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

[iamresponding]

So, I kinda figure that Rich is in a position where I don't know if he necessarily should find out Robbie's still doing it, but he at least has some awareness that Robbie was self-harming? Looking back at the Nova comic where Robbie showed up as Penance and took off his helmet, he had some really obvious puncture wounds and scratches on his face and I think part of what was so traumatizing to Rich was realizing something was hurting Robbie that way or that Robbie was hurting himself.

So I think that while Rich will want to accept the surface view that Robbie seems better, he's still going to be on the lookout for any signs Robbie's either faking he's okay or backsliding from being okay to being not-okay. Whether he ever sees something is up to you! But I figured I'd let you know he'd definitely be keeping an eye out for anything that looks off, and that he at least solidly believes that Robbie self-harmed while he was Penance, even if he's not sure if he's still doing it. (Whether you think Robbie would've outright admitted it openly before Rich died, or admitted it to Vance who told Rich, is also entirely up to you).

Also, if you ever wanted to play with anything to do with Robbie's self-harm like maybe his friends trying to help him get help, I'm 100% open to it. For the most part, I don't find it triggery. My only request would be that if you ever go in depth on writing about suicidal ideation (which I know is a thing from some of his appearances like the time he just kind of resigned himself to being lynched) to give me a heads up a thread is going there before it does. I'm fine with playing with it but I'd just need it to not be a surprise.

[leverageintceo]

I'm cool with it coming up with both Parker and Tadashi. I don't know that either of them SHOULD become aware of it, but Tadashi did invent a healthcare companion robot, so it might come up?