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bjornwilde) wrote in ways_back_room2012-11-13 05:20 am
DE: Take a deep breath
So I'm back from the beach and am feeling incredibly cleansed and recharged. Thanks to ceitfianna for covering yesterday's DE. Today's DE feels like a sequel to hers actually and is also inspired by real life.
ceitfianna for covering yesterday's DE. Today's DE feels like a sequel to hers actually and is also inspired by real life. What does your pup need to feel spiritually/emotionally/intellectually/whatever cleansed and recharged? Is it a place? An activity? Music? How about yourself?
[And as ever, if you have a DE suggestion, leave a comment here and we'll credit you when we use it.]
[And as ever, if you have a DE suggestion, leave a comment here and we'll credit you when we use it.]
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My pups, not quite as much. Knox has baseball, his bar at home, time with Rapunzel, a good crime novel, a good TV show. He's really not good at relaxing.
Charlie meditates. That more than anything else cures what ails him.
Cy hangs out with the Titans, does community service, works on his car.
Gibbs has no such activities to decompress. He just uses rum, which is a lot sadder than I want to admit.
Kirk rides, or jogs, or reads, or bitches to Bones, or finds someone new to flirt with.
Howard tinkers. Or reads. Or also finds someone new to flirt with. Or goes flying.
Sad that even though most of my pups are intelligent, none gravitate towards intellectual pursuits as a way to unwind. And strange that none seek solace or strength in religion even though I always do.
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Thinking about other things for myself, going for long walks and lately driving around with music on help a lot. I need to find good places to walk in my new home, there look to be some beautiful parks and cemeteries around me.
Will needs Sherwood, because he feels safe and right there.
Charles needs a quiet place to meditate to recharge, but he also feels better after spending time among those he cares for. Conversations with Erik sometimes make him want to bang his head against a wall but he feels better for them. Time with Raven or Iris leaves him happy and hopeful and sometimes he gets centered by being the quiet among all the thoughts of a place like Milliways. Since his telepathy makes it so important for him to feel calm and in control, he has lots of ways to get there.
Sameth needs a space to build and work with the Charter since getting lost in his work always makes him feel better.
William needs space to go riding, as having space to be apart for a little while helps him feel better. It doesn't need to be terribly far, just riding the fences but space.
Demeter needs a garden, people she loves and earth under her feet.
Jane needs a quiet place to write and time to talk with her sister or go for a walk.
Moist needs an open road.
Tumnus needs tea, a place to read and write and laughing with Lucy.
The Pirate King needs his ship and the open sea.
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Doc needs the desert. He needs that special pale blue sky and sand and scrub to feel really connected to the bigger universe.
Dan needs to spend quiet time with members of his family.
Jake...can't really answer, though his answer is similar to Doc's. He's also gotten pretty attached - for him anyway - to the dog that's started following him around.
Skellig needs the ability to fly. When he can't for whatever reason, he just feels not right. He also needs belief - needs people to believe he can help them. Happy children recharge his batteries, as does spending time with people who care for him/who he cares about, which right now is Katya. Also, Chinese food makes everything better.
Han needs space. Not just proximity to others space, either - definitely needs to be out in the black. He spends a lot of time on the bridge of the Falcon anyway, but I suspect he escapes there when they're just cruising sometime to stare out at the stars.
Mike (the Probie) likes music. Crazy silly pop music, dance music, anything fun. He also goes to church when he can and that helps. And dinner at his mom's.
Gordon just needs Gotham to not implode for one evening a week and allow him to make it home for dinner with his family.
Carl needs time and space to decompress sometimes - especially when he was in Delta. He just needs to go over things in his head. He strikes me as a 'get in the truck and drive' sort, because he can do that on autopilot and think while doing it. He also likes catnaps when Trudy is around.
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For myself, the ocean is always guaranteed to clean my head. Music is also, though what type of music can vary (shoegazer and classical music tend to be a good default though). A good RPG session can work wonders as can a good writting session. Time spent in the moment with my family is good too. Oh, and cooking.
For Ben it's cooking, a walk on Yancy street, lifting weights, time with the kids or a good fight.
For Hank I'd say a good math problem or science journals. A walk in a secluded forest can work wonders as well, especially if he can take his shoes off and stretch.
Thalia works best with a good sparing session or a horse ride (thank you William). A good rain storm helps clear her head too.
Jessica likes to hang out on the sides of buildings and just watch the city to clear her head.
Palamedes, I am guessing, goes for hunting or falconry. I can see him enjoying a good court dance as well though I don't know if they do those at his current time.
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For Lou: cooking for others and/or himself.
For me, sometimes it's just going out with my camera by myself; going to a concert after not having been to a show in months (am seriously due for one soon); immersing myself in a drawing project.
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For Katya: Is, canonically, happy joyful feelings from other people. And of course, since she's from a Russian canon, her using that strength takes some of that joy away from the person she's using. In an emergency recharge in pitched battle, she can make an entire school of happy children perfectly miserable in five seconds flat. She also relaxes more when she has someone to watch her back (because yes, she is the type to charge in without making sure anyone is following) which is, right now, Skellig.
For Ace: Being somewhere nice and warm and sunny, with someone bringing her drinks. If it's someone with a nice ass, all the better.
For Balthazar: ... um. Um? I get the feeling he spent a lot of time staring at pictures of Veronica, when he wasn't actively looking for the Prime Merlinian. ... Yeah.
For Glorfindel: Spending the day somewhere higher up in the mountains, preferably near water. It's like being back in the mountains surrounding Gondolin, a little.
Aaaand now it's time to go to breakfast. Omg in Red Bluff so much driving left to do.
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I found those for you.
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Artemis needs practice. Fighting, archery, gymnastics, it doesn't matter. But when she's stressed she'll shoot until her fingers are raw and run until her legs are jelly.
Robo needs a problem with a solution. He doesn't need to know what it is going to be, he just needs to know that there is one and that it's reachable. Then he works on it.
Janet needs change. Some days it's going out and shooting up AIM facilities and thugs, some days it's lounging next to the pool, some days it's orchestrating a giant benefit but there must be variety.
Tyler heads toward music. Loud music, with lots of bass. The kind of rock that picks you up and moves you. Classics if he can find it, modern if he has to.
Ako needs friends. Friends and hope really, but one provides much of the other and she doesn't let go of hope easily. (That may slide into denial, but that's a different bundle of issues entirely!)
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(Side note: um, OUaT muns? There was a discussion a while back about Henry's 'superpower' of recognizing people while in the Bar, but it was never discussed how it would work. I'd love it if we could actually talk about that, because I've been hesitating to EP him until then.)
Lois: ahahaha she is so bad at recharging. She thrives on adrenaline and stress. Video games, 80s karaoke, monster truck rallies, random side adventures which aren't too heavy on the deadly danger, the inexplicable good conversations with the Kents, off-hours time with Clark and/or Chloe.
Tavi: I sometimes doubt he knows what the word means, more than with Lois. Hanging out at an archaeological dig seemed like a vacation. Time with Kitai, family, or friends that isn't (directly) work-related. Reading or fun engineering projects.
EDIT: Oh, haha. As for me, RP usually does it. When I can't deal with that, mainlining through favorite TV shows, books, movies, or webcomics usually helps, or sometimes picking up new ones. LARPs sometimes do the trick. Video gaming sessions are even better. The one that really helps--but that I don't get enough of--is singing in a group.
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Jules dances to relieve stress.
Pinkie mopes. And cries. And Bakes (like me)
Dixie doesn't get mad, she gets even.