#child isolation

[maybe-in-another-universe]

i have a headcannon (at least for the fannon understanding of tim) that tim does a lot of self soothing gestures from his time alone in the drake estate. like if he’s standing there zoning out maybe he’s hugging himself without realizing or maybe when he gets hurt he lets out a choked mantra of “i’m okay, i’m okay, i’m okay” to himself or something along of those lines. maybe he talks to himself outloud when he’s tired. listen, i love fics that have tho whole criminal neglect aspect but you gotta give tim some characteristics of children in isolation in the caregiver aspect!

[youth-liberation-june]

im so tired of walking on eggshells.

im so tired of having to stay silent today against my delusional bitch abuser bc I though it was the best way to protect my peace, not realizing she genuinely knows no boundaries against me who she enslaves. and won't start to when she's in an abusive position of power where no one makes her take accountability, and everyone either shamelessly fucking agrees with her or "has" to.

im typing rn on my computer she didn't notice, so if she takes it cuz I'm tired of hiding it so fucking much i REALLY won't b able to post again until i manifest myself out of here.

[codenamethebird]

God I have so much to say about Melinoe's characterization, and the fasinating implications about her future arc/the overarching plot of hades 2. I want to make a larger think piece with pictures but for the moment I'm just going to focus on this one specific thread.

In the wake of the Prometheus reveal, she has a slew of convos about his motivations for siding with Chronos, and the gods basically all go: this is his vengeance for us punishing him a tad cruelly. And Nemesis is like, yeah the gods 100% deserve it. But Meli's responds that he must have more motivation than just vengeance, it can't just be that. But when Prometheus explicitly goes, 'I'm doing this because the gods are horrible to humanity and I love humans,' she basically goes, no he must be lying. That motivation is both too pure, but also humans kind of suck why would you care about them?

Mel's humanity hot takes deserve it's own essay (Ms I think Humans should have never gotten fire and are better when they are dead), and I just want to focus on the former for now. She can not comprehend that Prometheus is fighting the gods for noble reasons. It just does not make sense to her. Mel's world is so black and white. She doesn't understand the nuance of the situation, and the thought that the gods might be actually in the wrong doesn't even get close to crossing her mind.

It's a fascinating (and horrifying) result of her upbringing. Of the constant state of war and the very convenient big bad that is Chronos, the evil monster who stole her family. If she accepts that his side isn't completely evil, that they might even be right in some (even many) respects, she would have to grapple with her whole life. Everything she believes would be thrown into question, the literal thing she was training her whole life for.

She can't have Prometheus fighting for a noble cause, because he fights for Chronos whose the Bad Guy tm. But he also can't be fighting for something as simple as vengeance, because that would also mean she would need to really think about what he's angry about. If the punishment was truly so unnecessary cruel.

When talking to Odysseus about Prometheus, when Ody's saying how much he respected him for stealing the fire despite knowing the consequences, Mel says that it was the price to be paid for breaking Olympus's decree. To her, Olympus's rules are sacred and ultimately good. Unquestionably. Prometheus broke the rules with intent, so to her, why would he be so angry at the consequences? Especially if he knew because of his power they were going to happen.

So he must have another reason, some secret machiavellian plan that drives him. Except as I already said, it brings her right back to him doing it for humanity, which she also can't accept. Because that would be admiting that the gods did something wrong to humans. She twists herself into knots to justify her worldview, and it's fascinating! She's so messy I adore her.

Please Supergiant please the final surface boss has to be a human pleeeaaasse (preferably a living one). Or at least have one (or more) show up in some other capacity. Mel needs to come face to face with the other side and have it utterly destroy her worldview.

And/or have (Pan)Dora betray her for Prometheus, that would also be very fun haha.

[wheretheresawyll]

Character parallels: Wyll Ravengard (Baldur's Gate 3) | Anora Mac Tir (Dragon Age: Origins)

[g00seg1raffe]

I feel like it's not addressed enough that Obi-Wan was so not ready for Anakin at the end of TPM. He wasn't quite ready to be a Knight, let alone take a Padawan, let alone Anakin.

