#parental betrayal

[therosefrontier]

Whumptober Day 18

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No. 17 HANGING BY A THREAT Breaking Point | Stress Positions | Reluctant Caretaker

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Fandom: Genshin Impact

Characters: Shenhe, Shenhe’s dad, with a bit of Cloud Retainer at the end

Placement?: Canon backstory, back when Shenhe was a child, story of when she got her Vision

Word Count: 1801

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Shenhe was very tired.

She crouched against a corner of the cave, and she waited. On the first day and the second, she would shake and tremble as she hid, torn between burying her head in her legs to cry or keeping her eyes alert and staring at every dark shadow in fearful anticipation, but the excitement was long gone now. She just waited and she stared. Her body throbbed and ached, stinging with pain from her many wounds, but she didn’t tend to them. It was useless looking at them, because she didn’t know how to do anything to help them. Her mother used to fix her cuts and bruises, before she got sick. Her father helped her sometimes, too. She knew he wasn’t coming to help her now, though. Not this time.

 “Daddy, where are we going?” she asked. Her dad had been gone for a while. Maybe now that he was back, they would do something exciting. Or just something. Anything would do. Even fishing sounded pretty exciting right now, and she wasn’t able to do much when they did that. She liked to watch the fish though. They flopped around a lot before they died.

“I have a surprise,” he said without looking at her. He kept walking ahead, holding her by the hand. He was going kind of fast. That meant he must be excited.

“Okay,” Shenhe said. That was fine; she could wait. The best surprises usually came with waiting, anyways.

 Shenhe listened to the sound of a deep howl in the distance. The monster was probably coming back, soon. She clutched her mother’s dagger tighter. If Shenhe injured the monster enough, it would go away for a while, screaming in pain much louder than she ever screamed, bleeding black goo on the cave floor. When it came back, it wouldn’t be bleeding anymore. It would chase after her, and she would run away through the narrow tunnels, and then, when she had just the right moment, she would fight back and stab it until it went away again.

It howled again, closer this time. Shenhe stood up. Her legs were very tired. Thoughts started to come back that made her only more tired. Would this keep going forever? The monster wanted to eat her, but she didn’t want to be eaten. She wanted to live. She couldn’t get out of the cave, though. It was sealed shut where she and her dad came in. It was an exorcist seal. She knew it, because her parents were exorcists, and she saw them do stuff sometimes. She didn’t know how to get rid of it, though. They never taught her how.

She saw the red eyes first, peering through the shadows. It made a lot of scary sounds, but she was used to them. She watched it step closer to her, revealing inky black snakelike legs shimmering in the soft glow of the ore in the walls, stretching its head higher and smiling a little to reveal rows and rows of tiny stick-like teeth.

It lunged for her, and Shenhe dodged.

She stabbed it in the side and ran. It chased her like it always, leaving a trail of goo in its wake. Shenhe was almost cornered, but she turned around and she fought. She fought and she fought. She slipped on the goo once, falling in it. It lunged again but she rolled out of the way so it would hit the stony ground instead. Then she stabbed it again.

She wasn’t sure how long it was, before it left again. Shenhe was injured again. She was covered in both of their bloods, which was really gross, so she decided to brush it off. She snapped off a chunk of ore from the wall with her hands and used it to brush herself. She guessed she would wait here for a while before it came back.

Shenhe didn’t like thinking all that much, now. She didn’t like asking questions. Why did her father leave her here? Did she do something wrong? Or did he just not like her, anymore? He didn’t say anything, though.

 Her dad was reciting something. She sat cross-legged on the ground, waiting patiently. Her father was an exorcist, so he did things like this sometimes, for training. Shenhe watched as the runes started to light up. Maybe he was going to teach her something, today? She was supposed to learn eventually, right?

Shenhe saw a dark form arise, with glowing blood-red eyes. It emerged one limb at a time, growling a terrifying, bone-shattering growl. Shenhe stood up, quickly. “Daddy!” She ran, and she hid behind him. It was a monster. Her heart pounded in her chest. It was a real monster. They had to run away. Her dad had to do something.

Gently, he placed his hand on her shoulder, and he moved her in front of him. “She’s yours,” he said.

