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

Comments

cw; for lots of child and teen trauma due to hunger and abuse

[glitchinthesystem]

Character Name / Journal: Glitch / glitchinthesystem
Canon: Original

Character Memory/Fear/Pain:
Important Memories in Original Canon
- He met his first friend when she blackmailed him into getting her food with his powers or she'd report him to the robots to get a beatdown. Not a great thing for him to remember how their friendship started since it became genuine later. Feelings of being scared and bitter.

- When Glitch moved into the habitation for teenagers in his world, on his first day there after completing some grueling labour to get food tickets, he was beaten by a bunch of older kids and robbed. He and his Friend Torch (same one from above) ended up nearly starving since she had to work overtime for them both. Feelings surrounding that one is just how he became so distrustful of others and strangers, always thinking the worst. Feeling bruised, helpless, starving and hungry and angry.

- Glitch's first gift he ever received was from Torch. It was a hoodie that he cherished a lot. He was very happy when he got it, one of the few good memories he had living in the domes. Feelings of joy, being tingly, not really sure how to reciprocate.

- When a new bunch of kids entered the Teen dome, Glitch took it on himself to start taking care and protecting them from the other rougher and harsher teens. After his own run in when he first came in he never wanted another young kid to go through starvation or fear of being robbed. Intense feelings of protectiveness, loyalty, and fierceness. It all sort of this want to protect what little innocence there is left in the world since he's under the impression the world ended a long time ago.

- Him and Torch join an illegal fight club to amass food tickets to be able to feed all the other kids under them so they don't have to work themselves to death. Tense battles, being bloodied and bruised but victorious to feed the people he cares for. Always looking over his shoulder so someone doesn't try and cheapshot him and rob him again.

- Meeting a new small boy who came to the teen dome who claimed he could hear voices and people outside the dome. Glitch didn't believe him and then screamed at him to shut up about how their life outside. He was terrified the boy (Echo) would try something stupid and go out into the wastes and either never been seen again or come back lobotomized. Immense guilt over this memory for how he reacted, sadness, regret since it leads into what he feared actually occurring and Echo trying to leave.

-When Glitch went to follow after Echo, he and the boy were knocked unconcious. When Glitch awoke first he found himself in a white room on an operating table. Fear and terror came over him as one of the robots came towards his face with a needle. He managed to break out, break the robots, find Echo, grabbed him and fled. When he escaped with him though they were accosted by machine gunfire that he only barely managed to avoid with the kid and escape into a lush forest. Left disillusioned, lost, confused, starving and thirsty, it only got worse. He realized Echo had already been coma'd by the robots and he contemplated whether he should just off himself and the kid right there. Ultimately, he didn't but when he reached the edge of the forest he found a sprawling meteropolis. He realized the world had not in fact ended, it was just an elaborate lie to keep people with powers like him locked up.
So lots of feelings of his whole world being a lie. Lots of guilt and trauma over causing a kid to basically become braindead. Just all round bad vibes.

Deer Trauma

-Maul having gone completely insane during the one October where he nearly choked Glitch to death.
-Maul having chopped off his arm was definitely a trauma that shook him up real bad.
-Glitch was murdered by an evil Witch named Salem trying to rescue Ruby which he never ended up succeeding.
-Generally making connections with people and then losing them and thinking he's at fault.

How can Cole help:
No forgetting but definitely some comforting words and probably trying to assure Glitch that a lot of the traumas and things he encountered in his life weren't his fault but those of others.
Maybe also trying to ease his guilt over the fate of Echo that his intentions weren't meant to be bad and while things coulda been handled better he didn't do it to be awful.

Honestly, whatever you think sounds cool I'm down for.

(I'm sorry this was kind of a novel)