#thats what gave me the idea in the first place tbh

Concept: Love potions, but specifically for familial love.

Think about it. Rejected children coming to the potion vendor to win the love of their unpleasable parents. People who want to gain the love of a sibling who’s never seemed to like them. Lonely grandparents trying to get their estranged kids and grandkids to remember them again. Parents who feel guilty about not loving their child enough and use the potion on themselves.

Sometimes it works. Sometimes the potion shows no effect at all, and the people in question learn their loved ones have loved them all along. Sometimes the newfound love manifests itself in awful, toxic ways, and people learn a hard lesson about how a family member loving you doesn’t magically make things okay between you two. (And some people may even learn both of these at once.)

Just…familial love potions. That’s the post.