Her dad turned and walked away. “D-DADDY!” she screamed, running for him, but she was cut short. Something grabbed her foot, pulling her backwards. Her dad never looked at her. This entire time, ever since they left, he never even looked at her. He walked away, and she reached out to him as the inky limb wrapped itself around her ankle and pulled her to the ground, dragging her away.

 Shenhe didn’t understand. Her dad was a good person, an exorcist who helped people. They went fishing together. He told her stories at night before she went to bed. He loved her mom, very much. He loved them. So why? Did the monster make him do it? Did he have to? Shenhe wanted to believe that, but the feeling in her stomach said that it wasn’t true, because he didn’t even try. He just left her here because he hated her. Maybe she didn’t take care of Mom good enough. Maybe she made her tired, and that was why she got sick. Shenhe went swimming in a creek she wasn’t supposed to, once. The water was too fast, and she got swept away. Mom saved her, and her dad yelled at her for not doing what she was told. Maybe she made her mom sick because of that. Maybe this was her fault.

Shenhe wanted to live. She wanted to leave this place, too. She couldn’t stay here forever. She didn’t want to stay here forever. She would die if she did.

Shenhe started to cry. She hadn’t cried in a few days, she thinks. She didn’t know how long it was. Maybe it was years. It was all the same thing over and over, so she didn’t need to cry. But she was tired now. She cried, and once she started, she began crying a lot. It kept coming and coming. She didn’t want to stay here. She didn’t want to die.

She dropped to her knees, shoulders shaking with sobs. She wiped away blood and tears with her dirty sleeve. She didn’t want to die. She wiped away her face, and she looked down at her dirty dagger. It was a special dagger, her mom said. It could even cut demons. Not everything could cut demons like that. She was glad she had it. She could do something with it.

She could do something more.

Shenhe clutched the dagger tight. She didn’t want to keep going like this. She had to do something. She shook and trembled, but she didn’t think it was just fear. Maybe, it was anger, instead. She didn’t want to keep being hunted by this monster. She didn’t want it to keep healing faster than she did and going after her like this. It was a coward. She didn’t want to be afraid of a coward. She didn’t want to be afraid of anything. She was going to live. She was a hunter, because exorcists were a lot like hunters.

She was going to kill it.

She didn’t think much, after that. Her decision was already made. The monster left a trail of blood, and she could follow it. She would follow it to wherever it hid. It couldn’t go that far. She knew this cave really well, too.

She followed and she followed, hearing its moans of pain the closer she went. Then, she found. With a dagger in hand and tears still in her eyes, she stood face to face.

She wasn’t running. She wasn’t going to let it run, either. She had enough.

She saw red. She lunged for the demon and watched it recoil with a hiss and a howl. It fought back, biting on her, lashing at her with its tail. Shenhe tasted her own blood but kept going.

Once she started, she felt stronger, than before. She wasn’t weak. She wanted it dead, and she was going to win or she was going to die. She wasn’t going to let it be the cruelest evil to stalk the darkness; she was. She yelled and screamed, lifting her dagger to the air, plunging it down in its flesh. Die! Die already! She’s had enough of this. She just wanted to be alone.

She bled from new gashes torn across her skin. Her knees trembled, but she wasn’t finished. It didn’t matter what the demon wanted. It didn’t matter what her father wanted. She wanted to live.

She plunged down again, and with it came an icy burst. The dark room lit up with the white and blue blast, and Shenhe froze with it. Her hands were fixed on the hilt of the dagger, and the dagger was buried in a whole column of icy shards, with the demon at the center.

There was a moment of silence. The demon didn’t move; it didn’t howl; it didn’t do anything. It was dead.

Shenhe dropped to her knees, taking a slow moment to realize it. She was alone now.

She could sleep.

  ….

…

She felt feathers. They were warm and soft. She had been sleeping, but they were moving now.

It was light out, too. Moonlight, but close enough.

“Hrrngh?” she groaned. “Where am I?”

“Hmm? O-Oh!” a voice exclaimed. “You’re awake! Thank Rex La—ahem, I mean…yes, this is to be expected. You are safe now, child.”

