DE: You are what you love

[bjornwilde]

 How does you character handle heart break?

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[1stwitness]

Ichabod either kills things in a fit of rage until he feels better, or shuts down and drinks rum. Depending on if Moloch's minions present themselves to be killed.

Or sometimes both, in succession.

[bjornwilde]

I have no answer for Selina as we haven't seen her in any relationship and she is young yet. Going by what they've show of her feelings for her missing mother, I would say she holds onto the happy feelings and memories, as well as keeping a memento.

Tybalt either turns into MacBroodypants or disappears for a period of time it takes to get over things. I only know of one relationship in canon to go by, but this seems right.

Hank will bury his feelings and distract himself with techie things, never quite getting over it.

Jess seems to get bitter and angry, if he break up with Clint is anything to go by.

Andrea buries herself in work, refusing to give the other person the upper hand, while internally wallowing in her hurt feelings. So healthy!

Ethan, I would guess, turns to whiskey. We'll find out in season 2!

[student_of_impossibility]

There's more than one kind of heartbreak, not just romantic... but I bet you once she grows up Selina will also scratch the eyes out of whatever took her loved one from her, if there is an external cause to blame, then hold onto happy memories.

Girl doesn't mess around.

[bjornwilde]

This is VERY true. = ]

(I can see her punching throats when the occasion demands as well, and likely both the one who "stole" the loved one and the loved one.)

[student_of_impossibility]

And hey, if it's ever Scarecrow who hurts someone she loves, she can set him on fire. All that straw would burn nicely.

Oh yeah, by the way. How would Selina like tips in stealth and breaking and entering and lockpicking from a pair of too-easily-amused people who might not be able to help with computer hacking but there's always other ways?

[bjornwilde]

I think she'd be all over that. =)

[student_of_impossibility]

Cool cool. I can send Tavi towards any open EP of hers you want, then. :)

[bjornwilde]

I will ping you when I have one! In fact, I'm already half writing one (in my head) where she comes in having trouble picking the lock of handcuffs, just to provide an easy hook. = ]

[student_of_impossibility]

...Oh lord. Tavi and his girlfriend would so very much jump on that.

(His girlfriend, the one-time catburglar no one could catch except that one guy who had no superpowers and started dating her. DO YOU SEE WHY THEY NEED TO MEET SELINA.)

[bjornwilde]

=D

Selina is actually my first headvoice who *wants* to go and explore other worlds. I mean I've had other voices that were cool with visiting other worlds and helping out, but they always kind of stayed themselves. Selina is totally fine with learning new things and taking things from the worlds.

Once she decides to trust Milliways that is.

And I love the idea of her learning new skills and getting new tech from Milliways as well.

[inspector_blueeyes]

Jay wants to teach her to pick locks! So much!

[bjornwilde]

Totally open to that as well. Can't have too many teachers in delinquency can you?

[runningred]

Jay's practising his lock picking skills in the bar at the moment if she wants to swing past and learn.

[isawit]

I shall tag in! Fade with teh garage thread then?

Also, I think I will do this thread, then she goes home and runs into some trouble with the GCPD, gets one hand handcuffed and makes it to Milliways to try and pick the cuff off. This way Tavi can have fun as well as Jay. = ]

[runningred]

Sounds good! Loving Gotham so much and Selina's so fun to play with.

[isawit]

OK, when you have the chance, here's an EP just for you. = D

[i_am_your_host]

A part of me would like to say that the Master of Ceremonies doesn't have a heart to break, but I don't know if that's entirely true. I actually think he's fallen in love many times, but took to breaking other people's hearts first because he knew he could never follow through with that sort of relationship. However, if he did lose people who he regarded as close, he would withdraw for a bit, get drunk on gin, and move on. He doesn't allow himself to be sad or angry for too long.

ETA:
So if you kiss me
If we touch,
Warning's fair
I don't care
Very much.

[student_of_impossibility]

Henry cries, and generally tries to act and probably fails. But he's a normal kid sometimes.

Eriond... doesn't have this kind of feeling in his past repertoire. I don't know how to answer. I think, as with many things, the answer is n/a.

Lois gets drunk. Boy does she ever get drunk. And she cries. Previously she mostly cried alone and shut the entire world out because no one to support her; these days she cries into Clark's shoulder. What she does when it's his fault... is be unwillingly supported by Oliver--an ex who made her cry like that in the first place--and run away for a while. She runs away from problems too. And she learns to get over it (or gets un-disappointed, in one case).

Tavi has never had romantic heartbreak. He has, however, had a few deep betrayals, devastating revelations, and losses that count. He cries--alone in the dark if he can manage it--and sometimes it's anger as much as grief. And if there's someone he can kill for it, he will. Painfully--not always violently, but painfully. On the other hand... if he gets past the initial burst, and it's betrayal by someone he loves, he may never trust them the same again but he does forgive.

[lazy_but_loyal]

Okay, so, True Blood vampire love is different from human love. It's like, every great thing and every complication of every sort of human love (filial, marital, fraternal, etc.), rolled up into a giant ball with a bonus emotional/mental link. So when a Maker and Progeny break up, it fucking hurts, even on a physical level.

Pam has only ever really gotten her heart broken once, by Eric -- he had to release her (formally break their blood bond) in order to protect her. It was painful and she became angry and resentful, and she put on her best bitchface and got over it. But she never really did. She stubbornly held on to that love, because what she felt transcended everything what the Progeny/Maker bond was supposed to be. Anyway, she got Eric back, and they lived happily ever after, the end.

[onceaviking]

Getting kicked in the cooch by a kangaroo.

And they did.

[inspector_blueeyes]

I seem to recall it was 'by a wallaby' which at the time made no sense to me. Wallabies are smaller and far, far less aggressive.

