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—OCS as HORROR TROPES | METAPHORS
what’s up slimes 👉🏻👈🏻 @a-treides tagged me so lawng ago to do this uquiz thank you jackie you are always clutch w these tags i love u endlessly
—MEAT AS HORROR
meat hooks and conveyor belts and cold metal. the warm eyes of a stupid animal, completely unaware of the watering mouths that await it. "cut here" lines drawn on the body, slabs of steak that bleed and bleed, unrelenting. are you hungry? would you kill to stay alive? you feel like prey, or maybe like predator. sinew is stuck between your teeth, and gore dribbles down your chin. don't chip your teeth on the bones. you feel like the top of the food chain, and don't see the eyes gleaming behind you.
—JUST CATHOLIC TRAUMA
(tw for implications of self harm here) god is judgment. every action is weighted, every action is watched. tally marks on a scoreboard, on skin, your body on a golden scale, and you can't shed enough weight to stop it from tipping. worship isn't enough. sacrifice isn't enough. guilt lays across you in layers. blankets, sheets of snow, cling-wrap cutting off your circulation. you can't save yourself, but you can never stop trying. fire licks at your heels, a constant reminder of what is inevitably waiting for you.
—THE HORROR OF THE MOTHER
complete control over you, your complete reliance on her. you are a helpless child, and she makes every decision for you, asserting to you that she knows what's best. hysterical, emotional, even in her love for you, especially in her hatred for you. the fruit of her loins has rotted, and you cannot escape her scorn. distance means nothing if you're doomed to become her.
—FAMILY AS A CULT
you will never need anyone else. outsiders will hurt you, aim to corrupt you and ruin you and leave you in pieces, but your family will always be there for you. everyone has the same eyes, the same smile. the same sickly yellow light cast over their skin. the same tastes, the same food that melts to gray sludge on your tongue. family recipe. hugs last too long, touches linger and sting like sunburn. don't stray too far. if you come back looking like a wolf rather than a sheep, the dogs will eat you.
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#oc: faustina#wow i mean. well#likely thing for her to be existing within THEE catholic guilt simulator game#well! makes sense#oc: mildred malice#the whole meat thing— yeah#yeah.#oc: celeste#that one is FUCKED UP#she literally IS a helpless child she is just Some Guy that was Chosen to be a Mouthpiece For The Moiroi YOU KNOW#like she’s not even. a minor god. she is just some guy and now she’s important except all of her choices are already made for her and#she gets the privilege (sike) of knowing what’s gonna happen and the exclusivity to know that she can’t change it#helpless. child.#shut up#oc: sibyl delauvéy#and finally. we have her#we have sibyl being thrown to the wolves to be Something but only for her family’s sake#and to still be expected to be their own pet sorceress#SICK. this uquiz was sick
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It irritates me alot when people say that making medic more compassionate is ''missing the point of his character'' when he is literally shown to be in the comics.... did you miss the part where he showed concern for both sniper and miss pauling's well being in comic 5 and 6.
His actions are a combination of genuine attachment + clinical interest and these things do not cancel out one another. He is always pushing boundaries and going against the grain and i think this is what led to him losing his license in the first place. He felt stifled by the rules imposed on him.
He is shown to be extremely passionate so it makes sense that he would use his endless fascination with medicine as a way to show his affection. He loves his friends so he will find a way to make them borderline indestructible. Malpractice is his love language.