She opened her eyes to look. She was lying face down on the back of a big bird. A talking bird. She straightened and looked out at the mountains. “We’re not going back?” she said tiredly.

“No, child, of course not. You’re safe. I promise.”

Shenhe nodded. Her dad said things like ‘promise’ too once, but this might be fine, because this bird was not him. “Who are you?”

“This one is Cloud Retainer, young one. Now, hang on tight; we just have a short ways further to go from here.”

“Okay.”

#whumptober2022 #no.17 #breaking point #fandom #fic #blood #violence #betrayal #parental betrayal #genshin impact #shenhe #backstory #shenhe getting her Vision #and then Cloud Retainer getting a Shenhe

[larryhappiday]

"I'm Finished," Father Caught Sleeping With Son's Wife in A Hotel

A father who advised his son Pascal to marry a ‘good girl’ he found in his working place, who was  caught in bed with the same girl in a hotel, has declared “I’m finished!” What was she thinking? The young wife was said to be a junior colleague to the father, but unknown to the son, they were actually lovers. His father had devised a secret plan to keep his lover in his family by getting his…

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#catchacheater #catchthecheat #cheatingwife #whoischeating #hotel #parental betrayal #randy father #sex scandal #SoniaOfficialTV

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompts 228

"Dad."

"I am not your father, ghostling- and you cannot attempt to use that to take my sword."

"… Mom!"

"Oh Realms help me, No-"

#Prompts #Dad fright knight #de aged danny #technically i guess #danny phantom #Fright Knight holding up Danny: HAS ANYONE LOST A CHILD?! #No it's not ghost king danny #In fact Fright and Pariah are siblings #FK the moment PD wakes up: brother what do i do this ghostling has imprinted #Nightmare likes the ghostling- this is betrayal! #FK in denial about being a parent but also ready to eviscerate anyone who looks at the ghostling wrong #If u want you can make it a crossover to #Dpxdc #Dcxdp #Dp x marvel #I mean natural portals ARE a thing lol

[ghostbsuter]

Jazz isn't the biological daughter of Jack.

It was before their marriage. Back in her league days, Maddie was simply the best of the best. She was the demon's daughter second in command, heading her call any moment and her most loyal subject.

That's how it was, to the people.

Behind closed doors she and the demon daughter were more.

But those are old times, after she betrayed the league, fled and created plans to continue living in relative peace.

That was how it was supposed to be.

That was not how it played out.

During her 3rd year with a man called Jack Fenton, did she receive news of a child, a daughter of her own with Talia. One she created in a lab, trained to follow their footsteps and ran from the league at the perfect time and needed to hide.

So maddie took in her daughter, trained her, and showed the ropes of a civilian life.

Jack loved her as if she were his own. It led them to finally marry and later on have Danny.

Jazz knew of the pits, of the meaning they had, and how much knowledge the leader of the league possessed.

Now she is 17, recently orphaned with her 15 year old brother and on the run because Danny is currently the only living person in this world who knows more of the pits than the current user.

And Ra's really wants that knowledge.

#dcxdp #dpxdc #dp x dc crossover #fic prompt #writing prompt #dc x dp prompt #jazz is a trained assassin that ran away #just like her mother maddie #talia ia jazz other mom #the assassins killed maddie and jack for betrayal and knowledge #now Ra's wants danny because he is the only one who knows of his parents study #the fentons studied.the ghost zone which is connected to the pits #jazz doesnt know.much she rather stayed out of it #all of the papers and drives are destroyed #danny is the last living human with the knowledge #now jazz has to go back to fleeing with her little bro #she might go to gotham cuz dami is her half brother #danny has no idea whats going on

[jupiterslibrary]

thinking about the second coming and the jesus/judas parallels...

you're the nice one. here's your friend. best friend even. and you love him even as you worry you're doomed. and now they're here to take you away. he comes up to you. he kisses you. its a kiss that condemns you but nevertheless you forgive him. you give up everything for humanity. and you do it all with a smile! you turn the other cheek!

you're the evil one. you have to do the dirty work so heaven doesn't have blood on its hands. maybe one day humanity will be grateful to you for what you gave them but for now it's a thankless job. you never wanted any of this but here's your part in the great plan. here's your friend. best friend even. you kiss him. they take him away and you are alone.

