@lilyana2258 yes, exactly! as someone who has experienced child abuse and neglect this is all very realistic! what i went through wasn’t as bad as these two BABIES and it still fucked me up even now, i can only imagine what it would be like to experience abuse to the degree that they did. and i was lucky, i eventually had access to therapy and met people who were sympathetic so i was able to begin my recovery. it’s been 3 years since i started recovery and while i made progress, i’m still heavily traumatised. i’m not saying this to make people feel sorry for me, i’m trying to explain what effects the events these children went through can have on a person for the rest of their lives.
these two were isolated, abused and neglected for the first 5 years of their life by the very people who were supposed to look after them and make them feel safe. even after they were moved to a place that should’ve been safer, they were still emotionally neglected and looked down upon,
told they should die, and have had assassination attempts on them. their own family never considered their feelings or even asked for their opinions, they just did whatever they wanted, assuming they knew best without knowing anything about the twins’ feelings or trying to find out. the second prince is an exception as he is more caring and does attempt to communicate with them, but he’s one out of 4 people and even he doesn’t completely try to understand what the twins feel.
like, it’s good to know that the people reading this were never abused as children because they clearly have no idea how itworks and what its effects can be, but ffs have some compassion for victims who are clearly traumatised. i hope those people never meet abuse victims in real life since they’re so callous. reminds me of a girl i met at university. at some point parents came up in conversation and i admitted i hated mine, she immediately assumed i was some kind of spoiled brat who didn’t appreciate other people when i grew up being hit, shouted at, neglected and emotionally manipulated.