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the cat king | dead boy detectives (netflix) | ota

[catting]

[ Listing these off on his fingers: ]

Flirted with a guy, got rejected, the guy got sent to hell, mourned that guy probably being stuck in hell forever, accidentally told a witch that he's a massive source of power and thereby got him kidnapped literally right after he was rescued from hell, and then tortured until he almost perma-died. And he still doesn't wanna kiss me.

[deathoftheauthor]

I've never been to Hell, of course— I presume you're being literal, somehow?— but I cannot imagine that a trip there, however temporary, would leave one feeling especially romantic.

[catting]

I think his lack of romantic inclination has a lot less to do with the hell trip and more to do with the fact that I'm simply too sensual for his tastes.

[ Oh sigh, what's a poor kitty to do. The Hell comment does kind of make him laugh, though. ]

So it's obvious that you — a vampire — have never been to hell, but you still have to ask if I'm being literal talking about it? I'm sensing some agnosticism in your belief system.

Dwayne ir'Dorn | OC | OTA

[will_chase_balls]

My dad was turned into a greater undead, and because he's technically, legally dead that means I have to take on his gambling debts, despite being a broke University student that was already struggling to pay for a place to live.

Also, I was informed of this by letter.

will kempen / dark rise / ota

[darkening]

My mother tried to make sure I wouldn't be born. [ An awkward pause; Will shifts his weight. ] The last thing she did before she was murdered was try to kill me.

[ Yeah. He's just gonna stand here, lips pursed — clearly not pleased to be sharing this information. ]

[rituale]

Jesus fucking Christ. How old were you? Was this at birth, or--?

[ like.. mercy's parents were a little weird, but they loved him, at least. ]

[darkening]

[ He winces. ]

A few months ago— but she had her reasons.

[ That last part quickly tacked on. His mother was a good person. She tried her best.

(At least, that's what he always tells himself.) ]

[bwrw]

Why— [ Aesc freezes after she half-blurts that query.  She averts her gaze and swallows that question. There are dark days when she wonders if her foster parents wouldn't resent her as the other fairies do, but she's successfully buried those negative thoughts thanks to their sincere affection. Even so—

She's aware of the deceptions and lies of the world. She can pierce them with her "blessed" eyes. ] I mean [ She clears her throat to amend. ] That's terrible, er [ He looks too young to call him "sir" or "mister." As young as she is. ] Parents are supposed to protect their youth, right? At least that seems to be the natural instinct for those who procreate and conceive.

Oswald Cobblepot/Penguin | GOTHAM

[hobblepot]

Of the countless hardships and injustices I have endured, losing so many people that I cared about has been cruelest of all.

[A muscle works in his jaw. He shakes his head, gazing hazily into empty space. Wine momentarily forgotten.]

Mother, father, Fish... [a beat] ...I held them in my arms. Felt their last, struggling breaths leave their bodies. It is something one never forgets.

arthur lester ( malevolent )

[heraldic]

[ a wheezing, ugly little laugh. wow, he hates this. ]

Well, let's see.. I accidentally killed my daughter because I was too distracted with my work, and she d-- she drowned in the tub. I'm semi-possessed by a fraction of an eldritch deity who has control of my eyes, a hand, and a foot, though in fairness, I do love John very much, and while I miss my sight, I wouldn't willingly give him up now, either. Still, that incident killed my partner. John and I have been-- We've spent months running all over God's green earth, not to mention other worlds entirely, in an attempt to first separate ourselves, then to-- to-- hunt down an evil man and his cult. [ gesturing!! now!! ] Oh! And then another eldritch deity of immeasurable power sent us to an alternate Earth! In the past! Hundreds of years in the past! To hunt for a bloody stone that is, by the way, part of the father-god's body. I have been beaten, stabbed, electrocuted, burned, disemboweled, infected by a further disease-god of some sort, threatened by Mother Darkness, hunted by the queen of nightmares.. and oh! Yes! As it turns out, my parents that supposedly killed themselves were part of that same nightmare-queen's cult!

I-- I-- I don't even know anymore. I don't know. That's not even all of it. It's ridiculous.

Garrett Hawke | Dragon Age

[parthalan]

Let's see here... sister? Dead. Mother? Dead. Brother? Blighted. Best friend? Started a religious war. The rest? Scattered to the wind.

Yet we remain silly.

Claire Bennet ∞ Heroes ∞ OTA (cw violence / death / abuse)

[infinite1ups]

For starters, I've died so many times I lost count.

I was assulted by a boy at school and woke up in the morgue, hunted by secret organizations and the government, watched my adoptive father die, living under constant threat of being kidnapped and experimented on like a lab rat, had a serial killer after me who sliced my skull open, mentally and physically tormented by a puppeteer with my adoptive and biological mothers, manipulated into believing the a disguised version of the serial killer who attacked me was my biological father, manipulated into nearly joining a carnival run by a megalomaniac mass murderer...

It was a lot for a few years there, okay?

Rio “Justicia” Peters | City of Heroes

[nogoldilocks]

Hoo boy, where to start…

Forced to uphold the Cole regime, agreed to work as a double-agent for the Resistance, found out about a plot by the regime to invade other dimensions to conquer them, forced to flee to one of those other dimensions and lie about where I came from, and had to fight at least, like, five supervillains since then.

And that’s just the stuff I remember.

felipe delgado || oc || ota

[parcook]

Trauma? I don't know about that.

