Selkie is recalling this this conversation.
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I feel like it’s been awhile since I had a Fan Art update, so really glad to see this lovely (and sad) drawing by Jade Griffin in my inbox yesterday. 😀
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Thanks, Jade!
My original drafts had Selkie give Amanda a dismissive flip of her hand when Amanda told her not to blame her. Excised it for space constraints, so just imagine a dismissive wave of her webs.
Damn it, now I’m going to have to go to bed sad.
I knew I wasn’t the only one who stayed up late for this
Aw man… People. There must be some alternative.
Ug. I have to wonder if her adoptive parents really dumped her or if she was taken from them? Abusers usually try to hang onto their victims. Also, have to wonder what happened to the biological child as he/she would have been in danger of being abused after she was removed—even if he/she wasn’t before.
“Abusers usually try to hang onto their victims.”
Until they’re done with them.
On a less dark and personal note, there’s the kind of abuse where a person’s neglectful, and then there’s the kind of abuse where the person in charge allows another to be neglectful while blaming the neglectee. In other words, if the Sandersons are that common, stupid, animalistic breed of parent who think that their emotional ties trump everything else, they’d totally believe whatever their natural-born kids say. If their kid is caught stabbing the President in broad daylight in the middle of a press conference? Well it can’t be their kid’s fault! Somehow! Obviously, we must blame whatever else we possibly can!
I can tell you right now, that while I don’t believe my Mother ever intended, me and my sister suffered a kind of physiological abuse, with her constant drinking and her poor choice in men. It was a living hell until I moved out after I graduated.
As I read what Heather said, it was not the adoptive parents that were the problem. It was their “real kids”. And since seeing Truck beating on Selkie brought back bad memories, I’m thinking it was the “real kids” beating on her.
Her favorite thing was that “Gamekid”, that the adoptive parents gave her. Now, I’ve never been an abused child, but I believe that if someone used to regularly whip me with an electrical cord, a gift from them would not be one of my favorite things.
It is extremely possible that the “real kids” abused her, and then whenever the got caught, they told the parents it was her fault, or she started it and they were just defending themselves, and the parents believed their little darlings.
That works, but it was actually Lilian who gave her the Gamekid.
Not according to Heather. https://selkiecomic.com/selkie238/
Ok, so I guess I read too much into this one; https://selkiecomic.com/selkie36/
You did, I think. My interpretation of “Lillian is going to kill you” is that the authority figures don’t like you breaking stuff.
Lillian gave her the Gamekid.
People who are child abusers almost always seek victims and usually hang onto them as long as possible. Usually there is one child who gets the worst of it (“the scapegoat) and one who is never or rarely is abused (“the golden child”). All children in abusive households have much higher likelihoods of entering dysfunctional relationships. Usually the scapegoats continue to be victims and the golden children grow up as abusers. Either of them can end up either way, though. Scapegoats are more likely to break out of the cycle as they are more likely to seek help since they grow up seeing themselves as damaged.
If a child abuser loses the child they are abusing, they’ll seek another child to abuse (unfortunately CPS can leave other children in a home with child abusers even after one is removed)—including children they weren’t abusing before. A lot of times, the abuse is about control, loss of inhibitions (due to drugs), or the parents taking their issues out on those who can’t fight back—and this is why they hang onto those they hurt so much. Also letting the kids go that they abuse means they are admitting to being “bad parents” and that is the last thing a lot of abusers will do.
Her previous adopted parents gave her it, not Lillian.
Selkie has kind of backed herself into as corner on this one. To truthfully answer that question, she would have to betray what Heather told her in confidence.
Or just say it was a guess. Even if Selkie didn’t talk to Heather, just by what Amanda just said she could figure out
1) whatever happened probably didn’t happen at the orphanage, or she would know already.
2) whatever happened probably didn’t happen at school, or she would probably know already.
Which leaves the most probable suspect(s).
She could always say that she overheard Lilian and such talking about it. Totally plausible, too.
I think Selkie isn’t all there mentally. The slurred speach, the bragging about kicking a kid in the balls when she’s not feeling well. I don’t think she can help blurting out whatever comes to her mind.
now THIS brings back memories. x.x
selkie is in for a very rough week.
i also just added selkie to my spell check dictionary
Thanks, Dave! Sorry I didn’t have time to color it this time around:(
Also, what did Amanda do? Drop the blanket? Pull it down? Smack the bowl?
That’s what I was wondering too. After re-reading multiple times, I’m pretty sure that she let go of the blanket to knock the bowl out of her hands.
Yay! Gloves off!:)