Author's Note

I saw this 30 day challenge on Tumblr and felt a little inspired. It will be an exploration of Debster as an abusive or unhealthy pairing.

Now, I know some people might object to Debster being considered an abusive pairing. After all, Dexter is there for her in ways that no one else has been before and he is certainly capable of loving her. However, Dexter is obviously not a healthy individual (and for that matter Deb isn't much closer) and at the least their relationship is unhealthy, borderline toxic and extremely co dependent. I think it's possible to write them happily and in lighter ways, but you know I always go dark with them and this challenge felt like a good fit. Considering that physical violence isn't much of an issue between them, the prompts in this challenge will probably lean more towards manipulation, destructive or possessive behavior or otherwise co dependent themes.

That being said, there are items on this list that are already extremely dark in my head and I feel the need to warn you readers of that. Additionally, I hope that no one will take my writing this challenge as viewing abusive relationships lightly. I certainly don't condone any of this behavior, nor do I consider this a joke. I do view this as an aspect of the human experience, particularly with characters in this vein, and I want to explore that dynamic between Debster.

Anyways, the time frame for these will be all over the place and most likely each prompt will be stand alone. They will be a mix of canon and AU and possibly start canon and go AU…so basically you don't know what you're going to get! And most likely I will not be publishing one chapter a day, but I will try to post at least two to three times a week!

I think this could be really interesting, so hopefully you enjoy reading it! Enough rambling …