ways_back_room | Daily Entertainment

He tends to shout a lot, and hit things. And drink.

Pretty much his standard reaction to any situation, then. *<3 him*

I love his approach and wish sometimes I could do that more.

Both the Wills in my head are the same way and don't understand why you can't just punch the world right.

GOSH WHAT A STRANGE REACTION TO STRESS.

(no subject)

ceitfianna - 2012-09-24 12:57 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

biggerstingers - 2012-09-24 13:07 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

ever_lovin - 2012-09-24 15:46 (UTC) - Expand

When I feel overwhelmed, I just do my best to soldier on, and to not overeat from the stress. And sometimes I yell at people, which is not really useful.

Kirk just takes a deep breath and refocuses. Same for Howard Stark.

Gibbs gets drunk. This is his answer to everything, of course.

Cy recharges his batteries (literally) and redoubles his efforts.

Knox just doesn't let himself admit he's overwhelmed.

Charlie meditates.

Soldiering on is important and sometimes hard. Your pups all seem to have good ways of dealing, well not Gibbs but that's Gibbs.

Artemis shouts.

Ako hides (Also potentially running first.)

Robo has learned to attack whatever part of the problem he can reach.

Tyler ducks. Most things that overwhelm him now involved guns.

Janet shoots things and yells. She also goes looking for escaped supervillains.

Its interesting to see the breakdown in your pups from the fighters to the more side ones who go, right, not fighting.

(no subject)

nocarename - 2012-09-24 13:12 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

ceitfianna - 2012-09-24 13:13 (UTC) - Expand

Ben shouts a lot and hits things and drinks things (much like Gene) but since there are kids around so much nowadays, he'll usually take it outside the Baxter Building. I can also see him cooking things if he can't get away and due to his awesome cooking skills, no one bugs him as the food is worth giving him the space he needs.

Kate goes on patrol. One thing Gotham is good for is always giving you someone who really deserves to be hit when you need it and even when you don't.

BB just changes into an animal and runs away for a bit. (I used to have this fantasy when i was a kid and felt overwhelmed.)

Julie gets quiet and solders on.

Mars used to incite the Romans to go invade somewhere but he doesn't have that option anymore so he just broods.

And I hear the magic call of the coffee so I must run now.

Cooking can be really helpful. I find that mincing an onion into itty-bitty pieces always does wonders for my stress level.

I can see how BB's approach would work as a fantasy, just being able to not be found. Yay for coffee! I'm nearing the point of needing my second cup of tea.

(no subject)

bjornwilde - 2012-09-24 15:52 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

ceitfianna - 2012-09-24 15:56 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

bjornwilde - 2012-09-24 17:48 (UTC) - Expand

Teja just starts dealing with stuff until it's no longer overwhelming. Alternatively, if there is enough time, he goes sing a sad song or swings his axe around a bit, and then starts dealing with stuff until it's no longer overwhelming.

Urquhart gives it a good long look, and then he either starts shooting or steals away to let other people deal with the mess. Or at least he used to do that while he was alive.

Poins drinks, and then possibly makes himself scarce.

Antinoos crawls into a corner and sulks.

Margolotta deals with it head-on, Sirona tries to find out where it all came from and then change the most overwhelming bits at their root. Tamara or Tower don't feel overwhelmed. Lorenzo sulks, and then goes to his friends for help. Lady Loki plots some incredibly complex planto get rid of the whole overwhelmingness in one fell swoop.

How do Tamara and Tower manage to not feel overwhelmed at all? I know they're not human but I don't understand that.

(no subject)

yakalskovich - 2012-09-24 14:28 (UTC) - Expand

I should answer for the rest of mine.

Will looks for a fight or looks to Robin as Robin is good at seeing the big picture and that helps a lot.

It takes a lot to get Charles overwhelmed, but when it happens, he meditates or takes a breath and loses himself for a moment in the feel of other minds. Doing something physical will help him as well, touching someone's hand, a hug those can ground him really well. One reason that Erik makes him feel so unsure is that touch is complicated for them, which means that won't work. Raven knows how to help him and be there in comforting ways.

William tends to lose his temper and if a fight's not possible, get deep into his work until he doesn't feel like yelling. His thinking is that if he's too tired to do anything than he won't feel overwhelmed, this only partly works.

Jane writes, if she's feeling overwhelmed about a certain person, they get quips hurled their way as crafting insults helps a lot.

Moist changes his plan, which either means leaving quickly or making plans to leave.

Sameth gets lost in his work, because he can control what his projects are doing when he can't control anything else. Though the downside of this is that he then won't sleep or eat as much as he should and sometimes has nightmares. They happen less but they're still a factor.

