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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[fogsong]

Character Name / Journal: Sharon Da Silva | fogsong
Canon: Silent Hill (films)

Character Memory/Fear/Pain:

Betrayal | Due to the betrayals she endured as Alessa, especially that by Dahlia, her birth mother, Sharon harbors a great deal of doubt and fear when it comes to her close relationships. She always wonders what will be the trigger for them to leave her, to abandon her, to finally see her as the monster she was called. In some ways, she tries to anticipate a split and may do or say things to hurry it along.

God/Her powers | Sharon was born to be the vessel in which God is born from. She's been told this was her destiny and it's the big reason behind all of her suffering. She fears it's the reason she's got the powers she does (it is) and she is terrified of becoming pregnant despite the fact that god's birth will require a ritual.

Most rituals bother her deeply but, more than that, faith in higher beings bothers her immensely. Her dislike and distrust is instinctive and these feelings extend to Pthumerians, especially the Patrons. She has trouble seeing them beyond her negative associations and those who worship them or have decided to be a disciple is immediately placed into the Do Not Trust category. She's also a touch afraid of them and their faith because she's seen what faith does to a group of people.

Otherworld | Sharon has drawn in both friends and strangers into her Otherworld here in Trench and although she felt it was necessary, she harbors a great deal of guilt over it. She knows she's exposed them to traumas they might not have been ready to deal with and it's something she beats herself up over often. Not to mention, most of them don't know she's done it and that's... Woof. A lot on her already delicate mental health state.

How can Cole help: Sharon has a lot of issues with losing memories so making her forget would just... make things worse but reminders of her adoptive parents love for her and how they've never betrayed her would help some, along with reminders that she has people that love her here.

She tries very hard to never be a victim again and it could help her to know she's in a position where she really never has to fear becoming one again. Tell her she deserves good things and watch her brain have trouble processing that. Tell her she's not a bad person because she wholeheartedly believes she is.

Cole really just has to be gentle and understanding and he'll... mess her up a little but in a good way.