In which a Half-Life pup is triggered by the mun watching Steven Universe.

[vance_prime]

Come on, Alyx. Get it together. It's a cartoon. A children's cartoon. It's not--

[She swallows and runs her hands over her face.]

It's not real, dammit. The war's over. They're all gone now, they have to be...

[But it doesn't help. All she can think of is those mutilated bodies, maimed limbs dangling uselessly, eyeless faces staring at nothing, the air rent with voiceless screams of fear and anger.]

["This is what happens when you resist... or if you're just in the wrong place at the wrong time. God, I hope you don't remember who you were..."]