dsmp age regression oneshots

detective foolish

ᴛʀɪɢɢᴇʀ ᴡᴀʀɴɪɴɢꜱ ᴀʀᴇ ʟɪꜱᴛᴇᴅ ᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴏᴛᴛᴏᴍ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ᴏɴᴇꜱʜᴏᴛ

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foolish can't help but feel bad as he looks between the tv and the brunette beside him.

karl is pouting, clearly upset about something and also clearly regressed, but foolish doesn't know how to help. he has no experience with regression outside the few times that karl has been little around him, and nolan just left the house to go pick up something for jimmy.

karl wasn't regressed when nolan left, but it feels like the second he stepped out the door karl slipped and now foolish is almost pretending like he hasn't noticed (that's exactly what he's doing). he knows he should help the brunette and he wants to be there for him but he knows nothing.

he can't imagine that anything he could do would help, not with such minimal knowledge.

still, when the boy beside him begins to sniffle with preemptive tears, he knows he needs to man up and step in for the mental-child.

"are you okay?" he asks as he looks over at the brunette, thinking that he sounds ridiculous as he tries to be soft-spoken.

karl just shakes his head no, hiding his face behind his knees as he begins to actually cry.

it makes foolish feel horrible for not saying anything before, and he thinks that maybe this is just karma.

"what's up... little one?" he says experimentally. it probably sounds awkward and forced, but karl doesn't seem to mind as he shifts closer to foolish on the couch. after not receiving a response, he asks, "is there anything i can do?"

karl looked up with red eyes and foolish watches cluelessly as he bunches his right hand in a fist and moves it towards his mouth before just staring.

the brunette has heard that karl uses sign language when he's nonverbal but he's never seen it before, nor has he seen the brunette unable to talk, nor does he understand what the fuck it means.

karl's face scrunches in frustration and he repeats the action.

it looks like he's mime-eating, so foolish goes off on a whim and guesses, "are you hungry?"

he feels oh-so-accomplished when the regressor quickly nods.

then his heart drops.

alongside karl's age regression, foolish is also cluelessly unknowledgeable of his friend's eating disorder.

it's spoken about often amongst both the beast crew and people like dream and sapnap, casually mentioning things like, 'karl won't eat that' or 'no, that's one of karl's fear foods' or 'he doesn't eat orange things,' but still foolish doesn't know much about it.

he knows karl has arfid, he knows there are very minimal foods he can have without breaking down, he knows things have to be certain colours or textures or temperatures but he just doesn't know what.