Like, imagine you're 25 years old, already dealing with plenty of issues from your shitshow of a teen-to-young-adult experience when your Master - your father, your friend, your teacher, your guardian of 12 years, who you didn't always have the best relationship with but goddamn it you tried so hard and overcame so much to get to where you are - is literally murdered in front of you by a fucking demon, the ancient bogeymen of all your childhood stories who are suddenly very real and killing the people you love. Everyone looks at you now with so much awe and fear because, in a haze of grief and panic, you managed to become the first to kill a demon in a millennium - which is somehow that's enough of a qualification to immediately graduate your apprenticeship with full honours even though you never actually got the chance to finish it. Five minutes of pure terror turned your life upside down, and now you have to shoulder the burdens of a knighthood that you know you're not ready for, and find some way to live with the crushing expectations that come with your newfound, accidental and very unwanted semi-legendary status. And, if that wasn't enough already, within 24 hours of all this going down, you're also legally responsibly for raising a hyperactive 9 year old ex-slave Child of Prophesy with crippling CPTSD and more power than god. You somehow, somehow have to raise this boy to be both a good Knight - which you haven't had a chance to figure out how to be yourself yet - and a functional person - which was never and easy thing for you to be but is getting harder by the day. You desperately want to do right by your new Padawan and honour your Master's dying wish but you're not ready for any of this, you didn't ask for it, and you're trying so hard to not repeat Qui-Gon's mistakes whilst also being painfully aware that you can never live up to what he could have been. Then there's homework and missions and nightmares and you worry that Anakin isn't making friends and you haven't slept more than 3 hours a night in weeks and the President of the Galaxy is pressuring you for some Private Alone Time with your child -

How the fuck is anyone supposed to handle that?

[gihunloversunite]

[fernpuku]

since yall liked it sm last time, here’s more doodles of dca being flirted with!!! close ups under the cut

i feel like my self insert looks and acts a little unhinged and it’s really funny to think about sun being judgmental towards them lmao

[miramelo]

Tw: child abuse, child homelessness and objetification

"she will learn or else"

Before getting in the sect, SY tried to keep himself as clean and nice looking as he could for more than one reason:

The aunties and sisters were more likely to let him do odd jobs for a bite of food or a night under a roof If he didn't smell.

The More unkept street kids wandering around were the more likely to die or dissapear out of nowhere.

If he looked nice enough instead of the adults getting angry and screaming at him to scram they give him pitiful looks and just tell him to leave

The more ways he could prevent getting sick the better

He learned that even If people were nicer they would also ignore his screams for help, they would keep walking and act like nothing was happening when a man tried to grab him. He had to bite, scratch and kick. The nice sisters from the RFP were the only ones who helped.

That didn't matter in the end, the man tried again days later in plain day light and no one did anything, he wasn't human I'm their eyes... He wasn't worth It.

[brbarou]

more bee and beloved...

[that-foul-legacy-lover]

What if everything is the same but creator mc reincarnate as melusine, but as a new sub species like a lizard or something aquatic liked a ocolot

And they are still have domain of the water but more safer in a fresh water spring

i will assume you mean axolotl because i'm pretty sure ocelots aren't aquatic (they're so cute though,,,, spotted string bean cats)

you're a little like the Melusine, a little like the Vishaps- a combination of lizard, dragon-ish traits and bloopy squishiness, and most comfortable deep underwater, fresh, not salt. it's safe and quiet down at the bottom of your little lake, the first place you took refuge in after you woke up again. no one comes to bother you- they're all too frightened of the monsters that prowl the area, the hilichurls and odd, alien breacher primuses. occasionally you'll see the Melusine skipping around and poke your head out to say hello. they give you flowers and shells, and you give them strange, glowing coral that only seems to flourish in freshwater under your care. the only one apart from the Melusine who dares to find you is Foul Legacy, entirely following the instincts that draw him towards an unassuming spring nestled in the middle of Elynas

