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WEIRDLY SPECIFIC BUT HELPFUL CHARACTER BUILDING QUESTIONS
What’s a phrase they say a lot?
“well, while it might surprise some folks, what with my being a prim and proper young lady, life seems to be getting weirder and weirder the longer i set up camp in hawkins. all this to say, i find myself saying "fuck me to hell and back" quite a bit lately. more often than not, AT someone, and they're rarely happy to hear it.”
If they’re scared, who do they want comfort from? Does this answer change depending on the type of fear?
“back home, my sister Sutton was always the one i would turn to when things got tough. when lessons took a little too much out of me. when my favorite dress tore. when i had secrets i couldn't stand to keep. we're closest in age in our little bubble of family there, only a year apart, and it was always nice to have someone who could relate. could understand. kids at school didn't know enough about us to understand what it was like, didn't know there was a whole other world we were learning about on top of our literature studies. and the at-home curriculum was far from rainbows and butterflies.”
A DEEP BREATH. “i don't talk to her much these days. i try not to write, not to call. i want to, all the time, i want to. but i was the one who was sent away, and i saw how much it hurt her to stay behind. i never want to put any more weight on her. never want her to know. . . that it's not easy here. that i'm still trying to build myself a family, trying to build myself a home from the ground up. so, i guess, these days i comfort myself. no matter what kind of fear it is, i have to comfort myself. i have to try.”
