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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[icanhearscreams]

Character Name / Journal: Jun Ushiro / icanhearscreams
Canon: Bokurano

Character Memory/Fear/Pain:

- Abandoned at birth by his mother at her teacher's house. He doesn't know who his biological father is. This was kept from him until near the end of canon. He physically abused his little (adopted) sister because he thought she killed their mother in childbirth when it wasn't even his biological mother.

- He and his classmates found someone who tricked them into a 'game' where they had to use a giant robot to fight other giant robots from parallel versions of Earth. The price of them piloting was their deaths, and if they failed their version of Earth would be destroyed. None of this information was made available to them at first, only that it was a 'game'.

- He watched his fellow classmates/pilots (including his adopted sister) die one by one and for a time he thought he had killed one of them himself before they realized it was the robot taking their lives.

- The only person to ever express romantic interest in him (in canon) got shot in the head under a minute or so later and he nearly got shot as well. She had to be disconnected from life support so they wouldn't have to go to battle with an unconscious pilot.

- He watched one of his classmates murder another for being a coward. He also watched them take revenge on people who had wronged them. Sometimes their parents were supportive after being told, often they were not. Some of the stories of his classmates are extremely full of triggers even for being (very) young teenagers so I'll tell you details if you want. Jun doesn't talk about the details because he's aware how absolutely disgusting some of the behavior is and he doesn't feel it's his story to tell.

- His own battle was severely traumatizing, involving him having to kill people one by one over the course of ~38 hours. He still struggles with hallucinations and the fact that he died in that battle.

- In Trench he's been given a second chance but he's also been medically experimented on by the Zealots in the 'Sleeper Farm' and nearly died. His friend and his boyfriend rescued him but it still gives him nightmares.

How can Cole help: Jun is unlikely to take comfort from a stranger very well but ultimately reminding him he has a chance to have a better life here will help. Also if Cole can be patient with a teen with anger issues he gets more points. He's at least trying to be a better person but it's... slow, as growth tends to be.