Legacy delicate sniffs the surface of the water, leaping back in surprise when you stick the tip of your nose out, a pair of feelers waving on your head. carefully he leans in, crystalline eye tracing over the faint, shimmering scars on your body, and suddenly his glittering wings begin to flutter in awe

you rarely discuss the fact that you're the Creator- you know, he knows, and you've been hurt and killed because of it. both of you have been mere things, to be hunted or used as a weapon, so together you reconcile simply existing as yourselves. Foul Legacy can hold his breath for hours at a time, and he loves curling around you at the very bottom of the pond for a short nap. you gather the pearls and shells from the Melusine and a few pieces of your favorite coral, decorating Legacy's hair and fluff with the little treasures as he sits still as a statue, aside from the slight hum of his purr. in exchange he uses his Vision to push and pull at the water, forming shapes and little waves for you to happily swim around in

you and Foul Legacy, alone, quiet, and happy

[auxxrat]

Something that isn’t analyzed about Boba Fett’s character enough is the fact he started out as a very sweet boy.

Let me explain.

I first want to start out with his ignorance on his father. Me and a friend were talking about the scene in AOTC when Boba is yelling “get him dad! get him!” And Jango, ever so confident, “deals” with Obi-Wan.

I truly believe this comes from the idea that, and stay with me now, he believes his father is invincible. Not only does he grow up with his teachings, and his childhood stories—but he also sees that every person he comes across cannot kill his father. It becomes common knowledge that his dad is the strongest person alive and he BELIEVES in that.

When Jango eventually dies and Boba witnesses, its not the initial shock of “my dad is dead”, the first shock is “somebody killed my father.”

That’s not something Boba believed could happen. He had genuine faith that his father would always come back. No matter how long he was gone. They never planned for an “if” Jango never comes back until the job started heating up. Boba had his chores to do, and then his father would be back.

The second point I wanna bring up is the fact that he panics over returning a book. Because he doesn’t want to break that rule of having overdue books, but also because he doesn’t want to disappoint the little robot librarian.

Boba still had his problems with loneliness, identity and what his life was—but its important to mention that even with the violence that was his father (jango ily). Boba was still a good kid, a sweet kid. Quiet, a realllyyy bad stank face but overall a good kid.

It’s sad to think that he was panicking over breaking a rule he promised to follow, to growing into the person he is now all because of what he went thru.

Like im mourning over the little boy who loved to read, and his best friend was a librarian robot. And then he just… yeah. Then everything happens to him.

I miss my son

[plum-pitt]

Thinking about Wade intently watching some deceptively mature serialized kids cartoon, Logan walking in on him and making a derogatory comment about how invested he is in something made for children, and then 3 episodes later Logan sitting next to him just as invested but trying to hide it💀💀💀

[smithsibsceo]

zane and kai bonded in the early seasons by discovering new music together. both didnt really have a great access to it growing up (there was an only an old radio or maybe a scratchy vinyl player in ignacia's library and zane's village had no electricity) so they mainly grew up hearing their respective villages' traditional live music. Hearing those 'end-of-2012-mashup' compilations changed both of their lives

[blood-orange-juice]

I'm very curious of what has become of Childe's home village.

Did his parents move to the city when he became a Harbinger? If so, he's probably a ghost story now. The forest once devoured a family's beloved son and spit out a changeling who showered them with riches.

And if they didn't, imagine how messed up the social dynamic there is. Depending on what exactly is the attitude towards the Fatui and the role of Fatui in the country...

Are his parents now Respectable People With A Successful Son? Idiots who couldn't do better than to raise a son willing to work with this corrupt government? Seen as Rich Jerks despite being sweet?

Or was the village, as Saoki suggested, the type of extremely poor (as in "at risk") community that turned the rich mobster into a type of local authority.

(here, people can have their mafia AU after all)

I can't.

So many possibilities, how do I write them all.

[arodykeism]

time to make your choice only you can be the one

[alackofghosts]

vierapril day 15 - alternate universe