Madness string 122718

Random mermaid
I wish I could promise you it will get better. But I'm not a fortune teller. All I can say is that I have known people who've been through similar stuff, and found their way through, and are now more-or-less functional adults with more-or-less decent lives. I don't know what the way through looks like for you; all I know is that there have been other fifteen-year-olds who have been in similarly awful situations, and found a path through to being eighteen, and twenty-five, and fifty and beyond.

People don't seem to like the idea of having two near-identical masks floating about, though if you look closely they're not even that alike. The general shape and pattern, perhaps, but... it's all in the details, yes? If you make it general enough, all masks are similar anyway.