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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
frontierpodiatrist
nyaagolor

Thinking abt Nemona and Arven (again). Specifically that Nemona is extremely high achieving and Arven is barely passing and it prolly aggravates every ounce of Arven’s insecurities at once. Nemona gets great grades, is always in class, is champion rank, is trusted by all her professors and Clavell, and is well liked by all her peers. Her only flaw is that she’s SO good at everything she does that she intimidates those around her. Meanwhile Arven, the one whose parents are professors, the one who everyone expects great things from, is failing all his classes and doesn’t have talents in areas traditionally recognized and applauded by his peers or the adults in his life. Yeah he’s great at cooking and can train a great Pokémon team just fine, but at least in his mind he can’t hold a candle to his neighbor, the youngest champion in the region. He’s not good at school, but she is. He’s fine at battling, but it’s nothing compared to her. He’s the one with the impressive lineage and high expectations but she’s the one who’s actually achieving what everyone expects of him. Nemona explains to the protagonist that her achievements are the result of her hard work and not an intrinsic talent, but she sure makes it look effortless. Worst of all Arven is clearly extremely bothered by his absent parents and she barely seems to care. I’d bet he’s super jealous of her and her accomplishments and it’s a huge part of the reason why he dislikes her so much and is reluctant to ask for her help

nyaagolor

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frontierpodiatrist

TYSM...i think about them often bc i'm obsessed with their parallels juxtaposed with how different their personalities are/how they perceive things. they both experience self-admitted parental neglect, but nemona doesn't recognize it as such, and neither does arven, bc he sees her as so privileged in every other facet of life (having money, an extravagant house, being friendly and seemingly having friends, parents, happiness, etc.) that he can't even recognize their similarities and makes excuses to himself to how it's "different" bc he doesn't want to relate to her when he's so jealous
neither of them have any friends at the beginning; arven bc he's paranoid and distrustful and unfriendly because of everything that's happened to him, and nemona bc she comes on too strong. i'm sure she tried to befriend him in the past when they were younger (esp bc they were neighbours) but he completely wrote her off as just being annoying and unable to understand him that he refused to even consider her until he was forced to in order to go to area zero

even after the story ends, i felt like there was a lot of unresolved tension b/w the two of them (which i rped) involving his like...insecurities towards her, and nemona's cluelessness towards it, as well as her unintentional insensitivity like commenting on wanting to see the "cool pokemon" that attacked mabosstiff, being so excited about area zero, gushing about his father/mother—all stuff arven took very to heart as a personal offense, even if he knows logically that she didn't mean it like that and it wasn't intentional


the rp is continuous but the premise for when he snapped was that nemona was upset and went to area zero, underestimating it bc she knows she's strong it's what everyone tells her she's good at, she thought she could handle it and found it fun, even, and wanted a "mental reset" like she mentions when she gets upset in-game. but she gets injured and then her friends all have to go and pick her up, and arven just absolutely LOST it on her, in a sort of ptsd-fueled anxiety that she could've gotten herself easily killed in the same way his parent could have, just airing out all his grievances with her in the heat of the moment, in anger and anxiety and sadness that she still couldn't understand why he felt the way he did, but she does after that, after knowing that she too can get hurt down there and it's not just "a video game" like she said it was (which ofc was just a funny fourth wall break but It could be deeper. To me.)

sorry to spam u i have many thoughts abt them LOL

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chroniccoolness

ocd is not fucking destigmatized

chroniccoolness

"intrusive thought" gets thrown around by assholes talking about putting strainers on their heads or stepping on a leaf who in the next sentence will say "if your thoughts are about actually hurting people they should put you in a psych ward". compulsions and rituals get seen as proof you're "crazy". ocd insight CAN be delusional, even. pocd and sexual ocd is especially demonized, though even something as "harmless" (to others. not *us*) as contamination OCD is still mocked, belittled, and seen as a sign something is fundamentally wrong with you. I have seen people twice my age advocate for violence against anyone who thinks the way I've been forced by my mental illness to think since i was 6, maybe 7 years old.

OCD is not destigmatized.