#they're just sitting there like ‘I went to a terrible realm beneath the earth to get you back and also birthed you in the first place

[mourningcandles]

I need a coherent timeline for sunless skies/nemesis spare au because I keep writing fics for it. I need to find out how many mental breakdowns Idris had before they lost their daughter again. Like how many times can you scare the snot out of a six year old before she decides she's better off risking it staying with some other adult she has almost no reason to trust but is at least not you?

So far it seems that Idris went to the Royal Beth twice before they finally received a response from their ex-wife re: taking the kid back to the Surface. They have so many layers of trauma, they just don't think they can handle it and they know their daughter doesn't want to be around them.