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firelordgrantham · 2 years

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you know what's the best ''healing'' trope?

when the character who has been traumatized, abused, used as a weapon, seen as a monster... uses whatever made them ''abnormal'' or a monster to play with children.

examples:

realistic:

a former child soldier or mercenary using his stealth training or speed to tag everyone in a game of tag.

someone abused because they are autistic or have down syndrome or see the world in a different way helping other ''different'' kids drawing or painting something.

an amputee playing pranks on kids like catching the ball they threw then gasping and saying they threw it so hard they lost their hand!

someone who almost drowned/has a phobia of water going into the children's pool to help a toddler do their first steps in the water where not only the toddler touches the ground of the pool while being only waist-deep in water, but the adult is sitting on the floor with no risk at all.

someone using the same move everyone ever saw them doing to either reload their weapon, assemble a weapon, block an attack or kill someone, but to catch a ball, solve a chinese puzzle or catch a child falling from a wall.

a former soldier/mercenary using their navigation skills to find a lost child before it goes dark or even in the dark.

scifi/fantasy:

someone with superpowers who always used them to fight/flee/defend themselves, using them to play with children or make them laugh. including but not limited to:

a pyromancer making small dancing figures

a shadowmancer/illusionists giving life to the pictures of the book they are reading to the kids

someone who can teleport, float or turn invisible cheating at tag or hide and seek.

alternatively, children helping a wounded (physically or mentally) person in recovery:

fireworks explode in the distance, the ptsded soldier flinches/recoils, a child takes their hand to guide them inside or gives them the ear-protection they need. Same with a sensory overload.

a kid being in awes in front of the scars someone is ashamed of and asking in a bubbly tone how they got those scars, and being like ''wow that's so cooooool'' every time they accept to open up a bit to them. or referencing the crutches or walking stick of someone as ''their wizard staff''.

a kid asking a wheelchair-bound person if they want to play ball with them and helping them go guard the goals for example.

a kid going into a bed-ridden person's bed and asking if they can nap next to them because they know this adult will not just go up and leave them alone in their sleep (possible abandonment issue in the part of the kid, makes it double healing, each healing/helping/making happy the other because of their own ''flaws)

#tw mental trauma #down syndrome #tw abuse #writing trope #writing tropes #writing

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cartooncadet666 · 1 year

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So.... I made this art in September... And, it's been a roller coaster to say the least cause when I was drawing this I was like: "Oh! Would you look at that! It's a pose that I know I will never be able to draw again!" And then now Im like: "... Im unwell"

This was based off of my old idea of Betrayus being transferred to the false reality that Skeebo's mom and Pac's parents are in. He goes through the section called Fear Forest and goes through his worst nightmare: His teenage years, when he realized he was going to die soon. Ouch. Like, his hair looks weird and his face proportions are off.

#pac man #pmatga #original au #lord betrayus #tw mental trauma #poor guy #tw depressing stuff #false reality au #pmatga au #fear forest #shadow realm

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traumasurvivorshelpingsurvivors · 2 years

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Is being still afraid of mother who abused you when you are child as an adult now is related to trauma ?? Some of my friends get very confused why do I still fear my mother, allowing her to control me out of fear, they tell me it’s my fault that she still control me as an adult who’s going to be in her mid 20s soon but it’s so hard to do anything ! Just to be clear she stopped abusing me years ago but I do still fear her, I still don’t like her but I don’t hate her either, I get really scared when she yells at someone because it reminds me of how she used to yell at me/hit me, I honestly do not know if this related to trauma or if this just normal non-traumatic affect, but all I know is that I feel hurt when my friends assume it’s easy to make my mother give my freedom to not control me, as I said she stopped the abuse but she dose control a lot of times.. I am even scared so many times to tell her [ NO ] simple example is how I couldn’t tell her no when she wanted to bleach my elbow/knee with the doctor because they are dark and she thinks because I do not clean them, I could tell her no but I am scared really am but I could not blame my friends for no understating either some don’t know what has she done in the past or some just do not understand even if they are abused themselves they have different personality than me, they fear their abusive mother less than I do, which makes me think maybe I am just a coward..

Anon, I would like to first of all say that no response to trauma is coward. Surviving trauma is one of the bravest things one can do, and you should always look to feel empowered in your survival - it took strength and courage, remember that.

Second of all, it's super important to keep in mind that different people have varied long term results from trauma, even when the trauma between them is similar. You are in no obligation to heal as quickly, or similarly, to your friends. Having complicated feelings towards your former abuser is normal, continuing to fear them after the abuse has ended is normal, feeling self conscious of your trauma response is normal - you are 100% valid and entitled to all these hard, complicated emotions, which do all derive from trauma.

