Monster in the mirror

Here's Makayla's fear task for 's fear round! The premise of the task was to show your character facing what they fear!

Makayla's greatest fears surround her father, Leon, depicted in the mirror. As a child, she feared him and his aggressive ways, but as she grew older, she realised that he was just a bitter, sad, and deeply insecure person. That fear of him as a person eventually turned into fearing being anything like him, and being with anyone like him.

She was often ignored and belittled by her father, just because she was a girl. He would spend most of his time with her brother, Craig. He conditioned him into his toxic ways, and she saw how badly his influence impacted him. Leon took his insecurities out on others and lashed out at them with his violent temper. Makayla also has that tempestuous side to her and has her own insecurities too, and she fears hurting anyone like her father did with his.

Her fear of being with anyone like him is perhaps one of the reasons she tends to seek out sensitive, gentle types. Her boyfriend, Brad, is the polar opposite of her father.