Daily Entertainment: With Apologies to Bruce Banner

[lifethatisscratched]

Something has made your character furious. How do they cope with this something, and how do they blow off steam afterwards?

Comments

[harryhotspur]

...rant at it and then hit it. And then blow off steam by hitting more things. I know this is a very shocking answer.

[tu_vas_triompher]

oh hotspur

[harryhotspur]

he is v. emotionally mature

[tu_vas_triompher]

does he also angrily go for long horseback rides

or perhaps start wars

[harryhotspur]

ok the second one was that ONE TIME

[tu_vas_triompher]

let me guess, everything else was just border skirmishes and the scots totally started it anyway

[harryhotspur]

they SO DID

[tu_vas_triompher]

Bossuet is pretty hard to infuriate, but there's a definite low-level anger going on there looking around at the world and how fucked up everything can be. He copes through political action, drinking, and jokes.

Feuilly is...simultaneously very patient and really easy to wind up on some subjects. He'll get ranty and flaily about INJUSTICE!, but it tends to blow over pretty quickly, and then he'll settle down to learn even more about just precisely why the INJUSTICE! is so bad, and try to do something about it.

Gredya is a crankypants. She bites things.

Djehuty very rarely displays any Divine Wrath. It's just not his thing. He could smite someone, though. Or call down plagues. But mostly if he's getting cross he goes and does some math in his garden or visits a temple with good incense.

[genarti]

Enjolras keeps a very cool head most of the time -- there's a lot of buried volcanic simmering against the injustice of the world, but he keeps it locked down and channeled into patient productive action. But sometimes he can be tipped over into temper, in which case he'll go very pale and cold and icily disdainful in the moment, and then possibly do some pacing and ranty orating at a good friend afterward. (But he probably avoids duels as a matter of principle, which is not at all a guarantee for a man of his era and social class. Challenging the other person -- if a probably-bourgeois guy -- to a duel would be an illegal but socially acceptable thing to do, and Enjolras is probably a bit weird for being a skilled fighter who'd avoid that way of dealing with offense if he could.)

Cosette has not, historically , had a lot of outlet for temper or encouragement to have one, although she's also not an angry person by nature. Mostly she has a flash-in-the-pan temper, so she'll snap at someone but it'll still be pretty good-natured, and she won't hold a grudge ten minutes later.

Thor, uh. See Hotspur's answer. Only he also has the option of going flying in a thunderstorm (and probably getting everybody around him drenched) to blow off steam. Yelling, hitting things, hitting other unrelated things, almost starting a war that ONE TIME (maybe also other times): all definitely historical options here, and only the war one is mostly off the table due to character growth these days.

[harryhotspur]

See, everyone starts a war once in a while...

[mjolnir_retriever]

Right?? So there's really no cause for dads people to get so upset about a mistake we've all made at one point or another.

[merryeccentricities]

Sometimes you just gotta take up arms against tyranny/classic theater/ those fools at the Academy! Parents just don't understand, man.

[camwyn]

Gordon stops talking and walks away. Later someone finds a number of splintered wooden objects- like, old telephone poles and large shipping crates- that have been beaten to death with a length of painted metal. Gordon also refuses to speak to whatever or whoever made him that angry ever again unless he has absolutely no other choice, unless he eventually realizes he himself was in the wrong.

Shephard gets very, very quiet, and starts speaking in the clearest and most precise dialect anyone has ever heard from him. If what has made him furious is a person, there's a good chance he addresses them as "friend". At the top end of his anger range he starts quoting Paradise Lost. In either case, if he is allowed to destroy the thing that made him mad he will generally do so in a swift and efficient manner, then wash his hands and go do something else so he doesn't have to think about it any more. If he isn't allowed, or if he can't do it for some other reason, he grabs whatever projectile weapon he has at hand and goes somewhere he can practice with it without people asking him stupid-ass questions about why he's been shooting for so long.

This happened when Ellen discovered the terrible secret of Andale. This happened when Ellen finally found her father in Vault 112. And this happened when Ellen got furious at her dad after he was dead. Basically there's either impotent screaming, or things and people get rendered down into ashes, although to be fair a lot of stuff gets rendered down into component ashes around Ellen and she's usually not even mad at the time.

Santo's a luchador. If something makes him angry he generally winds up wrestling with it, and once the fight is over goes and washes up.

Ask Raleigh Beckett what happens when Stacker Pentecost gets furious.

