#shout out to my roommate who specifically wants him to see The Hallway Monster. solidarity.

[tofixtheshadows]

I need people who write fic with Kabru but don't have PTSD themselves to know that PTSD often gets worse once you're safe. When you're no longer in survival mode, that's when your brain really gets to lean in to the crazy. He is not cured just because he's no longer re-traumatizing himself as a career or because he's had one specific trigger removed from his life. The flashbacks are going to continue and the nightmares and insomnia are going to continue and the need to please is going to continue and he's absolutely going to transfer his "I have to do this or everyone will die" anxiety from sealing the dungeon to helping to run a new country in a precarious position. Real ones know he's seeing The Hallway Monster at night.