#and it makes me think. that's not an evil Cass. that's a scared traumatized and alone Cass. Possibly more alone than her original self

[secondhand-sonder]

girls when the kindness is still there despite everything

[twotangledsisters]

Messages my friend has sent me while reading about the future of Two Tangled Sisters (no context and posted with permission):

"Wow, I think I may hate Varian a bit, not as much as he's hating himself right now, but a teeny bit."

"I swear to god I did not become attached to a character I've always loved to hate for you to do THAT."

"I hope this guy gets fired, or at the very least, I hope Cass gives him the middle finger."

"I hate Frederic/Rapunzel/Cassandra/Eugene/Varian/Andrew/this one random noble lady/Lady Caine/The Stabbingtons/King Trevor/Willow/The Baron/the other six kingdoms/Corona right now" she has a lot of hatred.

"Can someone please get this woman a sword please!" "NOT THAT SWORD... oh, okay, that sword's fine."

"Eugene is playing with fire... Eugene got burnt." (not in a literal sense)

"Eugene get away from the fire!" (yes in a literal sense)

"Frederic is regretting Cass' adoption one sassy comment at a time." (Honestly, my favorite and too true)

"I hate that Eugene is right."

"HOW FUCKING DARE CASSANDRA SAY THAT TO ARIANNA AFTER--oh, wait, she's crying, nevermind I love her."

"I hope someone punches Demanitus, by someone, I mean everybody at least once, starting and ending with Cassandra."

"Oh... Zhan Tiri is a genius... evil... but a genius..."

"Oh, it's fine, she can fix this... welp, evil lesbians gotta evil lesbian."

"Aww, that's sweet in a sad way...and now it's traumatic."

"On one hand Lance said exactly what I was thinking, on the other hand, DONT SAY THOSE STUFF TO THE KING YOU LOVEABLE IDIOT."

"Rapunzel, listen to your boyfriend."

"Arianna could and should just run the seven kingdoms on her own."

"Cassandra is not qualified for that, send her home please."

"Eugene got so close to making everything better... I'm not even angry at him for getting hurt, I just feel sad and scared for him. Also, can someone get Rapunzel some therapy before she murders redacted?"

"I'm not sure how I feel about two children going on an adventure but... on second thought, I don't trust Frederic, take them on the adventure. What's the worst that can happen?" "Ooooooh, that's the worst that can happen."

I may be causing her some intense trust issues. Sorry? but thanks for listening to me ramble and reading half-written scenes from many chapters down the line xD (she doesn't have tumblr, but she knows who she is)

[nerdasaurus1200]

Chris Sonnenburg: Cassandra is an evil badass with no emotions like her mother.

TTS comics: *has Cass do arts and crafts for her father*

TTS: *gives her a very sad traumatic childhood,makes her love tops and gives her a little stuffed owl, has her be gentle with a random castle rat, has her talk and sing to kittens, has her snap out of a spell because Pascal is scared, has her adopt an emotional support extrovert without him knowing, probably made her think Fiddlesticks is a swear word, snuggles her horse any chance she can get*

TTS Books: *makes her interested in cartography and organization so much that she plans an entire itinerary for season 2 before they even know where they're going*

Eden: Cassandra's trauma is kinda the root of her character, she's always been that scared little girl trying to prove herself

Me: *glances at Chris*

[dottie-wan-kenobi]

Dick or Kory! (whichever you can think of ones for)

🤔🤔🤔 I think I’ll do 6 total, 3 each. tysm for the ask dude!!

Dick:

1. put Donna or Roy or both in mortal danger. maybe he has to pick to save only one of them, and there’s just simply no time to think, no way that even Nightwing (or any other bat) could possibly save both, and there’s also no backup coming, no one even aware that the three of them are in this mess in the first place. I think he’d try and save Roy first, just because Donna can live thru more than Roy could, but to make this even more evil, what if they’re threatening (NTT background) Donna with fire? Dick knows how traumatizing it must be for her to go through that, and he doesn’t want her to have to relive that for a second longer, but Roy is about to die and she’s an Amazon and he’s just a human so he HAS to save Roy, who he’s also freaking out about and doesn’t want to die. but he’s thinking about her every second, and whether she lives or not, he never forgets it, never forgives himself for it

