There's some good links here, I would say psychosocially, the two children would likely develop very unique ways of communicating with each other similar to twins, in terms of uniquely understood phrases, turns of phrase, experiences, sounds, indications of threat and harm, etc. So there would be linguistic shifts, not where they'd necessarily forget language at all, but where...they might develop unique names for animals and plants they haven't seen before, etc.
While I don't have links things you'd need to address on a mundane level are:
- Hygiene (how are they toileting, how are they going to get clean if say, they both get diarrhea in the winter in the snow? It's so easy to die from infection in the woods. Like, SO easy). - Relating to hygiene, further mundane stuff around toothaches, menstruation (depending on if either has a uterus, they're likely to have started menarche by 13/14, as well as developing breasts etc.). - Food + fresh water (presumably if they're possibly kidnapped by fairies, this stuff could be provided, but it's still something that needs to be resolved).
They'd be missing a fairly significant period of social development - you might want to research individuation, and what happens when individuation is hampered re: attachment bonding etc. You might also find that they try to individuate against *each other* and therefore develop a very toxic bond in the end where they're trying to rebel against each other as they might their parents, while also needing each other. Teenagers learn how to say no and define themselves against their parent's wishes as a literal psychological *need* in development, and going from 10-13/14 without parents to do this against, they will likely do it against themselves or against each other, or against any authority figures in the story in this time.
I would also suggest possibly watching Room (with Brie Larson) that shows a teenager who essentially gets isolated in a room, raped, and forced to have a child from her rapist. The movie is brutal, but it's a good look at how difficult it is to assimilate/integrate back into society after being isolated from everything you've known. While the trauma is different, it's still trauma, and there will be parallels, from the betrayal of abandonment, to missing so many social markers absent from community. The movie was extremely well-researched and based off a mosaic of sadly real events, and it's interesting in kind of demonstrating the disconnect where everyone expects you to be "fine" when you return to normalcy, but instead it's you and this other person (in this case, her child) against the rest of a strange world.
She still remembers the world, she remembers being a child and having a different life, she still has language. But she develops a new mythology and mythos to explain what's happened to her, and it's obvious she and her son have a kind of unique language and way of relating that no one else can understand.
Fictional narratives like this may give you some anchoring into the emotionality of it all!
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While I don't have links things you'd need to address on a mundane level are:
- Hygiene (how are they toileting, how are they going to get clean if say, they both get diarrhea in the winter in the snow? It's so easy to die from infection in the woods. Like, SO easy).
- Relating to hygiene, further mundane stuff around toothaches, menstruation (depending on if either has a uterus, they're likely to have started menarche by 13/14, as well as developing breasts etc.).
- Food + fresh water (presumably if they're possibly kidnapped by fairies, this stuff could be provided, but it's still something that needs to be resolved).
They'd be missing a fairly significant period of social development - you might want to research individuation, and what happens when individuation is hampered re: attachment bonding etc. You might also find that they try to individuate against *each other* and therefore develop a very toxic bond in the end where they're trying to rebel against each other as they might their parents, while also needing each other. Teenagers learn how to say no and define themselves against their parent's wishes as a literal psychological *need* in development, and going from 10-13/14 without parents to do this against, they will likely do it against themselves or against each other, or against any authority figures in the story in this time.
I would also suggest possibly watching Room (with Brie Larson) that shows a teenager who essentially gets isolated in a room, raped, and forced to have a child from her rapist. The movie is brutal, but it's a good look at how difficult it is to assimilate/integrate back into society after being isolated from everything you've known. While the trauma is different, it's still trauma, and there will be parallels, from the betrayal of abandonment, to missing so many social markers absent from community. The movie was extremely well-researched and based off a mosaic of sadly real events, and it's interesting in kind of demonstrating the disconnect where everyone expects you to be "fine" when you return to normalcy, but instead it's you and this other person (in this case, her child) against the rest of a strange world.
She still remembers the world, she remembers being a child and having a different life, she still has language. But she develops a new mythology and mythos to explain what's happened to her, and it's obvious she and her son have a kind of unique language and way of relating that no one else can understand.
Fictional narratives like this may give you some anchoring into the emotionality of it all!