#good omens #good omens meta #my writing #to clarify i dont think anything crowley did was a betrayal #but i do think aziraphale took it as such #its like. i offered you eternity and safety and happiness. i thought itd be enough. arent i enough? must you betray me with a kiss? #hope my parents are proud of me. all those years of teaching me christianity and all that came out of it is good omens speculation

[tragicalwisteria]

Walburga: (looking at the stray animal Sirius and Regulus brought in) Get that hideous thing away from here.

Regulus: Sirius, Mother wants you out of the house.

Sirius:

#marauders #marauders era #sirius black #regulus black #mwpp era #mwpp #rizzmus lupin cackling in the back #dead gay wizards #incorrect marauders quotes #marauders incorrect quotes #this has probably been done before #but it's really funny #walburga's a+ parenting #the marauders #marauders headcanon #this is sirius' villain origin story #the ultimate betrayal #haha #the noble and most ancient house of black

[raincitygirl76]

I wonder how much of the Sargust fallout in 2.06 was due to August being an only child…

He clearly did not anticipate Sara reacting as badly as she did to finding out that her boyfriend had used her tipoff to blackmail her little brother. He probably figured she wouldn’t be happy. But her level of betrayal seemed to catch August off guard. But then, August doesn’t know what it’s like to be truly pissed off at your sibling, but they’re still your sibling.

I had a fight with my sister on the weekend, and we just made up via text. We’re both gone 40 and she’s married with 2 kids (who have their own sibling rivalry issues). But she’s still my little sister, and fighting with her is still not fun.

Sara in 1.06 was not happy with Simon, and I suspect that made it easier for her to cut that deal with August. Judging by 1.06, August could have assumed that Sara doesn’t like Simon very much, and won’t particularly care what August does to him. But again, August has no siblings.

Sara cut a deal with August in 1.06 when she felt betrayed by her brother and panic-stricken at the thought of her mother forcing her to return to the old school where she had been viciously bullied. But eventually Sara’s anger at her little brother cooled. And he remained her little brother.

A few months pass. Simon and Sara aren’t as close as they used to be, with Sara boarding at Hillerska this term. And Sara is preoccupied with both her secret romance and the pending sale of Rousseau. But Simon still tells her when he finds out it was August who leaked the video. And Sara tells August what Simon told her, expecting him to do the right thing. Is she naive for thinking that? Yes. But she’s also only 18 and in love.

Then August uses her information, not to confess his crime to the police “spontaneously” before Simon can turn him in. But instead to blackmail Simon with something or other (Sara doesn’t know the specifics) so Simon can’t turn him in. Sara must be doubting at this point whether she ever meant anything to August, or if he was just using her to keep her quiet about what she knew.

As it happens she’s wrong about that, but it’s not unreasonable for her to doubt August’s motives for pursuing her, given what she’s just found out about how he used the information she gave him. Note on the shooting range she says “Because I was in love with him.” Past tense. Not “Because I’m in love with him,” present tense.

Furthermore, when she tells the truth, partly because she fears Wilhelm will blow August’s head off, Simon is devastated. He trusted Sara, and she betrayed that trust. She betrayed it more than once, has had this information since December and got involved with August anyway. I don’t think it really hits Sara until this point just how badly she’s fucked up, or just how devastated Simon is.

He’s her little brother, he’s in pain, she wants to hurt the person who hurt him. But the person who hurt him is her. She did this to him. Sara is not a forgiving person, look at how she decisively cut Micke out of her life. She must be fearing that she’s ruined her relationship with her only sibling for the rest of her life, that he will never forgive her.

I personally think Simon will forgive Sara eventually. But Sara knows what it’s like to be betrayed by an immediate family member, and knows she will never forgive Micke. It’s not difficult to imagine Sara extrapolating from her own experience, and believing Simon will permanently cut her out of his life the way she has permanently cut their father out of her life.

So she’s hurt her only sibling very badly, and for what? For a guy who turned out to be a duplicitous asshole and used her tipoff to hurt her brother. Again.

