Permissions Post - Legion

[walkingballpit]

Robbie has engaged and arguably still engages in self harm. He will not do so in front of another character, and I will not be presenting opportunities for your character to be suspicious of it (ie, he will not have fresh marks visible on his body during a thread), unless previously discussed at your request. However, topics discussed by characters in RP are wildly varied, and it may be something that would appear in his thoughts as an IC reaction to whatever is being discussed. I've played him before, and I don't think it's come up more than twice.

If you are okay with it being mentioned or do not want it to come up in his headspace for any reason, please let me know specifically here. Should I not here from you, I will assume the answer is "do not want" and default to keeping it far away.

Robbie has enough character depth that I can navigate his tags without it ever coming up, and I would like to be able to play with everyone. That said, if you are so uncomfortable with the character that you would like to have him not interact with yours, please let me know. I will accommodate all requests without grudge, and I hope that should I get a second character, we will merrily RP together.

Finally, if you think your character SHOULD become aware of it, we should discuss that.

Comments

[walkingballpit]

Rich really does need to slow down and stop being so willing to burn himself out for the sake of everyone else. Maybe he'll figure it out in the upcoming volume.

I am 100% okay with helping you play around with some of Rich's problems, by the way. As rough as Robbie's had it, he's so much better when he's helping someone else. It pulls him out of his own headspace, which has just been circling the same issues forever. He doesn't even know the details of most of what happened, but Robbie will argue that Rich deserves a little happy.

As to the psychiatrist, that is the one thing that Robbie would probably argue against, unless he was actually caught by another Warrior doing things. Doc was great, but pushed him very hard in that session. Only to have Robbie wind up back in the "care" of Moonstone and then Trauma... no, Robbie's not going to seek out mental health professionals. He'll have to be drug kicking and screaming or else shamed into it, because I just don't see him having a great image of the field after the last two. Even Doc used a very unorthodox approach with Robbie.

[iamresponding]

EXACTLY, that's the general plan with Rich. He really needs to stop the overly self-sacrificial stuff. Rich really does have that sad tendency to treat other people's lives as inherently more valuable than his. And he also got way too used to having to save the day alone or having things primarily rely on him. He needs to relearn how to rely on others. And I'd love to have Robbie involved. I think it'd be good for Rich to rely on his friends again, and good for his friends to get a chance to actually help him.

And I'd have to double-check with Shard for her take on Vance, but I don't think Rich would try to force Robbie into therapy or shame him, but he might eventually try to gradually nuuuudge him towards therapy, and whether it succeeds or not in the end is up to you. Dr. Ry'kerr is actually pretty competent and not weirdly extreme like a lot of fictional therapists are. In the comics, when Brainiac 5 nearly got killed by his long-lost mother and had trouble processing his emotions she BUM BUM BUM... had him keep a journal about his feelings. Which was basically exactly what he needed.

Rich would only nudge so much, though. I think he'd recognize that Robbie getting therapy for his issues actually touches ON his issues since he was mistreated so much by mental health professionals.

[walkingballpit]

Well, it's not like Robbie doesn't do that too nowadays. So maybe they start an unofficial club, for people who need to start placing some value on their own lives. You know - without actually saying that that's what it is.

Rich will get teamwork whether he likes it or not, because Robbie isn't letting him out of his sight during a crisis, and now he has a flight ring so that is SO much easier than when he had to bounce after everyone.

Hm - that's tempting. I'll try to figure out a way to make it work eventually. I don't know if journalling work, right now I'm just laughing because when I apped I was like "Yeah, he's going to hide everything" but I never REALLY sat and thought about what Ded Frand would do to him. Now it's like gdit, Robbie, stop crying and pull yourself back together. It's one out of over 600.