#featuring amphi

Post-kidnapping, Theo slowly regains his bearings— and has to learn to trust the people around him again, especially Blazer. Raf made a sick joke out of making the half-lucid tailor believe the oligarch was him, to the point where Theo had found himself awoken with a start to having allowed xemself to melt into his hands.

Realizing xe’d been tricked into trusting that vile rat made Theo dangerously volatile, which culminated in xem experiencing a derealization episode… where what real and what’s a game blurred together; even in the safety of his own home, Theo remained convinced the oligarch was trying to fool him again.

Blazer had no idea Raf had done this— Theo had been hiding the extent of the torture xe’d endured— so getting cracked to the ground and threatened with a seam ripper was quite the surprise,