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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[survivalthroughhate]

Character Name / Journal: Darth Maul survivalthroughhate
Canon: Star Wars

Character Memory/Fear/Pain: -Being forcibly taken away from his beloved little brother and his mother because Palpatine told her it would make Maul stronger. He was given to a cruel Nightbrother who beat him, let his sons beat him as well, deprived him of food, and only let him stay in a small cold room.

-Murdering all three in a rage made of pain and hatred after months of this, which was the sign that Palpatine had been waiting for to show he was ready to become his apprentice. Maul's memories of what happened next are deliberately fuzzy and vague as he doesn't quite remember when he was taken away from Dathomir for good.

-Many memories of pain and abuse under Palpatine's tutorship. Things of the sort shown in these memories.

-Getting sliced in half by Obi-Wan Kenobi in their duel on Naboo, surviving and ending up on Lotho Minor, and slowly losing his mind as it deteriorated from trauma over the years.

-His master showing up on Mandalore and dueling Maul and Savage. Sidious kills Savage, which absolutely devastates Maul and all of his trauma is brought back to the forefront of his mind by the end of the fight.

-History repeating itself months later as his mother Talzin sacrifices herself to save Maul when it becomes apparent they won't win their fight against Sidious. Again, Maul is devastated, and also has to watch as his home planet of Dathomir is heavily bombed.

-And a future memory as Obi-Wan kills him when he's an old man full of nothing but pain, rage, and hatred left in his thin, wasted body any longer.

-For Deerington specific-memories, the murderous rampage he went on where he killed a lot of characters is still stuck in his mind, especially the guilt he feels over the fact he killed his young friend Ben Hanscom and Ben never revived from death, something that was especially hard to bear. His three deaths were also quite traumatizing especially since he won't talk about them much.

How can Cole help: Helping him to just work through the trauma by allowing him to feel the pain and then put it behind him is a good way for him to look at things now. Being able to feel lighter and like his pain isn't weighing him down will be a great relief. For those things he feels guilty of, especially the deaths he wasn't responsible for, helping to absolve him of those feelings by letting him know none of those situations were ever of his own making because his master never let him have a choice. In fact, just blame Sidious a lot, and that really will make Maul feel better. Also hugs. He needs all the hugs and a shoulder to occasionally cry on.