Research. Ignore.

[bubosquared]

It's not easy to find stuff on non-sexual sibling abuse. It all seems to concentrate on incest. Grrr.Um, Taylor? (Or anyone else?) Could you point me in the right direction?

So the situation is this. Two brothers, David and Nick. David's about seven or eight years older than Nick. For reasons I have yet to discern, when David enters puberty, around age 12-13, so when Nick's 4-5, he becomes rather violent towards his brother. This violence seems to be rather homophoc and racist. ("Pansy, fairy, faggot," etc. when Nick's less than a 'real man') and the culmination of all this violence comes when he beats up Nick pretty badly (to the point of putting him into a coma for a few days) because Nick brought a non-white friend home. He basically leaves Nick bleeding in his room and runs away, supposedly joining the army. (He's 18 at this point, and Nicky's 10. Ish.)

What I need to know is:

1. Why is David doing this? (I'm thinking it has something to do with the dead/leaving of their father around David's 10th birthday, but I'm not sure.)
2. What would the results of this on Nick's emotional state be? (Keeping in mind there is no sexual abuse at all.)
3. What are possible physical results of the beating Nick took? (Epilepsy, whatever?)

I'm psycho-analysing my characters. There is something decidely wrong with that, yo.

Comments

[kkscatnip.livejournal.com]

whatever is wrong with doing that? if i dont psycho analyze mine i tend to have trouble writing them when theyre angsting and such... hey, understanding them is fun. and disturbing. heh.