Mommy Dearest
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Last published Tue, Jul 12, 2016
*A story inspired by the wonderful psycho thriller ''Black Swan'' (2010)* A ''what if'' story, set immediately after the movie's ending. (Pairing: Nina x Lily)
For one role the young Nina Sayers risked her sanity, for perfection she was willing to even die. She was given the role as the Swan Queen, and it cost her nearly her sanity and her life. Her life was saved, however, and the young ballerina leaves the company, and abandons the world of ballet, so to heal from her inner wounds and the past, piecing together a shattered sanity as on she lives. With Lily at her side, far away from her mother's clutches, Nina experiences true happiness for the very first time. The two women, having become lovers and each other's closest friend, are willing to become a family, and adopt a little girl named Grace. As her two mothers before her, Grace wishes to become a ballerina. Despite Lily's concern for her lover's still fragile state of mind, Nina is willing to become her ''daughter's'' instructor and advisor in the world she swore never again to participate in. Gradually, ever so gradually, a long buried history between a different mother and another child is unearthed, and yet again a sanity is threatened to completely in give as the Black Swan, Odile, once again threatens to consume its innocent twin, Odette.
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As always the cover was created in Photoshop CS6
Warnings; twisted scenes due to Nina's schizophrenia (or due to her psychotic personality if you so will as her ''illness'' has not been stated, but I will assume that Nina suffers from schizophrenia), some self harming scenes, a few sexual scenes between two women and child abuse in the past (implied to be sexual, but mostly psychological and emotional)
Should it repulse you, should it be triggering, then away you should turn - for your own sake.
/Zeldha
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