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The Be My Therapist Meme

Your characters have been trapped in a strange but comfortable room, with a big desk and couch, and now have to spend some time either talking about their problems or listening to other people's problems and trying to give good advice. Both is fine, too.

The room itself will compel them to at least try to play those roles, and will only release them after they do what it wants them to do.

The problems can be silly or serious, deep or shallow, it's all up to you.

[The List Of Possible Problems]

1. Small but still sucky problems that are just bothersome- They've gotten bad grades at school, they have a bad hair day, they fought with a friend about something really silly, etc etc.

2. Love, relationships and family problems - They're fighitng with their SO, they think their spouse might be cheating on them, they have Mother/Father Issues, their siblings are their worst enemy, etc etc.

3. Lifechanging problems - They flunked out of school, they find out they have superpowers, they find out they are the only one who can pilot a super robot, etc etc.

4. 'Our world as we know it is in danger' type problems - The Dark Lord is raising and is trying to take over their world, they have zombie problems, the Evil Space Empire is coming for their planet, their experiments with time travel ended up unraveling reality, etc etc.

5. Work related problems - They have to deal with the boss from hell, how are they supposed to defend the Earth with all those budget cuts, etc etc

6. Money problems - They have to deal with budgeting, inheritance problems, etc etc. Or maybe they just can't afford that fancy car...

7. Trauma related problems - Something bad happened to them, be it the deaths of important people or being trapped in a warzone or anything else, and they have to deal with the resulting trauma.

8. Really cracky problems - I hate my superheroine uniform, my brother always chews my slippers when he turns into a werewolf and I wish he'd stop, etc etc.

9. Something else

[How To]

1. Post as your character. (Please write down the name and canon/fandom of the character in the subject line, and also if they're canon, AU, crossover or OC, etc.)

2. Please choose your character's role - Therapist (Counsellor) or Client - and set the first scene. Setting the scenes for both is fine, too. (It is also all right for the characters to take turns being the therapist and the client, if that's what you want to do)

3. Tag, thread and have fun!

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[Come home with too many bruises for too many days in a row and your guardian sends you to a councilor in a funny suit with lady-hair: got it. Lesson learned.

Slouching in a seated position on the couch rather than laying down, Peter gives Loki a discomfited, lopsided look before just deciding to be honest with the guy.

He could take it as he would.]

Look, Doc, no offense-- but unless you have a PhD in biology and minored in 'crazy monsters try to take over New York'-ology, you're really not going to understand my special, specific brand of 'problem'.

Well, I do not know about that, but I do have quiet a bit of experience in alien races trying to take over New York. And I know a fair bit about biology.

[He settles back into his chair. This whole helping people with their problems thing was actually rather fun.]

So, what troubles you, Mr. Parker?

You do?

[Cue looking just mildly suspicious.

But, okay. Fair enough.]

Right, yeah. Of course you do. Scratch that.

[Becoming increasingly more normal; was that a good thing or a bad thing?]

Well, okay... so. I guess what I'm wondering is... how do you stop a bad guy without becoming one? Yanno, all; violence is bad, but fight violence with violence?

Pretty sure it's not getting any less relevant to my life any time soon, since alien attacks are apparently becoming a common thing.

Would your conscience remain clean were you to stand peaceably on the sidelines while innocent people were slaughtered, knowing that you had power to stop it? Is violence really the evil here and not the intent behind it?

Yeah-- well-- fair enough.

[He agrees, shifting, hands clasped.

He's got to hand it to him; the guy's good.]

But what happens when the 'monsters' just happen to be people too? Or used to be, anyway. Where do you draw the line and start deciding whose intent is more important? And what if the conclusion you come to makes you the bad guy, in someone else's eyes?

[He's not usually this talky, but hey; is he paying by the hour, or what? Might as well get something out of it, and Herbal Essences seems to know what he's talking about.]

Now, Mr. Parker, you should answer my questions before asking any of your own.

[A pause. Oh.

He'd thought they were rhetorical.]

Then I'll go with 'no' and. 'Probably not'.

But evil can be a point of view. That's the problem.

Then what is evil to you?

[Wasn't this supposed to be him talking and this guy listening?

This felt a whole lot more like homework than venting.]

Not going to answer any of my questions? Jeez, little bit of a double-standerd here.

Okay, uuh. Evil is-- ...hurting people for your own gain.

[He wet his lips before adding,]

Especially innocent people. Who were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Well then, from your definitions, violence to protect innocents being harmed is not evil, even if that is not the intention of the person who is harming them.

So what's your definition of evil then, Doc?

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Loki Laufeyson | MCU | Either role is fine!

Hope you don't mind me crashing? RNG -> 4, Client

Aaaww yes.

/o/

He helps people 8D

A new and beautiful side to Loki 8D

Hint: he very rarely helps at all

Makes Peter feel extra special!

Heeeere's hoping he actually helps this time XD

He's the underdog, I'll give him that XD

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