Father opens
-set up history of things going right, popular, sports, happy wife, happy life, etc. reveal daughter has cancer. no clue what will happen, scared, one thing is wrong=everything is wrong. fighting it, battles. things look better, but that's always when the shoe drops.
-phone rings. brief conversation. tears. Thanks, I'll see you soon. Hang up. Cancer is gone. Doctor can't say it won't come back, but it is gone.
Home. Wife, Father, daughter.
Celebration. Laughter. Joy. Father explains that he was able to find some money, and we should all celebrate with a trip. Maybe somewhere in California. Maybe rhymes with "Bisney Bland". Asks her where she wants to go. "We're going to comicon!" She runs off to her room. Mom and dad don't know what that even means. Quick google. WTF. Daughter runs downstairs in a hulk mask and gloves. Father- "We are not going to comicon." "...what?" Mom- "RIGHT NOW- he means right now. We can't go right now, it's a few months away, sweetie." "Oh. That's okay, I'll wait!" She heads back upstairs.
That sounds horrible. Is this even possible? We're not going to some dumb nerd party. She just survived cancer- So now we take her somewhere that she'll get made fun of?- Who's making fun of what?- etc.
Interaction with other kids. Girls playing princess, daughter smashes castle to free other girls. Everyone plays, everyone happy, no problems with the kids. Teacher gets on to daughter for making mess/getting other kids riled up. chaos ensues.
Father, Wife's sister, Wife, daughter
At home, discussing trouble with daughter. gets heated. "But Hulk smashes." "Well, hulk is a boy. Only boys like hulk." "Well maybe I'm a boy and I'm stuck in a girl body." she runs upstairs. father, sister, wife discuss implications. "Maybe that's true, maybe he's a boy in a girls' body." "Oh give me a break, she's just confused." "Yes, of course she's confused,- no, not in the 'i'm uncomfortable with my child's preferred pronoun so i'll say confused' sense. She's confused because you keep telling her that this thing she loves can only be loved by boys. What else is she supposed to think?" I don't understand how this happened in the first place, we don't even like comic books. Well maybe you should talk to your daughter sometime, she might tell you.