Demeter goes to two extremes; she either gets angry and lashes out like she did when she created Winter or goes deep inside herself like when she hid from the other gods. Though she is a little better at managing her extremes but she's a Greek god, she'll never really be able to do moderate.

Tumnus is another one who hides himself away, its how he survived the White Witch's rule by keeping his head down and hiding. Now he spends his time with Lucy as she knows how to make him feel better.

The Pirate King sings or fights.

Cry

Aww, Link, *hugs him*.

Break things.

BREAK ALL THE THINGS!

Heh, that's so satisfying.

(no subject)

mogget_cat - 2012-09-24 15:44 (UTC) - Expand

I stop, try to breathe, and break down the list of whatever needs doing into small bits I can approach one little piece at a time. This is all usually done after a freak out flail post on my personal journal.

Tom researches, Gilderoy says la la la what and ignores it until it goes away, and Ingress probably goes sparring or talking with Megwyn.

Flail posts are really wonderful things as are lists. With my new job, I'm really living on Evernote as it gives me a way to create all the lists I need.

I also love that icon, whenever you use it I smile.

Clay goes for a walk in the dark ~~Callie used to say he went a little mad~~

Elrond closes his eyes, sighs, and then attempts to see the larger picture, lay a strategy that can be turned into a series of tactical steps, and gets to work dealing with the things he can actually do something about.

Eric is never overwhelmed. Ever.

Elrond is so calm, its rather amazing. I do love Eric and how he just is.

(no subject)

sunbaked_baker - 2012-09-24 15:45 (UTC) - Expand

I dance around my room, or the street, OR I eat chocolate in my bed like someone convalescing from TB.

Aphrodite either laughs it off or goes straight for wrath.

Puck has a variety of coping strategies that include hiding, sulking, composing villanelles, making pledges to unsavory powers, making out with Havelock, and eating newts.

Wendy Watson usually wants a bigger gun and/or canvas.

When Ava feels overwhelmed, she tries to learn more about whatever the phenomenon is that's causing her stress. If she cannot learn more, or does not like what she learns, she tends to buckle down and summon some demons or work on whatever new deadly skills she's been learning.

Dancing and chocolate sound wonderful and heh, I love all of Puck's options.

Overwhelmed. I hate that feeling. I tend to go very quiet and leave, if I can, and it'll eat at me for a few days until I just go and do what needs to be done. One thing at a time until it's complete, then move on to the next. It usually works out pretty well.

Then I kind of flop for a while to recouperate.

Yrael is very rarely overwhelmed. When he is overwhelmed (please see the end of Abhorsen or the face-off against Orannis during the Allpocalypse), he has to fight the very strong urge to give everything up for lost and get the hell out of there. He's making headway on that. Situations tend to work out better, he finds, if he stays and fights. And there are things (life, love, friendship, all those sappy things) that have wormed their way into his being, that he finds he'd be willing to fight for, if necessary.

Sunshine tends to hold things in when it's all overwhelming (which is nearly always, these days), until she can't, and then she breaks down either crying or yelling. Or both. She's cried more in the past two years since all this business with the vampires started than she had in her entire previous life. Her reaction to more reasonably-welming but still upsetting things is to take a long bath or throw herself into a frenzy of baking.

Zelgadiss tries to make it a point to stay cool in the face of overwhelming situations, though sometimes his calm, collected facade breaks when things are looking bleak. He has also been known to go into fits of rage and attack - or, in one very isolated incident that I'd rather not count as canon, run away weeping.

I'm like you in terms of being overwhelmed, it helps so much to be able to do something, when everything seems to be going do this or that.

I think what's making me currently overwhelmed is having all these ideas but few of them can just be done right away instead they require various parts to be put in place. Stuff does get done and that's a great feeling.

(no subject)

saphyria - 2012-09-24 16:19 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

ceitfianna - 2012-09-24 16:21 (UTC) - Expand

Honestly, for me, if it's really overwhelmed, there's probably crying at some point. If it's just typical overwhelmed/stressed, I like to put on my iPod and take long walks, or bake something if that's possible. Whatever it takes to clear my head.

Elle's emotional range is a little messed up for this question, but I'd say her reactions tend to be getting really sparky and sometimes lashing out physically at something, and her coping mechanisms tend to be practicing and the less-than-healthy just trying to put it out of her head in some way and continuing on with what she's "supposed" to be doing. At least she seems to be getting better at talking some things out right now.

Asami just... doesn't get overwhelmed. Or at least, not very easily. There are a plenty of should-be-overwhelming things that happen to her in canon, but when the hit really comes, she's always shown as rather collected. My feeling is that despite her being a generally warm and friendly person, her mind does really operate in a mechanical and sometimes detached way, meaning she can very quickly take on a stressful situation and break it down into a set of variables as she needs to. That on top of her social conditioning to limit how openly emotional she is would mean any stressed reaction, if it occurs, would probably happen in private.

