#ohhhhhh boy uh made myself emotional writing this up

[thedeafprophet]

4 for the trio 👀

4. Has your character ever witnessed something that fundamentally changed them? If so, does anyone else know?

Okay. So. A lot of this is witnessing death lmao.

oh boy

Content warnings for discussion of: death, fire, past child abuse, period typical illness, and period typical child death

Josephine

I mean. Nemesis character, i think this one is probably a given 😅 She did not directly witness Gabriels death, but it was the finding him that was enough of the witnessing. To this day, Gabriel's murder is an event Josephine can't understand; a level of cruelty so uneeded and so severe.

It affected Josephine, who was only 10 years old at the time, significantly. She was never really able to move past it, not even now. To a certain extent, Josephine was stuck in that moment, pushed forward only by her need to find answers, her want, desperatly, to find out why. This same motive would push her through much of her life

Josephine's inabaility to move on from her brothers death very much inspired the reason she made the choice she did. Even now, with other things, it haunts her choice. Josie will never back down, never stop in her goals. Even if there are times that maybe she should.

Alex

Alex's start was rocky from the beginning. After his mother passed away following his birth, the family fractured under the weight of her loss. Witnessing all of this was the beginning of his problems, his older sister having to take over a parental role despite only being 5 years older, his father turn to alchol and anger in the face of the loss of wife. Alex and his sister often dealt with the inability of their father to process his emotions.

The main incident that Alex witnessed was the night his father died. No one really knows what caused the house fire, all they knew is that one moment the building was in flames. Alex and Adelaide made it out. Their father didnt.

It is a question that remains, where the pyromania started and when this event occured, which involved the other.

It was an accident after all....wasn't it?

Jamie

As many people know, the start of Jamie's life was as a foundling at an orphanage. There general issues there, and their experiences later, with bullying and neglect obviously lead to who they are today.

Jamie didnt have many friends even when they were little, but when they were rather young, about the 6 or 7 age, they were friends with one other little girl, named Molly. Matched with Jamie in energy, and more michievous then they were back then, the two of them were very close.

At one point, an illness spread among the residents of the orphange, causing many people to become ill, including Molly. One night, Molly asked Jamie if they could help her go out to see the nearby forest they played in one last time. They didnt make it there, but made it close, and Jamie held Molly's hand for the last time.

To this day, Jamie struggles signficantly having witnessed the loss at such a young age, and a signficant amount of survivors guilt. They dont understand why they survived when she didnt.

It wasn't fair.

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