no offence but imagine spending your whole childhood being forced into this perfect image of who you were supposed to be, until you fixated on the person you would grow up into– and more importantly, the person you would grow up to marry. knowing that your parents have a plan for you and for your future, and having no aspirations more than growing up to be that perfect person and make your parents proud. but then discovering that a part of you is considered very ugly by your parents, and everyone else you know, and by the world at large. so then, imagine that your parents’ plan to banish this ugliness from you is to imprison you. and they lock you up and finally, the person that comes to save you is nothing like what they expected or like what you imagined when you were young, but the person has those same qualities that you, at first, consider ugly because that’s what you’ve been told your whole life. and they think the parts of you that your parents revered aren’t your best parts, they LIKE you at your ‘ugliest’. fortunately, you like them back and find them genuinely charming. so you settle down and build a life together, but your parents find out that you’re seeing someone new and since they still have this image of you as their beautiful child who will grow up to live a perfect cookie-cutter storybook life, they want to meet you and your partner. so you bring your partner (who is understandably anxious and upset) to meet them and your parents are so surprised and dismayed and disappointed and rude, but not just to your partner, to you. because they don’t like that you’ve embraced yourself, they think that by accepting your true nature and falling in love with someone who resembles and thinks like you, you have become hideous. your partner is unwilling to accommodate your parents which upsets you because even though you’re now an adult, the trauma of being locked up and growing up in such strict circumstances has instilled a deep need for you to still impress your parents. you wish that your partner looked more like you, but when you communicate this wish, everything goes terribly wrong. so you wake up the next morning only to find out that the person you fell in love with has disappeared, and that you now look just like you did before you transformed. someone else appears and claims to be your partner, and they look just like you imagined when you were young, but you can’t accept this new truth. you know there’s something wrong with them, but nobody else believes you. your partner swears up and down that they are who they say they are, and that they love you, and your parents don’t put up too much of a fuss because they love this perfect new version of your partner and of you so much more. and just as you think you’re losing your mind and you might just have to run away before you get trapped in this new nightmare, your actual partner shows up on a noble steed, with a dancing cat played by antonio banderas, and your partner defeats prince charming and the donkey and the cat sing living la vida loca. would that be fucked up or what