>>I like that your stories don't have pat answers or easy fixes that gloss over how hard healing can be. <<
Yay! I'm glad that comes through for you.
A lot of the most popular threads have very long sequences of repairing past damage or working through fresh discoveries. Danso and family overcoming their time on the street. Lawrence dealing with past abuse and supervillainy, Stan trying to figure out bisexuality. Cassandra struggling to cope with all the awful shit her parents did or had done to her. Mallory dealing with failed college plans, superpowers, rape, and pregnancy; Damask dealing with kidnapping, fragmentation, superpowers, and Mallory. Steel learning to think of humans as more than butchers. It's hard work, it takes time, but it's a lot more feasible to fix things if you have trustworthy people who are willing and able to help.
>>You see it a lot in television and cartoons. Someone suffers some crippling injury or emotional setback one episode and in the next one they're acting like nothing ever happened.<<
That always frustrates me. Especially since some superpowers, like Toughness or Regeneration, just inspire people to abuse your more.
>> I think especially people would do well with seeing characters actually have to cope with injuries and the emotional fallout - and how to handle THAT. They'd probably have a better grip on what to do with their own emotions. <<
I agree. We need to model problems more accurately, and show ways of coping with those that work and ways that don't work. Brad and Officer RAT have their own arcs, but theirs are sliding down the slope.
Re: Yes...
Yay! I'm glad that comes through for you.
A lot of the most popular threads have very long sequences of repairing past damage or working through fresh discoveries. Danso and family overcoming their time on the street. Lawrence dealing with past abuse and supervillainy, Stan trying to figure out bisexuality. Cassandra struggling to cope with all the awful shit her parents did or had done to her. Mallory dealing with failed college plans, superpowers, rape, and pregnancy; Damask dealing with kidnapping, fragmentation, superpowers, and Mallory. Steel learning to think of humans as more than butchers. It's hard work, it takes time, but it's a lot more feasible to fix things if you have trustworthy people who are willing and able to help.
>>You see it a lot in television and cartoons. Someone suffers some crippling injury or emotional setback one episode and in the next one they're acting like nothing ever happened.<<
That always frustrates me. Especially since some superpowers, like Toughness or Regeneration, just inspire people to abuse your more.
>> I think especially people would do well with seeing characters actually have to cope with injuries and the emotional fallout - and how to handle THAT. They'd probably have a better grip on what to do with their own emotions. <<
I agree. We need to model problems more accurately, and show ways of coping with those that work and ways that don't work. Brad and Officer RAT have their own arcs, but theirs are sliding down the slope.