Mizuki and Date though like. Imagine being 8 and your parents are filthy rich and going through a bad divorce. Your mom treats you like shit, lashing out at you, hitting you, saying she wishes you were never born all because you were behaving like a child. Your dad is more comforting, but he doesn鈥檛 do anything to stop the abuse and he spends his time invested in a completely different family, a girl who you love and look up to but he loves her more than you and it fucking shows. Then your dads new friend, some fucking bachelor in his late 20s, is just like "wow you guys are the worst fucking parents ive ever seen" and next thing you know your dad is sending you off to live with him. And it鈥檚 just a massive kick in the head cuz you go from a rich lifestyle to living in some really shitty tiny ass apartment with this guy who鈥檚 clearly never been around a child in his entire life and he doesn鈥檛 know how to behave and does a really bad job of censoring himself like he has a bunch of dirty magazines that he can鈥檛 hide very well cuz it鈥檚 literally a studio apartment and also he talks to himself sometimes, it鈥檚 really weird. He doesn鈥檛 even have the slightest clue what he鈥檚 doing
And he鈥檚 the best parent you鈥檝e ever had
Because fuck, it all really hurts. You have to cope with having never received any love from anyone, and with the fact that your parents clearly don鈥檛 want you and can鈥檛 even be bothered to send you with anyone even kinda responsible. And this guy has a scary job with crazy hours and you don鈥檛 know anything about him and neither does he. But still, he never once hits you or tells you you鈥檙e not allowed to cry. He just gives you space and doesn鈥檛 push you to feel any sort of way about him. And sometimes, he鈥檚 even kind. He makes you some stew, even though it鈥檚 a bit chunky. He lets you sleep in the bed and takes the couch for himself, even though he complains about the massive back pain he鈥檇 never trade his spot for a second. He pays attention to events at your school and gives you your favorite stuffed animal when you make good grades, even though you called it ugly. He gets worried sick when you come home with bruises and puts on a goofy voice and trains you to defend yourself and you develop some highly deadly skills and even though it鈥檚 really abnormal, he buys you a bench press so you can get stronger. There鈥檚 this distance there, and you feel really weird caring about someone who you aren鈥檛 related to, but you find yourself wishing it was meant to be like this all along, that maybe, he鈥檚 secretly your real dad and he loves you like his real daughter
And when you say "I鈥檓 back" he says "welcome home"
(for the purposes of this poll, there is no monkey's paw situation: the chore you pick stays the same level of difficulty/grossness/etc. as it normally is for you, and you only have to do it as often as you want to. the chores you don't pick are magically done for you exactly the way you'd want them to be, just with zero effort on your part.)
for some reason the moment i finally got to see chimera falin animated my brain spontaneously spawned this idea for a magical girl falin a la princess tutu so as soon as i got free time i had to doodle it
this is assuming its on art you normally wouldn't jump to reblog. i myself only rb stuff i really really like so .
The 'rude/demanding' tone would be stuff along the lines of "if you like but don't reblog I'll [threat]" which i see surprisingly often, both serious and more silly