#tagging Tim Drake because iykyk

[anna-no-emma]

so just a reminder that this sneak-him-sedatives-because-he's-sleep-deprived is foul actually. like it's taking away their agency. and imagine if the person slipping them drugs didn't have 'good intentions', we'd be mad. and imagine of the drug slipper had a whack idea of sleep deprivation, like only getting five hours of sleep is dire to them as opposed to just something everyone needs to be vaguely aware of? or the person being slipped drugs was doing something deeply important to them, that possibly has a looming deadline, or they know they just aren't going to be able to finish properly if they take a break right now. And maybe they fully plan, and have put the time aside, to pass out for 24 hours as soon as they don't feel this desperate ache to create?

and you can be like 'oh these are the persons bestest friends who know everything about them and would never do anything to hurt them so it's okay'...then you've clearly never had a bully friend who did know everything about you and used it to belittle you while believing they were helping you. And you both genuinely believed you loved each other.

and can you imagine what being slipped sedatives would do to a person? they'd never trust food or drink again. hell, they'd probably never really go back to trusting you again.

And it is okay if the person is actively hurting themselves or others, as in bodily harm, but then you have to be prepared for them to never really trust you again. it's not going to be 'uwu, thank you so much for helping me, i see the errors of my ways. love you forever and will never look at a drink you give me with suspicion.' it's going to be, at best, 'i understand why you did it, and i probably would have done it too. but jesus christ, why did it have to be you? i'll never really trust you the same, not the way i did before'.

and like the only way this situation is okay is if the person had previously said, while in a balanced headspace, 'hey, if i get to that place where i won't sleep please slip me a sedative' then it's all good. that's fine. but otherwise...what are we doing here?