As always, the best thing you can do for yourself is keep going. There are countless ways one can manage these experiences: some people distance themselves from the abuser, some people distance themselves from the memories, some people confront them and some don't. Different people heal and move on in different ways, anon, you should strive to find out what will work for you. Going on, keeping what helps and changing what doesn't, will slowly build on your strength, and working on this trauma and on your healing means this fear won't be eternal. Just remember that you're strong, capable, and absolutely not a coward!

Keep strong, anon! - Mod Hakki.

#mod hakki #trauma talks #tw mother mention #tw mental trauma #tw self blame

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albino-whumpee · 2 years

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This is your pass to ramble about kuro

Oh dear, thank you so much.

Kuro is this one character that wasn’t supposed to be more than an old memory of the main character. A good one from a nice past, but suddenly his role began to eat the others. Actually his real name has to do with a god who did that to his own children. It was an omen his father cleverly knew would happen someday.

Kuro can look like the strongest of his kind, not for nothing he’s the leader of a “rebellion” and is called “the Angel of death”, but he used to be very different. He was weak. It was such a disappointment precisely because his father was the leader of a radical group that killed hundreds in a single night, all on his and Kuro’s mother command. Which, let’s say it wasn’t a happy marriage and it was an even more unhappy family. Kuro distinctly remembers being at one of his father’s speeches, barely holding himself together to not bend and cry because the injuries on his back burnt and hurt so much. His father never saw his mother and him as equals, actually, he saw them as possessions. Objects he could toss around until they broke. So he amused himself watching them curl in fear of him.

The scars from that time never healed even when Kuro excels at regeneration and healing. The pain and fear still lingers on his back and he’s so scared to let anyone see it, that he never undresses in front of his trusted team. Never takes his shirt off when he’s with his lovers. Nobody knows he has nothing but a web of scars on his back, wrists and ankles that no matter how many times he tries, they never fade.

Let’s say Kuro knows how to escape all types of restraints, using the most barbaric methods because his father loved to watch him struggle and not amusing him meant death.

Of course, a breaking point came and Kuro failed miserably at his attempt of killing his father. He learns then it was for the purpose of implanting himself in his son’s body, that he was born at all. Kuro was stronger than any of his kind, but at the price of having his father’s mind merged with his. Poisoning every corner of his mind.

He pretty much went insane after that and somehow, because he found family in the darkest place after the darkest of times, he recovered his sanity.

He couldn’t live without his family, so he would do whatever it took to have them back, alive and well. But of course, Kuro’s destiny is to be miserable because he can’t not go to extremes when it comes to a breaking point. He quite literally explodes into a monster, much like his father. Which is something he is repulsed by, but can’t seem to stop. So, when he gets his family back, at such a great price, but they don’t remember him, he can’t go back and undo his mistakes, no matter how much he begs for it.

He learns soon enough he can only slightly bite the leash other’s have put on him before he gets pulled and punished, but punishment and pain never stopped him before and most certainly it won’t do it now that he sees a possibility to end all suffering his kind has bravely endured for a century.

No matter what is the price for peace, he will pay it.

He’s my original tragic character and he was supposed to die in the end, but now? Well, he knows very well dying would be a mercy for him and such considerations have been long denied to him.

#Kuro #my beloved #my oldest son #right after Alec #they’re 8 years old #awww they were already fucked up at that age #tw implied torture #tw murder #tw mental trauma #tw sadistic whumper #whumpee turned whumper #tw whumping of a minor #whump #ask

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animentality · 4 months

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#twitter #proship #trauma #tw sa #writing #writers on tumblr #writerscommunity #spilledink #fiction #coping mechanism #therapy #mental health

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girlyteengirl16 · 5 months

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healing is taking too long what if i just kill myself

#trauma #i wanna kms #mentally tired #i want to die so bad #mentally unstable #recovering is hard #healing #i can’t move on #mental abuse #tw depressing stuff #tw depressing thoughts #i want to be okay

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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses · 7 months

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anyone else have multiple traumatic memories associated specifically with holidays/family vacations? because that is a topic I never see discussed in all the So You Had A Shitty Childhood, Now What? self-help books i've been reading. but for me, it was a significant thing. and the more i think about it the more it seems like this would be an (unfortunately) common experience. would be grateful to hear if this matches other peoples' experiences...

