vinny (backstory)

(this may be a bit messy so sorry if it isnt understandable ;;)

TW!! THIS STORY CONTAINS MENTIONS OF AB^SE, SELF H^RM, TRAUMA AND BL^^D (not censored)

A long time ago it was believed that a male tanuki's child would be the perfect child, no matter what other specie he'd mate with, of course this was wrong as there is no such thing as a perfect child, but there are ignorant people in the world.
One of them was Vinny's mother, Taylor, she believed this when she was very young, around the age of 19 and wanted a perfect child to show them off and make everyone jealous.

Taylor found a male, weird looking tanuki and offered to pay him in order to mate with her and get her pregnant, she offered a very large amount of money and he agreed, he had heard the legend and thought Taylor was crazy but hey, money is money.
Throughout her whole pregnancy, Taylor was in love with the idea of her parents finally being proud of something she made, that being Vinny, but that was not the case at all.

Months later, the child is born, at first she had no name for her because she spent most of her time fantasizing of her perfect and amazing behavior so she grabbed random letters she saw across the room and put them together, Vinny. "What a null name, but eh, her behavior will make up for it" Taylor thought to herself.

As any baby, Vinny was born with natural colored hair, and Taylor was not happy with it, she dyed her hair the same color she had hers, bright orange, just so she would look more like her.

Weeks later, Taylor had discovered there was no thing as a perfect child and was disgusted at Vinny for the sole purpose of crying, wanting to eat or even wanting love from her. She drank and became an alcoholic that would only hit and abuse of the baby who had done nothing wrong.

Eventually, while being drunk, Taylor came up with a solution from how tired of her child she was, so she took the baby, a little broken and destroyed blanket Vinny had as a child and nothing else, she planned to abandon her.
Vinny was already 4 years old and could already speak, so Taylor thought if she abandoned her in the street or somewhere public she would find her way back to her eventually. So she came up with the greatest idea ever known to mankind and decided to leave her at a very VERY badly managed mental hospital.

Before going in, Taylor told Vinny to do exactly everything she said or she'd no longer see her anymore, she didn't want that so she followed her instructions. Those being very clear "one touch is yes, two touches is no and cough is lie"

They went inside and asked for Vinny to be registered. The director of the place asked her and Taylor some questions, all answers controlled by Taylor.

The director put her in immediately as he thought that she had a lot of mental illnesses and needed to be treated as quick as possible.

Vinny saw her mom leave behind her and was left at a big room that had toys, a small play area, food, one hospital gown, and her little blanket, no place to sleep, no windows, no A/C. The walls were painted with a nice cartoony sunset and animals and bugs playing tag while having a big, creepy smile on their faces.

Vinny enjoyed it for a couple days, but after the first 10 days, she started getting unneeded medication. She hated those meds and realized that her mommy was never coming back.

Some of the meds made her lose memories she had, for example a friend she had, her mom's face, her house, even her own face by the lack of mirrors.

Eventually they gave her paper and crayons, a lot of them, of many colors, they said it was so she could "express her feelings" on her stay there, it had been 2 years. All she drew were eyes looking at her, staring. The lack of air conditioner made her hallucinate and that was all she could see at night.

More years passed, same routine, until one day she was let to go with other patients staying at the same facility and even if she was excited to see them, she was scared, her hair had grown long and wild, so she took kids scissors she was given and cut so much hair the whole area she was in was covered in hair, wait, is that... blood?

When she finally met them, she looked awful, hadnt taken a shower in, wait how long had it been? Anyway, some kids were afraid of her, some made fun of her and some couldn't even bare to look at her.

The ones making fun of her decided to investigate more about her and why she was there. When they found out the reason of her stay, they had a plan.
That plan was to become "friends" with her to make fun of her directly at her and make her think that bullying was normal.

More years went by, the drawings continued, she had an immense pile of papers with eyes on them, some had sketches of memories she shortly remembered. The hallucinations went on and she was done. She started to cut her arms with her scissors, that made her stop hallucinating for a short amount of time. A price to pay for a short amount of calm.

One day, social services went to close the place down, as they had multiple reports of screams of children coming from inside. What they found there was worse than they thought.

Badly medicated kids, harmed kids, abused patients, and then there was Vinny, who was all of those things.

Many of the patients were homeless and had been left to die by their parents, so social services took them to a orphan house for them to be adopted and reinserted into society.

Vinny had gone through long periods of therapy, checks ups to see how she was doing, more abusive adoptive families and more meds. But all that came to an end when she was finally adopted by a loving mother that took her to a place where she could be happy, wait, she's happy? yes, she is finally happy.