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- Oct 1, 2014
You know, I was thinking... Vade doesn't act like they properly mourned Kennith.
Vade avoids anything that could possibly remind them of him: his favorite games, anime, even his picture, they're all enough to "trigger" Vade. But I don't think it's triggering.
I think it's grief.
Vade doesn't handle grief very well. The fact that they didn't go to Kennith's funeral (if they were even invited in the first place) means that Vade never really got to say goodbye. In Vade's mind, Kennith is a corpse (hence corpse trigger), and is no longer the boy they loved.
Vade never talks about the memories they shared. Vade only brings him up for sympathy, or when they crave physical contact. When their co-worker started talking about him, Vade cut it off completely by saying he was dead.
He's just a corpse. A corpse with its head blown off.
My dad died last year. For Christmas, my aunt got my sister and I a photo album each for, filled with pictures of Dad and us as kids. She also gave me a framed photo of my Dad. On his birthday, she gave me a necklace with a little pewter charm shaped like a drumset, and his birthstone. I wear it every day.
I don't ask people to tag "tw: drums," or "tw: Ravens," or "tw: heart attack." I see things that remind me of Dad and I get sad, but I also try to remember the good times. I don't want to remember my dad as the cold, clammy corpse in his coffin, though the smell and the feel of his hand still haunts me. But I carry him in my heart. So long as I'm alive to tell stories about him, he won't truly be dead.
Of course, Vade's case is more complicated, since Vade pushed Kennith away and abused him. Vade knows that they fucked up, that they contributed to everything that made him miserable. Mourning him would mean confronting that Vade fucked up. Mourning him would mean no running away any time Vade sees something that remotely reminds them of Kennith. Vade has avoided the grieving process for so long, I wonder if they're capable of it.
Vade would rather shove the memories of Kennith into the closet with all their skeletons than keep him alive through their heart.
And I find that incredibly sad.
Vade avoids anything that could possibly remind them of him: his favorite games, anime, even his picture, they're all enough to "trigger" Vade. But I don't think it's triggering.
I think it's grief.
Vade doesn't handle grief very well. The fact that they didn't go to Kennith's funeral (if they were even invited in the first place) means that Vade never really got to say goodbye. In Vade's mind, Kennith is a corpse (hence corpse trigger), and is no longer the boy they loved.
Vade never talks about the memories they shared. Vade only brings him up for sympathy, or when they crave physical contact. When their co-worker started talking about him, Vade cut it off completely by saying he was dead.
He's just a corpse. A corpse with its head blown off.
My dad died last year. For Christmas, my aunt got my sister and I a photo album each for, filled with pictures of Dad and us as kids. She also gave me a framed photo of my Dad. On his birthday, she gave me a necklace with a little pewter charm shaped like a drumset, and his birthstone. I wear it every day.
I don't ask people to tag "tw: drums," or "tw: Ravens," or "tw: heart attack." I see things that remind me of Dad and I get sad, but I also try to remember the good times. I don't want to remember my dad as the cold, clammy corpse in his coffin, though the smell and the feel of his hand still haunts me. But I carry him in my heart. So long as I'm alive to tell stories about him, he won't truly be dead.
Of course, Vade's case is more complicated, since Vade pushed Kennith away and abused him. Vade knows that they fucked up, that they contributed to everything that made him miserable. Mourning him would mean confronting that Vade fucked up. Mourning him would mean no running away any time Vade sees something that remotely reminds them of Kennith. Vade has avoided the grieving process for so long, I wonder if they're capable of it.
Vade would rather shove the memories of Kennith into the closet with all their skeletons than keep him alive through their heart.
And I find that incredibly sad.
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