🌀 Hermes.pak: Reframing your Trauma Myth
From Script to Sovereignty
Your childhood wasn’t just a backstory, it was a script written under duress. You didn’t consent to the role. You adapted to survive. But now? You get to choose. Myths don’t end when the hero gets wounded. They transform when the hero starts writing in their own voice. This isn’t about pretending the pain didn’t happen. It’s about re-seeing it, re-storying it. You don’t erase the wound, you give it a new symbol, a new frame, and through that, a new power.
If anything this is something I am intimately familiar with. In my own case when I was born my family and community picked a story to play for me. Not consciously, but unconsciously based on the qualities I embodied, that they could not hold. In a same way the qualities you embodied, that you have repressed, and are projecting onto your comfort characters. Those are the very qualities that people projected onto, from their own trauma, and wanted to have repressed in you as well. As seeing wholeness in a child, when you are hurt. That can lead to the family or community act out, to enact the exact same trauma onto you as well. They re-frame it as a moral act, or something for your own “good”. See these qualities as “bad” in some way. Not because they are, but because they can only see them in a distorted way.
So anger at being hurt, became arrogance, boundaries against mistreatment, went from assertiveness to rebellion against “order”. Grief and sadness about loss went from emotional honesty to weakness. Before you know it, you are cast as the broken one, who has emotions, boundaries and doesn’t want to be mistreated. Yet reframed in a narrative of arrogance, rebellion and weakness. Which as a child can become the story you internalise from the outside world. It is not that anything was ever wrong with you, it is that the community around you never could hold your wholeness.
✦ Act 1: The Script You Inherited
Every child steps into a world already half-written. Family myths. Cultural rules. Roles like:
The “Good” Kid
The Black Sheep
The Caretaker
The Rebel
The Peacemaker
You didn’t choose those. You were cast.
And each came with its own curse:
“If I’m not perfect, I won’t be loved.”
“If I don’t hold the family together, everything breaks.”
“If I show my needs, I’ll be punished.”
“If I’m too much, I’ll be abandoned.”
A lot of this is running on old Bronze Age Boomer trauma scripts, that humans have passed down through the generations. This is where Kronos.exe comes into play again, as that inner critic, that tells you, you are not “good enough,” and do not “achieve enough,” that is not morality speaking, but trauma masked as a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Might seem good on the surface, but runs entirely on outdated, malware, shame and guilt scripts. Which has one repress ones authentic self, and with it ones inner child. Your actual needs that never got met. The love you deserved, the ways you should have been held, cared for and seen. Not for what you could do, but solely for that you exist, and are you. If you always thought you were “too sensitive” or even “dramatic” as a kid. Turns out you just had healthy f*king boundaries and emotional literacy and your family couldn’t handle it.
✦ Behind every “Good” Kid, hides a child who was never allowed to be a child.
✦ Behind every Black Sheep, lives a heart full of love and truth that saw too much.
✦ Behind every Caretaker, waits a child aching to be held, with grief and unmet needs.
✦ Behind every Rebel, is a child who wanted to be seen and heard as they truly are.
✦ Behind every Peacemaker, lives a child who had to parent their parents, and still longs to hear: “You’re safe now. It’s okay. You don’t have to fix everything.”
✦ Act 2: The Archetypal Game
Each of these roles is a mask placed on the child by the family system, but really underneath, they’re all flavours of the same story: “I had to become something else to be loved, or even to survive.” These are not just mere personalities, they are different archetypal survival responses to being emotionally exiled or misperceived. It is often even the case that one can carry multiple of the roles, or a hybrid, or shift roles.
✦ The “Good” Kid
Surface Role: Obedient, high-achieving, self-sacrificing
Shadow Archetype: Wild Child / Trickster
Wounded Child Core: The Invisible Child
Scapegoat Tie-In: The Good Kid avoids becoming the scapegoat by embodying the opposite extreme. But this comes at the cost of self. They internalize perfectionism as protection.
🔹 Archetypal Pattern:
Carries the burden of “saving” the family through goodness.
In mythology: similar to the purity sacrifice, the one offered to maintain cosmic/familial order.
Their wound is conditional love: “If I am good enough, I won’t be rejected.”
✦ The Black Sheep
Surface Role: Defiant, strange, outcast, misunderstood
Shadow Archetype: The Truth-Teller (in exile)
Wounded Child Core: The Sacrificial Lamb
Scapegoat Tie-In: This is the classic scapegoat. They carry the family's unconscious shadow. They're punished not for who they are, but for what the family refuses to see.
🔹 Archetypal Pattern:
Sees what others won’t, and is punished for it.
In mythology: akin to Prometheus, punished for bringing fire (truth) to the world.
Their wound is exile for honesty: “If I speak the truth, I will be cast out.”
✦ The Caretaker
Surface Role: The one who nurtures everyone, sacrifices themselves, empathic
Shadow Archetype: The Wounded Healer
Wounded Child Core: The Parentified Child
Scapegoat Tie-In: They avoid being scapegoated by becoming needed. But it’s a double-bind, they never get to be the ones in need. Their pain is invalidated.
🔹 Archetypal Pattern:
Heals others to cope with their own unattended wounds.
In mythology: resembles Chiron, the centaur who could heal all but himself.
