rp tools | hurts, pains and traumas

[pacificates]

As a Spirit of Compassion, Cole has a form of telepathy in which he can reads the minds of others — more specifically their hurts, worries, and traumas. He is drawn to those hurts, in a wish to help them. He can deal with this in handfuls of ways: often offering words of encouragement, or gentle nudging to people to act, or perhaps revealing information the person does not know. Other times he can simply take the hurt away and make a person forget it. Sometimes it may a case be reminding a person of something comforting, like reminding a dying soldier of a soup his mother made to comfort him in his last moments.

Often, Cole comments on those hurts — speaks them out loud as he comes to him, often in cryptic ways. Here are a few examples of such within canon.

"She is bare-faced, embarrassed, and she doesn't know. She thinks it's because of her. He hurts, an old pain from before, when everything sang the same. You're real, and it means everyone could be real. It changes everything, but it can't."
— Cole's comments on a Inquisitor Lavellan romance with Solas, had he removed her vallaslin and then broke off the relationship with her.

"An old name burns inside armor that shouldn't fit, lit by faces of the children he couldn't save."
— Cole's comments on Blackwall and his past actions.

"He sounds right again with the chains in place, but the music makes him sad."
— Cole's comments on Cullen, if he is told to resume taking Lyrium.

"A breath-caught smile from the Enchanter as the candle lights. The walls are safe; she will never be hungry again."
— Cole's comments on Vivienne's relationship with Duke Bastien.

For the sake of sanity/rp purposes, I've included a little fill out form for Cole's abilities to help me write out these pains, due to Cole's nature of speaking them aloud often — or him offering solutions/comfort to others, considering a character's pain doesn't need be something they're actively thinking about for Cole to sense it. Basically, give me food to work with! Please fill out for threads!

For Deer Country players: please feel free to add in game-specific hurts/memories /things in game that would comfort them, as well as canon ones.

<b>Character Name / Journal:</b> character name / journal here <b>Canon:</b> canon here <b>Character Memory/Fear/Pain:</b> name one, name several. feel free to add in details of memories, perhaps things like specific images, or snippets of conversation. symbols, colours, things like that. <b>How can Cole help:</b> is there perhaps insight Cole can give, maybe an explanation relating to the memory (ie. maybe character b lied to protect your character and your character didn't know this) or perhaps something comforting Cole can recall to remind your character of? or perhaps he can simply have your character forget

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[moonsounds]

Character Name / Journal: Ruka Minazuki / moonsounds
Canon: Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse

Character Memory/Fear/Pain: When Ruka was a child her father, a maskmaker, became obsessed with creating the Mask of the Lunar Eclipse, a forbidden mask used during a now-forbidden ritual dance on the island they lived on. He would put masks on Ruka which scared her and also caused her to develop a specific disorder unique to the island called Moonlight Syndrome.

Sufferers of Moonlight Syndrome become rather obsessed/entranced with the moon, erratic when it's a new moon and they can't see it, and start losing their memories and sense of self due to the interruption of their "moonsound"--a unique sound supposedly produced by a person's soul. The pitch could vary depending on the person's emotions at the time, but the underlying sound would always be the same. The sound by itself was generally weak, so it was considered beneficial to join it with that of others, and Moonlight Syndrome disrupted the sound.

Ruka was sent to a sanitorium on the island to try and recover, where she made friends with some girls her age, but the director's son kidnapped her and her friends to perform as the instrumentalists in the forbidden ritual he was trying to do. It went wrong--the mask the dancer was wearing broke--and it caused all of them to collapse and the girls to lose all their memories.

She was found a few days later by a detective hired by her mother, standing in the Moonlight Well staring up at the moon and was taken by her mother off the island. When she was 17 two of her friends from that incident died, so she and the remaining two girls returned to the now-deserted island to find out what happened.

Ruka is a dedicated pianist and one of the few memories she's retained from her youth is fragments of the lunar melody taught to her by her mother, a descendent of the island's Tsukimori Maidens/Guardians.

The moon, mirrors, masks, and the song are all big triggers to her for her memory.

How can Cole help: The melody triggers Ruka's memories but she doesn't remember all of it. In the game once she's able to piece together the entire melody she's able to remember everything a lot more clearly. She also is scared of remembering her father, because all she can remember of him is him always working and the scary masks he'd make her wear. It'd bring her some comfort to know he did love and care about her and felt some remorse for causing her to develop Moonlight Syndrome, or something like that.