Another song that goes, "Babe I'll never let you go!"

“Only [gender] will understand this” WRONG! Summon the brick I have a face to smash in

formative years? aren’t they all?

A character trait/dynamic that I'm endlessly compelled by is someone dealing with (or, like, failing to) being the child of people who were too busy being good people to have the time and attention to be good parents. This can be anywhere from 'was a public defender who gave a shit working 60 hour weeks with basically no vacations' to 'left their family behind to join the revolution/war effort and is now a universally beloved martyr-hero who saved/remade the world with their final breath' on the groundedness spectrum. The important thing is a viscerally felt but confused and ugly mess of longing, resentment, and guilt about feeling the resentment.

remember kids any character can have your disability if you project hard enough

no i’m not obsessed with that character because of romantic or sexual attraction. I am obsessed because they’re my little silly. my best friend. my pal.