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• Learning Experiences by A_Bit_Drizzy_Out

  Fandoms: Darkest Dungeon (Video Game)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Gen
  • Work in Progress

  07 Sep 2023

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Jester & Occultist (Darkest Dungeon)
  • Jester & Arbalest (Darkest Dungeon)
  • Jester (Darkest Dungeon)
  • The Collector (Darkest Dungeon)
  • Occultist (Darkest Dungeon)
  • Arbalest (Darkest Dungeon)
  • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
  • Childhood Trauma
  • Inaccurate depictions of albinism
  • Dehumanization
  • Adoption
  • Disownment
  • Royalty Bad
  • Betrayal
  • repeated mentions of guillotines
  • traumatic instrument acquisition
  • Regicide
  • killing your abusers
  • Decapitation
  • Panic Attacks
  • attempted human sacrifice
  • barely attempted actually it never got past the planning stage
  • Near Death Experiences
  • eldritch research
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
  • the long and messy road to recovery
  • Trust Issues
  • making deals (with another person and not a nightmare beast)
  • being confused by genuine acts of kindness
  • Found Family
  • smart people who can't keep organized to save their lives
  • self-deprecation
  • fight scenes (derogatory)
  • being entrenched in denial
  • camping (stressful)
  • patching wounds
  • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
  • Father Figures
  • being homeless by choice
  • accents that I just kinda made up as I went
  • violent impulses
  • Intrusive Thoughts
  • making progress and then backpedaling so hard
  • shortnaming as a show of trust
  • Acting Out
  • self-sabotage
  • traumatic flashbacks
  • Dissociation
  • Sick Character
  • nicknames!!!
  • Guilt
  • the Weald is a free trial of hell
  • Protectiveness
  • Reckless behaviors
  • The inherently calming properties of deep pressure
  • Sparring
  • fighting as a coping mechanism
  • from beyond happens in the background
  • Collector is baffling the scientists
  • your perception of reality and how the world works is falling apart around you wyd
  • almost running away
  • b tier investigation work
  • a sense of impending doom
  • being so stressed that you're suddenly fine again
  • implied romantic feelings in the background
  • mental turmoil of immense proportions
  • informal interrogations
  • mentions of nausea and vomitting
  • icky icky flesh passage ew
  • spoilers for the endgame areas
  • Attempted Murder
  • heartbreaking callbacks
  • the repetition of past mistakes
  • eventual catharsis I promise

  Summary

  To adapt was to survive.

  For almost his entire life, Pip had it down to a science. He didn't know how old he was anymore, didn't believe he was human anymore, didn't allow himself to trust anymore, but he knew how to adapt. He could lie, run, hide, kill, persuade, pretend, steal, whatever it took to stay alive. There was a rhythm to it and he knew it by heart.

  He didn't realize that he'd been running off of assumptions until his tactics began to fail him, until those around him stopped acting like he anticipated. Still, he needed to adapt, no matter how shaken he became. To adapt was to survive. To falter was to die.

  As it turned out, there was a lot more to life than that.

  (TO BE REWRITTEN)

  Series

  • Part 5 of Placebo Estate

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