And August thinks she’ll simmer down. Yeah, she walked away from him on the shooting range, but he approaches her the following morning confidently. He has an ace in the hole to get his girlfriend to stop flipping out: he’s bought Rousseau for her. August (again, an only child) assumes the gift of Rousseau will be sufficient recompense for deep-sixing Sara’s relationship with her brother.

It isn’t sufficient recompense, and August is taken aback when Sara refuses the magnificent gift. But August doesn’t understand the push-pull of sibling dynamics. That Sara is experiencing family loyalty at a very inconvenient time (from August’s point of view).

August’s father is dead, he’s clearly not close to his mother, and he hates his stepfather’s guts. And he has no siblings, nobody else who understands what it was like to grow up at Arnas with Carl Johan and Louise Horn as their parents.

He was pretty close to his second cousin Erik before Erik wrapped his Ferrrari around a tree. But it seems like that friendship didn’t really get close until a traumatized, recently bereaved 16 year old August showed up at Hillerska as a first year and Erik (then a third year) took August under his wing.

August and Erik knew each other all their lives, but they were only close for about 2 years. And given they first got close at 16 (August) and 18 (Erik), that’s not actually analogous to a sibling relationship. Erik was already old enough to drink and vote, and August only a few years off. That’s not spending your childhood together.

And we’ve seen how superficial August’s friendships with his two best friends at Hillerska are. In S1, August and Vincent trash talk Nils behind his back for being nouveau riche. In S2, given an opportunity, Vincent sells August out, and Nils helps Vincent do so. August does not have any siblings, nor any sibling-like relationships where mutual loyalty is crucial.

So August sees Sara sell Simon out in 1.06 and takes that at face value. He doesn’t realize that Sara is angry with Simon at that point, but will get over it. Because August doesn’t understand the messiness of sibling relationships. Or their importance.

I know adults who have cut siblings out of their lives because that sibling had hurt them so grievously they said enough. But I don’t know anyone who has cut a sibling out of their life without giving it serious thought beforehand. Even if they’re better off without that sibling in their life, it’s still a huge decision. Sometimes it’s a bigger decision than cutting a parent out of their life.

Matters are complicated somewhat by divorce, remarriage, half-siblings, step-siblings, etc. obviously. But generally speaking, if you spent a significant chunk of your childhood living in the same house as someone, the decision to cut them out of your life is a very serious one.

My best friend has two older half siblings she is not close to and has never been close to. But one is 20 years her senior and the other 18 years her senior. She is the only child of her father’s second marriage, and she acts like an only child. The combination of her father’s divorce from his first wife and the massive age gap means she has very few shared experiences with her half-siblings. Now, part of that is on her dad. But part of it is simply that both her half siblings are old enough they could be her parents themselves.

So yeah, August was raised as an only child. Even if it turns out Carl Johan fathered another child out of wedlock at some point, that hypothetical half-sibling didn’t grow up with Carl Johan. There might be curiosity, it might even lead to a bond eventually, but there won’t be the shared childhood experiences.

Whereas Sara and Simon are full siblings close in age. Furthermore, they grew up together, in a traumatic family situation with a father who was an addict (and possibly abusive to boot) and a mother who meant well but was struggling to cope. Even if Simon and Sara never reconnect, they will still always have those shared experiences of growing up as Micke and Linda Eriksson’s children.

So I really don’t think August saw Sara’s total disillusionment with him in 2.06 coming. Because August isn’t anyone’s brother and doesn’t really get it.

#queue #young royals #siblings young royals #August horn analysis #Sara eriksson analysis #young royals analysis #simon eriksson analysis #sara eriksson #August horn #family young royals #wilmon #betrayal young royals #angst young royals #prince wilhelm #Prince Erik #simon eriksson #young royals season 2 #Simon and sara #friendship young royals #parents young royals #eriksson family #micke eriksson #linda eriksson #Carl Johan horn #Vincent young royals #nils young royals #august horn of årnäs #August horn af Arnas #sex tape young royals #lies young royals

[furiousgoldfish]

I think there's a deep kind of injury we get from spending such a big chunk of our life loving people whoa are abusive. Because we give our love and attention to them, we care not to hurt them, if they seem hurt we try to comfort them and make it better for them, if they need help we offer a hand, we even forget all of our feelings in order to prioritize theirs and try hard to make them happy.