That being said, when the situation is some issue she's having with one specific person, rather than some overall overwhelming issue, her tendency to be emotionally reserved can really translate into her being passive aggressive and snippy. And I think in playing her, Milliways may make somethings in her canon even more stressful than they already were, so we'll see how that goes.

Leslie gets really hyperactive and intense and overemotional and tries to come up with a billion plans to deal with everything ever until her brain won't work anymore and Ron has to lock her in a room so she'll actually sleep for more than four hours.

Manny also tends to not really get overwhelmed that often. He does sometimes drink, but it doesn't tend to be his usual outlet if he can help it. Probably because he's the protagonist of an adventure game, Manny's more of a problem-solver. So generally when in stressful situations, he's very focused on finding the way out. Which can also make him come off as cold and detached sometimes, but... that is how he is, sometimes.

Edited 2012-09-24 16:37 (UTC)

Its so useful to have someone like Ron to take care of you and go, no, time for you to stop.

Crying is a wonderful way to acknowledge feeling overwhelmed and go, okay, time to fall apart before figuring out a plan.

Shawn is usually the overwhelmer rather than the overwhelmed. When he does get in over his head, he tends to cope with inappropriate humor.

Fry... I have no idea. Usually his darker moments end up with him doing something rash with unforeseen consequences.

Brisco usually talks to Comet or gets some target practice in.

That's a good phrase, being the overwhelmer and definitely fits Shawn as he seems to just go a lot of the time. Fry seems pretty good at going with the flow at least judging by canon, he rarely seems to lose control.

(no subject)

psyched_you_out - 2012-09-24 17:21 (UTC) - Expand

Overwhelmed Lee usually leads to varying stages of nonfunctional Lee.

For my two MM-boys: Jason has a minor meltdown, usually near tears, and just tries his best to Be Like Dad. Des tries to take a step back and breathe if he has time; if it's a battle situation, he just kind of snaps into colder, more practical fight-y mode.

Henry will go curl up in bed and read his book if he has the time. If he doesn't, he kind of gets nervy and impulsive.

Lois, at current age, frequently drinks, but this lessens with time. At any age, she goes looking for trouble, pulls some crazy stunt, digs into all the Rocky Road ice cream she can find, and later she just kind of overworks and panics a bit. If it's a supervillain kind of overwhelmed and she is Standing Up To It Gorrammit.

Tavi generally kind of grits his teeth and attacks whatever is overwhelming him with a vengeance, whether literally or metaphorically. There have been a very few occasions in which this has not worked. That's when he snaps into full tears or fury, sometimes both. He usually clings to duty as a way to pull himself out of it, though at least once it takes Kitai to be his sanity.

Nonfunctional is never good, hopefully you have folks on Team You to help you get past those times.

Jack hasn't really been pushed much so far. The one time he was, was his dissertation, at which point he went and just did a stupid length shift in Milliways, before recovering and going back to life with it done.

In future canon, there's one thing that's going to make him go 'Oh my God, Wizard. Why didn't you tell me? Oh. My. God.' At that point, he takes a night and a day to read, reread and digest the stuff. Then he's good to go.

Erik tends to get drawn into his work, and ignore whatever it is. If it's work that's doing the threatening, then he works harder.

The one time he got drawn out of this manner of reacting, was when Dr Foster died, and there were other things at stake there.

Alfred by contrast, never lets it show. Ever. How does he actually deal with it? Well, there was one occasion (long before he worked for the Waynes) where he used Thomas Wayne as a sounding board to break the issues down into easily manageable pieces. He's tended to use the same technique ever since, though he internalised the need for a sounding board pretty quickly after that event.

Alfred is amazing in terms of keeping his calm. Maybe fade there on Will and Jack? Could you post it?

Edited 2012-09-24 18:36 (UTC)

(no subject)

againsttherules - 2012-09-24 18:48 (UTC) - Expand

If Tommy was drinking at this point in his canon, he would drink. In addition, he'd snap at people for no reason. And all the while he'd hope for a raging fire so that he could run into it. That would be the best way to burn off (pun intended) his frustrations and aggression.

On an unrelated note: I'm throwing this guy at Tommy the first chance I get. Because THEMATIC SHIT. FIRE. FIRE GO BOOM.

Um.

Yeah.

Mary is mean to people when she's overwhelmed. It makes her feel like she's in control, if only briefly.

I, um, eat sugar? And send my friends capslocky emails.

Clem drinks herself stupid.

Dixie takes long, hot baths.

Juliet, as expressed in canon, takes apart her service revolver and puts it back together again.

Pinkie becomes HYPER CONCERNED with everything being perfect, then breaks down if it's not.