except there's a stark difference between being told about it and actually seeing it. no words could have actually prepared him for seeing santa-- mari-- foxglove-- this girl who he loves and wants to protect -- being so thoroughly destroyed in more ways than can actually be said.
he
somewhere in the middle of the memory-- about the first time that baton cracks over her skull-- he actually surges to his feet, his eyes wide and rapt on the man. ]
Stop-- [ but of course it doesn't.
actually stop.
because it's a memory. it's a video, the things happening are unreachable and unstoppable. ]
Santa-- [ no, ] Foxglove-- ? [ fuck what is he supposed to say, what is he supposed to do, he can't help her --
he can't even see her. not really. because his vision is going red and his eyes are turning a dangerous, primal yellow. his instinct to fight-- to destroy whatever hurts her,
Re: cw: child abuse (physical, mental, and sexual)
guess he's here for this now.
except there's a stark difference between being told about it and actually seeing it. no words could have actually prepared him for seeing santa-- mari-- foxglove-- this girl who he loves and wants to protect -- being so thoroughly destroyed in more ways than can actually be said.
he
somewhere in the middle of the memory-- about the first time that baton cracks over her skull-- he actually surges to his feet, his eyes wide and rapt on the man. ]
Stop-- [ but of course it doesn't.
actually stop.
because it's a memory. it's a video, the things happening are unreachable and unstoppable. ]
Santa-- [ no, ] Foxglove-- ? [ fuck what is he supposed to say, what is he supposed to do, he can't help her --
he can't even see her. not really. because his vision is going red and his eyes are turning a dangerous, primal yellow. his instinct to fight-- to destroy whatever hurts her,
is most likely not actually helping at all. ]