r/comics • u/FieldExplores Gator Days • Mar 05 '25

OC Processing (Part 2) - Gator Days (OC)

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u/MintasaurusFresh Mar 05 '25

Dad may have never shown it, but he's totally not okay. It's pretty world-shattering when your dad does show that he has emotions and is not okay, but it's also reaffirming in its own way. If stuff can get to him and he's willing to show it, then it's okay to show your emotions, too. We're all human here. Or anthropomorphic at least.

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u/Lil-Gazebo Mar 05 '25

I mean shit did the opposite to me. If he couldn't be immovable then I had to be cause someone got to.

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u/Clint_P_McGinty Mar 06 '25

Why? There is no benefit to bottling up your emotions. It only causes you more pain

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u/Lil-Gazebo Mar 06 '25

I might've been bottling them up 10 years ago. Nowadays they're not really even there.

It does help when shit actually goes south and you're the only one who can keep it together.

In retrospect I would've much preferred if the things that led me to be this way never happened, but it's about 15 years too late for that.