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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[aetherweaver]

Character Name / Journal: Nara'a Sunvara (Warrior of Light) / aetherweaver
Canon: Final Fantasy XIV

Character Memory/Fear/Pain:

- For the sake of minimizing spoilers (I don't know if you're canon familiar) let's just say that he's had to save the world multiple times from threats of increasing severity. He's thrown to fight gods and powerful monsters and has to shoulder all of this stuff with... some support from his friends but ultimately ends up fighting the worst things essentially alone. I can give details on request.

- He's lost a number of people important to him and he carries those hurts years later. Some of them are why he's taken up various fighting styles, and he never wants to lose anyone else again. He's terrified of losing the people he loves.

- His stay in Trench has been largely pain-free (relatively speaking) though there was that point where he turned into a Beast because he ignored his corruption for like a month and had to be put down.

How can Cole help: Honestly just reminding him of good times can help him a lot. The fact that there's hope and brightness gives him the strength to go on.

Additionally if you ever want to turn this sort of thing around on Cole, Nara'a can see into the past of someone with his Echo ability. It's basically a deus ex machina flashback power (among some other things) so let me know if you ever want that to happen!