its heroes.
It's one way to keep them mentally healthy as well as keep the city safe from anyone snapping.
When you have a city's main defense be the superpowered citizens within it, you have to make sure said citizens aren't on the path to becoming a threat. The force doesn't like to look at its mental health program like that as it was genuinely founded to keep its heroes healthy in a job that many have no one else to talk to about their problems due to having secret identities. But the program is a "two birds one stone" situation, whether anyone wants to say so or not.
Sweetheart frequently shares these thoughts she has during her sessions but only the parts unrelated to Bitterbat...at least in the romantic sense.
She can tell her therapist about her wishes for Bitterbat to win a fight for once and destroy the city. But she can't tell them about how much happier she'd be as his Queen or how much she'd love to destroy the city alongside him.
And she knows if she tells Bitterbat any of the latter, there would be no stopping him from finally going on that rampage he keeps hyping up and whisking her away to Umbra. She only feeds him bitesize pieces of the thought. She tells him being a queen would probably be nicer than being a hero. And how much fun he looks like he's having when he's busting up the streets. But she makes sure to keep them spaced out and as playful little jokes.
Sweetheart knows Bitterbat can read thoughts and emotions. She knows he knows how she truly feels. She knows he knows she's holding back on what she truly wants to say. But he knows that it'd be cheating to act just from filling in the blanks. He restrains himself to only act if she explicitly says her thoughts. The thoughts he has been explicitly reading.
It's a strange powerplay between them that neither really minds. A constant struggle between good and evil but shrunk down to their relationship. They're used to this struggle though as it makes life a bit more fun, knowing the other is the only thing holding them back.
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