But they do the exact opposite to us. They don't care not to hurt us, if we seem hurt they use it as an advantage to do further damage, if we need comfort they give us disgust, if we need help they humiliate and ridicule and shame us. They prioritize themselves to the point where we don't even exist except as a resource. And we get used to it. To the point where we don't know how any other type of love looks like. To the point where we don't even expect anything else.

And sometimes they go and do something so incredibly cruel to us, it feels like a betrayal. We work hard to protect these people from harm, we light ourselves on fire to keep them warm, we fight for them, we stand on their side. They then go ahead and push us into the worst pain we could possibly experience. It's shocking, disarming, almost unbelievable that anyone could do this, that anyone could be that cruel, and for no good reason at all. Having our love be returned with cruelty damages us permanently. We no longer even expect the same love back when we love someone, we are just hoping they won't turn around and damage us. If we get completely neglected but not actively attacked, we feel grateful!

And if someone later does even a tiny thing that hurts us, we start re-living every past instance where our love was returned with cruelty and the pain of it can crush us. We can't cope with the slightest injustice anymore because it's triggering, it's been so far over our limit we'd rather not have anyone in our life anymore than be betrayed over and over again. It makes us vulnerable and crushed by betrayal so much worse than the average person would feel it. Where we should get mad we feel broken, horrified and helpless.

#abusive parents #long term abuse #living with abusers #cptsd #triggered by betrayal #cruelty given in return for love #cycle of abuse

[greenerteacups]

Are there any other wizarding families that are underexplored in canon and pique your interest in a similar way to the Blacks?

This is a unique function of what food my brain worms like to eat, but no one's doing it like the Blacks. The drama? The intrigue? The Gothic horror? The prodigal sons and lost daughters and killers and sinners and martyrs and saints? The wizard Catholicism of it all? The story of the House of Black is the best book never written.

#i do think the potters could benefit from fleshing out #like harry's got no cousins or grandparents on his dad's side and that's weird to me #because his parents were... 22? so... how early did james's parents die? and how? because they're not old enough for natural causes #though to be honest. if i could add one backstory to canon it wouldn't be the potters OR the blacks #it would be peter pettigrew and the story of his betrayal #most important decision in the whole fucking series. lynchpin of the novels' decade-spanning plot #and it's like. whoops. motivation machine broke! #WHY did he do it? we have no mcfucking clue #the potters and blacks are cool to think about but ultimately just extra dressing for the plot #understanding peter pettigrew is crucial to understanding why the novels happen and we simply don't! #EDIT: just remembered the pottermore canon that the Potters have james when they're much older and that's why they're not around #that's not satisfying to me for 2 reasons 1: wizards canonically have longer-than-normal lifespans #and 2: doesn't explain how/why the Evanses disappear after Lily's death #like I'm not saying they COULDN'T die — obviously could! my grandparents were all dead before my 20s #but that was like. cancer. and in one case aggressively accelerated liver failure #just like a throwaway line or something to clear it up would've been cool #since it's not so much a plot hole as a plot pothole #we can get over it but shit's smoother without

[mios-art]

Ok but their story is so tragic I think about it often

#tianlang jun #su xiyan #svsss spoilers #svsss #svsss fanart #OK BUT THEY WERE IN LOVE AND AAAAAAAA #being the protagonist tm’s parents is rough #she died knowing Tianlang jun would suffer her ‘betrayal’ and not knowing if her child would live #he spent 20+ years suffering both physically and mentally thinking that the woman he loved didnt really love him in return #THEY WERE JUST TRYING TO BE HAPPY #HE WAS JUST A LITTLE GUYYYYYYYY #tianxi