Varric tends to yell a lot when he gets angry. Sometimes things get shot. Sometimes reputations just get ruined. He's not the kind to be fond of violence unless it's very cleverly applied, and being furious tends to interfere with that.

Fawkes, like Bruce Banner, is nearly always angry. He just spends a considerable portion of his time controlling it, because he doesn't particularly want to give into his primal nature. When he lets it off the hook there is generally a massive augmentic warhammer involved. Or a Gatling laser. Not both, because even he needs two hands to work the laser.

When Edward gets ragey he tends to order massive retaliation against the target if he can, but if he can't he retreats and comes up with a complicated but often effective scheme for its destruction. This does not always work, especially if he is outgunned (you can only fit so many cannons on a single pirate ship), but he tries.

Wee Mad Arthur's default state is furious. This is a 'for me, it was Tuesday' question for him. I'm not sure what would happen if he stopped being furious. Possibly opera.

[sunbaked_baker]

Yell at it, snark at it, and seek to do as much verbal damage as possible while the adrenaline and anger lasts. She doesn't do cold, long-lasting anger well. She's all fire - and that burns out eventually.

Then she goes off and kneads seven flavors of hell out of some dough or cleans dishes, furniture, and floors all to within an inch of their lives.

Edit: Like this.

[i_am_your_host]

It takes a lot to make Emcee truly angry. But there'd be a lot of swearing and bitching, maybe even throwing things. And then he'd lock the door to his room with a supply of liquor and drugs, especially if he wants to forget what he's angry about.

[bjornwilde]

Ahsoka takes a deep breath and lets the anger go. Despite what the Jedi Council thinks, she is a good jedi.

Quinlan likely takes a deep breath, smiles a very dangerous smile and gives the offending person a chance to realize and correct the error of their ways; unless his family is at risk. Then he just goes Sith on their ass.

Rollo smites it will extreme pleasure. Or broods at it if it isn't something to hit.

Izana might let a terse word or two slip out. Afterwards, if they still feel upset, they will either hit the simulators or dojo.

Ethan yells and curses, flips his hair, and decks the offending party, if possible. If not, some time shooting things does wonders for a body. Or whiskey.

[death_gone_mad]

Perhaps obviously, Amascut uses lots of fire. Not too obvious, though, she doesn't break character (too much) while doing it, which leaves the player confused why the helpless maiden they just rescued didn't just free herself and BURN EVERYTHING in the first place.

[ceitfianna]

If Will is allowed to fight the person making him angry, that's his first option, his temper is more under control now but violence is still his first reaction. Now though its not always at the person, sometimes its a punching bag or sparring with a friend.

Charles doesn't get angry a lot, he gets frustrated and then he works to find a solution while possibly grumbling about it to Raven or Erik or another friend. If that's not helping and its a person who's annoying him, he gets formal and polite before leaving as soon as he can.

William hits things and when he can't hit things he goes riding to clear his head.

Quentin yells back if he can, he did this when someone was being rude to Toby. If yelling isn't an option, he gets quiet and he plans using all the tools he can to fix what he can, mainly this involves becoming very formal. Putting music on loud helps too.

Sameth goes and works, things are easier than people and he's another who doesn't get angry as much as frustrated.

Moist gets revenge in some sneaky way, violence is never involved but usually a reputation will suffer.

Jane writes and writes out and talks to Cassandra.

Ivan yells at Miles and then finds someone to spar with or possibly fights to get through whatever mess he's in. He's pretty easy going and most of his anger tends to go towards people doing stupid things that he has to fix.

Demeter doesn't let her divine wrath out often but she did turn Ramon into a tree once. She lives far from her family to avoid how angry they make her. For mortals that annoy her, she usually tells them what she thinks of them then goes and weeds for a while along with telling Kore how awful that other person is.

Tumnus doesn't get angry, he feels stuck and reads or bakes.

[hey35andholding]

Clem: Gets shouty, hits a zen plateau and then decides to go meditating. Or she tries to cast a spell on her unfortunate target.

Dixie: Gets coolly sarcastic. She responds by quietly plotting her revenge.

Juliet: Super sharp anger. Like, deadly anger. She's both the nicest woman in the world and could easily kill a jerk. That's followed by total avoidance.

Pinkie: Volcanic anger, demands that things be put right. Eventual scheming to self-solve situations.

Eponine: Withdrawal and depression, followed by self-serving betterment.