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Ow, poor thing! *bowls over with another hug*

Yeah, my mom’s unofficially diagnosed all of us for ADHD but doesn’t like the idea of medication for that so I just started studying up when I was old enough (read “when I had a character with ADHD and went through twenty different posts like ‘THIS IS NOT NORMAL!?!?!?!?!’”)

Huh, he and Alessio would probably get along great. Alessio is a fantastic shot and very agile (just don’t tell him I told on him, he’s trying so hard to blend in XDDD).

Onnnn meth? Uhhhhhhh *why am I not surprised they’re trying to treat PTSD with LSD nowadays too, coz that’s a grand idea. The only highly addictive drug you have a researched case for medicinal use is hemp which is the female part of pot and isn’t at all addictive but everything else is on flimsy lack of scientific study or completely unethical experimentation!*
Yeah, I self-medicate on coffee and tea. Camomile is supposed to make you sleepy so I use it to wake myself up sometimes…idk if it actually works but it’s a fun theory, coffee helps with some headaches too!

Lol, totally get that! My mom made a huge case on how I’d be much safer not getting an official diagnosis coz job-discrimination and anyway meds were unnecessary and a diagnosis might make me complacent about my problems.
On a side-note I love how one person be like “I’m ADHD” and literally everybody be like “Oh me too!”

I have all those symptoms AND a LOT of hyperactivity. Like right now my chest is burning because I’m trying to sit still coz I wanna write this but my brain is screaming that I must dash across the house or do jumpingjacks or die!!!! And chatting incessantly when I’m over-stimulated/nervous, I swear the one nurse was so close to saying shut up and I just couldn’t stop asking questions and noting stuff outloud.
And hyperfocusing like: “just one more detail on this picture”–one hour later “just one more deta–oh it’s twenty minutes past lunchtime and I haven’t eaten. Just one more detail I swear!!!” (At which point I’ll sit there glued to the picture for fifteen more minutes trying to work the willpower to walk away because if I stop I won’t get it back!!!)
I’m very lucky I’m funny coz most people don’t mind my social intrusion but the social obliviousness stinks!!! I’m so tired of being accused of flirting by my mom because I literally have no clue my attitude could be taken any other way than exactly what I said!!!!!!!!!!! Fortunately, that’s gotten better mostly…I don’t think I’ve changed how I talk to people so idk how that’s not a problem anymore… Also accidentally interrupting at literally the worst time, or when I thought of something really funny while Mom was yelling at us for something. That. Was. Baaad.

Ok!!!
Current characters are Malvat by joelle-stone, Lupa by @millenium, Mayra by @irishcelticredflowercrown, Alessio by me. @kimlikesart has just pulled out her character Nithel and @skylarynn had Jericho and Brendin and @anne-the-noob14 is deciding on a new character to bring in (?)
A dragon Malvat is a total villain and absolutely hates my very sassy character, Alessio, but especially hated Nithel who is literally the sweetest person in the entire castle and just disappeared (Alessio is still mourning him, they became extremely close friends over the course of the castle and Alessio would gladly murder Malvat for being relieved that Nithel’s gone). Malvat can read minds and has like Life and Death fighting inside him and he can also turn partially human.
Lupa is a morally gray werewolf. She’s blunt, confident, better at hitting stuff than explaining things. She has brown hair and brown eyes as a human, gold fur gold eyes as a wolf (I think…?) She also hates sunlight and likes wolves more than people generally.
Mayra is a girl who can control pisonic energy (?) and she has C-PTSD from her abusive childhood and is currently still in an abusive relationship with an older guy in her world. She’s jaded and survivalist but very broken and just needs help and compassion. She’s also a kind of assassin or interrogator or something and hate a speech disorder from a brain injury around birth than makes her partially mute so sometimes she signs in conversation or uses her inability to speak as an intimidating silence.
Alessio is a fugitive prince who also has C-PTSD and an incredibly abusive childhood. He’s very empathetic and also has no filter and has grilled every villain who’s entered this castle. He’s very prone to valuing everyone else’s wants over his own needs and is kinda suicidal, he’s also very passionate about his beliefs. He has pyrokinesis but he doesn’t know how to control his powers and can’t consciously use his fire, but frequently catches fire when he’s experiencing strong emotions.
Everything that’s happened is…ok the Castle itself is evil and sentient and anybody can play as the castle whenever the plot slows down and right now it teleported them to a room with four cages with monsters in them and the only doors out are behind the cages. Alessio was getting way more emotionally stable spending time with Nithel who’s kinda an angel but storywise is a star who was given the chance to become human. He faded the moment they teleported there (characters fade when the writers want to change their characters). So now he’s very upset but he’s bonding with Mayra who’s determined that nobody else matters whether they live or die but she’s gonna stick with him and she’s kinda working through her survivalism and being starved for any form of genuine love. Meanwhile Malvat be like “I’m gonna steal fireboy’s powers the first chance I get and I’m gonna try and make allies with Lupa to do it” and Lupa’s trying to convince them to give her the keys to the cage she just squeezed into so she can let our the giant wolf so it can pretty much just devour everybody and she’s just gonna leave “these losers”. And Jericho and Brendin were kinda chilling together enough to talk about how this group of idiots needs a leader and to do that they need to be honest with each other and that ain’t happening and now they’re about to disappear and Alessio low-key idolized Bren coz he had fire-powers too and could use his powers pretty well and he hadn’t decided whether or not he trusted Jericho who can project emotions on others and has used that one or twice to calm Alessio when he’s having a panic attack but it makes him kinda mistrust her because he’s used to people manipulating his emotions but he wants to trust her but he doesn’t. And now they’re about to disappear so I guess that…isn’t really…relevant…
So that about sums the situation. Oh! Also, the actual narrative is on the Fantasy Chronicles etc Forum and the Character Castle forum here is just where we talk about what the heck we’re doing with this, it’s kinda confusing when you start but works more smoothly 🙂