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Reed, leave Illyana alone.
I don't think she lived in a house or went to school or anything before she came here Reed. I think she was like, feral or something. Like, you know those stories about kids raised by wolves?
We used to be roommates and she'd sleep on the floor in the corner and store food under her bed and she's terrifyingly literal and doesn't know all kinds of basic things you assume people are supposed to know.
She's really smart. Just not academic.
I don't think she lived in a house or went to school or anything before she came here Reed. I think she was like, feral or something. Like, you know those stories about kids raised by wolves?
We used to be roommates and she'd sleep on the floor in the corner and store food under her bed and she's terrifyingly literal and doesn't know all kinds of basic things you assume people are supposed to know.
She's really smart. Just not academic.
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Date: 2017-08-29 11:59 pm (UTC)From: Reed
Re: IR
My sincere apologies. I did not know the circumstances of her birth. I am very impressed she has verbal skills at all, considering you can only learn language during a critical period of child development.
If she was severely neglected as you say, it explains quite a bit about her general tone and being.
I appreciate the clarity.
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Date: 2017-08-30 12:07 am (UTC)From: Xavin
'kay, I'm not on my phone any more, so i'll explain better than I did previously.
I don't think she was feral her whole life - like, you've read about Genie, right? She'd be like that. She's too... functional for that.
BUT I think she was like, massively neglected - basically left on her own to try to survive when she was really little. Which is why she sleeps on the floor and hoards food and things - I just did psych at school and that's like textbook child neglect. She'd never been to school before she got here.
And then all the demon stuff? But not knowing *normal* things? Like, that you don't put dollar bills into the CD drive in a computer to make it work? (my bad.) or what jokes are?
I think she was raised by a cuult or something who basically neglected her and starved her and abused her.
I'm not exaggerating. It's like, the only explanation. Or - IDK, she can teleport to different dimensions. Maybe she grew up in the Upsdide Down version of New York, and she's our version of Eleven.