It's all an illusion

“I know.” Raynor was soft as he spoke to her, he always was. He got a glass and filled it with water, placing it in front of her. “Do you want to talk about it?”

the short answer was no. the long one, that she couldn’t give, was that just when she had felt as if she had moved a few step forwards, she had been set a great many back. victoria was supposed to be better than falling for hallucinations. she had to be, if she wanted to survive, and still - she had faltered. “i’m better,” it was not a lie, nor was it the whole truth - but it would do. “especially now that i’ve seen your face. i’m not…- sure, what i might have done, had anything happened to you.” 

“yeah, yeah, sap.” he smiled slightly, eyes on his hands as he looked away from her. “i guess you could say i got yours, too.”

“Shut up,” Freya chuckles, a little embarrassed by her own sappiness. Still, the storm had reminded her of how far she’d come and she couldn’t bear the idea of losing her friend. “How’d your mandated clean up go? Your partner not too awful?”

“You do not have to apologize, Freya.” Perhaps it was a dad move or maybe a therapist one, but Raynor got up and put an arm around her. He guided her to the kitchen and sat across from her. “The mist brought back a lot of baggage for a lot of people, this is it, isn’t it?”

Freya leans into Raynor’s arm, allowing her walls to drop here with him. There’d always been something about Raynor that let her do that, even before he’d adopted her. “...Yeah. I couldn’t sleep, I just...” 

“i was coming to check on you.” she would have come sooner, had she known about the mist and what it was doing to the students of paragon. if she’d had any inkling that her nightmare come to life wasn’t real…- if she’d been able to work through it, and if she had known that freya was perhaps going through something similar, she would have come sooner. “after the mist. i wanted to make sure that you were okay.”

@ofviictories

( LISA TEIGES, CIS FEMALE, SHE/HER ) — ✧ that looks like FREYA RAYNORDOTTIR! they’re the EIGHTEEN YEAR OLD DAUGHTER of RAYNOR LOKISON (ADOPTED). [ they are also a UNDERGRAD STUDENT at paragon. ] i hear they’re RESILIENT & FRIENDLY, but tend to be SARCASTIC & EASILY MANIPULATED. his/her/their/etc file says that his/her/their/etc power/ability is PSYCHOSOMATIC ILLUSIONS. { alicia } (Raynor Lokison adopted child wc, Victoria Creed protective wc, Perseus Xavier-Lehnsherr ADHD wc, Teddy Brock Best Friend/Secret Crush wc)

TW: death, bullying

Meet Freya Raynordottir! 

Freya was born to a single mother who did what she could for her only child despite being without many support systems. She supported Freya, especially when she found out that Freya had ADHD.

When Freya was eight, however, the police came to her classroom and informed her that her mother had been struck by a speeding car and killed. Freya was suddenly alone in the world.

With nowhere else to go, Freya was put into foster care.

She withdrew, becoming an extremely quiet child as she bounced from house to house.

By the time she was ready to be open again, she was in middle school.

Without many friends, Freya became a target for bullies. She started to try to act tough, to keep them away, but in reality she was lonely and longed for true friendship, someone who’d understand.

In her sophomore year of high school, everything changed again.

Freya’s powers manifested at school, startling everyone. Although her illusions caused a little trouble at first, that wasn’t where the trouble was.

The trouble came when some older, manipulative girls realised how desperate Freya was for friends and how easily she could be manipulated.

They took her in, making her believe they truly liked her, and then during summer, they conned her into using her powers on a girl they hated.

It was harmless, just a scare, Freya reasoned.

But her illusions were far more powerful than anyone knew.

Instead of scaring the girl, the illusions began to hurt her. Really hurt her.

The older girls didn’t care, egging Freya on, threatening her.

Freya, overwhelmed by everything, tried to stop, but her powers got away from her. She blacked out, and the next thing she remembers was police sirens and someone screaming that the girl was dead.

The older girls turned on Freya, and said it was all her idea and that they tried to stop her. No one really believed Freya; it fit their idea of the weird girl with powers.

Freya very narrowly avoided jail after it eventually came out how she’d been coerced. Instead, she was forced to see a psychologist who specialised in powered teens.

Enter Raynor Lokison, the best thing to happen to Freya since her mum died.

Freya spilled her heart out to him, and became close with him until one day he offered to adopt her. Freya had long ago given up hoped of adoption; no one adopted sixteen and seventeen year olds. She agreed.

She moved to Paragon, finished up high school and decided to go onto university here.