It’s been a long case study
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TODD: Sweetie, do you want to talk about it?
SELKIE: It's not fair. I've beens working REALLY HARD to do the Echo thing. Really DARN hard.
SELKIE: Ands Amanda just... TAKES IT, all easy.
TODD: Sweetie, I don't think anything about what happened to her tonight was "easy".
TODD: And I'm sure it wasn't on purpose either.
SELKIE: ...Maybe.
SELKIE: It's just... I don't want to be pushed around again.
TODD: That's not gonna happen. And it's not what's happening here.
SELKIE: How sure are you? Because I cans points to about three years of data thats says otherwise.
SELKIE: It's not fair. I've beens working REALLY HARD to do the Echo thing. Really DARN hard.
SELKIE: Ands Amanda just... TAKES IT, all easy.
TODD: Sweetie, I don't think anything about what happened to her tonight was "easy".
TODD: And I'm sure it wasn't on purpose either.
SELKIE: ...Maybe.
SELKIE: It's just... I don't want to be pushed around again.
TODD: That's not gonna happen. And it's not what's happening here.
SELKIE: How sure are you? Because I cans points to about three years of data thats says otherwise.
Hold that seat Dad, I have a dissertaion to show you on it. With footnotes.
When is she gonna realize that she finally got back at Amanda for all her B.S.?
She’s also a pre-teen. Probably not for at least the same amount of years as she’d suffered from Amanda’s abuse.
And even then, she might never fully conceptualize things. Trauma is intense, and predicting how trauma will affect a person in the long-run is near-impossible.
I say this as someone who’s become fairly good friends with several of my childhood bullies. Even though I’ve been able to separate the people from their actions for years now, I still live with the fallout of what they put me through when we were kids.
So yeah, it’s definitely tricky. I really hope both Selkie and Amanda get the proper help they need.
Oh snap, I didn’t even think that she was worried that Amanda would bully her with magic if she was a more powerful Echo, I just thought it was jealousy.
Or that being an echo is the first chance she’s had of properly protecting herself in the human world! Ouch.
I understand Selkie’s feelings here, and feel like I had a similar conversation with my therapist about my self esteem issues. Sort of hard to get the brain to think otherwise when you have years of experience telling you the opposite. I wouldn’t put it past me to do a dissertation with footnotes either.
I’m so glad this is getting directly addressed, definitely better now than later. Selkie can get it off her chest, Todd can get a full picture of what’s going on, how she’s feeling, and the extent of their history and help her find a way to work through it, and hopefully help Amanda to understand what Selkie’s going though as well. This will definitely be good for all of them.
Selkie should really realise that neither of them can properly control this stuff.
It’s just that Selkie can’t get it to be powerful enough to have anything to control, and Amanda gets too much and it messes her up. But the end result is the same; neither of them can do anything useful with it.
And Amanda’s the one who gets completely sick in the process.
She’s a traumatized child, just like Amanda. Give her some time.
Well Selkie, it’s nice you have all these data and all, but your advisor might still insist that you add ‘one more little experiment’ months before you graduate….