#parentification tw

The character design overlaps of Jonathan Byers and Dean Winchester are scary. 2 older brothers who will do anything for their younger brothers sacrificing their own happiness and childhoods for them. They very much do love their moms but it's so complex and complicated.

riley easily recalls his mid teenage years when the weight of his parentification hit, the responsibilities pilled on top and the friends that stuck around began to dwindle. but four of them that did stay included a group of girls from school riley often liked to joke 'adopted' him — and lily as well. because where he went, she had to come too. it got to the point these girls became the support system he didn't know he needed, even if he often struggled to put words to his feelings, being a kid completely out of his depth. convinced any crack of the veneer of being the perfect big brother would mean he was letting down his family when they needed him. they didn't judge, they just let him be the teenager he was meant to be at that age. and that reprieve was appreciated more than they probably knew.

"look what i found." beer in hand, and handful of photos in the other, he leans forward to splay them out on the cooler used as a makeshift table on the rig, still very much moored to the pier. he'd stumbled upon a big box of old photos when cleaning out the junk closet, "from the hairstyles alone, i'm gunna say these were from... 2013?"

Initially, Sarah was left handed. One day, during a playdate with her cousin Heather, the cousin set one of Marsha's plushies on fire. Sarah grabbed it in order to get it away from Marsha, burning her left hand in the process. Due to how painful it was for Sarah to use it following the incident, Sarah learned to be right handed instead.

Ever since she was a child, Sarah has disliked how most meats tasted to her with her father's often dismissing her feelings for being picky. In the present day, Sarah is a vegetarian.

Like her sisters, Sarah has pets of her own with her animal of choice being birds. She has 4 birds: an owl named Herbert, two canaries named Lecter and Starling, and a raven named Bates. Sarah also likes to raise butterflies. In addition, she has a connection with Leigh, one of Marsha's nighthounds who often rests on Sarah's lap when they're on the couch.

Sarah's true passion lies in gardening. Sarah has a massive garden connected to the cottage where she grows many different kinds of plants. Sarah also has several monster-like plants she tends to, something she's done ever since she was a kid. She refers to all of her monster plants as females and are all named after female horror movie characters. Sarah's first ever plant was one she named Lydia, who she got for her 8th birthday. Sarah dutifully tended to her up until Heather smashed and killed Lydia.

Sarah is capable of playing piano and violin. Her monster plants enjoy it when she plays her violin for them.

Unlike Marsha who can't swim, Sarah is very capable of swimming and enjoys it.

There is a pond in her garden that is home to a water nymph, who is Sarah's only real friend outside of Marsha. Sarah has a huge crush on the nymph.

Sarah is a big fan of horror. While Sarah's favorite horror movie is Scream, she primarily like psychological horror, supernatural horror, and found footage horror movies. She also had the biggest crush on Laurie Strode (the protagonist of Halloween) as a kid. Sarah also has a few horror animes that she likes.

Also, Sarah is very much a lesbian. As a kid, she had crushes on characters like Laurie (as mentioned) and Ariel (from The Little Mermaid).

As a kid, Sarah had a teddy bear named Snuggles. While she didn't carry him around like Marsha did to Mr. Cottontail, Sarah still slept with Snuggles at night and even took him with her.

As a child, her father insisted on keeping Sarah's short all throughout her childhood and teenage years. When Sarah and Marsha arrived at Ooo, the lack of cutting supplies allowed Sarah to grow her hair out and at Marsha's encouragement, Sarah decided to keep her hair long.

Sarah is the sister who uses technology the least. While she does have a phone, she barely uses it. But for those who are curious, it's a purple smartphone-looking phone with a flower phone case.

From an early age, Sarah learned to cook after her father was gone for a few hours and Marsha was getting hungry.

Sarah has anxiety and C-PTSD from her childhood, although undiagnosed.

Eridu was essentially flattened by a natural disaster (probably a catastrophic earthquake as that seems to fit better with what we know happened). Just like in canon (or what’s canon to this blog, anyway), Wise and Belle get separated from their adopted mom, Carole Arna, in the chaos. Wise ends up leading them both (and then carrying Belle) to safety before they both succumb to their injuries and the trauma. The two siblings are rescued and Carole is listed as missing, but Belle and Wise believe she is alive and are searching for her (hence the hacking interest). Wise takes over the raising of both of them and they’ve mostly been on their own ever since, finally coming to settle at Random Play.

oh really??? its not that hard? To give up parts of your childhood and teenage-hood and even adulthood to raise children you had zero say in having? To raise kids you did not ask for but got saddled with? To know that if you don't step up and give them everything you have, nobody else will? To watch your identity become more and more wrapped up in kids that society still, after everything you have fucking done, does not see as yours because you didn't make them? To swallow down your comments and and feel guilty for the flickers of resentment, because it is not their fault and you will die before you make them feel unwanted, and paste a smile over your exhaustion so you can get up for them the way a parent should? To know that if you ever feel like you wronged them it would eat you alive? To want to give them everything but knowing you are rapidly spreading yourself thin and can't?

And then to watch them run with smiles and hugs and cards to their 'actual' parent when they show them an ounce of attention, to watch their 'actual' parent get to be the 'fun cool one' while you are making lunches and wiping noses and folding laundry and helping with homework and all you can is grit your teeth and be happy that at least the attention they are getting from the person who is actually responsible for them is positive and not like the type you got. But you keep pouring into them hoping that maybe a day will come when they realize how much you were always there.

She’s seen herself as Kieran’s main caretaker despite still being a kid herself and their grandparents raising them, that separating herself from the position is difficult.

Going to Blueberry Academy has helped her a bit, though some of that progress regressed when Kieran started attending.

@thcsevoices asked:

10 facts for Sarah

10 facts about my character // accepting

Sarah is the more human one of her siblings. She is also the only one of her siblings that can't devour souls; rather, she can devour someone's life essence or life energy. Her more human nature also made her an easy target for her cousins to bully.

While she knows some magic, she doesn't really have the same powers and her siblings. She does, however, have the knowledge to perform seances that allow her to contact spirits from low-level dead worlds.

Sarah was initially left handed but after receiving a burn scar on that hand, she learned to use her right hand as her more dominant hand after using her left hand became too painful.

Sarah is a vegetarian. She doesn't like the taste of most meats and as soon as she was able to pick meals for herself, she decided to cut meats out of her diet entirely.

Sarah likes horror and is the reason Marsha got into horror herself. Her favorite horror subgenres are found footage films and creature features although she does like Scream.

Sarah loves caring for plants. Sarah has a garden attached to the cottage where she grows different kinds of plants. Throughout her life, Sarah has especially cared for carnivorous monster plants with all of them named after female horror movie characters.

Sarah also loves birds. She owns several birds which are named after several horror movie characters. She also likes to raise butterflies.

Sarah is the only one of her siblings that can really cook. After their dad would leave her and the twins to their own devices for hours, Sarah learned how to make meals for her younger siblings on the occasion that their dad didn't come back during their meal time.

Sarah has a childhood teddy bear named Snuggles.

Sarah has autism, anxiety, and CPTSD.