Growing Pains; A Novel About Change
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Growing Pains; A Novel About Change

This story contains themes of: depression, drug use overdose, eating disorders, extreme violence gore, extremist content, homophobia, self-harm, suicide, violent death, pedophilia, explicit imagery

Story Notes

by Violet Autumn @peaceful-blooming

NSFW 18+ Minors DNI!!

Mature/Dark themes!

Setting: The fic is set in an AU where no one dies/shibuya doesn’t happen, toji is alive but still a fucking deadbeat dad - works with the sorcerers as an assassin. Everyone is OP / god modded for FUN - if you read you’ll see how fun it is. ahahahah madness

All underage characters are all aged up appropriately.

Tags: self insert, best friend inserts, mental illness, breaking stigma, smut, dom/switch toji, domestic toji, polyamory, reverse harem unfair harem, three men one woman, heavy angst,

(Not every chapter has these TW’s applied, but I’ll post them at the beginning of any chapter/part I post just in case, in some chapter’s I will give an explicit warning that it is about to be rough/dark.

Tw: descriptions of severe mental illnesses (dissociation, body dysmorphia, self loathing, depression, anxiety, catatonic states, panic attacks, medication mentions, mental health, complex trauma, childhood trauma, religious trauma, family trauma) violence, BDSM, smut, posessiveness, obsession, OCD, borderline personality disorder behavior/mentions, bipolar mentions/medications, suicide/suicidal ideation mentioned, religious themes, gods/goddesses, gore/descriptions of wounds/death/healing/resurrection, casual discussion of dark themes/dark humor (murder, dying, mental illness) virginity kink (characters lose virginity), polyamory, reverse harem, choking, creampie/breeding kink, size difference, age gap (toji and mc 27/40y/o) slow burn, CNC(consensual non consent) NO NON CONSENT, degradation, praise & worship, body worship, begging, asphyxiation, edge play, multiple orgasm, oral sex, biting, bruising, marking, rough play, rough sex, jealousy, beating, insecurity, anxious attachment, sensation play, large breasts/thick women, size kink/macrophilia, dad bod/muscular build, large men, workplace tension/romance, angst

Summary

Felis Frisk is a successful artist living in Tokyo. She’s the primary curator for the next big exhibition gallery of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has literally climbed from the bottom to the top, but she misses his home and is really stressed about this huge project. Meanwhile, her friend Shoko desperately needs out of her job at the Jujutsu Highschool- and her best friend from home, Victoria Serafin is wanting to move to Tokyo for a change of weather too- perfect coincidence? Possibly! Through their careers and mutual friends they meet people who make them question the very essence of their existences. They’re faced with the questions of “who are you” and “what do you want out of life?” Are they ready to accept the darkest parts of themselves? Felis has no problem falling in love with the insane assassin Toji Fushiguro. But Victoria seems to have trouble admitting her feelings. She's going to be in for a very long, slow burn romance with three different men. So many questions and so many answers. Can they conquer their trauma and let themselves have a future? But most importantly: Will they be able to change? Growing Pains; A Novel About Change By: Violet Autumn

Status
Complete
Chapters
13
Rating
n/a
Age Rating
18+

Foreword

How much can change in a year? Two years? Three years? Time flies by and suddenly you’re in a different place, surrounded by different people, thinking different ways, living in a new world. You could also be exactly the same person but you’ve discovered something small about yourself. You started another hobby, read a new book that changed your perspective. Change is not limited to anything. Change is fluid and complex. Change occurs whether we allow or disallow it. Change doesn’t care if we’re ready or not. But it definitely helps when you’re expecting it. It hurts for sure. The pain isn’t a sign of weakness but evolution. Change exists on a brilliant, infinite spectrum.

Why does it carry a negative connotation? For most of us, change isn’t chosen and it hurts. We linger in the safety of consistency, even if that pattern is hurting us. At least we know how badly this will hurt us, right? Wrong.

Sometimes you don’t even realize you’re going through change until you recollect something and recognize the flicker of a shadow that used to be you. You stare at your distant reflection as if it were a ghost. You feel an ache of what used to be there and realize I’m not the same person anymore.

Good or bad, change is change. Regardless of how or why, you will emerge from this journey a different person. It’s your choice whether you emerge a victor or a victim. The first step is always self reflection. So I ask you:

What has change done for/to you?

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