First scene out of many for my story, Bad Review. Something like this will cost $35 for a limited time (until September 15th). Afterward, it'll be ~$95-$100. After December 2023, it may be raised to over $150.

Story outline:
"It commences when Roger and Beckham are 33 and 35 respectively and their children are 7 and 5. Roger is portrayed as a somewhat more strict parent who tells strange, dark, morbid jokes, who is peculiar, and occasionally rude. Roger wishes for the best for their children—childhood and adolescence he never was able to experience—so they can emerge into adulthood prepared and experiencing better lives than their parents. His style of parenthood is similar, yet less stern, to Greatest Generation parents while Ginny and Percy's childhoods are similar to the Silent Generation or Baby Boomer generation. Beckham is considered the "delightful parent" in contrast to Roger being more lenient than Roger is.

Eventually, when Ginny is 16-18, she produces an autobiographical book (or a high school essay depending on which version I decide on) where she berates Roger vulgarly, similar to how Marlene Dietrich's daughter berated her. Roger eventually reads the book and when he concludes, he begins weeping. He questions aloud why she would communicate these opinions about him. Percy then confronts Roger gently that he was strict with them during their childhoods—to the point where he even judged them based on the places they frequent and the people they socialize with. Roger explains that he simply wished for the best for his children and did not intend to assume this demeanor. Percy acknowledges this but explains to Roger that this does not appear suchlike to Ginny. Roger delves into major depression and does not emerge from his room or speak to anyone in 2 weeks.

Eventually, Beckham decides to confront Ginny about this and attempt to persuade her to experience different sentiments. Ginny is unable to experience the opposite sentiments toward Roger, persisting in her perspective of him and believing that he deserves it. Roger emerges from his room, appearing obviously melancholic with a severely hunched-over posture, arms dangling to the floor, and walking slowly. Roger approaches the cutlery drawer, much to Beckham and Percy's vocal confusion, and emerges brandishing a knife. He hovers the knife above his tongue. Beckham questions Roger as to what he is attempting to do with the knife and Roger answers that he's attempting to butcher ("cut off") his tongue. Beckham urges Roger to return the knife to him which Roger refuses to do. Beckham then seizes Roger by the abdomen and Percy attempts to retrieve the knife from Roger. He successfully does so and surrenders the knife to its original area. Beck then orders Percy to escort Roger to his room and attempt to tranquil his emotions while he converses with Ginny. Percy complies, positioning his arm around Roger's dorsum as they stroll to Roger's bedroom.

Once the door shuts, Beckham informs Ginny, who accuses the situation of being falsified, that Roger is not falsifying his self-harming tendencies and explains that he genuinely behaves suchlike when experiencing major depressive episodes and that major depressive episodes that are triggered by situations only disappear once the situation is resolved. Beckham mentions a situation in which Roger befriends someone online during his medication withdrawal who eventually relinquished their friendship and the depression persisted for 2 years. He continues by stating that it resolved when Roger discovered the truth of that person's veridical identity and the person's potentially-veridical sentiments toward Roger. Ginny questions Beckham about the reason this experience did not cause him greater depression, to which Beckham responds that Roger experienced freedom from his emotions toward the person with an altered perspective.

Percy eventually emerges from their chambers and requests that Beckham assists him in preventing Roger from stabbing himself in the eyes. Beckham hurries in there and quickly emerges, bearing Roger's thumb tack, while Percy is grabbing Roger by the waist, raising him above the ground, as he flails around, screaming hysterically that he deserves to stab his eyes and become blind.

Eventually, Roger is informed that dinner has been prepared, but he notifies them that he does not wish to ingest his dinner—or anything in general. Beckham decides to serve them all their dinner anyway. Before Beckham can serve Roger his dinner, Roger requests that he prepares him soup. Beckham inquires about which category of soup and Roger answers with, "tomato soup." Beckham decides to produce it, joyously, and offers to prepare a scrumptious sandwich out of the meat and vegetables he cooked for dinner. Roger answers that he does not deserve solid food. Beckham decides to cook the soup and offers the sandwich, "for when [he] wants it." Ginny speaks aloud stating that Roger does not deserve to eat. Roger concurs with Ginny, hysterically, and rejects the food that Beckham decided to cook, stating that he deserves what his brother had done to him when he was 5-6 (stealing his lunches frequently and consuming them in front of a crying, begging Roger). Beckham requests that Roger not succumb to his anorexia, denying that he deserved what happened to him.

Ginny rejects the idea that Roger had ever starved himself. Beckham retaliates by showing censored nude images of Roger when he was 19-25, severely underweight from self-starvation (14.5-17.5 BMI). Ginny retracts her statements, stating that [the images] could have been modified, but decides to "play devil's advocate" and believe them. She states that she believes that Roger did deserve it anyway. Eventually, Beckham sends Ginny up to her room, telling her she cannot consume any more of her dinner, to which Ginny reluctantly complies (with anger), and Roger decides to consume his dinner.

At night, while Beckham is slumbering, Roger enters the bathroom and self-induces vomiting in the toilet employing his finger in his throat. Beckham hears this and rushes to the bathroom, disappointed that Roger performed this, despite Roger insisting it was natural nausea that led to this. He promises he was concluded with this and Beckham returns to slumber. Roger cannot rest and takes sleeping pills after sleeping pills, eventually consuming 26 pills in an attempt to slumber.

When discovered, Roger is reluctantly rushed to the hospital by his family. Beckham visits Roger in the room before Roger is institutionalized in a psychiatric facility for 3 days, arriving from the ER in a wheelchair and being escorted there further via a van. During his visit to the psychiatric hospital, Roger experiences immense depression that he conceals and is eventually freed. Beckham fetches Roger in Roger's van and drives back to their house.

Beckham emerges in the house first and then Roger walks in reluctantly. He arrives in a living room with balloons, a banner that states, "Welcome home, Roger!!!", and joyful countenances. The first person to greet him with a hug, excitedly, is Ginny. Roger embraces her back and delivers her a quick kiss on the cheek, stating his confusion with this. Beck then explains that they had a discussion with Ginny for the past few days to convince her to understand Roger and Ginny confirms this, requesting to converse with him in private later on.

Roger agrees. Ginny then asks him a series of questions, which Roger answers honestly, about their upbringing, and realizes that what they were informing her was veridical and forgives Roger and apologizes for everything she said. It cuts to dinner with Roger sitting next to Beckham. Beckham urges Roger to lean on his neck, to which Roger complies, and briefly informs them about a memory which he quickly decides to not indulge too much in, feeling embarrassed about it, and Beckham feeds Roger his dinner by hand. The end."

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