DE: Freakout time

[yakalskovich]

 Tell us about your characters' beserk buttons -- what makes them see red?

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[sdelmonte]

Kirk: For a long, long time, it was Klingons. Which is ironic bordering on tragic because racism also makes him angry. Fortunately, the last TOS film got Kirk's anti-Klingonism out of his system.

Swamp Thing: Injustices and outrages against the Green. At least some of the time. Depends on the writer. (Note to DC: be consistent!)

Knox: Corruption. Child abuse. Quashing freedom of the press. The usual things for a crusading reporter.

CharlieQuestion: He's too zen to go berserk. But child abuse would probably shake a few things loose.

Cyborg: People who hurt his friends. And cruel references to his mother's death.

[hernan_guerra]

Ellen: Unrepentant, smug, self-satisfied bastardry. (See what happened to the 'good people' of Andale vs. what happened with the 'vampires' of Arefu.)

Shephard: Disrespect for the Corps, unless you are Navy, in which case he figures you can't help it (bless your heart). Also calling him stupid or mocking people from West Virginia.

Stacker: Does not allow himself berserk buttons. The strain on his circulatory system would kill him.

Santo: I haven't seen one for him yet.

Hernan Guerra/Superman: Crimes against children, particularly girls- they remind him of his sister.

Wee Mad Arthur: breathing

[sunbaked_baker]

Sunshine: Gloating cruelty to the weak and/or helpless, especially to children or the hungry (essentially this, in a nutshell.[trigger warning for humanity at its worst]) Also betrayal.

Yrael: Seeking harm to him, his friends, or his home. But he doesn't go berserk so much as sidle up, smile, and then crunch you up into a messy wreck of organic parts and then either set you on fire or eat you. Or both! Both is good.

[bjornwilde]

Ahsoka: I'm honestly not sure she has a berserk button to be honest. To trigger her "I'm going to kick your ass" switch though, just harm her master, friends, or innocent life. Not taking her seriously will piss her off as well.

Luidaeg: Harm what she considers hers. Invade her territory. Harm a selkie.

Quin: Threaten his family.

Rollo: The smell and sounds of a fight or battle are likely enough.

[have_no_mercy]

Tess: She does have them but to find out what they are you'd have to know things she doesn't tell anyone. About the only ones that came up in canon were her not getting the respect she felt she deserved and Lex spying on her sex life.

Kylo Ren: Not many. Gross incompetence from stormtroopers is a big one, though.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yamato: Tri has a handy scene over hereways, which I have given a fitting title and which shows Yamato's berserk button being prodded again and again - specifically, he has a massive problem with anything he sees as denigrating the other Chosen or their Digimon partners. He's also really not keen on indirectness: He'd rather people say exactly what they think than hedge around it.

Hawke: Blood magic! Literally every time it comes up in canon, Hawke's response is "It's evil and anybody who uses it will inevitably go insane and start murdering people." While a few people have remarked that blood magic isn't automatically evil, his experiences definitely don't bear that out. He's also very easily pushed to anger by his family being in danger. Also, he's not keen on people condescending to him about magic - he's an apostate, not an idiot.

In general, Hawke has a very easy to press berserk button, even though he hides it, since he is, as noted many a time before, the Greater Six Plumed Ragebird.


And I'll probably do the others later.

[for_good_taste]

Table lamps with tacky stained glass shades. No, really. The only thing that can stop him from smashing them on sight is if it would blow his cover or something equivalently dire.

[varadia]

X has a trigger scent! It makes her kill anything touched by it. These days she has worked hard (with Elle and Thor's help) to de-program herself, so she'll come toward a person a few steps and then make herself stop. It's hard as hell, though. WHEE.

Ysalwen works very hard not to have a berserk button because her cardinal sin is rage, and that -- no, thank you very much. She will coolly and rationally decide to annihilate someone or something, but if she goes rage-blank it's probably time for someone else to step in. It's what friends are for! (If she did let herself rage outwardly instead of inwardly, it would be people that take pleasure in the pain of others. Kill them all.)

Raven really hates people that destroy entire regions/planets/etc. He will burn them to the ground. It's ironic, really. *wry*

Flemeth is going to get those fuckers that murdered [spoiler]. And betrayed her. And betrayed the world.

