#if it isnt clear vance is HEAVILY traumatized

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If in a all survived Au , they all have it in some way , but who would the least to most difficulty in coming back to their normal lives ? Who would be more eager to forget what happened ? And who , without intentions of being cruel , would be the most eager to pretend that the others don't exist ?

Idk if I'm being clear if it's too long ✌️

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I think Finney would have the least trouble finding his normal again. He wasn’t hurt as badly as the others but there’s still some aspect of having to grasp a new normal. He gains it quickly though.

Billy would find his new normal rather fast. He stops paperboying and gets a library assistant job with Finney and Griff. Billy can remember almost nothing that caused his trauma, and he’s stuck in the mind of a child, so it’s sort of easy for him to move on.

Griffin is like almost on the same level as Billy. The only thing he finds difficult to build a new normal with is the fact he can’t talk anymore due to his injury. He has to learn sign language, but he’d be a fast learner. He also can barely remember his trauma, and he also is stuck in the mind of a kid, or resorts to it.

I think Bruce would be somewhere in the middle, but there is a BIG jump between him and Griffin. Bruce lost vision in one eye, his arm was broken, he eventually quits his baseball team in the long run, and he has to choose a new path in life. He also loses a bit of friends because of personal things, and he has to deal with post traumatic amnesia.

Robin has a really tough time finding a new normal. He’s completely traumatized even after a month of being in the basement, he’s gained fears that just inconvenience him, he’s dealing with insecurities because of what happened (deep scars) and he isn’t who he used to be at all. He’s still grieving the loss of his mom also, so he just has a ton of stuff piled up. He has a suicide attempt because of all the trauma he’s carrying. He has horrible nightmares and sleep paralysis, so sleeping is frightening for him sometimes.

Vance can’t find a new normal at all. He’s traumatized but isn’t getting better but he doesn’t want to admit that he is. His anger issues are worse than before, he’s dealing with night terrors and insomnia, he’s still stuck in a toxic masculinity mindset that was just intensified because of what happened, and at some point in time he’s had huge fights with at least one of the others because he feels like they’re against him in some way. Eventually though, he finds a new normal and learns to find healthy ways to cope.

For the next two questions, the answer for both of them is Vance. He wants to forget everything that happened, and he kind of holds a tiny bit of resentment towards Griffin and Billy because they were “lucky” enough to forget what happened while Vance remembers everything. He wants to pretend the others don’t exist and he wishes they weren’t friends under these circumstances, but he knows he can’t leave them all.