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I often think about how impossible it is for Chris and Cathy to ever potentially date anyone except each other, that’s truly the horror aspect of these books

Everyone knows that they’re siblings, EVERYONE, even Cathy’s other love interests, and yet all of those men know that they will never match up to Chris in Cathy’s eyes, even as she is actively trying to rebuke their relationship, Cathy can never truly love those men, not because of how horrible they are, not because they don’t please her, but because none of them will ever come close to understanding her as much as Chris does due to how closely tied they are, even Carrie is kept out of their special connection, despite also being their sibling, despite also having been locked up in the attic, because she just never experienced what they did, she just isn’t the same

The only way these two could ever potentially have partners that aren’t the other is if they were to SOMEHOW find a person who was also locked up in an attic by their crazy mother and grandmother and had relations with their siblings, but that just begs the question of…would even THAT work? They will always be too tied to their siblings that anyone other than them, despite their experiences, will never be enough

#cathy x chris #flowers in the attic #petals on the wind #shipcest #soulmates #trauma bonding #they bonded over their trauma

artfulphandom

FITA is really the alpha when it comes to books that you have to go on separate 30 minute rants about to make you not sound insane for liking it

That damn rape scene genuinely haunts me, because, yes, it’s rape, but they’re also both victims, and it’s trauma bonding, and it’s teenage hormones, and confusion, and having no one else, but also like oh my goodness, and Cathy being like ‘but I could’ve fought you off if I really wanted to’, and Chris being like ‘I’m going to castrate myself’, and it sort of never really being brought up again, and all of Cathy’s other potential love interests being so much worse than her annoying brother who, yes, did rape her but these men over here-

Also, maybe I’m the problem, but ignoring how violent Chris got about the whole situation that led up to the rape he was kinda totally right to be angry?😭 Like Cathy really did just go and kiss their stepdad while he was asleep and he was just openly telling his wife, their mother, about it like it was all just a dream like CATHERINE NO😭 Chris was totally right in being concerned and even angry at her for that I think but also don’t rape your sister Chris, please

Also also, from me constantly just having that scene on repeat in my head, like I said it genuinely haunts me because I do lowkey love Chris and his and Cathy’s relationship, what if he took a chill pill and was, instead of immediately just raping his sister, like ‘what if we fucked? Because I am pent UP’, do we think Cathy would have agreed to that? If there was maybe a bit more communication and it was fully consensual from the very start would Cathy have agreed to have sex with Chris?

#makes me wonder #they were heading toward it #I think Virginia wanted something to push them over the edge and force it because Cathy was too resistant to going farther #they laid together naked though #and he kissed her nipples #she basically admits though that she’ll give him her body because she loves him and he wants it and she wants what he wants

nevabetrice

after reading flowers in the attic, cathy and chris are all i think about i feel sick

jacenyra

good soup

sliceoflove

In need of more chriscathy shippers. Their soulmatism is impeccable ✨

harrowianthe

what i find absolutely incredible about flowers in the attic is how thematically tight it is. like, the incest isn't in there for shock value, it's literally the founding myth of the family: malcolm is possessive of corinne to the point of it being clear that there's something sexual about it, even before you know the full backstory and olivia's religious obsession is arguably a reaction to her husband's attraction to their daughter. you have corinne and chris senior's original sin, obviously. even when chris and cathy are children, it's clear the boundaries with their parents are somewhat muddled and their mutual attraction, at least on chris' part, is influenced by his own unresolved oedipical attraction towards corinne. cathy immediately makes their father a martyr and hates corinne in a textbook helektra complex. part of the tragedy of it is that they would have probably never developed an incestuous relationship if they hadn't been forced to step in as parents to their younger siblings. the narrative closes in on them inexorably and it's all there, from the very first pages!!!

dirt-str1der

Ugh so awesome the way shes doing the exact same thing that christopher did when he was intentionally sucking up to their mom

pruvaire

cathy’s suitors are her brother, adoptive father, or 21 year old evil male manipulator

lilacpaperbird

wdym only 43 fics. just kill me at this point it'll hurt less

wannabeyourgun

You’ll never be free of me

flowersofdollanganger

I love this so much because even though she’s mad at him for saying they’ll always be together she still has to kiss him goodnight😭

#cathy x chris #petals on the wind #shipcest #brother x sister

sharky-teeth

i'm finally reading flowers in the attic and surprise suprise i'm obsessed.... it's basically what i've been desperately looking for for the past several months: brosis with LAYERS. love the slow build, the stifling atmosphere, the growing codependency, the parentification of cathy and chris, a lot of very interesting emotionally complex family dynamics. it has everything i wanted. "He felt the whip, and I let loose his cries of pain." UGHHH

cmlmrbl

Chris and Cathy

without you

kaitlinj16

❤❤❤

mustbolt

the neighbors think we look so perfect. ↬ I DON'T WANNA BE A DOLL.

mustbolt

it wasn't your fault, all you did was look at me

waywardangel-wilds

Never forget that Katniss was so in love with Peeta that she considered him the most fundamentally good person in the world. Peeta Mellark, the guy whose main survival skill was literal manipulation and lying, followed closely by beating people to death with his bare hands. She loved him.