[hayaku14]

kuroba toichi you need to stay dead or im going to fucking kill you myself

#you sick son of a bitch #if you truly love your son you wouldnt be alive #it's bad enough that you basically left the mantle for your teenage son to take up but you actually being alive???????? #you just out there living your life while your son is destroying his relationships chasing after something that you started???????? #his very motivation is your death and it's not even real??? the utter fucking betrayal??? #and maybe being kid has kade him a better magician and has helped him find out more about himself #but he shouldve been able to have a choice if he even wanted to be kid at all it shouldnt have been a responsibility pushed upon him #AND IF YOU ARE FUCKING ALIVE AND YOU'RE JUST WATCHING YOUR SON RUNNING AWAY FROM THE POLICE WITH PRIDE INSTEAD OF GUILT YHEN YOU CAN #GO FUCK YOURSELF #Honestly the worst #also that theory that maybe chikage is travelling the world because she KNOWS toichi is alive and she's with her elevates this fuckery into #a whole different level #anyway go read cuethesun's tomorrow and the next day #good fucking food and bad parent chikage and toichi enjoyers will be pleased ;> #lol #dc prattles #as much as i want happy everybody is alive kuroba family #i need touichi and chikage if she knows too to feel the repercussions of their horrible parenting and i need kaito to be able to let himself #feel the hurt and betrayal that he is justified to feel even if he is happy that his dad is alive #but i dont trust gosho to handle that nicely if anything i think hes gonna just handwave it and wont address it properly #anyway my point is i just need more hurt and angry kaito also if shinichi is there im happy #sorry i sneaked in a kaishin i cant stop the brainrot unfortunately theres no cure 🤚😔 #ALSO DONT GET ME STARTED WITH BAD PARENT KUDOS OOOOOHHHH

[im-totally-not-an-alien-2]

Halloween prompts no. 4

Damian was leaned over the glass coffin to get a better look at Phantom. This was his little brother if Kyle and father were to be believed. He looked up at his father, and though he couldn't see his full expression under his cowl he could hear the creaking of his gauntlets due to how hard his fists were clenched.

Robin turned his gaze back to the entombed eight year old who had apparently saved countless kingdoms, overthrew evil tyrants and faced off against gods in the one year since his death. All these amazing feats only to be betrayed by the people he called parents who literally shot him in the back.

The eleven year old vigilante stared at the face of his baby brother, framed by white hair that no longer glowed and surrounded by the Infinite Realms "lunar blooms" which very much did. He reached into the open coffin, mindful of his fathers staring and pushed aside the flowers placed specifically to block the sight of his exposed shattered core.

Damian made a vow to his father right then and there that they would find a way to fix him. Batman didn't smile, but he acknowledged his son with a small nod. That was good enough for him.

They left through the magic barrier, the same one that kept anyone other than friends and family from coming or going and the reason they knew something was up in the first place and flew back home through the green of the Ghost Zone. Damian meant what he said. He would fix his brother and bring him home.

No matter the cost.

#fanfiction prompts #prompts #danny phantom #danny fenton #dp x dc #robin #batman #damian wayne #bruce wayne #tw: betrayal #shattered core #danny was accepted by his parents but that turned out to be a lie #they killed him while his back was turned #aged down danny for extra angst #angst #tw: angst #halloween prompts

[aq2003]

i enjoy how hard he's chosen to die on this hill he just like me fr

#side note i have seen ppl cook the 2009 version too for the staging and having a kiss at all. WHICH I UNDERSTAND. #considering where in theater history it originated and what context it was originally used in. but like #w the context of both the actors' thoughts on the scene and how they talk about hamlet's disgust and betrayal #2009 version reads as fundamentally nonromantic/nonsexual to me. Like if it ended on a kiss on the cheek it would be the exact same #also how hamlet talks abt 'here hung lips that i have kiss'd' re: yorick it's like this form of affection between him and a parental figure #and in making the staging and the dynamic so uncomfortable BUT also rly emphasizing the parent/child relationship in the end #u get this smth that just. Hits you (me) so hard. w just how fundamentally broken these two ppl are #how they wish for a version of the other that no longer exists etc etc etc #hamlet #david tennant #side side note im remembering that one commenter that compared the scene of kilgrave and his mom to act 3 scene 4 #to which i had a knee jerk reaction of getting so mad at because why would you compare hamlet to that thing #but also the sense of emotion that runs through both scenes is genuinely similar. the sense of betrayal and abandonment and childlike fury

