Your scars remain

Chapter 2: Breakdown

Rewind has a breakdown
Phil is a good dad
Techno is no good at human emotion
Wilbur is just there
Tommy tries to be the best older brother figure he can while simultaneously confusing the fuck out of Rewind

TWs // Cursing, Panic Attacks, Past Abuse, Flashbacks

EEEEEEEEEENJOY!

Rewind's eyes snapped open.

He was comfortable.

That was a weird thought.

He was used to waking up on the floor or covered by thin tattered blankets. Not... whatever witchcraft he was on now.

It was so soft... He could just sink into it and sleep forever.

Forever?

No, he couldn't sleep forever!

But it was so soft...

He needed to get up!

Close your eyes and dream...

Come on Rewind!

Think of a place far away...

Of a world far better than this one...

Was there even a feeling better than this heaven?

Of an eternity without hurt? Fear? Pain?

No.

Wake up Rewind! Snap out of it!

Go back to paradise...

Don't listen to them!

He was snapped from his daze by the sound of a door.

He instantly remembered where he was. He was in a new place. With villains, the people he fought against so long ago.

"Big K?" A voice shook him awake. For the first time, he cracked his eyes open. It hurt quite a bit at first but he didn't care, they'd adjust. "Oh thank Prime you're alive! You'll not understand how terrified I was!"

"T-Tommy?"

"In the flesh!" The blonde smirked. Rewind snapped into a sitting position, eyes flashing around the room. "Whoa there, Big Man. Settle down. You'll tear the stitches." That was the first time that he looked down at himself, bandages wrapped around his middle. "Wait, you're a man, right? My Big Sib Techno isn't one! What're your pronouns Big K?"

That sentence confused Rewind. Someone... isn't a boy or girl?

He felt comfortable being called a 'Big Man' but they've always told him he was a girl. Honk, he even had the chest to prove it! They'd barely started growing... but they were there! That's what made him a girl... right?

"Pro-Pronouns?"

"Right! I forgot you've probably never heard of them! You see, there are people who aren't their birth gender. Like me! I was born in the body of a woman but I never was one. It took me a while to figure it out, a lot of Transgender people, or people who aren't their birth gender, do. How do I explain it... I guess there's just this part of your brain constantly saying 'This isn't you' everytime you look in a mirror or think about yourself as the gender you were born as, ya know? I mean it's different for everyone, but that's what it was for me.

"Then there's also people who aren't either, we call those people 'Non-Binary'. They aren't a girl or a boy. It's like my big sibling Techno, they're neither!

Sorry if this is a bit too much to process right now! We can whip out the slideshow presentation once you're not half asleep!" Tommy rambled. "I use He/Him if you were wondering. Like 'He's eating Ice Cream' or 'I like his shirt'."