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prizeth0ught t1_j7pfz4u wrote

This makes me want to write a story, a little girl in a fantasy world is trapped in a castle like maze, it seems to endlessly go up & she is progressing through the story always trying to find a way to escape the castle & get back to her family, something about the castle makes her feel uneasy, uncomfortable.

She bumps into many characters like in the Wizard of Oz, they all have personality attributes similar to her family members, all the friends she's closest with, her trio of girl bullies... and one, her greatest teacher that comforts her through life with wisdom.

The characters all symbolize something, the Knight for instance, represents her deep will to protect others, and is her subconscious minds idea of an older version of her little baby brother she wants to protect... ^(even though no one is there to protect her or save her from the molestation & violation of the actual self), the knight sacrifices himself to save her from the chaos, the negativity, the hate, she keeps looking upward in the castle as the darkness manifesting itself into rabbits with rabies & demonic black eyes, representing the void, emptiness they want to consume & turn the girl into.

At the end of the story its revealed, the reason she cannot escape it is because the castle is her mind... the reason her unconscious mind put her there is to try to dissociate & depersonalize from all the C-ptsd that's currently developing in her childhood. One of the caricatures she journeys through the castle with after meeting & helping, resembling her seemingly friendly uncle that always comes over, ends up betraying her entire group, she also learn he was the one that told them where they were in the castle due to his hidden agenda to have her consume by the dark. She's only ever able to escape & disconnect from the castle through understanding the teachings of her teacher figure, by leaving her mind & body, connecting to her deeper spirit & essence, she saves the castle from pure destruction, she discovers after endlessly climbing the castle always thinking there's nothing left & sh has to reach this final destination, that its infinite & that "thing" a few of the characters promise her could save her if she kept searching, she found that she had it all along, it was already inside her, the light... suddenly she's able to express her light & the entire castle stops seeming so dark & gloomy, she stop having thoughts of letting the rabbits get to her wondering if it will all en & the suffering would be over, when the rabbits that kept duplicating themselves in an attempt to match the infinite space of the castle get to her, she eradicates them all with her light. She never learns all that her inner self suffered or did to save her outer self, so her mind wouldn't be destroyed permanently, consumed by darkness & manifested into something else, but her inner self manifest into unlocking her magical abilities so she's able to protect others from real threats.

She wakes up in the morning and sees her baby brother playing with the little toy knight in the living room, there's a lightness to the girl's energy now, she subconsciously has no doubt she can never be corrupted & polluted by the darkness & evil in the real world, the abusers will to spread & inflict their pain & turmoil onto others cursing them & all that come after for generations to come.

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allistrations OP t1_j9dxyss wrote

Hey this is a really lovely idea!! It honestly gave me so much other visual inspiration. Are you a writer?

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prizeth0ught t1_j9hub6p wrote

>allistrations

Nope, but I've always wanted to be one so I can publish my dream novel one day.

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