[ His weight shifts slightly, eyes flicking down and to one side for a moment. ]

... My father disappeared when I was very little. Went fishing alone, never came back. He was never happy - to be fair, no one in Esparanza was - so I... suspect he threw himself off his ship and plummeted into Deep Sky, or drove the damn boat into the depths himself. Not like I'll ever really know. Never found his vessel, or even any remains of it.

[ Another brief pause, lips set thin. ]

I just don't think about it. He wasn't around. He never will be. That's all there is to it.

lapis de fiore | original | ota

[crisantemo]

Hmmm... Grandmother is some kind of terrifying being and I'm pretty sure she wants me to follow in her footsteps. I think my parents were scared of me because I'm not fully human and I could see ghosts... Got possessed and died once, but I got better? And I can't die properly now.

[ So at least there's that??? ]

... I don't like how I'm changing and I don't understand it. I don't like how I can't control it. So if I can work myself till I'm tired and make myself useful, I can have some semblance of control.

Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter | MCU

[ricochetingbullets]

Orphaned when really young, father figure died in a freak accident, mother figure died from cancer, got diagnosed with something that's made me think I'm a monster for the rest of my life, got manipulated to give into my worst self by a psychopath ten times worst than me to kill a bunch of people, got paralyzed in a first near-death experience, got tossed off a building in another near-death experience, and now I'm stuck as a criminal for the rest of my life.

jason "j.d." dean || heathers: the musical || ota

[ourloveisgod]

I mean, do I have to say it? I'm sure we could gather up enough folks with deadbeat dads around here to fill a stadium. It's practically contagious!

Alyssa Ashcroft | Resident Evil

[newsvalues]

Two words: Raccoon City.

The Prophet - D&D OC

[willoftheblackbird]

I'm cursed...

These pieces of blue crystal have stripped me of my strength and health. This pendant and these bracers are pieces of a god's soul, passed down among tribal leaders. Those strong enough to wield their power and withstand the cost of that sacrifice the longest.

Which should never have been me.

But if I didn't put them on, the Ministry would have slaughtered us all. I.. I stopped a massacre. Hundreds were killed, but some of us... a few of us... survived.

So now... I choke down potions and try to stay alive until my successors are old enough to wear this cursed armor and start the cycle all over again...

Lara Croft || Tomb Raider Reboot || (spoilers and TW ahead?)

[belay]

When I was six, my mother died. Cancer. My father locked away all her belongings, wiped every trace of her out of our home. When I was eight, he died. I thought for the longest time it was by his own hand. That he'd cracked from the pressure of finding truth in legends and all of his colleagues calling him insane. For a while, I too believed he was out of his mind.

And then, right out of university on my first expedition, I ended up on an island thought to be a story. A terrible storm shipwrecked, I lost most of my crew, and then a curse on the island wouldn't let us leave or be rescued. I had to do some unfortunate things to survive. Almost lost my best friend when the soul of an ancient storm-controlling queen tried to possess her. We eventually broke the curse and got off the island, but I kept chasing the same legends my father did.

Eventually, I learned that not only was he right about everything, but his death wasn't a suicide. He'd been murdered by a group hellbent on reshaping the world. He'd gotten too close to what they were trying to do and they decided he had to go.

So I spent several years hunting down the same artifacts this group wanted, trying to keep them out of their hands. I lost more and more people, caused ore death than I intended to. Almost ended the world. Thought I lost my best friend, went on a rampage only to learn Jonah was alive. Had the choice to bring my parents back, to rewrite my own timeline and make it so they'd never died, but chose to save the world instead.

So much violence and death in such a short amount of time, quite a lot of it done by my own hand. Most of it in self defense. Some of it because I'd been pushed too far.

Raziel | Legacy of Kain | OTA

[soul_reaver]

I was the loyal lieutenant to my vampire maker, and then in an act of jealousy he tore the bones from my wings and had me tossed into the Lake of the Dead to burn for centuries.

Jackson Whittemore | Teen Wolf

[bothparts]

Found out I was adopted. I then tried to become a werewolf but because of that trauma I became a murderous kanima instead. My fiancee and I was then tortured by psychopaths. We also fought this monster that turned my old classmates into stone so that's bad too.

This on top of being closeted through all of high school.

admiral graf spee - azur lane - ota

[shark_cruiser]

I... scuttled myself to avoid capture rather than fight.

Detective Jim Ellison | The Sentinel (1996)

[onceuponperu]

I spent 18 months trying to survive in the Peruvian jungle after a covert operation gone wrong.

Snow White | Goddess of Victory: NIKKE | OTA

[gunsandtreats]

[There's a pause before she sighs]

I witnessed humanity be brought to the brink by a race of robots from space, was turned into an android and joined a squad to fight against the Rapture forces, one of my teammates who was like an older sister to me was corrupted and we eventually had to part ways. After that we lost our original squad leader, our commander ended up disappearing, we fought to protect the last bastion of mankind as it was being sealed with us being abandoned in the process. And when I went to honor our squad leader's grave-

[... Her head is gone. Her head is gone. HEy hEÂ□ hAŜ DiSäPpæÐ- She quickly shakes her head, she can't let herself go down that spiral, not after having gone through a Mind Switch once already]

At any rate after parting ways with my old squad I now wander the surface, destroying Raptures and aiming for their Queen. Even if we were abandoned the Goddess Squad still lives on.