#it makes me really angry how adamant some people are against exploring his sweeter side beyond just ''heehoo evil doctor''#idk how to tell you that giving a character a wider range of complexities and oftentimes contradicting traits#does not equal 'woobification'. him being friendly social and cheerful and fascinated with the world around him (which he canonically is)#is not the same thing as writing him as a helpless softboy. those two things do not correlate#he was visibly worried when sniper wanted to get back in the fight!#it's so abundantly clear that medic just misses social cues and doesn't always react accordingly#plus his quote unquote evilness is a joke it's not. something that is meant to be taken seriously#he's more comparable to a saturday morning cartoon villain except he is a protagonist#the way he approaches medicine to me is very similiar to#a child playing potions if that makes sense. he is throwing shit together to see what sticks#and having fun with it#i might rewrite this later to be more coherent because i have alot of thoughts on him that are jumbled together#and there is so much to say abt him#also i find it so funny how inconsistent he is. he tells them they all hallucinated before brain death#yet he personally went to hell multiple times. why did he do that#tf2#medic#tf2 medic#medic tf2#team fortress 2
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i fucking love luffy. his main character energy is unmatched by any other protagonist. sometimes he gets the shit beat out of him, but he’s watching his opponent the whole time. he’s taking it all in. he’s categorized all of their weaknesses and after he eats some meat, he’s wiping the floor with them while pointing and laughing
#luffy#monkey d luffy#one piece#can’f STAND the people who actually think he’s stupid#like yes he’s stupid and silly#but he’s fucking smart. always taking everything in when he wants to take it in#he’s perceptive#yghhhh bc ive talked to one piece fans before that compare him to a cute little helpless child and im like ???#are we watching the same show?#luffy is fucking unhinged
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dp x dc prompt #36
i’ve seen a lot of prompts about de-aged danny running around gotham from the GIW, and one of the bats find him and practically adopt him on the spot.
what i want to see is a very self sufficient four year old danny that has already been successfully escaping for a while with just some minor help from gotham, and is only found because he’s doing something stupid while running away from someone.
i want danny getting chased by the GIW through the city, and the bats only notice when he tarzan swings by them with laxer fire chasing him.
#dp x dc#danny phantom#danny fenton#dc x dp#crossover#dc universe#dp x dc crossover#writing prompt#writing#batpham#de aged danny#he’s not completely helpless#when i was a child i was already climbing the roof and jumping between mine and the neighbors house#a super powered child?#completely helpless without an adult?#please#he still has most of his memories in most cases too#can’t tell me child!danny wouldn’t kick an adult in their knees and start sprinting at the first hint of trouble#forget getting him to trust you#the first step is catching him#funny
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No. I refuse to view these two as the same person.
#One and Murata you have chosen a different path from the webcomic you HAVE TO work through it#you can't go back to the same webcomic vibe it just doesn't fit#One is a warm. thoughtful sensei that has acknowledged genos’ strength (emotionally/physically) and effort and one is just…..#a cold arrogant @ss who couldn't see genos because he was too weak compared to him#excuse me bald head wym by 'something'??#did you even remember he was the only child survive in a massacre?#That he really wanted to save his family and his town but he. couldn't. because he was too weak?#my boy didn't work that hard and was almost dead AGAIN AND AGAIN for 'something' you arrogant idiot!#genos is NOT weak. he is not as strong as you but pls do not view him as a helpless 'something' he hated the most!#saigenos#opm webcomic#chap 140#opm manga cap#saitama#genos#opm#one punch man#kuseno was a saint in these panels#he calmed genos down#and calmed me down from smashing the table#you'll never know how much i wanted to punch saitama in this chapter#opm spoilers#webcomic spoilers#Rant#yusuke murata#One
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there’s a part of us as young adults that reaches out to be loved like a helpless child that craves the simplicity of being cared for and being seen. it is so hard to adjust to the coldness and cruelty of interpersonal relationships… they are so drained of love. i only want to be held by warmth when i reach out to be held. anything less can go.