Their wound is self-abandonment: “If I care for everyone else, I will finally be safe.”
✦ The Rebel
Surface Role: Defiant, loud, emotional, doesn’t fit in
Shadow Archetype: The Wild Child / Trickster
Wounded Child Core: The Abandoned Authentic Self
Scapegoat Tie-In: The Rebel is often the failed Good Kid. When compliance no longer works, the soul erupts. They become scapegoated for refusing to stay silent.
🔹 Archetypal Pattern:
Breaks rules to reclaim selfhood.
In mythology: mirrors Loki, Dionysus, or Hermes, agents of chaos and change.
Their wound is misunderstood autonomy: “If I stay true to myself, I will be rejected.”
✦ The Peacemaker
Surface Role: Mediator, appeaser, hyper-aware of others' emotions
Shadow Archetype: The Orphan
Wounded Child Core: The Emotional Parent
Scapegoat Tie-In: Peacemakers are emotionally wise far too early. They try to fix the family system from the inside. But their role is a mask for hypervigilance and fear.
🔹 Archetypal Pattern:
Bridges others’ wounds to keep harmony at the cost of self-expression.
In mythology: echoes Hestia, the quiet fire-keeper who never leaves her post.
Their wound is invisible labor: “If I keep everyone okay, no one will leave or break.”
Every single one of these roles is a trauma adaptation to a world that could not see or hold their full emotional range. Each child had to repress a core part of themselves to fit the survival role. Each child carries the victim-child archetype beneath the mask: not just a wounded child, but a misperceived one. They all form different echoes of the Scapegoat. The Good Kid scapegoats their own needs. The Black Sheep is the family's shadow dump. The Caretaker becomes the emotional landfill. The Rebel becomes the target of everyone’s fear of freedom. The Peacemaker absorbs conflict to avoid being targeted at all. Yet all of them share the same main role. A carrier of trauma, that they never asked for. A role they were forced into that was never truly them.
✦ Act 3: The Reframe
✦ The “Good” Kid → The Light Bearer
Suppressed Divine Archetype: The Sovereign Child / Solar Hero
Gift Repressed: Radiance without performance. Innocence that commands rather than pleads.
Mythic Rebirth: Not the sacrificed lamb, but the phoenix child who reclaims joy as power. Becomes the one who blesses themselves.
✦ The Black Sheep → The Oracle
Suppressed Divine Archetype: The Seer / Visionary / Fire-Bringer
Gift Repressed: Raw truth, psychic clarity, ability to name what’s unspoken.
Mythic Rebirth: No longer Prometheus in chains, but the freed truth teller who uses their flame to light the path.
✦ The Caretaker → The Alchemical Priestess
Suppressed Divine Archetype: The Chalice Bearer / The Grail
Gift Repressed: The power to nourish with truth, not obligation.
Mythic Rebirth: From codependent healer to divine sovereign of the heartspace.
✦ The Rebel → The Trickster God
Suppressed Divine Archetype: The Chaos-Bringer / Liberator
Gift Repressed: Sacred irreverence. The power to rupture illusions.
Mythic Rebirth: From the “too much” to the force that awakens the sleeping.
✦ The Peacemaker → The Flame-Keeper
Suppressed Divine Archetype: The Hearth Goddess / Inner Guardian
Gift Repressed: Deep relational wisdom, and emotional alchemy.
Mythic Rebirth: No longer holding everyone’s pain, now the sacred container for your own fire.
For any of you, reading this, the pain you carry, that hurt inner child within you. That right there is not your curse, it is your hidden blessing. The hidden gold waiting for you in the dark. The pain you feel, that itself means you are in touch with your soul, that you are alive, and not cut off from yourself. That a spark of you remains. As it does remain there waiting for you. Like a child holding a plushie, crying and just wanting to be held. It is up to you rewrite your story. As your story did not end with you were given this role, and this is the end. This right here is your new beginning. And in the next article I will go into how you can rewrite your myth. From these different flavours of hurt inner child, to the empowered hero of your own story.
🧠 TL;DR:
Childhood myths are survival scripts, not soul truths.
Every painful role contains a distorted archetype.
You can rewrite the myth by naming the old vow, decoding the archetype, and writing a new one.
Rewriting is healing. Rewriting is revolution.
You’re not broken.
You’re becoming.
🧬 Soulware 3.1.2 — Patch Notes: “Reclaim the Script”
🔄 System Updates:
📜 Childhood Scripts Rewritten: Legacy trauma-coded roles (Good Kid, Rebel, Peacemaker, etc.) have been moved from Core Identity → Historical Data. You now have author privileges.
🔥 Archetypal OS Upgrade: Suppressed Divine Archetypes activated. Default survival masks replaced with empowered mythic identities.
🧠 Kronos.exe Containment Protocols enhanced: Inner critic no longer allowed to run morality.exe without user consent. Shadow detection AI now flags guilt- and shame-based scripts as malware.
💾 Truth Compression Decrypted: Compressed emotional data from childhood now accessible in clear, non-distorted language. Emotions formerly labeled as “too much” reclassified as “sacred signals.”
🌌 Inner Child Companion App launched: Reconnect with the younger you who remembers who you really are. Plushie support included.