[konfizry]

no because you see actually the fact that zelos hates kratos' guts is by far my favorite aspect of zelos. like like the whole betrayal thing and whatnot, honestly, can't relate man, sorry about what happened to you i guess buddy but personally i dont care i just dont

but then back when i found out through finally playing his route + watching tof2 tls that the guy will diss kratos at any given occasion i was taken with renewed appreciation for him. its just too good. (and actually, there are signs of it even before that. like when you run into kratos in sybak and supposedly zelos doesnt know him at all but he still takes a moment to loudly go "omg fuck this guyyyyy" once kratos has left the scene and it's just ertghrteguhireg. zelos actually makes a couple more efforts to have lloyd trust kratos as little as possible. meanwhile theres that character skit in the flanoir area where kratos warns lloyd that there may be "someone in his group with ill intentions be careful no i won't elaborate bye" or whatever. all while k and z are presumably routinely in voice chat arguing over kratos' ridiculous grocery list. what a mess. both of them.) i unironically love it fr. i think it both makes perfect sense from a character perspective, and is hilarious. also it's nice to have one dude be openly hostile towards kratos. what can i say, i live for drama.

so anyway im glad we can all agree that the iselia ranch is a missed opportunity for an absolute train wreck of a skit that should have have happened but didnt.

#it's the one time they can be together come onnnn. where is my one-sided magical swordsman cat fight :((( #tales of symphonia spoilers #kratos is my fave and i love it when he gets dunked on hes a stupid hoe and i thank zelos for his efforts in reminding everyone of that fac #also i cannot for the life of me forget how #colette's flanoir scene is her telling lloyd how amazing kratos is #zelos' heimdall scene is him telling lloyd how much of a fuck up kratos is #and in both instances lloyd seems to have a more positive opinion of kratos afterwards #zelos i dont think you're very good at this #(SAME SHIT HAPPENS IN TOF2 IIRC. zelos starts digging up dirt on kratos. lloyd pries answers out of kratos. kratos explains. #“wow kratos thank you so much for everything you've done for us” #drghdsgtfudsg if i were zelos i'd be fuming. i'd betray the group again over this #(to be fair i think they (colette especially?) do thank zelos for all his behind-the-scenes work as well. but still)) #(kon it's been three days why are you still thinking about this) #kratos is where dismissive/manipulative parental figure and betrayal-generated guilt collide #for zelos #for the sake of his own sanity he cannot see kratos get away with (or worse; obtain forgiveness for) any of this shit IT CANT HAPPEN

[enbysiriusblack]

sirius' animagus being a hellhound to him. like he's named his father's dog (sirius being the dog of orion) and to sirius, his father is like the devil. making him his hellhound. he sees his animagus and thinks that. about how he's bound to the black name and condemned to follow his father like a dog, hurting others at his father's orders.

and then james sees and and his eyes widen as he whispers 'padfoot', the name of a ghostly black dog in english folklore. and sirius realises james saw him and thought he was an omen of death and feels even worse about his animagus form.

so they sneak into the library and peter finds a book on english folklore that describes 'padfoot' as a ghost dog that only attacks travellers who antagonise him, and that the dog has a chain tied around its neck that clanks as the dog walks but is cut, not tied to anything, like the dog has freed himself from an owner.

sirius rips the page out and immediately declares himself 'padfoot'.

#(but also after peter's betrayal. and sirius is in prison he realises how everyone in his life has died #james. lily. marlene. dorcas. both his parents. regulus. various order members #and he starts to believe himself to the omen of death again. everyone who enters his life ends up in ruins) #sirius black #marauders era #marauders #sirius black headcanon

[vapolis]

not 2 be that guy but why has no one written the classic hs revenge style IF yet

#doesn't have to be hs bc to be honest that sounds like hell #as someone that's been out of school for a couple years but like!!! revenge ifs!!! Where are they!!! #I need hs or college students being insufferable. So absorbed by their peers they grow mad #I need petty drama and parties that go overboard and rich mfs and #someone coming for your partner and betrayal and weird ass parents that are soooo sus #If I had more time I'd take one for the team. I'd really do that #but I just remembered that one wip that's like high school revenge and that premise sounds FUN #why did she have to be abandoned #the list of ifs I want to write continues to grow and I won't finish a single one 😵‍💫