in a similar vein to the last post but i think there's a common presumption when it comes to stories about trauma and abuse that the supposed end goal should be the victim of said trauma and abuse coming out "better" and "healed", that the goal is to move on. and when you interrogate this nebulous idea of what being "healed" means usually it comes down to all traces of the trauma being completely erase from the character's body, as if nothing has ever happened, as if they are a completely diffrent person unmarred by abuse. and even though i don't always levy realism as a metric for good writing i just don't think that's realistic. to be honest