#yet she chooses to hang around older folks instead. her best friends are like. kuma leder bronson lucas

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abelle fucks me up cuz she's really childish for her age (17), but she only seems so young 'cause everyone around her had to grow up far too fast in comparison. she's this bright-eyed, peppy, curiously tough and strangely fragile little thing, surrounded by weary old souls. these successive generations of deeply traumatized people worked together to finally create a world where kids like her get to actually live out their full childhoods, enjoy their youth, experience life at a healthy pace. and they're all committed to preserving that peace, for the sake of the future generations she embodies.

on the flipside, though, there's this disconnect where she can't comprehend trauma the same way as the rest of her community. the horrors they were all forged in are utterly foreign to her, and it does make her feel somewhat alienated. a young historian who's always running up against this brick wall, she wants more than anything to truly understand what the world before her was like, on a visceral personal level - but she simply can't. much to her frustration, some of her loved ones even tell her it's a good thing that she can't. they all saw to it that she wouldn't have to. she's trying to shine a light on the past, preserve it, glean as much as she can from it. but it always feels so distant to her. something she'll never quite touch with her own hands.

(and then when she does get herself deliberately involved in something both Old and Traumatic, of course, it turns out she can hardly stomach it after all 🙃)

#guy goes on and on about his own gerbil-sized fancharacter #holding her in one cupped hand #osha's eleven #realizing by this point there are probably loads of other kids her age or younger she could be rockin out with back home #yet she chooses to hang around older folks instead. her best friends are like. kuma leder bronson lucas #i crafted her whole character to represent “the future” and stand in for all potential kids that might've been born into a postgame world #but deep down she probably feels like she doesn't quite fit in with either generation. ah 😢 #millennial-zoomer cusper here myself 👋 hi