#not a shitpost #serious post #ask to tag #tw trauma #cptsd #c-ptsd #and if so we should TALK about it #because it means there are a whole group of survivors out there whose mental health regularly worsens during holidays #like i know i am most certainly not the only person who feels an undefined Dread hanging over christmas/my birthday/july 4 etc #bc too many shitty things happened during those times and now my brain is hypervigilant bc traditionally these are the Danger Times #and this seems like it would be particularly common for survivors of abusive/dysfunctional households (aka most people with c-ptsd)#because holidays/vacations typically mean 1) the whole family is together/being forced to interact #2) and undergoing external stressors e.g. travel/relatives aka 'outsiders' visiting/routines & coping mechanisms being interrupted etc #3) there is social pressure for this to be a Fun Family Bonding Experience which only highlights the cracks in the foundation #and exposes the common Everything Is Fine/We Are A Happy Family lie #4) the cognitive dissonance of feeling tired/anxious/stressed/afraid during a time when you are 'supposed' to be Making Good Memories #and then everyone is angry/tired/anxious/triggered and things boil over and something or someone goes Very Wrong #weird that i'm posting this in october when halloween is...sort of the ONLY holiday i have only good and happy feelings towards #i got lucky there #also i have positive feelings towards Labor Day but that's for socialist reasons

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harmful-tropes · 8 months

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I have a distinct memory of laying in my bed as a kid and wishing with all my heart that I would get hurt. That I would get into a bad car crash or I'd disappear. So my parents would cry and realize they didn't cherish me enough.

I find it sad that younger me thought she had to get hurt to feel loved.

#mentally unstable #depressing shit #tw depression #sad thoughts #child abuse #childhood trauma #vent

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catgirl-kaiju · 1 year

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me: hmh getting hungry

adhd: u can't eat rn you're already doing something

autism: there is nothing in the house that u like

anorexia: like u even need any calories

trauma: u've barely done anything today. you don't deserve to eat

little anime girl: burg her

me: burg her...

me:

little anime girl:

#shitpost #comedy #humor #legit anime girls eating burgers has helped with my ed so much #adhd #eating disoder recovery #anorexia #ed #eating disorder tw #burger #anime #trauma #traume recovery #mental health #actuallyadhd #actuallyautistic #autistic #tw disordered eating #neurodivergent

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lostmf · 5 months

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psychocitysblog · 10 months

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I just don’t want to feel anything anymore. I’m tired, drained, exhausted. Just let me die already.

#kinda depressing #depressing shit #this is depressing #bpd #bpd shit #depressing life #sorry for being depressing #tw depressing thoughts #actually bpd #bpd mood #ptsd #trauma #dead inside #mentally fucked

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cartooncadet666 · 1 year

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Lil things

So the last two things I posted was the short lil comic about Skeebo's family issues and the au's that he has. I don't mean to give Skeebo unnecessary trauma and depression (even if it's kind of fun to draw and write about it) but there were a lot of questions about why he acts the way he does. Some said maybe he had issues at home or if his jealousy of Pac was getting to him, in my opinions and headcanons, some of the "villains' in the show aren't really 'villains', he's listed as a 'minor antagonist' so I was just overthinking some background.

I had a talk with some of my friends, family, and my little brother who hates Cylindria for no reason, about his character and a few of them said that he's just a guy who acts like an asshole because he's insecure. My brother said that: "bullies do their things out of anger, jealousy, or insecurity. Jealousy is obvious, we can all see it on his ugly face, and he definitely shows traits of insecurity of releasing his true self which was probably something about his relation with art. He doesn't want to tell anyone because of his so-called reputation and he doesn't want to look weak, he bottles something up inside that destroys him to where hurting or insulting Pac is just like stabbing himself, but that's my theory, a FILM THEORY."

It was always the same response, Skeebo was either keeping something bottled up that he would never release or he was insecure to the point where Pac's happiness made him jealous. That's why the au's are even there in the first place. Depression and insecurity can lead people to different possibilities that hurt them or someone else, the S**cidal, Fate, Outed, Sweet and Sour, Soul Meadows, and Demon Bait au all show signs of over-controlling depression just possessing Skeebo.

But there was one response that was different from everyone else's, and it was from my MOM:

"This is for your story? Your main focus is this bully character?"

"There's something that's wrong with him mentally, he doesn't act like any of the fictional bully characters I've seen, he's different, I can't tell if it's depression or insecurity driving him it's interesting."

"Maybe he's not the true one."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, what if he's peer pressured into bullying Pac-Man, or maybe he was bullied before."

I have never really been bullied but I've been studying it since fifth grade, peer-pressure could be a possibility since Skeebo works off how he looks to his environment, insecurity, or being bullied before, that was EXTREMELY new to me, it follows off of trauma from bullying and it causes people to change so they wouldn't get hurt again! That's where his insecurity and depression could come from, he went through the same thing that he's doing to Pac but he doesn't recover from it, because he doesn't know how to ask for help, I'M OVER THINKING THIS, SKEEBO YOU'RE KILLING ME HERE DUDE, STOP MAKING ME OVER THINK WHAT THE HELL'S WRONG WITH YOU.

#pmatga #pac man #skeebo #skeebo au #skeebo theory #character theory #pmatga au #tw depressing stuff #tw mental trauma #tw depression #tw insecurity #possible insanity #ouch ouch ouch #tw trust issues #tw trauma

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bunniibpd · 2 years

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