Friday DE

[inlovewithwords]

What is the most stressful thing your character has ever waited? How do they handle the stress of interminable waits?

And how do they express relief when it's over?



i am so tired

Comments

[zenigatcha]

Zenigata's whole life is a wait between heists. He handles it by work on other things. Work is everything. Sleep? Don't know her. Though to be fair, the most stressful wait he's ever had has probably nothing to do with Lupin and everything to do with his divorce. And he handled that the same way -- work work work. Work might be the reason he's divorced...

Zuko waited for the Avatar to show up for years. When he found him the chase was on and he never got "relief" per se. But they did get a victory for the world, and he got to hug his uncle and celebrate a the dust settled before moving into his new stressful occupation as Fire Lord.

Lan Zhan waited sixteen years to hear something from Wei Ying's spirit. Then he just showed up. What did he do? Go ride or die. Then acknowledge Wei Ying's needs, and back off so the guy could go get his head on straight. Novel Lan Zhan, uh, didn't wait anymore once everything was settled and celebrated by wild sex in a bush. So, you know, he seeks tension relief after stress, and he needs it to be physical...

[alongfallfromgrace]

Wei Wuxian... mmm. 90% of his problems come from not waiting. He sees a problem, he charges at it full-throttle, plan or no plan. The times he's been absolutely forced to wait have generally been short (imprisonment in the Wen dungeon, tied up with his siblings inna boat, waiting for Wen Ning to come through with a rescue, etc), and he's spending pretty much all of it thinking of ways to Not Be Waiting Any More or Things He Should Be Doing Other Than Waiting). He's generally not built for a long wait. He tends to come out of these waits ready to put his multitude of plans into action, well-advised or not. But he fully appreciates Lan Zhan's response to wait. :D

Jon... also hasn't had many waits? The two I can think of off the top of my head, he was an Actual Prisoner, so he wasn't handling it well, but he was also being tortured? So.

Klaus' longest wait (so far) was the wait to be let out of the mausoleum by his 'dad'. And he celebrated his release by discovering alcohol, so... um. Yeah. Well done.

Cecil's longest wait is when Carlos is in the Desert Otherworld, and... um. He handles it so poorly. TBF, he'd just come out of dealing with a murderous corporation that tried to kill/maim/destroy everything he loves about his town, imprisoned nearly everyone in a work camp, and tried to hurt his niece. He didn't start from the greatest place, but the depression hits strong and deep. I'm pretty sure his show was off the air for a week after Carlos came home.