Here's my contribution to the witcher fandom lmao

I'm sure others have done this, but this was fun to make lol

New AU for those writers

I live for the angst of the hurt-comfort AUs, such as the post-abusive relationship AU where character A went through some shit and B helps them get over that relationship or something like that, know what I’m talking about. 

But, I can’t help thinking about what if instead of a post-abusive relationship, it’s a present-abusive household. Which sadly is the household I live in. So, for those writers out there looking for something new, here’s a list of traits people who’ve grown up in a house like mine and who are living in a house like mine posses.

- We like to test the limits of every single rule. For example, there’s the no food in the bedroom’s rule in my house. I will sit in the hallway, as close to the door frame as possible with food if I have the TV on in the room and I’m watching TV.

-We’re really good liars. Like really good. If I have something important to tell my friends, I call them, or text them on my “secret” instagram account that my parents don’t know about. If I’m going to get yelled at or asked if I left my stuff out, I’ve mastered keeping a calm voice and expression when asked if i left out any of my dishes. I do the simple, look, pretend to retrace your steps, shake your head “no not mine,” Then if you can blame it on a sibling and calmly walk away. Shady, I know. 

-We’re good at hiding things. I used to keep a note book I called “Word Vomit” where when I couldn’t sleep because I had to much going on inside of my head. I would write about my mental health, trying to figure out my sexuality, stuff like that and my parents found it, and read through it. Now, I have things in pillow cases, bottoms of my drawers, in pockets of jeans in my drawers I don’t wear anymore. (Ladies, I would put things in the cups of my bralettes,  parents won’t look there.)

- We’re also very polite when talking to other people’s parents. Sometimes overly polite. For example, my boyfriend would say that I can come over whenever I wanted and I asked if it was okay with his parents because I didn’t want to intrude or what not. Because my parent’s mannerisms have been burned into me. Everytime I go to a friends house my parents give me a fifteen minute lecture on manners. I’m 16, I stopped needed that when I was 10. 

- We sometimes have authority issues. Either, we’re overly passive to any authoritative figure or we try to challenge them. it’s not that it’s one or the other, it’s more sometimes a mix of both. In school and at work, I’m very polite to everyone who is above (and below me, not the point). However, there’s this family friend of my family’s that loves to try to parent me. He will try to take my phone away from me, tell me to stop eating before dinner if we’re camping together or at their house or their at my house. And he gets up in my face which I don’t appreciate.  I can’t tell him off because my parents yell at me and give me lectures about how I’m being rude and that they raised me better. But if I do say something I get the same old, generic “ugh teenagers” Then he’ll turn to his poor kid and say “Don’t ever be like that,” like bitch come at me. 

- Case and point above, we can be very standoffish with certain types of people.

- We are absolutely terrified of school emails home or calls from teachers that are going home. I begged my English teacher Freshman year not to email my parents because I was doodling in class (Which I have ADHD and doodling helps) I had to promise her I wouldn’t doodle in class which made me dread that class and get shitty grades because I would daydream. But I was crying, begging her not to email my parents (and she ended up sending me to guidance which I brought out the whole “everything is fine at home” because I still have a little sister who has a bunch more years with my parents I don’t want to leave her alone with them)

There’s probably more, but I can’t think of anything more and I hope this helps. You can DM me on insta (@tanis_._ )for more prompts i have - that aren’t related to this, I have some that aren’t that bad, honestly.