#kyle simpson

[barclaysangel]

Andy: Are you thinking what I’m thinking?

Kyle: Yes!

Andy: You’re thinking about having sex with Nica?

[onedaisy1000]

Something that makes me so ill about Andy is the progression of how he's forced to suppress his trauma responses to try and convince people that he's normal, and how it gradually hollows him out.

It's most explicit in Child's Play 2, when he's eight fucking years old, because that's when we first see him really start doing it. Like, he hates talking about Chucky because it was incredibly traumatic and the only right answer any adult will accept is that none of it even happened. So in his first scene in that movie we see him play along with the child psychologist to get him to lay off:

But then we see it develop and sharpen after he's taken in by the Simpsons, since Phil isn't shy about wanting to send Andy back to the crisis center whenever his fear of Good Guy dolls comes up:

And so Andy pointedly pretends to be ok with Good Guy dolls just to get them to accept him:

Andy forces his feelings and reactions down in order to pass as normal and untroubled so that he's tolerable enough to keep around. Fun fact, this is actually expanded upon in the Child's Play 2 novelization in the scene where the Tommy doll falls on him in the closet:

Even though the book's additions and changes aren't canon, I feel like this section is true enough to Andy's evident arc in the movie to consider it a faithful representation of his perspective.

He gives up the facade of normalcy for most of the rest of Child's Play 2 because Chucky's on his heels and the stakes are too high, but we see the same patterns in his other appearances. In Child's Play 3, he fishes for the "right answer" that will satisfy Colonel Cochrane without mentioning Chucky, quoting from his official file:

It doesn't work, but you can see how badly he wished it had. And there are examples of him swallowing his panic and/or delivering "normal" responses to things that set him off throughout the movie:

Boy I wonder what this habit of suppressing and rejecting his emotions will lead to. I wonder if it will severely stunt his emotional development. I wonder if he will struggle to emote genuinely because he has learned to smother all his genuine emotions to avoid being given up or forced to revisit his trauma as something that "wasn't real". I wonder.

Then in Cult there's his strategic downplay of the number of weapons he owns and his textbook justifications to appease people who don't like guns:

Alas, just like with Colonel Cochrane, it doesn't work:

Funny how this is the second time we see Andy deal with the reality of people not putting up with him & his symptoms as soon as it's inconvenient or scary. Phil also thought he was too much and wanted to get rid of him. I wonder how many more times this happened when he tried to build relationships. I bet constant rejection would really reinforce his masking behavior and disconnection from the genuine parts of himself. Hm. (:

And the extra juicy bit that I stay up at night thinking about: he hid the Chucky head from Kyle for the same reason!! He doesn't want her to think he's crazy!

And Kyle does get on him for acting "irrationally"! Andy was right about how she'd react! Her initial judgement of his trauma-driven actions is that they're crazy! Everyone in Andy's life wants him to be normal despite his trauma, even people who were there with him when it happened!

Credit to Kyle, she lets it go pretty quick and doesn't hold it against him, even when Andy makes it pretty obvious that the real reason he kept the head for 4 years was because he likes hearing Chucky scream. There's not actually any risk of Kyle giving up on Andy because he kept the head to torture it; this is more Andy continuing his ingrained self-defence behavior patterns and Kyle being surprised and worried. Still, this exchange is telling of how and why Andy doesn't feel safe without carefully constructing an acceptable version of himself, even around those he's closest with.

This all makes me so insane. The way he had to learn to mask and hide symptoms for others to tolerate him when he was 6 and still has to do it going into his 40s. The way swallowing trauma rots you from the inside out and won't ever stop. The way that this wasn't even really Chucky's doing, it was the time inbetween. It was the foster care system, the mental health system, the social norms about mental disability symptoms and what healing should look like. Andy Barclay survived Chucky trying to rip out his soul just for the systems that were meant to support him to do it instead. I'M ILL!!!!!!

[nicascurls]

Alice Befriends Junior AU

Rachel: Is that Nathan with Michelle?! It looks like he's smiling.

Kyle: I didn't think he could smile.

Andy: He looks taller, too.

Nica: Well, we'd all be taller if we'd just divorced Michelle.

Bree: Taller, younger, happier, stronger.

Malcolm: Cheers to that.

@barclaysangel @fairchilds-glasses @nicapiercesproperty

[yesiscandyskiller]

Yes Kyle, tell' im!! 😫💜

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[fairchilds-glasses]

Final family/Alice befriends Junior AU

@nicascurls @barclaysangel

The adults catch themselves doing this all the time, they also call each other out on it 😂

[cornerofhell]

I want Glen and Glenda to have their memories back and be included in the trauma dumping lmao

"-Yeah and then after I chopped Dad up at the age of six, my mother transferred me and Glenda into the body of infants."

".....And all this over three days?"

"Yeah. Oh and they Psyches stuff like I said."

Andy, Nica, and Kyle just standing there like:

[sigyn-foxyposts]

"Kyle Fanart!! 💜💙"

I love our underrated final girl, a badass with a heart of gold. I adore her so much. 💛

[frostythekillerdoll]

Ough ok so its Late at night and ive been watching chucky for 3 straight days so my thoughts arent. Present? But mostly the chucky franchise/mostly actually just child's play 1 and 2 hit on the lack of autonomy or basic respect children have in a way that is so interesting to me! Honestly i wish we had a kid protagonist who was just deeply angry in the sort of sickening way that happens when kids realize they arent considered people. Probably why i like Nica so much. I feel like once this franchise has settled into my mind in like a week my thoughts are gonna be much more interesting than this.

YES. andy's helpless, the stubborn inability of the adults to LISTEN TO WHAT THIS KID IS SAYING AND MAYBE EVEN JUST LOOK INTO IT A LITTLE AT ALL? all it takes is karen to even... nervously, to placate herself, check chucky's batteries and suddenly everything makes sense. her only son is not crazy, she is not crazy, there is a man out to fucking get them and she KNOWS IT NOW. but andy knew it first, and he was ignored and bullied for it. if they even once took andy's fear of chucky seriously beforehand and attempted to check the batteries for him, just to prove chucky was a regular battery-powered doll, chucky could've been stopped wayyy earlier !!!!!! but andy is a child, and thus unbelievable. then karen is a woman, and thus unbelievable. so many adults in the franchise- ESPECIALLY IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT CHILD'S PLAYS 1 AND 2- are well-meaning! the simpsons, our cp2 social worker grace, detective norris. yet andy and kyle cannot be taken seriously. because they're young, and they've lost someone, and they're weird, and they're problem children. for the crime of believing her son when he told her the truth, karen is institutionalized. assumed to be a hysterical woman that broke from the stress of grieving single motherhood. and it's not even just about being believed, it's everything. andy and kyle both have so little control over their situations due to their ages, and that works to chucky's advantage multiple times. chucky getting andy's address in cp2 bcuz a (blood) relative of andy should know best, right, not andy himself, right. andy's social worker gave his stalker his new address. what the fuck !!!!!!!