#byan 'healthy coping mechanisms who?' byun inevitably falls deeper into substance abuse once they're out of the realm

[byanyan]

thinking about post-fog byan in their dbd verse is fucking me up today... because they have no one to go back to. no one would have really noticed that they were gone in the first place. troubled kid who's been in and out of so many foster homes and has a habit of disappearing from the group home for days at a time? no one would have been terribly surprised when they never turned back up.

they're basically screwed when they come back. if we assume that everyone returns to the present day rather than the time they were taken from... byan is physically still 17, but as far as the world is concerned, they're an adult, probably somewhere in their 20s depending on how long they were in the entity's realm. not only do they not have someone to go back to, they've lost whatever weak safety net they had before. they don't have shelter they can return to - the group home for kids in the foster care system certainly wouldn't take them back. they're too old now.

which means... they're homeless. they've lost the already limited options they had before they were taken. they've basically gone from one type of hell to another, and now they have like ten new layers of trauma on top of it all.