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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[wrenchedup]

Character Name / Journal: The Wrench (Reginald Blechman) / wrenchedup
Canon: Watch_Dogs

Character Memory/Fear/Pain: Generally speaking, the person beneath "The Wrench" is a totally different person than when masked. His mask is an assistive device that allows him to interact with the world. He struggles with severe anxiety, and struggles with expressing and processing emotions in any form of a healthy manner. Like most protags, he also has some ptsd. lmfao. cause who doesn't, really. Not a lot is known about his childhood outside of it generally being suggested as "rough".

For context, Wrench is a sort of watch dog and freedom fighter who is affiliated with a well known hacker group called Dedsec. Think IRL Anonymous but more physically involved. While a protag, he's generally considered a political extremist and domestic terrorist. Here's a bunch of memories, fears, hurts, and worries.

1. Being illegally detained by authorities twice for two separate reasons. Once in an attempt to interrogate and force him into giving up his team and Marcus (which he did not do) and, during, having his mask forcefully taken from him; later "allowed to leave" but not with his mask. The second time he was held for random, again by authorities.

2. Every once in awhile he has a concern over the fact that he really doesn't give a shit if he kills people anymore and his morals have become a hell of a lot more grey. This has become more of a concern after Sabine brought it up before he let her fall to her death. Had no issue using mild deception in order to bide time before he could hack the platform she was on to drop. Her death meant that thousands of people weren't going to suffer or die, but still. She brought up good points about their situation; she brought up how similar they actually were and he has a lot of messy feelings about this one.

3. So lonely. Recently divorced and doesn't talk about it. Actually super in love with his best friend Marcus who he kept ignoring and now feels astronomically guilty over. Listen, his love life is a fucking mess my friend. Hot damn.

4. Feels incredibly stupid that he dared to try to "be normal" for awhile and trusted someone like Rempart who ran a big corporation (which, perhaps now obvious, Wrench is typically vehemently distrusting of). Everything that happened during the time that he put down the mask and actually lived as Reginald Blechman is kind of a sore spot given how much of it blew up in his face when it was so hard for him to actually live without "Wrench".

5. Doesn't feel like he knows how to properly "be a human". Harbors a lot of "there is something fundamentally broken in me" kind of feelings.

6. Overall, Cole is welcomed to pick up on his overall anxious state of being. He has a weird anxiety around animals until he gets to know them, for instance. Worries about a lot of things a lot of the time and they easily spiral out of control; like this guy can go on tangents like its nobodies business. These issues rarely become obvious or show though beyond "strange Wrenchisms" but he does have a tonnes of quirks in the way he walks and talks that suggest he's a bit "odd".

How can Cole help: This is a man that even the FBI doesn't know a lot about beyond the things that he's done which have been clearly observable and documented. He will not take Cole knowing things about him well. At. All. It may honestly be a situation of them never interacting or rarely interacting but I'm not against turbulent CR or anything. Wanted to plop this here in the event they ever did cross paths. :)