Tuesday DE: Put Em Up!

[bjornwilde]

When does your pup resort to violence? Are they comfortable with that answer?

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[strongerthanyouknow]

Lady Marian's is very clear when she or someone else is attacked, and she's entirely okay with the response in defense. But, as a note that doesn't fit most of the below people, she will endeavor to knock people off and leave them as uninjured as possible without it endangering her.

XVII | The Star doesn't. She's not That Idea Made Manifest. Which isn't that she can't. Every star is her and the smaller shadows of her. She can do an epic amount of damage. But she wouldn't be comfortable with the thing that pushed her to it, and she'd have to have 'fallen' into The Path first.

Jo Harvelle when there's are monsters, whatever that definition entails at the time (as Milliways has broadly widened that spectrum). She is 100% okay with this answer and has a deeply broken sense of self-preservation.

Sara Lance's go-to response to even general annoyance is always outright violence, and a lot of her life is spent tempering & controlling that reaction while also covering it so no one can tell how utterly prevalent to every second of her life this struggle is. She's a sliding scale on okay. When she's in the middle of it, it is sweet and perfect, and she's doing exactly what she was made by The League of Assassins & The Lazarus Pit; she's 100% good with it, seeking only more violence, blood, and death. When she's not, it's far more complicated, she 100% doesn't want to be that monster, but she's 90% willing to use those skills to defend her people and keeping time out of the hands of the people trying to change it, but she knows that means she always bare inches from losing the battle with it all again.

(Allison Hargreeves answer is almost as often as she gets angry, and she gets angry quite a bit. Even with a reality manipulation powers Five calls "bordering on omnipotent," Allison really, really, REALLY likes to get her hands dirty with physical violence. She really doesn't think about this until after, which plays into her epic regrets. Octavia Blake is so very this way, too, but Octavia really won't care under years and years later, and it's more that she knows she should care and feel guilty, more than she does care and feel guilty.)

[amiable_horror]

Allison!

[numberthree]

I love her so much. Madly, badly, deeply. She's moved in and never moving out likely.
I've been playing her since March of '19 over in Mask or Menace for two years some month soon.

[bjornwilde]

You know we have Klaus and Ben in Bar, right? Cause I know they'd love to see her.

ETA: And we have Five!

[numberthree]

Iiiiii know. I've stalked you lovely people off and on over a good number of months, reading the boys interacting. I've been playing her from Season Two lately (after the intense, but oh god rewarding epic of writing her for basically sixteen months straight without a voice). We had the whole Family canon shift to post-S2 two weeks after canon drop.

You guys are somewhere mid-Season One, right?

[bjornwilde]

Yeah...I think more near the start. I am so ready for s03 and the shift in Ben. :)

[numberthree]

Maybe I'll toss her at one of the upcoming All-Skates for some testing with a Milliways!Allison as I think it'd be a little crazy to toss multiple apps in at the same time before my first new has gone all the way through.

[bjornwilde]

Yes! This! Ben so needs to hug Allison.

[bjornwilde]

Ahsoka is a child soldier jedi in the middle of a war. Violence is a response to warnings from the Force usually and so she doesn't feel guilty about it. She does enjoy showing off her skills as a padawan, but more and more of her is wishing she didn't have to.

Sabine is fine with violence but has learned it is not always the best response. Once you've committed to it, you're usually stuck with it. She's okay with it once she's engaged though.

Jessica will reach for violence after the third of fourth warning (assuming the situation allows for it) and is fine with having to resort to it.

Viv prefers to act defensively or attack obvious weapons rather than people. She is fine with violence when the situation calls for it and can usually judge accurately when the need is there.

Alustin is a mix. He doesn't like violence but is pragmatic enough to realize too many situations require it.

Tybalt is a king and a cat, violence is simply part of his life. He will act, and act swiftly to end any threats to those he loves. That being said, he will only go for maiming or fatal strikes if innocents or people he cares about are in danger.

Ben Hargreeves hates violence and usually has to be pushed to it.

Wen Qing is fine with threatening people (especially Wei Wuxian) with acupuncture needles, but aside from that, she's pretty chill.

[oldmancreed]

Tess will resort to violence when it’s necessary. Although her definition of necessary may differ from some.

Kylo is pretty violent. Even when it’s an innocent inanimate object.

Creed lol.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yamato's a child soldier, and as such he's extremely comfortable with violence as a solution to problems. Generally speaking, though, he has two types of violence: Non-lethal violence, which is essentially just rough-housing and playfighting as far as he's concerned, and which he uses a lot as a bonding tool; and lethal violence, where he's ruthlessly efficient. Quoth the novel: "Once you decide to kill, you just kill. Everything else is irrelevant."

[yinyangwizard]

YT will beat the shit out of anyone who poses a danger to her or her friends. She is really not comfortable with the idea of killing someone though, and would probably feel really messed up if she ever did it directly.

Abe no Seimei will use violence on someone if he thinks that doing so causes less harm, overall, than not hurting them. He has a pretty high threshold for that kind of thing.

Murderbot will do extreme violence to anyone or anything that endangers its contracted clients or friends. It’s more or less programmed that way! But in any circumstances short of that it generally tries to avoid violence. It is also afraid of potentially harming someone by accident or against its will.

[tobeclosetohim]

Iiiii so need to send someone to Murderbot.

I love those books and I love your writing of them.

[yinyangwizard]

Aw, thanks so much! It’s a bit of a challenge because Murderbot is a hardcore introvert and does not like to go outdoors.

[canttrickmeanymore]

he's your friendly neighborhood spider-man... violence is what happens after all the other stuff doesn't work.

[blue_meanie]

Molly adheres to the 'don't start none, won't be none' principle of applied violence. She's pretty comfortable with that, so long as there isn't any collateral damage (to people). If the fighting hasn't started when she shows up, she will generally attempt to talk the situation down unless she already knows it's pointless. Once you swing your fist, though...

McGonagall, like Molly, operates on a policy of 'don't start none, won't be none', and like Molly is more or less happy with that, on balance. She's seen enough war that she's not as gung-ho about the application of violence as Moll is, but on the other hand... she's good at it, and there's a certain underlying satisfaction at doing something you're very good at that always makes her somewhat uneasy at herself. Still, she'd rather it was her doing it than someone who hasn't had decades of experience in that department.

Coulson would prefer to do things via bureaucracy if possible, as it generates less paperwork. But since when has that been an option lately? He did very well in his de-escalation training, although not as well as he did in, shall we say, his escalation training... Rather like McGonagall, he tends to take the view that he'd rather SHIELD be applying that violence than someone not extensively trained for it.

Victoria doesn't so much resort to violence as resort to non-violence. She's chill with it, dear.

Poe... uh. When canon gives me a consistent answer on this, or I can wrangle the canon into looking like a consistent answer on this, I'll let you know.

Violence is never Snow Leopard Woman's first instinct... on the other hand, she is a predator. She's not particularly introspective on the subject, particularly if you're something fluffy and warm-blooded.

Max doesn't do violence; he already has quite enough daily opportunity to get up close and personal with the inevitable end result. (As you can imagine, this made his National Service experience... full of interest.) And he's quite happy that way, thank you.

Nebula... Uh. There are options that aren't violence?

War says 'lol'... or words to that effect.