Comments on: Dealing with Sad

By: Honnete

Honnete — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:52:59 +0000

This is an interesting post. I’m struggling with something similar at the moment. Honnete’s son has disappeared. She’s still in the stage of trying desperately to find him (which isn’t going to happen as the player has quit WoW) and trying to deal with her emotions by keeping busy. She’s always dealt with anything unpleasant by moving on and forgetting about it, before – but she can’t with this. And I’m kind of avoiding RPing it because I know that when it finally hits it’s going to just-about destroy her. She does still have a child to care for, too – but she isn’t able to remember that.

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WTT: [RP] » Friday Fiction: Just For One Night — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:07:55 +0000

[...] Anna’s comment thread about how our characters deal with grief and hard times, I mentioned that Annalea’s been a bit…self-destructive recently. A discussion with [...]

By: Kelesaria

Kelesaria — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:42:10 +0000

@ Lauren- o wow, Anna sounds kinda like me 0.o except I’m too much of a wimp to break anything…

And Windstar is totally up for hanging out, Aely has had her little protective-mama-kitty urges going overtime. She would love to a chance to cheer her up some.

By: Anna

Anna — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:13:41 +0000

@Lauren – I love the idea of kitties in leaf piles Also thinking about doing some things related to her work, and to the fall cleaning she recently did at the apartment.

She may ask Anna about some Old Magic (or possibly Tashiya) to help with that.

Man – now I have IDEAS.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:52:40 +0000

Threnn used to insist that “paladins don’t cry,” but she’s gotten better about that. She tends to focus on work as part of the not-dealing, but when she’s ready to talk, she has a few people she’ll go to.

Bricu, Threnn has noticed, will also stonewall her when she asks him what’s wrong. He won’t talk about his grief until he’s ready, but there have been times Threnn’s been able to force the issue. Sometimes, picking a fight’s her last resort, and she hates it, but it’s worked in the past.

Annalea, as we saw this week, gets self-destructive. Not that it’s a surprise — when Threnn wouldn’t wake up last winter, she tried desperately to goad Bricu into a fist fight (which she knew she would have lost). When he wouldn’t rise to it, she punched the door frame on her way out and broke her hand.

I think Aely could benefit from a good streak (which doesn’t have to be the same as a happy streak). Maybe a series of slice-of-life type ficlets, showing her doing things that are getting her back to normal? I like the idea of her with Shaurria and Windstar. I’m totally seeing a walk through Elwynn and kitties diving into leaf piles… XD