Last RK fanart I promise
I really needing some help venting and Sojiro has helped me a lot.
Non-photoshop fixed scan: http://chibikeba.deviantart.com/art/Smile-in-the-dark-original-81697985
It's interesting how smart Sojiro was to figure out that smiling at your abusers would make them go: "WTF?" and back off because it's not as fun. I wonder if a lot of kids deal with situations like that in a similar fashion? I wasn't exactly like Souji of course, but I was rather oblivious to the things around me.
At first I whined and cried, like when my step dad slammed me around and twisted my arm behind my back, I cried for my mom to help me but she just kept her back to me and ignored me. As time went on when he'd toss me into a wall or smack me around I would just act like I wasn't even aware of what was going on, and in a way I kind of wasn't because I'd usually be daydreaming about something. Might explain why I only remember bits and pieces of childhood. Ah well. I never smiled though, I would just get numb and go off to another world.
Kids sure are able to deal with things like that well, probably helps that their emotions haven't developed fully yet. I know nowadays I wouldn't be able to deal with something like that nearly as well as I did when I was a kid, but that's probably because I feel too strongly now. It's so much easier as a kid, but at the same time you're incapable of feeling some of the wonderful things you feel as an adult even though it's also more painful at times. Life is just chock full of trade offs, isn't it? O____o
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