I started to imagine Chara Dreemurr as being someone with deeply entrenched dysphoria, someone uncomfortable in their own skin, one reason why they ended up feeling more at home with the monsters than with humanity. And let's just say...I found it curiously _easy_ to imagine feeling that way.

More of my own childhood was starting to recur to me as I reflected on these things. I'd never really liked my own body much, either, now that I was thinking about it. My mom and dad kinda sucked but they _never_ tried to make me feel bad about how I looked...but I felt bad anyway. I thought I looked terrible in photographs>