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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Vira-Lorr | Record of Agarest War

[onerthes]

Character Name / Journal: Vira-Lorr / Onerthes
Canon: Record of Agarest

Character Memory/Fear/Pain: Vira-Lorr's memories are filled with pain and loss. She is centuries old, so in this she might feel a tiny bit like Flemeth (though not as old), and she has seen loved ones be born, raised them alongside their fathers, watched them mature, fight for what they felt was right, live, love, marry, bear another generation and then sacrifice themselves. The cycle has repeated over five generations, and a century of war. She has coped with the constant air of loss and the trauma of war with drink and companionship, and neither has worked. She fears the loss of freedom and agency, and wants everyone to be free, almost to the point where she enables bad behavior.

She has memories of pain and torture from five years in the game. Horrible sights from time to time, and more than a few gruesome deaths. But the memories she seems to dwell upon are the happy ones, the ones that involve people that she's known for a few years, old friends she's shared time with.

How can Cole help:
(You're honestly doing better than any Cole player I've ever met at encapsulating his way of speaking. That's not buttering you up. Keep it up. That's a hard voice.)

"Forgive yourself." That's probably the piece of advice she needs to hear. That it is ok to change, to grow, to become better but that part of that is that she can't dwell in misery and self-loathing the whole time, or she never will actually move on.