Canon Complaint Character Studies
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Edward Nashton is seventeen years old, trapped in an abusive home, and at the end of his rope.
Ed was tired. Again. Time seemed to be getting slower by the day. The same mundane routine and the endless ache of complacency wore him down...It wasn’t that Ed didn’t enjoy routine, quite the contrary; in fact, he found nothing more comforting than making a plan and seeing it through to completion. Ed had never been fond of unpredictable circumstances. Fortunately, his circumstances were always predictable nowadays. Though sometimes he did wish the predictability didn’t prove quite so...painful.
*IMPORTANT-Trigger warning for a suicide attempt and references to another character dying from suicide.*Series
- Part 1 of Canon Complaint Character Studies
- Part 2 of The Enigma That Was, The Enigma That Is
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“And you don’t have to take a beating tonight. I can take it for you. Just let me take over for a little bit. You won’t have to be there for the assault, and you can get some rest. Doesn’t that sound nice?”
Had he had more energy, Ed might have found his saccharine timbre condescending, but he was exhausted. All he wanted to do was sleep, but he didn’t think it would be a good idea to let the other-him take over. But he was so tired. And he had such a headache all of a sudden. “How do I know you won’t do something I’m not okay with? How do either of us know you can even ‘take over’? I don’t think this is a good idea. I can’t control it and I don’t want—”
“Ed, don’t worry. You can trust me,” the hallucination promised, “You need rest. Let me do this for you.”
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There was something off about his grin, but Ed was too tired to decipher it, slipping away from his control on his own body, falling slowly into a black cavern of darkness and silence, then...nothing.
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Trigger Warning! - Contains references to suicide attempts and a depiction of something that could be triggering to those with suicidal tendencies. Please proceed with caution.Series
- Part 2 of Canon Complaint Character Studies
- Part 3 of The Enigma That Was, The Enigma That Is
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Jim finds Edward clearly disheveled and hiding in the captain's office, and he wants to help.
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- Part 3 of Canon Complaint Character Studies