rp tools | hurts, pains and traumas

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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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Bluestar | Warrior Cats

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Character Name / Journal: Bluestar / dousedflame
Canon: Warrior Cats (specifically Into the Wild).

Character Memory/Fear/Pain: (big warning for cat death)
1. Bluestar's first battle was two days after she began training for combat. She was six months old. Her Clan's leader (Pinestar) led an attack on an enemy camp, and her mother (Moonflower) was killed in front of her. The battle was pointless, unlawful and cowardly. Bluestar can still remember the smell of rosemary used during the funeral, robbing her of the scent of her mother.
2. Bluestar's sister (Snowfur) was hit by a car - she doesn't know what a car is, exactly, so she conceptualizes it as a giant monster with putrid breath. Her sister's mate (Thistleclaw) blamed her for letting it happen, and she was too stunned to fight it. Sometimes she still feels like her nephew (Whitestorm) must also blame her for it. (He doesn't.)
3. Bluestar had kittens with a cat from another Clan (Oakheart). She snuck her kittens to their father in the dead of night, to be raised by a new mother instead, and one of them died in the process. She's watched her two living children (Mistyfoot and Stonefur) grow up from afar, but barely knows anything about them.
4. There are positive memories too - training as Sunstar's apprentice, training her own apprentices and helping raise Whitestorm after his mother's death. The few times she managed to meet with Oakheart, and all the bubbly feelings that came with it. Warm days in ThunderClan territory, lazing around on the Sunningrocks with her Clanmates. There's a strong pride, a motherly love, that she feels toward everyone in her Clan. It's tainted by the fact that she can't even begin to fathom how she would get back to them. She's so used to sacrificing herself for them, that it feels as though everything will fall apart without her there.

How can Cole help: Bluestar has developed a bit of a savior complex, a fear that everything will fall apart if she isn't constantly burning the candle at both ends to protect her Clan. It would help to be reminded that ThunderClan survived before she was born and it will survive now that she's gone. She trusts Redtail to take over, right? It would also help to be told that StarClan (her warrior ancestors / pantheon) is still watching her, even in Trench - might not be true, but it's a comforting notion.

If nothing else, Bluestar loves teaching. Asking questions about her forest territory and the Clans would be a wonderful way to keep her mind off of things.