#thoughts#recovery#mental health#its very profound that we are all just helpless children on the inside that have developed on the outside lol#seems everyone has forgotten where they came from#inner child
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nations locking eyes with their countries' child monarchs knowing that they are both puppets of the people who really rule
#child monarchs are uniquely tragic to me#i think they share a lot of similarities with the way i hc the nations are treated by their rulers a lot of the time#for this reason: england having had a special fondness for george iii#for the same reason#a prisoner of his circumstances#venerated and respected and even feared as the emblem of something much greater than him#but functionally impotent. helpless. subject to the whims of others.#hetalia headcanons#hetalia
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i think if people aged up the terms they use (girl-boss, girl's girl, girl math, i'm just a girl, etc) as pseudo female empowerment to actually resonate with the adult women they're targeting they'd realize how meaningless and empty those terms are - woman boss, woman's woman, woman math, i'm just a woman. immediately there's already a shift of seeing how ridiculous these terms sound when talking about adult women in this cutesy, repackaging of internalized misogyny.
#it's frightening to watch the shift of detachment ADULT WOMEN are having from being an adult back into being a helpless child#and these terms i believe are helping keeping tht agenda going#its jess!#important
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I just realised that Childe's random and seemingly pointless FL activation (the Golden House scene and the courtroom scene) is not rage, it's panic.
That one emotion that he demonstratively lacks.
I kept wondering why did he display cold type of anger in other cases but suddenly went all out in these two situations. That's why.
Types of stress response: fight, flight, freeze, fawn, foul legacy.
(technically it falls under fight but meh)
Also, uhm, he isn't actually hot-tempered then. Or reckless.
#or maybe not panic#but some kind of reaction to helplessness#this is all for CN voiceover#in EN he's very loudly angry when he's angry#childe#tartaglia#also he treats failing a mission as something equally bad to being dead/locked up#and I'm not even sure that in fontaine he feared being locked up by itself and not being stopped from getting to the whale#(which is sort of a mission too. just a personal one)#hmmm#I have headcanons now
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Okay so I've been thinking about @nonbinarylocalcryptid Astyanax lived/daddy odysseus au. Which is some good shit in general. Yall should check it out. But specifically I'm think about what it would be like for this child to grow up on calypso's island. He would have been what ? 3-10 there??
#The odyssey#Odysseus#Astyanax#daddy odysseus au#@nonbinarylocalcryptid's au#Obvious this kid has nothing but trauma all day every day#It is the odyssey#And the whole adopted dad killed my whole family sacked my city thing#And his only role model is odysseus and various monsters#So I imagine he's a very bitter sassy child who hates the gods#But I also think it would be a very hard way to grow up#Watching your only contention to the world even if he did kill everyone else being dragged away from you every night#Finding him every morning sobbing on the beach#Idk man I'm just having a lot of feelings about Astyanax feeling bitter and helpless#And for years not knowing what was going on#Maybe calypso even used him in the early years made him apart of her schemes#And then having a realization of what's going on when he's around 9/10#I'm imagining he and odysseus had a convo about his orgins when he was 7/8#So basically everybody's having a bad time
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Anyone still calling late game Katsuki an abuser in 2024 is just not paying attention. Full stop.
#bkdk#bakudeku#every time I see an anti post they try to define bkdk shippers as just masking their hate of Izuku#or as inappropriately labeling them as childhood friends and that being the basis of the whole ship#or as of acting on the hand hold scene LIKE KATSUKI DID FOR ELEVEN PLUS YEARS IN CANON without realizing that it went sour that first time#or as abuse apologists#they like to whittle katsuki down to the black and white bully even now#in 2024#after everything he’s done#all the growing#they like to whittle Izuku down to a helpless child who can’t find it in himself to stand up for himself#even though canon Izuku not only tolerates Katsuki’s moods#he appreciates him and understands him#and finds joy in being around him#literally I get it if you see them as platonic only#that’s so super chill and an excellent dynamic#but people throwing hate at bkdk shippers only ever out themselves as not understanding or comprehending or even knowing the source material#at all#on the surface Katsuki yells at izuku for literally nothing and it definitely rubs you the wrong way if you are only paying surface level#attention#but after dvk pt 2 he literally only yells because it’s familiar#it’s easier to respond that way than to cope with the guilt that’s eating him alive whenever he sees how happy Izuku is just to be around h#he’s flustered#he’s got a crush#but doesn’t have the emotional intelligence to understand what it is or how to deal yet#Katsuki Bakugo is a flawed character who puts in the work to change and if you’re not acknowledging that you are not paying attention#anyway#lol the post a while ago that said ‘if you ship bkdk just admit you hate Izuku and move on’??????#lol I love him so much AND I ship bkdk because canon tells me that’s what he wants#at least I’m paying attention enough not to think he has to be babified
