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#from the shooting trying to protect himself all of those graduating high schoolers and their families had to run for their lives and were
madigoround · 1 year
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#following tags will discuss a mass shooting don’t read if you’re not in a stable mental place take care of yourselves 💜#yesterday while I was on the way home from work there was a mass shooting down the street from my work/in the heart of the city#this was in the heart of the city in broad daylight at a high school graduation a graduating senior and his father were shot and killed and#others were shot and are in the hospital who knows if they will recover a 14 year old was shot a nine year old boy was hit by a car running#from the shooting trying to protect himself all of those graduating high schoolers and their families had to run for their lives and were#traumatized on a day that should have been joyful and at the time that this happened I was headed home and saw tons of police cars zooming#past and then did teletherapy and before even hearing about the shooting this morning I was crying to my therapist about how it feels like#the world is crumbling apart and there is so much cruelty and there are things happening to my friends and to the people around me and#there’s nothing I can do about it I just feel so powerless and defeated I want to crawl in a hole and not emerge until things have gotten#better and then to come to work and be told that we’re probably going to be assigned this case to defend the shooter and it’s like I don’t#think people should be put in cages right? I don’t think prison is an appropriate or effective solution and it#certainly is modern day slavery and the people that go to prison often come out years later with no options and very little rights and it’s#not helpful to anyone really I’m not saying I want the kid that did this to be locked up forever because it’s not actually going to solve#the issue that being said I’m already investigating a shooting/murder that happened in broad daylight a few months ago on a street I was#walking on twenty minutes before the shooting and I am struggling with it#I don’t know how we can be expected to defend this client who killed people down the street from us in broad daylight who shot at children#and it all makes me feel so utterly powerless#it feels like the world is falling apart and there is nothing I can do#all my irl friends are really going through it right now and I don’t want to put this on them but I need to get it out of my head
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spookyboywhump · 4 years
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11, 25, 44 and 70 for Wren, Zander and Cain! (I'll catch up with your other stories eventually I swear)
Thank you so much for these, I’ve been so excited to answer them all day!
 (This got kind of long because of 25 because I actually LOVE thinking about these boys before all This)
11.  Do they believe in luck?
Cain: Not really, he’s one to believe that everything that happens is directly caused by his own or someone else’s actions (and always ready to take his anger out on somebody if he thinks their actions have brought him misfortune)
Zander and Wren: Both of them believe in luck, and both of them believe that luck is a direct cause of their current situation. For Zander, who had basically a perfect life before this, he assumes that he finally ran out of that luck, while Wren believes he’s chronically unlucky as he rarely ever gets a break from misfortune
25.  What type a high schooler are/were they?
Cain: He was an absolutely terrible high schooler. His father sent him off to a fancy boarding school for most of the year for middle school through high school (which is conveniently where he met Vanessa) and very few of his memories involve classes or teachers because he rarely showed up for classes. He spent most of his time skipping class and sometimes escaping the heavily secured school all together, though he was usually caught and brought back within the day. He got away with all the shit he pulled because the staff was too scared of his father to try and discipline him, thinking he would have their jobs if they said anything about Cain, though in reality their silence saved him from much, much worse punishments because his father certainly wouldn’t have let it slide. He graduated with decent grades for work he never did because he just did not care, and he knew it would just be given to him.
Zander: He was a great student, his teachers loved him and he was well liked by other students. He had a general A-B average in grades and he did his best on all his work. He prefered classes like Algebra and Physics, he excelled in anything having to do with math. He wasn’t really one to ever skip school or classes, he rarely ever got in trouble or caused problems. He had a thriving social life, he was definitely one of those “pretty boys” that people would get crushes on, and though he often attended parties with his friends he wasn’t really one to drink and usually the one to stop his friends from getting stupid. Overall he was the ideal high schooler, good grades, great personality, well behaved. Kind of sucks he’s just… this now.
Wren: Instead of shooting for being a good student, and honor student, or even just an overachiever, Wren set straight into overworking himself half to death. He would’ve never been able to afford to get into a good college so he worked his ass off in high school hoping for scholarships, he was in all advanced classes and did any kind of extra credit he could get. He had amazing grades, he passed all his exams, and his work was almost never late, all while dealing with not the best home life. Because of this though, he didn’t have many friends at all, and he was often stressed, depressed, and sick. He was an incredibly quiet kid and definitely not one to bother people with his problems, his teachers probably only remembered him because of his good grades. He doesn’t really remember high school fondly, however his overworking and overachieving is what got him recruited for his current job.
44. Do they know more than one language?
Cain: He’s fluent only in English, however for business reasons he has forced himself to sit down and take classes for Spanish and Mandarin. 
Zander: Also fluent in only English, and he’s lost the slight grasp on French he had from classes in school
Wren: Completely fluent in English, but he has a good understanding of Spanish, enough to hold a conversation with a native speaker, and his friend Lila has been giving him sparse lessons in Mandarin. 
70. What do you, the creator of this OC, like most about them?
Cain: He’s just terrible. He’s a shitty person who does most of this for fun and just because he can. I wouldn’t say even his Angsty Backstory is reason enough to ever redeem him, he’s just a terrible asshole and he’s so much fun to write.
Zander: I’m a big fan of his need to Protect people. He’s been through hell (and still not back yet) and he refuses to let anyone else suffer the same level he has. Even if it was somebody like Cain he wouldn’t want them to be treated the way he is and I love that about him.
Wren: I like his level of determination. I think that in a way I admire him because of certain similarities, except he’s better lmao. Small, very tired, and anxious is relatable, but Wren is very determined with everything he does, especially if he believes it’s the right thing, and no amount of exhaustion and anxiety is going to stop him from at least trying.
(These are for this post!)
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