So like, I don't know if it's touched on in Ward in any great detail, though likely not, but given what we know about how close Vicky and Amy were even before triggering, I wouldn't be surprised if -
Vicky probably was fully and accepting of encouraging of how much Amy just sort of followed her everywhere and always 'stuck around in her shadow' as much as she did, for a long time. I mean, she could have tried to push Amy away sooner if she felt like her sister was being too much of a tagalong, after all.
So I have to imagine that for a long time, Vicky probably liked and needed Amy being around all the time as much as Amy liked and needed to cling to Vicky.
I do imagine that by the time Vicky's serious in her relationship with Dean, and she's doing the High School thing and they both triggered and Vicky sees just how much Amy is burning the candle at both ends, she tries to encourage Amy to get out there more, and so on.
But I also wonder if Vicky would have actually been actually chill about Amy getting out there more, hanging out with other people. Like, at first she'd be thrilled about it but then she'd probably start worrying and getting protective. If Amy found someone or some group she could really connect with and started spending like, the majority of her free time, I think on some, probably unconscious level, she might start to get jealous.
She'd probably manifest that consciously as suspicion of whoever Amy is hanging with, at first. And I do think that Vicky wouldn't hold onto this suspicion and jealousy and stuff forever, Vicky is capable of improving, but I do think at first, Vicky wouldn't necessarily handle Amy finding new friends or even a girlfriend quite as easily in practice, depending on the circumstances.
(If she set Vicky up with said Girlfriend, she might handle it a bit better, I think)
Because at the end of the day, we know Victoria Dallon is as much a victim of Carol's A+ Parenting as Amy. Amy has extra issues that make Carol's shittiness hit worse, and I do think Carol was directly worse to Amy more, but Victoria came out the other end messed up and damaged too, it's just a bit more below the surface because A) Vicky has herself better together just a bit and B) Vicky's also better at pretending she has herself better together. Also she doesn't have all the shard-related issues that Amy does.
The point being, I suspect that, until that critical moment, Victoria's co-dependence on Amy, while manifesting differently and probably less severely for her ability to function day to day, was probably as or nearly as intense as Amy's co-dependence on Vicky.
But I think too many fics these days want to shy away from it, because there's been an overcompensation in recent years trying to overcorrect for the early, Pre-Ward 'Collateral Damage Barbie' flanderizaton of Vicky (though it is a flanderization she earned honestly, to be fair) that tends to I think, even in Amy-centric/pro-Amy fics, tends to gloss over Vicky's own baggage and issues.
Not all of them, and of course, fics that really center on Victoria may explore them, but then of course some Vicky-centric writers and fans hate Amy so much they like to ignore how important Amy was to Vicky, before the critical moment in 11h.
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