[yinyangwizard]

Re Ysalwen: That's all? I had the impression that if she weren't keeping a lid on her anger, it would be easier to list the things that didn't push her buttons.

[freedom_is_grey]

Oh, it would, but that's anger, not berserker rage. She'd be a lot louder and more vehement with dealing with things, but not set purely to DESTROY.

[ceitfianna]

Will: Nobles or anyone who abuses their power, people who hurt his friends.

Charles: Cruelty, lack of empathy, those who he treasures but he doesn't even have a berserk button, for him its more he gets disappointed and then things get bad.

Quentin: Are you harming people he considers his or those he's sworn to protect? If so, then he will make certain you pay, he doesn't lose it, but he gets dangerous.

William: If someone thinks themselves better than him, they're cruel, mean and condescending.

Moist: He doesn't really have any, but he will get annoyed at you and get revenge if you moralize at him and act like you just know what being better or right is.

Sameth: A necromancer, someone who works with them, someone trying to harm the Old Kingdom or anyone he cares for. His father is a berserker so he tries to keep a tight rein on how he fights but that possibility is within him.

Jane: People who are pompous, self-satisfied and take advantage of those around them, she destroys them in fiction.

Ivan: Hurt his family or friends though he's another who doesn't lose it fighting, he gets calculating which with him can be terrifying.

Demeter: Harm those she considers hers.

Tumnus: He really doesn't have any sort of berserk anything, he'll defend those he cares for but he's not a fighter. But for Lucy, the Pevensies and Narnia, he'd face the witch.

[yinyangwizard]

Seimei tries very hard not to lose his temper (i.e., go berserk). That said, the two things that really rile him up are:

1) Using one's magical power to abuse/dominate other people. He includes inflicting suffering on other people to generate magical power.

2) Abuse of or cruelty to children, especially by their own parents/guardians.

Anyone who combines his two berserk buttons - and it has happened - is in for a very unpleasant time. As in a praying-for-death kind of unpleasant time.

[clayforthedevil]

Joly really doesn't do Red-Seeing Anger well. Frustration, sure, but really angry?
But people shouldn't be mean to cats. People really shouldn't be mean to cats. It's important. It's very upsetting when people are mean to cats. He will very possibly just punch someone if they're being mean to cats, and then he'll regret it. People need to just...not.
People also shouldn't be mean to Bossuet,but Bossuet is a grown adult man and can punch people on his own behalf if it needs to happen. Joly will just be very formally polite and Not Talking To Them until they repent and everything is cool.



Bahorel is of course super chill all the time and never angry about anything ever.

[harryhotspur]

Thinking about this question, I realized that, weirdly, I think for all of my characters it comes down to respect.

...obviously Harry. Harry's berserk button is 'everything.' But if it had to be narrowed down to a single broad issue, it would absolutely be disrespect.

Weirdly, the only two times in canon Viola comes close to really losing it with people are when she (either directly or by 'lol women' implication) is being underestimated and disrespected, too.

Arabella's big canon freak-out is about her husband taking unnecessary risks, which loops back in a way to his respect for her (or the lack of it that is implied when he carelessly risks his life).

And then, on the other hand, I don't think anything could push either Liz or Segundus into that kind of fury. They're too well-conditioned to repress those kinds of outbursts.

(oh, and uh, marius. ask him about that time with the powder keg.)

[clayforthedevil]

(Marius, dude, buddy. What was that thing with the powder keg.)

[harryhotspur]

he was just having a lot of feelings that day

[hasthehighground]

Chuck hates people who recklessly endanger other people's lives. He will get stunningly angry over many things (usually, as Lark mentioned, people making him feel disrespected), but that's not the same as the hatred reckless endangerment incites.

It's hard to make Clint hate you, but if you manage it: congratulations! You're one of the few people in the world who he will definitely never kill! (One of his major moral lines is not ever killing someone he's legitimately angry at). He's totally cool with his wife killing you, though.

Melinda May will destroy you if you hurt her people.

Darcy shuts down & off when truly angry.

[death_gone_mad]

Call Amascut crazy and she'll immediately drop character and might even tell you she's too powerful and pretty to be crazy.