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corvigae · 2 years ago

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Nova

Ugly Crier - McKenna Grace

EEEYYY it's the song I just added this morning, lol.

Okay, so two quick things about Nova, 1 - her dad is a literal genius who has Very High Expectations for his kids, and 2 - ya girl has ADHD. And so when she proved herself at a young age to be a pretty smart kid, her dad was very enthusiastic abt her being a Gifted Student. Unfortunately, this combo of enthusiasm and high expectations ended up unintentionally putting a lot of pressure on Nova to constantly feel like she needs to always be academically over-achieving, resulting in a perfectionist streak. Now, as I'm sure many former gifted kids with ADHD will tell you, that shit gets Progressively Harder the older you get, and eventually you absolutely WILL burn out. So this song is very accurate to the type of depressive spiral Nova finds herself in when she finally reaches the very end of her rope and can't meet her own perfectionist standards anymore, convinced that if she can't do this then she's just not worthwhile at all in general.

#oc stuff #nova leonard #the leonard family #errol's not purposefully trying to push her too far and to be Perfect #but he does unintentionally project his expectations enough that nova THINKS she needs to not disappoint him #and therefore needs to keep burning the candle at both ends until she runs out of wick #it should be noted that when she finally does break down and explain what's going on errold feels TERRIBLE about it #and immediately reassures her that it's okay to take a break and ask for help #he's a good dad he's just not always The Best bc he's a bit of an ass as a person

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