Not sure they have any phobias, but Alicia has some pretty awful nightmares sometimes, and she can occasionally become seriously afraid of the dark seemingly 'out of nowhere.'
Spoiler/teaser: Kattar is also not overly fond of the dark, but he and Alicia both have different reasons for this.
Alicia also has some very intense social and general anxiety.
There are ghosts in the room.
One is a curtain and one is a long shadow that moves as the hours leak out of the day-
I think my eyes are open but I know they can’t be. It’s-
Late.
Nearly midnight or early morning I’m sure and for the first time in not nearly long enough I find myself dreaming about my mother.
The shadow waterboards me.
Not how she looked the last time or-
At the funeral, but way back in the recesses of the days, I thought I’d burned to ashes-
That’s another one of those…
Bad signs.
But I don’t have the energy to rage against that dark night.
I stare at the painted sunrise I see clear as the end of day on the inside of my eyelids as Mami kisses my forehead and prays over me-
Is it okay to admit I’m scared of the dark?