2. shoot Dick in the head but instead of doing the Ric thing, keep him at home with people who care about him and don’t immediately make him relive the shooting. Dick can’t remember anything past a certain age -- maybe just after his parents die. so he’s having nightmares all the time of their death, and he’s in this big huge house that he keeps getting lost in, with these strangers who keep STARING at him like they’re just waiting for him to wake up. ya know, it’s very clear to him that they don’t want who he is right now, they want the Dick Grayson they know. and it turns out that that Dick Grayson is the most popular goddamn man on the planet. there’s a never ending list of guests. all of them are kind enough, but they look at him the same way, waiting for the Real Him. so he’s traumatized, in pain, exhausted, and clearly unwanted, but when he tries to leave, tries to exercise ANY of the freedom that he should have since he’s an ADULT ffs, they all treat him like he’s so breakable. and they won’t listen when he says that he’s durable, that Graysons always bounce back, that’s he fine and can’t he just go walk in the grass without socks or shoes, so he can feel kind of normal for once! and it just goes on and on until he runs away

3. okay, have Dick kill the Joker but don’t bring him back to life. have the consequences of Nightwing -- the light of the superheroing community, the heart -- actually breaking the rule........killing someone..........killing the Joker........ripple through the ranks. Dick’s friends, some of the League, Alfred, Tim, Cass & Steph, they’re all like “it’s not okay but we don’t blame you, we aren’t angry at you.” others are just so shocked that they can’t believe it. Nightwing, kill? please, that would never happen. the rest are just angry at him & judge him. I won’t say any of these POVs are right or wrong, but I think, on top of his own trauma and issues with it, the ones that can’t believe he’d do it? their faith in him HURTS. he’s a killer, a murderer, but they’re so sure he couldn’t ever go that far that they aren’t believing it even after he’s admitted to it. this is like, Clark and Dinah and Ollie and Barry (or whoever, idk), who’ve known him since he was a kid and who he loves like family. so not only does his dad hate him for breaking the rule, not only is he now a Bad Person who’s crossed a line he can never come back from, he’s also permanently ruined those relationships too.

(Bruce doesn’t actually hate him, no one does, but he’s spiraling and not communicating and he just thinks they all do)

Kory:

1. can you imagine her seeing her friends go through any kind of torture similar to what she went through. I’m thinking about Vic in particular but any of them, really. or maybe not even seeing them go through it, just being there for them while they vent about it, about how helpless and scared they felt, and she’s sitting there trying to listen and comfort them while also internally screaming and pushing away all thoughts of her own torture because now is SO not the time. I also think her friend would be able to tell that she’s not in a good mental space to keep comforting them, and I think they would try and say that she doesn’t need to listen, they’re okay. Kory obviously says she’ll keep listening, because she can tell they need her and also because she’s DETERMINED to get through this okay, she’s not the one who was just tortured was she. she probably manages to hold on until the friend is ready to be done, but then she has to go and fly and maybe have a small breakdown in the park (where she’s free, and the air is fresh, and there’s not endless and empty space all around)

2. idk anything about what’s going on w her in canon other than she’s brainwashed. so let’s go with that. someone brainwashes her, which is already bad because she values her freedom more than just about anything, but then. BUT THEN. whoever it is makes her go after her friends, or innocent civilians, or destroy a building like a hospital. she fights the control as hard as she can, and she wins somehow (painfully, I imagine), but then she’s standing there in the destruction. everyone is staring at her, terrified that she’s not going to stop, that she’s going to hurt them or kill them, and when she steps forward, hands up in that earth way that means innocent, they flinch away from her

3. hmmm consider that in some version of rhato, she gets hurt somehow. blasted out of the sky, free falls to the ground, slams into it hard and definitely absolutely hits her head. she’ll be okay soon enough, but when she finally blinks her eyes open, either Roy or Jason is standing/kneeling over her, protecting her from whatever bad guys they’re fighting. and for a second.....she thinks Roy is Ryand’r, or Jason is Dick, but they’re both dead and gone. her brother and her lover, gone forever. and she’s fine to stand up and keep fighting, but the second it all stops, when the eerie silence is ringing out and one of the guys asks her if she’s alright, she just. imagines it’s Ryand’r/Dick, and she misses them so much it aches. but yeah. yeah, she’s alright.

send me a character and I’ll put them in 5 situations that’ll cause them maximum emotional anguish