How Characters Carry Their Childhood!!
˙⋆✮ Still flinching at raised voices even when there's no threat behind them
˙⋆✮ Hoarding food or supplies in small ways without realizing why
˙⋆✮ The inability to accept praise without immediately deflecting or diminishing it
˙⋆✮ Becoming a different person entirely around family versus everyone else
˙⋆✮ Apologizing for things that were never their fault to begin with
˙⋆✮ Treating every disagreement like it might be the end of everything
˙⋆✮ The specific way they learned to make themselves smaller in a room
˙⋆✮ Being deeply uncomfortable when someone is genuinely kind with no catch
˙⋆✮ Watching other families interact and feeling something unnamed and heavy
˙⋆✮ Hyper-independence that looks like strength but is really just old fear
˙⋆✮ Needing to know the plan because uncertainty was never safe growing up
˙⋆✮ The way they parent themselves now using words no one ever said to them then
˙⋆✮ Finding comfort in routines because chaos was what home felt like
˙⋆✮ Trusting actions completely and words almost not at all
˙⋆✮ The anger that surfaces when someone else is treated the way they once were
˙⋆✮ Learning to read a room before entering it as a survival skill turned habit
˙⋆✮ The relationship they have with food, money, or safety that reveals everything
˙⋆✮ Becoming fiercely protective of others in the exact way no one was for them
˙⋆✮ The dream they still have sometimes that takes place in that old house
˙⋆✮ Loving loudly and completely because they decided they would be different
stormborns
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izzy806
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