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[parrygripp]

"Can You Handle Your Emotions?"

Emotions are... eh. We all have them, whether we want to or not. Some people have control over their emotions, and some people let their emotions control them. Where does your character fall on this spectrum? More importantly, what's their relationship with their emotions like? Do they bury everything deep, deep down inside, or are they the first one to cry over a sappy movie? Do they even know how they feel about what's going on inside? Pretty meta stuff.

• No blank top-levels.
• Instead, characters are to respond to the proposed question: can you handle your emotions? / are you in touch with your feelings?
• Get deep. Look within. Hear, think feel... or don't.

Comments

[mrvillain]

[God catching strays from the alien 'cause he's gonna hype up a good devilboy.]

Then at least your empathy is the ideal problem to have. Because someone incapable of empathy is incapable of judging someone's needs.

So if you're troubled, you're troubled in the most productive and unifying way.

[You got this!]

[fellfurthest]

[Fuck yeah. Best friend.]

[Also this is THE way to appease Lucifer.]

[It IS very sexy and cool, and supremely productive and unifying of him to use his empathy, YOU'RE SO RIGHT!]

That's true. It's just another form of multitasking in that case. [Very cool of him to be working even when it's just suffering. BEHOLD HE WILL WORK TO IMPROVE EVERYONE'S MISERABLE LIFE EVEN THOUGH YOU UNGRATEFUL ASSHOLES WILL NEVER FUCKING NOTICE!]

[mrvillain]

[Yes, good! Fabulous.]

With a keen eye for what drives people, you can even convince them to improve their own lives with the right word here and there.

[Thankless multitasking is still productive. Even if the main reward is things moving a little more smoothly.]

Show some empathy for yourself as well. You can't only exist for other people. If you met yourself for the first time, I think you would think you deserved a reward. So you should occasionally give yourself one.

[fellfurthest]

Yes. [Lucifer unironically salutes. If he didn't literally already have a millennia old pact with Diavolo-- Well, he could do another, but he's a slow-burn because of his pride.]

Maybe another new record?

Do you always do foods for your treats or other things too?

[mrvillain]

Sometimes I go see the pandas. Or I have a meal in the park under my favorite tree. I suppose that involves food, though.

I'll occasionally get a book or a magazine just on things I'm interested in. I'll try crafts every once in a while. Do the strange things humans do with sand and snow and frost on windows qualify as crafts?

[What do you call 'temporary art'???]

[fellfurthest]

It's fine. Beelz has Fangol -- Devildom's main sport. But generally he has to eat a lot more than the rest of us, so his favorite things are foods. Nothing wrong with that. There's a lot more to him too.

I think those count as crafts, yes. Some of it is just about living in the moment, some of it is a deeper understanding the greater struggle against entropy of time, and the rest of it is joy for the sake of it, rather than longevity. That's beautiful in its own right, isn't it?

[mrvillain]

[He hums in vague, thoughtful agreement.]

Perhaps learning to take a moment in the now is as important a treat as any.

I could send you some of the equipment cleaning videos we have on file. That might be pleasant to watch.

[They don't have a factory but who doesn't love to watch something get scrubbed down to glistening?]

[fellfurthest]

Hell yes. Please, if you wouldn't mind.

[BEST. FRIEND.]

I'm not much into zen, but they say some find it calming to rake the sand and rocks to channel the flow of energy and wind.

[mrvillain]

I have seen those small zen gardens. That honestly might not be a bad idea. My desk helper could use it while I'm not at work, as well.

[Sometimes a tiny cloud creature should be allowed to entertain itself.]

As soon as I'm back I'll find some good ones. The ones that use a pressure washer are particularly satisfying.

[fellfurthest]

Those are really good. I keep getting stuck when I look on deviltube because it's always speedruns of Powerwasher Simulator - which is a videogame. Leviathan said it's part of the new "Dadcore" games where busy dads play it to relax and listen to "podcasts." Which is just people talking about random things. I don't get it.

[And yet if there was ever a demon who would be all over Dadcore....] Are human power washers really that strong? [The demon asks the alien.]

[mrvillain]

...You know, I don't know. I think so. They use them to clean out filthy portions of the zoo.

[But he's thinking hard about it.]

I know our power washers work well.

I sometimes listen to podcasts about animals but with no visuals usually they just lull me to sleep.

Which has been useful. Insomnia hasn't taken me in a long time. So perhaps they have their benefits.

[fellfurthest]

That's pretty strong then.

Huh... maybe I'll try that. I thought it would be too much like books-on-tape [No one uses "tape" anymore Grandad.] so too stimulating to sleep, but if nothing else, I wouldn't mind knowing more.