#adam: 'keeps [his] words insultingly slow' to explain something seemingly obvious that ivan missed; and asked a question about

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

ivan has Immense adhd, and i think a great many problems would have been solved or prevented if he had been given literally anything to hyperfixate on ever that WASN'T bloody combat

#lorien legacies #ivanick shu-ra #this kid is adhd as all get out and had precisely 200% of that channeled directly into murder and nowhere else #it's also why the way adam and the narrative talk about/treat/portray him gets my hackles right the fck up #adam: sneers about him needing to read by running his finger along the words #adam: 'keeps [his] words insultingly slow' to explain something seemingly obvious that ivan missed; and asked a question about #adam: calls him 'slow on the uptake' for this #me: you have always been one of my faves and i love you but holy shit we are three seconds from a bar brawl #and all of that is from /one/ two-page scene #just.... the books try really hard to demonize ivan and make him just Particularly Evil and Bloodthirsty Because He's Just Bad #when like. pretty much /everything/ about his shit is explained by #a) being an orphan in an unstable living situation for a large chunk of his childhood #b) having low empathy and therefore not the shortcut past the indoctrination that adam was lucky enough to have #c) being raised in a controlling abusive military cult as an adhd/autistic kid with Nothing to hyperfixate on/have a special interest in #except All That #literally they are not allowed /games or toys/ and he's not good at paying attention to other channels like engineering/tactics/science #/imagine being an adhd kid and growing up like that/ #and d) reacting in messy fcked up ways to the ping pong between his brother and father's radically different types of abuse #and the results are gut-wrenchingly horrible #for the love of god montressor introduce this kid to sports or sit him down to watch avatar or SOMETHING #LL crit tag #ableism cw #abuse cw #dyn: so glad you're awake #lorien legacies tag #the crit files