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Ways abusive parents try to separate you from your human rights:
They threaten to call the police on you if you don't obey them
They threaten you with jail-time and insist that the police will take you away for disobedience
They actually call the police, or emergency services, to create consequences for disobedience
They threaten to 'give you away' to groups of people they deem 'worse' than themselves
They threaten that you'll be kidnapped and sold if you don't obey them
They threaten for you to be put in a home
They threaten you with inhumane living conditions in a home (you won't have you room, you won't have anything, they'll beat you up ever day, etc)
They threaten to institutionalize you if you don't do as they say
They threaten to put you in a mental hospital/psych ward/asylum
They threaten you with court, institutions and government
They convince you that every institution, social service, law enforcement, or any other organized group of people is on their side, and against you, and would fight on their side and enforce their rule over you
They act as if disobeying them is against the law/religion
They insist that nobody will ever want to hire you or pay you a salary
They imply or outright say that it's a waste of space if you were renting out a place or had a place of your own, you do not have the right to occupy your own space in their eyes
They take away your necessities if you disobey them (food, ability to use the bathroom, clothing)
They destroy your property as a form of revenge, and insist it never belonged to you and that they had every right to destroy it
They make sure you're not exposed to educational materials that would inform you that you have a right to safety, food, shelter, and protection from violence and threats
They fight very hard to convince you that what they're doing to you is NOT abuse (saying things like 'you don't even KNOW what abuse is, or 'I'll show you abuse'), and they make sure you're not exposed to any resources or education that would help you recognize abuse
Punishments for standing up for yourself or any attempts to reach justice or point out how unfair, inescapable, hypocritical and painful your situation is
Not allowing you to speak, punishing you for talking back, convincing you that you have no voice and you have no right to defend yourself in any measure
Exposing you to media or real-life situations where children are abused just as badly, or worse than you are, this is a part of grooming they do to convince you that child abuse is normal, acceptable behaviour and not abuse at all
Suggesting that they could do all this to you, and even outright threatening it, implying strongly they know they can get away with it, since others can
Convince you that everyone else has it worse, and repeat how lucky you actually are to have them
They list all of the things that would be happening to you if they weren't so kind to you (you'd be starving on the street, be kidnapped/sold/tortured, die from lack of resources, be abandoned, not survive in any possible way)
Convince you that you're not, in fact, a human being and thus have no business expecting human rights (brainwashing, calling you animal names, calling you demon/satan/monster)
Accuse you repeatedly of being a financial burden, shame you for costing money, demand credit/favours/services/labour/obedience in return for giving you survival resources like food and clothing and school supplies
Neglect to inform you that government is giving them a tax-break for every kid they're supporting and that the society is built so that children would be financially taken care of and do not need to earn their food, shelter or basic necessities
Scare you into believing that every other authority figure (teachers, boss, police, judge, authorities) would treat you even worse and would demand even a higher degree of obedience and submission from you, threaten you with how badly the interaction would go for you if you were to stand up to any other authority figure
Insist that if you were to act with this level of spite, refusal, rejection or disrespect to any other person, they would simply snap and kill you (implied death threat – you're lucky that I'm not ending your life right now)
Act like they own you, to the degree that they feel they have every right to end your life and would not be arrested or blamed if they were to kill you, since you're just their property
Add more if you have lived through other experiences that left you feeling like you had no protection, no rights in the eyes of the law, and no way to recognize your humans rights are being violated. Even one single item on this list means your human rights were kept from you.
