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[inlovewithwords]

Hello, Tuesday in Milliways! Guess this is a new normal now. So, speaking of things becoming normal:

What traumatic experience has become normalized to your character?

Not that DEs are traumatic.

Comments

[i_am_your_host]

Um. Having Eric Northman as a not!boyfriend (because let's face it, every bit of that is traumatic) and then not having him as a not!boyfriend (which should be a good thing but no, because Emcee has ISSUES).

[cottoncandypink]

Getting murdered (usually by one's own friends) is way more normal than it should be. But Wilford doesn't know anything different, so he doesn't really understand just how not normal this is.

[ceitfianna]

For Cassian, some variation of skirting trouble with stormtroopers, the how violent part depends on the day.

With Quentin, Toby bleeding and almost dying.

Charles once canon gets going more, Erik, because he's always in the middle of whatever's going on.

Ivan, what will Miles be doing today?

William, hm, his life isn't as traumatic thankfully but there's always the threat of something happening to his brother or his mother on the ranch.

Sameth, someone in his family facing the Dead.

Moist, running away from the law.

Will S. used to be far too comfortable with fighting with the Sheriff's men.

Demeter, her daughter leaving.

Tumnus, nothing really since he's in a safer spot now.

[cutting_edgex23]

Being vivisected and/or dismembered!

Also being filled with hundreds of bullets!

[bjornwilde]

Ahsoka (assuming everything she will face): The death of one of her "dads/brothers (he got better), being possessed and corrupted by the Dark Side (not her doing), dying (she got better), being betrayed by the ruling council of the Jedi Order, being betrayed by a close friend, losing her Jedi status, the death of the Jedi (and Anakin and Obi-wan), Padme's death (so much death), being attacked by clones, realizing her master was alive and fell. I couldnt tell you which of these is worse.

Sabine (being vague cause spoilers): her actions at the Imperial Academy on Mandalore and her fallout with her family.

[bjornwilde]

Ok reading the question I see I didn't quite get the answer right for Ahsoka. The death of everyone she cared about and the death of the Jedi, who she believed in, even if she didn't think of herself as one any longer.

Sabine's answer stays.

[student_of_impossibility]

Eriond does not really get traumatized.

Evelyn: the constant daily oppression by the Templars. Later, people trying to kill her. And Red Templars and darkspawn from time to time and fallen mages and... Thedas, really. Thedas is not normal except to Thedas residents. Which is tragic. So. Pretty much everything.

Lois: Constantly being uprooted and adrift, which has actually resulted in extreme isolation and some emotional distress she just doesn't even notice anymore.

R2: Everything.

Anakin: . . . Everything. To the point that happy good things are actively not normal to him. One could get more specific and go with 'near-fatal injury.' For, you know. Reasons.

Tavi: Assassination attempts? I mean, they don't actually happen that often, but the concept of them is pretty much "Eh, some near fatal ones before, could probably happen again, just part of the gig." War. The emotional and physical exhaustion of trying to clean up an apocalypse. Very normal to him, such that he doesn't even notice it's there, is the devastating grief for his lost family (Sextus is currently the worst for him) and guilt over failing millions of people and two whole civilizations in the apocalypse that might have been sort of his fault.

[hasthehighground]

Clint: Killing people-- especially killing people who aren't strangers (when he operates as a non-war sniper). The latter has been quietly wearing him thin for years, though. Killing dangerous strangers doesn't really bother him?? Especially aliens and robots they are kiiind of fun.

Chuck: People he knows dying violently or seemingly mundanely through the build up of concussion on concussion or radiation poisoning or falling from great heights. As a Jaeger pilot that's just life. It's only in Milliways that he's really started to unfold and consider lives where that is non-standard (which he thinks is great, but still in no way internalized that his was at all weird or pitiable. Pity would make him really uncomfortable!).

Melinda May: Leaving people she loves in danger. It's both a necessary part of the job and slowly (painfully) removing their wellbeing from her personal responsibility is the only way she avoids another major breakdown.

Legolas doesn't think any of his life is traumatic but I'd say watching his home being slowly twisted to evil. Since he sees it as an active thing to fight he wouldn't say he is used to it (or traumatized by it) but it was something that definitely upset him much more when it started and is now his new normal.

Sebastian has not normalized any of his trauma. He particularly hates the sea and infections.

Quatre has no concept of personal trauma, which is bs because he's endured so much. Having decisions that effect the lives of millions in his hands; monitoring himself for psychosis fiercely; feeling people die with his empathy.

John Connor thinks it is normal to be on the run for your life from cops and evil robots. No place is ever safe, amirite.

[iprotectyou]

Killing Imperials and losing his loved ones. Again and again and again.

Baze hasn't normalized the trauma of NiJedha being desecrated and destroyed yet, but he also hasn't properly grieved for the city.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

For Yamato, it's probably killing people. 01 doesn't spend a lot of time dwelling on it, but it comes up in 02, when the new kids are visibly shaken badly after their first kills, and the 01 kids have to explain that sometimes there's no way around killing.

[feminine_menace]

Being the target of attempted vehicular manslaughter. For YT that's just part of the job.