𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈.

this is the end of the line for you.

you lose.

a minor can't. they are not legally allowed to walk away from abuse, esp. invisible types of abuse and emotional abuse. they need someone to help them get out. they need a parent to shield them. even if they desperately want to " divorce " an abusive parent, they are not legally allowed to do so. they do not have the same power that an adult has.

& that's why the enabling adult is a co - abuser. they do have power, & they make the choice not to use it to protect someone who has no power at all.

it may be 100% true that the enabler doesn't call you names, & treats you kindly on one - to - one interactions. It may be true the enabler is socially " lower status " than you, or " softer ", or   . . .   whatever. maybe you're " braver " than them or more " outgoing " or simply more " angry " when you compare your social status to theirs.

but that doesn't erase that as a grown adult from the day you were born (because most enablers were 18 from the day you were born), they have always had the power to change the situation, & always had the power to do more to protect you, & they didn't.

enablers are co - abusers because of that vast power differential. they may be victims too, but they were victims with the access and ability to change their situation, and to protect you. & they failed to do that. they failed to protect a literal child in their care.

an enabler parent might be a victim, they might be going through tons of shit themselves. that doesn't erase the immense power they have over their child's life.

i never planned that i would leave you there alone, i was sure that i would see you when i made it back home.

                      He hurts.

The betrayal && the idea that he had even done what he’d done in the first place just… hurts. Qrow teaming up with Tyrian just to fight && try to stop Clover from taking him down just makes this whole scenario hurt all the more. He did what he did to stop Tyrian from killing Clover right then && there with his own weapon && it’d gotten him nearly killed in the process.

     He hurts && he doesn’t know what else is going to happen because it just hurt him to even try to think about the future with everything that went on, that was going down. Qrow Branwen was always going to be filled with misfortune… but he would do what he could to make sure no one else suffered from it. Ruby was saved && it ended up in him getting poisoned – Summer… Summer had been saved quite a few times by him in the past && he would always remember those days because it helped him get through the toughest times of his life.

Here he lay in what was probably a pool of his own blood, waiting for the death that was coming but knowing it would take quite awhile with the whole bad luck being his worst enemy but his best friend all the same.

                                       … was anyone going to find him?

it was uncanny, however summer seemed to have the intrinsic ability to know whenever those she loved were in danger. far beyond the scope of her semblance ; a banshee’s cry. it felt like there were rose vines trendril’d & stabbing into her heart. when maiden shrouded in white, blended into the snowy landscape, came across the red stained like petals & old team mate like a fallen statue ; it felt like her heart had stopped entirely.

❛ qrow. ❜   lone silver eye glanced down, wide with pupil pinpricked as hands came to grasp at him & one pressed steady over the wound. no aura left. in these surroundings, he wouldn’t last much longer. summer’s semblance was already beginning to crawl & scrape at her throat, the banshee’s cry ready to scream out the name of beloved team mate. no. no ; he’s not dying. not today, not if she can help it.