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Still Something to Grapple With

Summary:

A drabble about Caitlin's D.I.D.

Notes:

Angstpril 2025 prompt: Memory Loss
March of Pain 2025 prompt: Grief
Angstober 2024 prompt: Growing Pains
Whumptober 2024 prompt: Communication Barrier
AUGUSTOFWHUMP'24 prompt: memory
Augusnippets 2024: Path of Hurt prompt: body control
JUNE OF DOOM 2024 prompt: Grief
Mental Health Awareness Month 2024 prompt: Write a fic in which a character who has DID- Dissociative Identity Disorder, formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder or MPD (canon or not canon).

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Work Text:

Sometimes it was weird for Caitlin, sharing a body with another person.

She'd lose increasingly longer chunks of time, and wouldn't fully remember what happened when she came back.

Even after Frost had dropped the Killer in her name and worked through her violence, it still felt violating. It's not exactly like Frost was ever the most level-headed or responsible individual.

The two worked together to communicate better and learned when to switch depending on the external situation, and Caitlin did come to terms with it...

...But the loss of autonomy was still a grief she had to work through.

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