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warnings/opt-outs
Little Cato is from an adult animated canon rather than a kids' one and it's a comedy-drama space opera with fairly serious story at times. That means it has more overtly potentially triggering content than kids' cartoons, and frequently had Little Cato suffering very real harm.
The biggest issues that might come up in play are:
Child murder: Little Cato's father (adopted, though Little Cato didn't know initially know Avocato killed his real parents) was the general of a fascist dictator who believed in his lies of building a universe with prosperity and order. At one point, Lord Commander demanded all his generals kill one of their children to prove their loyalty. Little Cato and the other children were taken to a field and he saw all the other children shot to death around him. His father Avocato was the only parent to refuse to shoot his child, instead shooting his two guards and trying to take his son and run. Lord Commander separated the two and kept Little Cato imprisoned to control Avocato and keep him under his thumb, using Avocato as a bounty hunter.
Child kidnapping/imprisonment: Lord Commander kidnapped Little Cato and kept him imprisoned for three years from ages 11 to 14. While he had his most basic needs met conditions were unpleasant and he was kept in total isolation other than interactions with Lord Commander and his right hand, Viro.
Child abuse: While imprisoned, Little Cato was actively taunted and verbally abused by Lord Commander and Viro, and sometimes physically abused. While there were times he was prepared for this, like when he attacked Viro to try to escape, he could also earn blows just for pissing Lord Commander off by being rebellious and sarcastic. They also weren't above degrading actions like splattering food on him by throwing a food tray at him.
Parental death: Little Cato has lost his father Avocato twice, first after Avocato saved him from a mine and blew up instead and later when Avocato was saved through time travel shenanigans, possessed by the series' bad guy, and Little Cato had to shoot him to protect his adopted human father Gary Goodspeed. Little Cato thought at the time that he'd killed him.
Psychosis: When their ship hit a time anomaly and were caught in a time shard, half the ship had time move faster. In the side where Little Cato was trapped, sixty years passed in what was only a few minutes to the outside universe, before his crew could break the shard and free him. During that time Little Cato was completely alone and was shown to have broken down and become completely psychotic, hallucinating that the crew was with him on the other side. Reverting to his younger self has changed that situation by pushing his brain back to the state it was in as a teenager, and those years have been carefully locked away in his head where he tries to pretend they didn't happen, calling it a "pain spot," but it is something that may come up at some point depending on plots.
Options:
1) Opt out of being tagged by him entirely. While it's easy to avoid having him bring things up as he tries to avoid discussing these things at times, and I'm always cool with avoiding tagging someone.
2) Opt out of dialogue and/or non-dialogue references to child murder.
3) Opt out of dialogue and/or non-dialogue references to child kidnapping/imprisonment.
4) Opt out of dialogue and/or non-dialogue references to child abuse.
5) Opt out of dialogue and/or non-dialogue references to parental death.
6) Opt out of dialogue and/or non-dialogue references to psychosis.
Post screened for privacy.
The biggest issues that might come up in play are:
Child murder: Little Cato's father (adopted, though Little Cato didn't know initially know Avocato killed his real parents) was the general of a fascist dictator who believed in his lies of building a universe with prosperity and order. At one point, Lord Commander demanded all his generals kill one of their children to prove their loyalty. Little Cato and the other children were taken to a field and he saw all the other children shot to death around him. His father Avocato was the only parent to refuse to shoot his child, instead shooting his two guards and trying to take his son and run. Lord Commander separated the two and kept Little Cato imprisoned to control Avocato and keep him under his thumb, using Avocato as a bounty hunter.
Child kidnapping/imprisonment: Lord Commander kidnapped Little Cato and kept him imprisoned for three years from ages 11 to 14. While he had his most basic needs met conditions were unpleasant and he was kept in total isolation other than interactions with Lord Commander and his right hand, Viro.
Child abuse: While imprisoned, Little Cato was actively taunted and verbally abused by Lord Commander and Viro, and sometimes physically abused. While there were times he was prepared for this, like when he attacked Viro to try to escape, he could also earn blows just for pissing Lord Commander off by being rebellious and sarcastic. They also weren't above degrading actions like splattering food on him by throwing a food tray at him.
Parental death: Little Cato has lost his father Avocato twice, first after Avocato saved him from a mine and blew up instead and later when Avocato was saved through time travel shenanigans, possessed by the series' bad guy, and Little Cato had to shoot him to protect his adopted human father Gary Goodspeed. Little Cato thought at the time that he'd killed him.
Psychosis: When their ship hit a time anomaly and were caught in a time shard, half the ship had time move faster. In the side where Little Cato was trapped, sixty years passed in what was only a few minutes to the outside universe, before his crew could break the shard and free him. During that time Little Cato was completely alone and was shown to have broken down and become completely psychotic, hallucinating that the crew was with him on the other side. Reverting to his younger self has changed that situation by pushing his brain back to the state it was in as a teenager, and those years have been carefully locked away in his head where he tries to pretend they didn't happen, calling it a "pain spot," but it is something that may come up at some point depending on plots.
Options:
1) Opt out of being tagged by him entirely. While it's easy to avoid having him bring things up as he tries to avoid discussing these things at times, and I'm always cool with avoiding tagging someone.
2) Opt out of dialogue and/or non-dialogue references to child murder.
3) Opt out of dialogue and/or non-dialogue references to child kidnapping/imprisonment.
4) Opt out of dialogue and/or non-dialogue references to child abuse.
5) Opt out of dialogue and/or non-dialogue references to parental death.
6) Opt out of dialogue and/or non-dialogue references to psychosis.
Post screened for privacy.