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i think the mother theory is kinda a good one and i can see it like the tortured one would be interesting but not really believeble and the kindnapping would be déjà vu like its in every rich trope and im ki da sick of it :/
i like your theories i never though of those but now im gonna think of this all the time while im reading hahaha!!
Aiii I'm kinda scared of my thoughts because I hit the nail of why he's scared of tickling water hahaha
My first theory when I found out he's scared of dripping water is that he found his mother committed su*cide in the bathroom with the faucet turned on ,
Second theory is he was kidnapped and was placed in some place with a dripping water()
or he was tortured to became a crazy or twisted person or something (since water torture is also some kind of mental torture where the victim would be bound while water is dripping from their head or something)