I will
rip you
to
fucking
p i e c e s
everyone’s damn lucky tomorrow people aren’t built to kill bc otherwise cara would have a hell of a lot of blood on her hands.
Cara’s age. || Theory
Stephen: "You've only been with one guy. Really? Just John?"
Cara: "What did you expect?"
Stephen: "Uh, I don't know! At least one or two other conquests!"
Cara: "I was 17, and I just wanted to lose it when I left home."
Stephen: "And he just swooped in and swept you up--"
Cara: "Alright-Alright Romeo."Cara broke out 5 (technically 6*, now) years ago. Then met John 3 years ago.
At 17, she started to have sex with John.
Meaning, Cara is currently 20 years old.
Meaning, Cara was 14-15 years old when she broke out and was nearly raped by Tyler Miller.
Hi, this is what I do when I don’t feel good and watch TTP on shuffle.
*Girl Interrupted Flash backs: 5 Years ago (Released in 2013)
Rumble Flash backs: 6 Years ago (Released in 2014) [Counting for the change of the year by the time the episode was released, we can assume that Cara met Julian almost immediately after she broke out and came to New York.]
^Don’t worry guys, I’m asking the writers about that whole thing too.
Let’s talk about Cara’s past disabilities and the lingering side-effects that have been strange little habits and quirks of hers.
Cara was deaf and mute. Likely not a since-birth sort of thing, considering once her powers kicked in, she seemed to have spoken language down pretty damn well (my bet’s on an accident in kindergarten —- enough to give her a basic knowledge of language, but nothing beyond primary level, or what she managed to pick up through reading).
At least half her life, if not more, was spent hindered by her disability. She likely went through the entirety of her school career with her means of communication limited to her hands. And then, alienated by her disability, friends would have been difficult to come by, her peers probably put off by the language barrier.
For the sake of giving her time disabled a number, that’s at least twelve years worth of being raised without words but gestures, and without friends. Something so long-lasting and ingrained into her psyche as normal isn’t just going to go away as soon as her powers kick it.
Let’s start with speech patterns —- every once in a while, her tone lacks sureness, halting briefly between syllables, between words with a softer and slower voice, as if the words don’t feel like they fit in her mouth. After all, it’s one thing to have read the word before. It’s another to figure out how to say it aloud —- pronunciation isn’t of the deaf and mute’s top concerns, and despite years of practice since getting speech and hearing back, speech can still be a minor struggle.
And then we have her hands. What were once her words was replaced and silenced by a working a working mouth, but old habits die hard and become easy second-nature. It’s subconscious, when she signs, the small movements of her hands subtle and almost indistinguishable from simple restless fidgeting. But when her hands clench by her side, or fingers flex at rhythmic intervals, she’s quite literally spelling out what on her mind.
Finally —- loud noises. When your whole world is dead silence for years on end, a sudden noise here and there is bound to make anyone jumpy. And then there’s the fact that what is loud renders oneself practically deaf, masking any other sounds with it’s sheer volume. It’s makes her uncomfortable, to be stripped from her hearing once again, even if temporarily. It’s part of the reason she’s more-or-less averse to music —- it’s too much a cover-up and a hindrance to her.