#favourite child

[azzibuckets535]

IM CRYING 😭😭

man azzi really is the favourite child

[onnahu]

Okay so let's set things straight (ha ha). When we discuss Bruce's favourite child, I feel like people without siblings don't get that most families that are functional (and if their parents arent pieces of shit, which in canon when we can even consider Bruce having a fav he is not a piece of shit) it's not that being favourite mean parents love you the most. All batkids are loved equally. Being favourite is about who you like the most.

So yeah. Also, favourites often does not make sense, or are just the most unproblematic child.

[kcuf-ad]

[call-me-chips]

Mother just pulled me aside and told me that the gift I got for my youngest sister wasn't good enough and I need to buy her another thing,

so

yea :/

[th3willingvictim0f4c5nnib4l]

I could rant on for ages about how even tho we don't see him for mor than 20 minutes, george waggner was clearly the favorite child 🤷‍♂️

[delepiphane]

The aesthetics of my room 🎀

[itstheghostofmypast]

Generational trauma apart, the sheer essence of toxicity present within parents is just amusing. While they have every right to feel burdened by society and expectations tossed at them, there lies no reason for them to manhandle the illogical stress and the surface pressure they, themselves bring upon themselves. One of the worst things they can do is to turn those expectations into habits that they endorse upon their child. Demanding the child, at whatever age, lives like a "better replica" of them.

This is where the issue lies, if you couldn't take the pressure, why should I? Rather, how could you want your child to suffer through the same, just so it turns into a product you can then boast about? Its acts like these that make me feel as if having a child isn't my cup of tea any way, let alone whatever other desi person expectation there is.

I don't know if a desi culture thing or an overall Asian quality, but with all that pressure and forced trauma comes the ability to pick favourites; the lap dog and the punching bag. The best part is, to be the punching bag, you don't need physical abuse, you'll receive a monthly package of toxic; gut-wrenching dialogues thrown at you, your dreams and aspirations made fun of in front strangers, your likes be dismissed because you are irrelevant, back handed hints about how you aren't the favourite and best of all a daily dose of snarky comments reminding you of your past mistakes/failures.

As a bonus, sometimes, you may even be reminded about how they worry more about your other sibling(s), and not you- not because they don't love you, everyone already knows you aren't their favourite, it's just that they've trained you so well, they know you'll have a series of anxiety attacks and a possible nervous breakdown before taking any decision. Since they gave the others the choice of free will, which they use, while you are a failed project, a bag they can stuff their hopeless dreams into.

[macaquespissjar]

Edward to Mustang: I better be your favourite child.

Mustang: My what-

Edward, completely deadpan, pointing at Riza and Al bonding: Al won over mrs. Riza, so, if I'm not your favourite child, I'm shoving my automail so far down your throat you'll-

Mustang, internally, shocked: My child????? HE CONSIDERS ME A FATHER FIGURE????????????