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the torna kids!

[vreemdkermithebatman]

has this been done yet

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Catching up on 20 years worth of gossip

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"Holding your hand doesn't have to mean that I accept your friendship," the liar said to the truthful, trying to lie in front of the only person who understands his intentions.

He knows, of course, that the liar did not lie. For the liar is also the truthful.

[gali-in-distress]

Been thinking about this for a long time:

David and Crystal's relationship as a very straightforward metaphor for abuse, sexual assault and grooming (and other things of the sort).

I think that we can all agree that David is basically a loser, but, he's in a position of power from the start. Much like an older man who can't get his peers to like him, David goes to a younger, impressionable human girl who will find him interesting, cool, mature, because he's a Demon.

When it comes to demons in general, he appears to be just a nobody, but to Crystal he's THE demon. He feeds her ego with this idea that she's special, so much better than the other girls, because she's a psychic. And only he can help her reach her full potential.

David encourages the worst parts of Crystal, according to him she's mean and evil and powerful. Nobody else will understand her, nobody else will love her, she's above humans, and so is he. He is awful, yes, but so is she. So they deserve each other, right?

Taking a page out of the Abuser 101 Guide Book, David doesn't believe in consent. Under that web of lies and manipulation, Crystal agrees to being possessed, but she doesn't get to back off after that. That logic rings familiar for a reason. It is very easy to blame Crystal for letting a Demon posses her. But at the end of the day, she's just a teenage girl who told her manipulative, more powerful boyfriend, to use her body once, only for him to change the terms of the original agreement. Consent is an ongoing thing. You should be able to take it back at any point. But David didn't let her. Is it her fault for saying Yes one time, if she wasn't allowed to say no after that?

Like many trauma survivors, Crystal doesn't get to remember much of what happened to her, good or bad. David took her identity. She only has her abusive ex's version of events to go off. He manipulates the narrative, selectively shows her the pieces of the story that support the argument that she's bad and Just Like Him. The version of her that has no family, no real friends, no support, no one to talk to but her toxic boyfriend.

That's the version that he can control. The one he has power over.

But we know that that's probably not all there is to her. In Emma's memories, Crystal is a kind, funny friend. When the possession happens the change is so alarming that Emma feels the need to ask for help. Furthermore, once she's removed from her toxic environment, Crystal's actions speak of kindness, of sympathy and wanting to help others. She's flawed like everyone else, she's hurt and she's witty and opinionated (which are not bad things). But at her core, she's not a bad person, like David wants her to think.

The effect David has on her is evident. Her life, her relationships and her self perceptions are marked with his abuse from then on.

He harassed her to the point where she was forced to give up a great part of her identity in order to get rid of him. She had already lost her memories, but then she loses her psychic abilities, her talent, her skill, what she feels gives her the right to be useful, to have a place within her new friends. Something that she's ashamed and scared of having lost. And something we then find out is deeply connected to her identity as a black woman and her heritage.

Losing a crucial part of yourself because it's been tainted by pain and fear because of an abusive partner is something that many people go through.

Crystal, due to the damage David has caused, can't trust men in her life anymore. She's hyper aware of any possible sign of danger. She gets cornered by the fear of possibly making the same mistake again. She snaps at the people she cares about, she sees demons where they aren't. If that isn't a sign of trauma, I don't know what is.

Crystal is a clear representation of what could happen to a person when they're emotionally neglected by the people that matter. She's brought up in an environment that pushes her to be self-assertive and independent. But at the end of the day, she's just a teenage girl, so she's vulnerable to the influence of others.

David took advantage of a girl who had little to no guidance, who probably always felt different due to being a psychic. He presents himself as a cool, interesting, sexy guy who claimed to understand her on a level that no one else had before. But ultimately, he's just some loser guy who had to go find a vulnerable girl to pray on, because he wasn't cool enough on his own. She's more powerful than him, but he made her feel that she needed him. When it's the other way around. And when he couldn't keep her small, shaped to follow him, he took her experiences and her identity with him.

[foundfamily-connoisseur]

yk that one trope (or joke like idk what to call it but trope works I think…) where a family is like “oh let’s get a dog!!” and the dad is like “absolutely not” and then when they get the dog the dad secretly loves that dog or sum…

I feel like if carmen convinced don flamenco to sort of take little mac in in some sort of way just as like a “hey that’s our child but not really” way that’s how don would be…like what do you think

(this is a whole lotta yap I hope this makes sense to you😭😭)

No bc you’re so right for that it’s literally them

Her and Mac get along great especially when she finds out he’s Hispanic as well (she doesn’t speak English very well so when they first met she was worried she’d be stumbling along with her broken English. The moment Mac and doc spoke her language she was like !!!!!!!)

Don definitely throws ever fit he can because how dare his beautiful gorgeous darling that he plans to propose to soon dare make friends with his mortal enemy… of course he’ll still go along with it because he loves her very much (and she’ll beat him with a shoe otherwise) and slowly but surely him and Mac actually start bonding

Carmen relishes in Don actually getting along with ppl instead of being a little bitch. Don continues to bitch. It’s in his dna atp. I think her treating Mac a bit like her child/younger family member generally would also Segway into a conversation between her and Don about their future and thoughts about children. Don needs some growing up to do me thinks but trust he’d be such a great dad (Mac becomes an honorary uncle and totally doesn’t cry)

Translation in alt as always!!!

[usagifuyusummer]

Berdly sketches 2 electric boogaloo (actually 4th in the series lol)

[kheimerios]

[dry-yellow-marker]

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The lovely demon of sound, Nerissa Ravencroft! 🎼

[bambinettea]

pressed flowers, quiet hearts

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Sure hope a god doesn’t come around and punish him for his hubris

[sympathytea]

theres always 2 interpretations of this man in pvpciv and honestly i think both can and should coexist bloodier version under the cut (its not too extreme imo but just incase)

[itsdefinitely]

gives linda a soft forehead kiss

that's one way to shut her up

[angelicdonuts]

Guys I'm so sorry (I'm not) I love fnf soooo much dude

Anyway!! There's one more after this! It's gonna be oc focused :3 !

[buttered-toasty]

*thinks about Írmo even harder if you can believe it*

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Me going one month without putting some sort of reptile fact in my work challenge level impossible. Anyways begging all of you to look at a cobra’s skeleton their hoods are such a fucking cool adaptation