#POV you're slowly learning to trust your adoptive family but now all your repressed anger and pain is bubbling to the surface as a result

[shimmershy]

Here's a little snippet of some out-of-context scenario I wrote about Chara while trying to deal with my own feelings.

Chara recoiled at the memory. Why did they say that? It hadn't even sounded like them, or at least the perfect, well-behaved, never-troubled version of themself that they let other people see. They hated the Dreemurrs. They decided right then and there. Their "new family" was corrupting them, taking what little good they had in them. They never would have lashed out like that with...before they fell. They never would have let anyone see them like that. They squeezed their eyes shut against the rush of their thoughts. Now the Dreemurrs could see what they really were: selfish, and evil, and ugly. Did they even deserve to be here at all?