the worst fact in the world is that sloths don’t particularly have any body language to express fear so you could make a sloth really scared and never even know
Kudos to fanfiction writers for writing about all the trauma and emotional and mental turmoil that the original content creators dont acknowledge when putting characters through hell
This has evolved to one of fanfiction’s major assets in my eyes. To every author that cares enough about the characters in their stories to examine trauma, but also the slow, tedious processes of healing and recovery: your stories mean so much to me and other persons with mental health problems. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Part of this is likely due to the limitations of commercialized literature; publishers wouldn’t greenlight Harry Potter and the Pain of Living with Survivor’s Guilt but fanwriters are free to spend 250000 words digging into the nitty gritty of character emotional development