Parentification Stories

Parentification is the process of role reversal whereby a child is obliged to act as parent to their own parent or sibling. In extreme cases, the child is used to fill the void of the alienating parent's LIFE.

Before Harley Keener had met Tony Stark, he had already gone through a lot in his short life... When Harley was five-years-old, his father went to 7-11 to get scratchers and never came back. Then, Harley's mother started become neglectful of her two kids. She blamed them for their father leaving and was rarely ever home. Everything got worse when she got a new boyfriend and started getting into drugs and alcohol. This left Harley to care for his three-year-old sister alone... He did everything he could to make sure that his little sister had the best childhood, even if it meant sacrificing his own...

She grew up in a house full of people, yet somehow learned how to disappear. I was never the loud one. I was the one who stayed. The Things I Did in Silence follows Zaylira through the small, unnoticed moments of her life-Saturday mornings, quiet responsibilities, secret conversations, and the ache of being needed more than she was known. This is a coming-of-age story about loneliness that doesn't scream, love that doesn't quite fit, and the ways we learn to survive quietly. About making breakfast before eating it. About closing doors just to breathe. About being invisible in a room full of people. Some stories are loud. This one lives in the quiet.

Life in my mother's house, 1969, before foster care

Growing up with chronic illness is an emotional journey. This story will describe the feeling of having your soul leap out your body. In addition to the experience of going unseen amongst all the challenges and chapters that come with having a chronic illness.

Light it up and let it go. Don't you see that you're not alone? Light it up and watch it fly, Cause you can be anything you want tonight. Cause it could be a beautiful morning. - for KING & COUNTRY // Dean didn't even really know what he was doing when he walked into the kitchen at the right time and in doing so showed sixteen-year-old Caleb that he wasn't as alone as he thought. Years later, Caleb knows much more than Dean would like him to the minute he sees an all-too-familiar look in his eyes. birthday present for @Trekkiehood :)

In the quiet, multi-generational home on Willow Street in Oakhaven, 11-year-old fraternal twins Whitney and Jack carry a burden heavier than any child should. Born with astigmatism that subtly blurs their vision, they've learned to see the world, and themselves, through a distorted lens. Both high-masking and autistic, they've perfected the art of pretending, presenting "Wyatt" and "Jessica" to their loving mom, Caroline, and doting grandparents, even playing with toys that feel fundamentally wrong. For Whitney, an unspoken parentification has twisted her yearning for feminine identity into a bittersweet, negative euphoria, finding validation in caregiving while losing her own childhood. For Jack, the constant performance of being "Jessica" has created an exhausting internal void. Despite a monthly stipend from a deadbeat dad providing comfort, it's the profound emotional neglect of not being their true selves that slowly crushes them. Until one evening, the carefully constructed masks shatter. The weight of their hidden lives becomes too much to bear, forcing Whitney and Jack into a raw, unplanned confession. This is the story of two siblings, bound by birth and by secret, who must now navigate the terrifying path to their authentic selves, hoping their family's love can embrace the children they truly are, beneath the mask.

"Tere aane se gham chala jayega, isi baat ka darr hai mujhko." x "Toot jaaye toh phir jud na paayega issi baat ka darr hai mujhko." In which a musician who had lost all hope collides with a jilted bride and somehow, both of them rediscover hope and maybe even love. - or in other words, a rockstar and a lyricist will always lead to a Starstruck AU. In which no matter what, all roads lead Krish Kapoor to Vaani Batra.