#abusive parents#toxic parents#child abuse#human rights violations#traumatic childhood#death threats#threatening behaviour#psychological abuse#it's not enough that the child is tiny and physically helpless#the child also needs to feel like the entire world is set against them#and that they have no rights to safey or happiness#fucking disgusting gross behaviour#their power trips are repulsive and disgusting and they should be shamed for it forever#convincing small children they're a burden on society and have no rights to live or be safe#horrendous awful depraved monstrous sadistic abominable demonic repulsive criminal behaviour#prison for eternity
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theres something kinda funny abt the fact that Watchers are very smart, like they’re observant and practically stalk players to learn more and more abt them and the worlds-
But they inevitably cannot help seeing them as children, despite all the studying and watching, they will think players are small, cute, and dumb !
The urge to guide and foster them into strong wise warriors is too much. The players need them to survive, surely.
Though seeing them as kids might be too kind to say actually, Watchers look at players like…. Maybe a new puppy… Ready to train, but then if the barking is too much, if they don’t listen, if they cry and they bite.. The Watchers don’t want it anymore.
Really depends on who you ask ! You’re in better luck if the Watcher sees kids over animals tho
#they’re so weird .#the difference between Aether and Flora. one sees a child while the other sees a dog#Some parents will view their pets as children and their children as pets#evoau#reminds me of when people see dangerous wild cats and think Babey !#the watchers are like that. but players aren’t threatening or dangerous to them#pick up a roach and call it cute and try to teach it taxes this is what the watchers do#watchers think. believe. and enforce that they keep the universe in order while playing with cats#the watchers.. despite viewing eveyrhing as dumb young and helpless…. are quite childish themselves
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the "3000 year old child" trope has the possibility to be genuinely intriguing and could explore the way children are treated across time no matter their apparent level of intelligence. it could be funny it could be heartbreaking it could be horrific to think about. too bad 90% of it is just an excuse to be a creep. sad!
#media#txt#er#kinda#i know some people dont like miquella being That Way mostly in relation to everything with mohg#but i think miquella is one of the only examples ive seen where this is taken seriously and like. actually thought about outside of#haha what if this grown woman was in a childs body so she was helpless but also sexualized isnt this groundbreaking#his whole thing is being hypercompetent to make up for being stuck as booster seat size for millenia#i think that its cool that his mind manilpulation powers are likely based partially on a survival instinct people have around kids. he just#uses it to his advantage to start a cult of suicide bombers sometimes because we get a little silly#also the funny factor of seeing this kid and being like 'oh how sweet hes reading his literature :-)' and then you look into his eyes and g#oh.. you have seen the endless yawning void havent you... well.. thats too bad
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on oscar and morris delancey
steven berkoff, the fall of the house of usher / the fall (detail) by alan stephens foster / two friends by malcolm t liepke / wikipedia, “law of holes” / embrace by peter wever / margaret atwood, the blind assassin / how the light gets in / hera lindsay bird, mirror traps / tabitha suzuma, forbidden / sue zhao, where to begin
#oscar delancey#morris delancey#the delancey brothers#web weave#so normal about them! have such normal feelings about the complexities of their relationship#how trauma plays into it intrinsically and how it’s so tangled with obligation and trauma bonding and helplessness and you are all i’ve got#so codependent that they don’t know where the love starts and ends#or maybe the love is all of it#sometimes it feels like it’s none of it#oscar’s an older brother and a father and a mother and a sister and a child#morris is unwanted#they love each other#they’d have nothing if they didn’t
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Yeah so…did Aizawa and Hizashi and Kurogiri’s story actually matter at all cause like…WTF happened.
#for all that set up….#mha#bnha#boku no hero academia#my hero academia#eraserhead#kurogiri#present mic#seriously. the most dignified death for a child who never got to fulfill his dreams and was brutally tortured and manipulated and changed#was to punch him to death#while his best friends were helpless to watch for a second time#I’m sick of this#not even in a good way#just.#why invent the character at all. Shirakumo was Horikoshi’s idea#what was the point.
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