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My current thoughts are basically on songs like:

Apex Predator (Mean Girls), Candy Store (Heathers), Be More Chill (Both parts, from the musical by the same name lol), etc

And like AUs with them because small/weak characters having to change their personality so people protect/just don’t kill them HURTS???

Like, weaker/younger characters being forced to change the way they act, look, etc in order to ‘fit in’ and be protected while an older/stronger character encourages it and even threatens them as a way to keep them doing it.

Like picture Player from CS having to keep his head down and obey orders while acting like everything is fine, like he’s totally a normal VILE operative just so people don’t find out he’s not??? Because the faculty loves mind games (“What’s wrong with you?! Why can’t you just be normal?!”)

Or, Hover from My Pride being lectured about why prideless lions are useless, disgusting, and all of those apply to her unless she obeys Pride Law?? (“You are not Hover anymore, Long Run!”)

Or, (spoilers for Dark Matter here) Daz losing literally everyone and everything and then having to act just right and listen to everything because she’s stuck on a space ship with total strangers who have no problems with killing her at a moment’s notice. (“Welcome, Little Warrior.”)

Or, and using OCs from ATF here: Descendants having to learn to keep everything ‘off’ or ‘not normal’ about them hidden because if they don’t neither of their people will want them near, alive or dead. (“Wait! Wait! Look, he’s like us, right? So you have to let him live, right?!”)