> Okay remember when I briefly mentioned darkage abuses and didn't elaborate on that, it's time to do that now
> TWS FOR CHILD ABUSE, MANIPULATION AND NEGLECT, ATTEMPTED MURDER + BRIEF MENTIONS OF NONSEXUAL NUDITY
> Vinestaff was cast aside. We all already know this, but she was specifically cast out into the rainforest, stripped of her clothes (inphernal logistics, nonsexual, not weird, they just sent a child out completely unprotected to the cold, the damp, and the wilderness.), when she couldn't even properly summon her gear. The intent was clearly killing her without having anyone actively bear the weight of putting a hand on a child. If it hadn't been beacuase of her symbiotic relationship with the flora, she would have died.
> Beacuase of this, she's developed attachment issues to her chosen family, and often times will just walk over to them and stay there to 'make sure they aren't leaving'. Yes the notion has made Shuri cry before.
> Speaking of Shuriken, he did not have a good childhood either! Always so good, always so adept at what he did. Fast, precise, agile, deadly. The golden child of the Den. His caretakers used Vinestaff as some twisted form of praise, badmouthing her to 'praise' him. "Oh I'm almost glad she forced us to try again, or we wouldn't have had you!" || "And that's why you see there can't be light without dark, little one." They made him train harder than most, too, to make him 'make up' for his sister's existence. When he showed signs of strain, of considering something else, he was run to the ground in training, to exhaustion, or witheld from meals, to then be easily manipulated back.
> As an adult, in Crossroads, he's severely burnt out and struggles to find passion in anything except the thing he raised and made to do, which is the only reason that Silver Shadow exists. He struggles thinking affection and care are real and not just strategies to keep him compliant. He's a guard dog Sling and Vine are trying to turn into a lapdog. It's not working well. They've reprimanded him for missing the clan. As if he can help missing the thing that gives him sole purpose. And it doesn't help that he feels as equally run into the ground between the cafe and the vigilante work. It's like never broke out of the abuse, he feels the exact same, he's not healing.
> Be it whatever it is, both of them flinch at seeing Katana in his Darkage clan garb.
> See you on the Flipside,
you. YOU. YOUUU. I'M STRANGLING YOU.
oh my gosh... @shuriken-detector (can't @ vinestaff detector) eat ts up RIGHT NOW
i freaking love this interpretation of them but also how dare you. modlings, get him —MXBOT!!
^ nnnnno. i like this too, though. wonderfully written, anon..'t -andrew