[onceaviking]

That is very likely. And then my memory fixed it for them.

Like when it gave Viking Eric much nicer hair.

[ceitfianna]

Will drinks, fights and broods, how much of each depends on how heart broken he is.

Charles drinks and isolates himself as when he's heartbroken he feels more lonely and he becomes more aware of those together and happy around him. So he hides, sometimes in the midst of people but often on his own, its not good for him and he needs people to poke at him or bad things happen.

Quentin gets quiet, he's used to not showing too much as it can be used as a weapon against you, he's a master of the neutral courtier face. But when he's heart broken, it wears him down a lot, but he doesn't talk about it.

William works too much to keep himself from thinking. Sameth does the same thing.

Jane is another who works but her work is writing as she tries to find something hopeful.

Ivan acts as if he's not heartbroken to the world but broods and drinks a bit more.

Moist runs away and pretends that of course he's not heartbroken, don't be silly. He does what the Emcee does, he tries to break things off before they get too deep or act like they're not as deep as they are.

Demeter either gets quiet and withdraws within herself or if she's angry, curses someone.

Tumnus hides away from the world.

[never_shall_yield]

Gene - what are you talking about, he's far too manly to suffer such a girly, sissy, pansy...

(He drinks. And broods. And hits something/one.)

Javert - has never had a chance to find out. At least in the romantic sense. The law broke him pretty bad though, and he handled it by drowning himself in a river.

Valjean - again with the n/a for romance, but he absolutely knows what a broken heart is. And he becomes depressed to the point of starving himself to death. FUN FUN.

Bruce Wayne - by shutting himself up in his mansion for seven years.

Bruce Banner - going quiet and mopey, and not talking about it to anyone.

Courfeyrac - drinking a lot, crying on friend's shoulders, bemoaning women and their power to break hearts while dramatically proclaiming never to go near one again (at the start of the bottle), and then gradually harping on the wonderful qualities of love and the lost girl and her perfection (at the end of the bottle). And when the hangover clears up, by bouncing back and throwing himself back into the fray.

Robin - he goes quiet and thoughtful and sad, but gets on with things because that's just how he is. But he'll brood on it for a long while, usually over a drink and rarely discuss any of it with anything. (Wow, how many stoic drinkers do I have!?)

Pearly - HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

No.

[herr_bookman]

Immediately after heartbreak, Autor hares off alone and punches a wall. After that he broods and grieves and plays the piano, trying to figure out what he did wrong.

Tahno doesn't do heartbreak, because that would mean he was attached to a person in some way. He may have had one sometime, but he'd refuse to recognize the sensations for what they are.

Alana cries, hard, and nurses a bottle of Jack Daniel's. She'll talk about it, but only after she has enough time to process what happened.

[merryeccentricities]

Pining. Good in-fashion Romantic Pining. With languishing, if there's a proper couch for it. But mostly just with being touchy (and clingy, if he's got someone he can be clingy with without it being weird) and moody as heck until he gets over it; he's not often truly unhappy, and doesn't really know what to do with it.

[venusadept_2]

Nnnnnnnnot well, if past millicanon is any indication. As in, avoiding human contact, reminders of his lost love, and happiness for almost a decade "not well".

Fluttershy, I suspect, would likely become more withdrawn than usual, but she'd also be more likely to seek help than Felix. She would probably first go to Rarity, although I feel like Applejack would be a better help. (As with all things, circumstances influence reactions; I see her taking a breakup harder than other types of loss, in a "was it my fault" way.)

Kain... um. Well, I'm not sure if it's explicit canon, but it's generally held that his jealousy is what let him get mind-controlled so easily (twice). So.

[varadia]

X hurts herself when her emotional turmoil is bad and confusing enough. She's been working on it -- dealing with emotions I mean -- but heartbreak would be a new one, to this degree, and it would be bad. She hasn't really been totally disillusioned by people she's loved, which -- for her would be the heartbreak part. People she's liked, yes, but that's not quite the same.

Michael goes cold and stops smiling at all ever. For centuries. *eyes canon* Yep!

Raven burns the world down.

Nynaeve cries, then grits her teeth and gets on with things. It helps distract from the pain. And she can be useful.

Galadan decides to destroy the universe!!! *eyes canon again* Yep!

Wonder Woman -- that one really depends on the kind and the source of the heartbreak -- if anyone has a specific scenario or general scenario they'd like to know about, ask and I can probably figure it out.

Sam Tyler jumps.

Dean Winchester goes on a revenge killing spree. Hunting monsters. Yes.

[fluffiest_archadian]

Yugo deals with heartbreak the same way he deals with everything: Relentless enthusiasm to cover up anything being wrong.

Sherral and Wan are a lot more difficult. Sherral probably buries himself in work.

[last_kallig]

Ibani throws herself into training and work to hide the pain most of the time. If someone she cares for is hurt or killed though, her response is going to be violent. Quite probably fatally so.

[death_gone_mad]

I used to entertain the thought that Amascut was the way she was because of a relationship gone horrifically bad. But, no, what started it was childhood trauma. Well, not childhood, but long long ago and gods are complicated. She hasn't really let anyone get that close to her since, but I guess the betrayal by her followers some centuries afterward qualifies as heartbreaking.

And after several millennia, she is still terrified of them and their children.

I only have a feeling Fairy Fixit might be mean and broody, but canon hasn't hinted at anyone even having the chance of breaking her heart.

Steal his egg and Evil Chicken will fuck you up. Or try to.

[filemyclaim]

Clementine: Primal scream therapy. Getting very high. Eating chocolate. Bubble baths. Revenge sex. Quiet stewing.

Dixie: Long bubble baths. Practicality.

Pinkie: Crying absolute buckets for hours. Moping.

Juliet: Plotting revenge.

Eponine: Semi-devious but good natured scheming.