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Though Maci’s deep-rooted anger was pointedly directed at Chal from a distance, where Neo was concerned, Maci withdrew from her, hesitant about confronting the reality of her daughter's realm and terrified of lashing out at her. Neo had never been particularly clingy and was now occupying her time with Enya's weapon training, so she happened to remain oblivious of her mom's sudden distance for several months until it became too obvious to not notice. The way Maci cowered whenever Neo tried to share the details of how she'd spent her day was unmistakable - the unsteady numbness that had replaced Maci's normally warm personality was blatant. Attempting to make her scythe less terrifying for Maci and the other palace residents who flinched from it, Neo had her scythe customized into rainbow gems and purple metal, but even still when the project was complete Maci could barely look at it. |
Though Maci’s deep-rooted anger was pointedly directed at Chal from a distance, where Neo was concerned, Maci withdrew from her, hesitant about confronting the reality of her daughter's realm and terrified of lashing out at her. Neo had never been particularly clingy and was now occupying her time with Enya's weapon training, so she happened to remain oblivious of her mom's sudden distance for several months until it became too obvious to not notice. The way Maci cowered whenever Neo tried to share the details of how she'd spent her day was unmistakable - the unsteady numbness that had replaced Maci's normally warm personality was blatant. Attempting to make her scythe less terrifying for Maci and the other palace residents who flinched from it, Neo had her scythe customized into rainbow gems and purple metal, but even still when the project was complete Maci could barely look at it. |
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During this time, intervention upon intervention was had. At first |
During this time, intervention upon intervention was had. At first patiently, as Maci disintegrated, Tory held fast by her side, insisting again and again to her petulantly deaf ears that there was no way out but through. Burying the trauma of her past with Thanatos had never ''really'' worked and had now been forced to the surface, too great and overwhelming to return from whence it came. Maci ''had'' to deal with this, if not even just for herself but also to spare her daughter from being affected. Face the scythe, face Thanatos’ rehabilitated child, face Neo the predecessor. But Maci on a good day was stubborn – Maci in pieces was incapable of seeing reason. |
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In 2017, Tory (urged by Loki and [[Bel]]’s insistence) nearly begged her to go to therapy. Maci’s behavior was not only concerning to all those who knew and cared about her, but was now actively impeding progress being made through Chal’s rehabilitation and Neo’s own burgeoning death goddess training. Drawing from the half of her that had receded into anger, Maci reacted to this plea explosively - again. Tory was pregnant at this time with Epi's twins [[Skio]] and [[Kora]], and had no energy to argue with her ''again'' about doing the right thing to help herself and everyone else, nor the patience to enable her avoidance of dealing with this - ''again.'' When Maci's tantrum, which had culminated in a full screaming argument between two short-tempered deities, was complete, she stormed away to |
In 2017, Tory (urged by Loki and [[Bel]]’s insistence) nearly begged her to go to therapy. Maci’s behavior was not only concerning to all those who knew and cared about her, but was now actively impeding progress being made through Chal’s rehabilitation and Neo’s own burgeoning death goddess training. Drawing from the half of her that had receded into anger, Maci reacted to this plea explosively - again. Tory was pregnant at this time with Epi's twins [[Skio]] and [[Kora]], and had no energy to argue with her ''again'' about doing the right thing to help herself and everyone else, nor the patience to enable her avoidance of dealing with this - ''again.'' When Maci's tantrum, which had culminated in a full screaming argument between two short-tempered deities, was complete, she stormed away to sulk and hide in the main palace. Tory, at his furious wits end after almost two years of this, let her go after Loki and Epi confirmed she was fine. |
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Neither of them had reached a resolution to this last argument when Neo, age-10-turning-11 at the time, came to Tory and Maci in tears - a rare sight for Neo, who was often stoic and calm. These tears and this breakdown from her daughter was the catalyst at last for Maci to snap to some sort of sense. Neo had never cried quite as hard as she had that night, and Maci was gutted with the realization that Neo had come to know she herself was a source of Maci's disintegration. Maci agreed to speak at last to [[Epione]], the Olympian therapist who had [[Vrykolakas|helped Epi the previous year]] about her anxiety over Neo's scythe, and all of the re-opened trauma that had come about as a result. |
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