in their canon this is also compounded with imri's ability to see ghost/spirits/etc which their mom is also kinda uncertain how to cope with. which kind of led imri to like.... drop it until he left to live with loreto (how exactly loreto is related to imri/their family still uncertain but w/e)

so imri spent a long long time repressed and uncertain, not knowing how to explain himself or how their mom would react even if he could? and when he finally does try his mom gives a kind of "I want you to he happy but i'll always think of you as my little girl" esque response, at least initially

it's very much a situation where she struggled to accept it because like.... that's her Daughter, that's her Baby Girl. meanwhile being referred to like that always felt wrong and uncomfortable to imri even before he had the language for it.

like imri was attached to her hip as a child, just absolutely adored her. and he really still does? but there's a lot to do with imri's growing dysphoria and feelings of uncertainty as he got older, a lot of worry about communicating it to her and how she would react or what she would say..

imri's relationship with their mommy might be more tenuous than i initially thought. it is looking like they are estranged in fact

imri facing the horrors and going through ordeals yayyyyy

genuinely havent stopped looking at them since i got this comm back

imri as ascalaphus will always be famous... i think he should hang out in mel's garden and watch her plots