nineteenth path

[mist_illusions]

Why is it that we allow our parents - our families - to control our lives for so long? Or perhaps I should ask why they think they should be allowed to control our lives for so long. It isn't as though they are, as a whole, better people than we are. They have more experience, but that experience doesn't keep them from ruining their own lives or

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[donttelldaddy]

Please, Mukuro, tell us more about how your mother doesn't love you. Really, we care.

[mist_illusions]

You're about to leave school, Lili, and you're still hopelessly devoted to your father? You'll have to grow up sometime, you know.

[donttelldaddy]

You're the immature one, spouting off about how useless familial bonds are whenever you get the opportunity.

My father doesn't even make all of my decisions for me, like you seem to assume. In fact, I don't know anyone who fits your description older than ten years, who are you even referring to?

[mist_illusions]

There are plenty of older students, and even adults, who seem incapable of living their lives without clinging to their parents at every turn. And there are plenty of parents who encourage that - and plenty who seem unwilling to let their children go even if they wish it.

I don't think your father makes all your decisions for you - I think you let the thought of him make them for you, like so many others do.

[magichairbrush]

Not all parents are like that, though, and I wouldn't call familial bonds shallow. These are the people who love us no matter what, and have raised us. Honestly? I can't speak for everyone, but I know I wouldn't be the same person without Mother.

[mist_illusions]

Does she really love you no matter what? Are you sure? And how can you know that the person you would be without her wouldn't be better than the person you are now?

[magichairbrush]

Yes, of course I'm sure. She's my Mother, and she's always taken care of me.

And... I like who I am now. I don't know about better, but I wouldn't want to change.

Mukuro, if something's upsetting you, though, about your own family... You should talk to someone about it. I wouldn't mind listening at all.

[mist_illusions]

Everyone changes. Someday you'll have to grow up and walk away from your mother - if you can.

And there's nothing about my family that's upsetting me. I'm just sick of hearing people talk about their parents as if they can do no wrong.

[redwhiteandhero]

Not all of us are that stupid.

[mist_illusions]

But plenty of us are. It's sad, really.

[redwhiteandhero]

Who cares? Quit acting like you're smarter than everyone when most of us figured this crap out a long time ago.

[mist_illusions]

Apparently most of us didn't. You can feel free to act like you're smarter than everyone, too.

[godmodinurgame]

My my, Mukuro, we're certainly asking the hard questions tonight. I don't think half of the school understood you then.

[mist_illusions]

I'm fairly certain that half of the castle never understands me. I'm not expecting much.

[godmodinurgame]

I'll always understand you, dear. Don't fret~

[mist_illusions]

How reassuring to know that there's someone who'll always understand me.

[grimdarklight]

Aren't you a ray of sunshine?

My mother sends me no less than eight owls a day and I ignore them all apart from when I make something beautiful and ridiculous I can send back to her in a show of passive-aggressive cruel irony with a message about how I work only to care for her in her old age. It's a pleasant way to strengthen our familial bond, but otherwise I'm grateful to Hogwarts for keeping me out of her perpetual company.

I'm still a baby, though. Relatively.
Ga ga goo goo.

[mist_illusions]

Now that's a refreshing parent-child relationship. You must be delighted to return home every summer.

[grimdarklight]

Yes. The best part about it is when she throws a party for my return and removes the ceiling in order to facilitate the installation of a six-foot high cake in the shape of an eldritch princess riding a pony.
It's quite the sight.

[mist_illusions]

You should invite all your classmates to those parties, I'm sure they'd love to see that.

Why exactly does your mother do these things?