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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

[fellfurthest]

[Lucifer too. Except at least he narrowed it down to angels at first. But the idea that he exists for some other purpose than protecting and teaching the angels, even to the explicit level of defying his Father, is a very new one, in so little as it occurs to him at all. And so far he just sums it up with, "change the 3 realms" to be more of what the denizens want, and follow Diavolo's lead of maintaining stabilizing peace and balance.]

Oh, I know. [He's not like any other Lucifer. And he can and DOES attribute it to Diavolo. And he wouldn't change it for anything.]

No, you're fine. [He appreciates it... but he blinks anyway...] Shut up. [Ahhhhhhh little known fact: he actually gets very flustered by most normal compliments, Diavolo embarrasses the hell out of him, and it's generally tricky to appease his ego despite his general arrogance etc. He clearly doesn't mind it though, since he's listening.]

[He listens, understanding, though he has an irrepressible urge to find the other Michael and kick his ass. What is it with all these AU angels just having offspring and neglecting them!? If it wasn't LITERALLY a requirement to the magic that Lucifer and his brothers could NEVER find Lilith's reincarnations/descendants themselves, there's no other force in the universe that could have stopped them! Sheesh.]

Yes. [Firm nod. Though he's waffling on trying to figure out how to fix everything else to get it all done at once, and taking it PIECES at a time, because overdoing things is a bad habit thanks to his pride.]

[What is something puzzling him in the empathy feedback veins lately?]

[.......]

[Okay, he thought of one, but he's not willing to ask about it!!!]

[athermercy]

Okay, okay. Shutting up. [Cross her heart. He's flustered? Elaine has to give a double-take when she's told to shut up. Never saw that coming. He's weak to praise? That's one thing she's making a mental note of: this valuable info!

That wasn't Michael's fault. She'll defend her dad if she knew. The manner of her origin is very... special. And upsetting. She'll avoid elaborating unless she has to. Angels are actually incapable of siring or conceiving children (except for Elaine when she was still one -- and that was intentional). ]

Well, try mediation too. If you get out of the zone, it may be helpful to focus.

[ She adds as an extra-bonus assistance. ]

[fellfurthest]

[That's reassuring. Maybe one day he'll ask more. But not for a first meeting. Lucifer has manners~]

[But he GROANS at the suggestion.]

Really?

[She might as well have just told him to go TO CHURCH AND PRAY MORE.]

[Because there is no difference as far as he is concerned.]

Like I said, I can do music. Books pull me into the empathy loop too much. Which I know is not unique to me, because they've done studies, okay. [IT'S TRUE! But he will murder a few thousand people before he admits books him cry a lot more.] And that's why Uncle Tom's Cabin had such a cultural impact.

[Where was he? Oh right. Meditation.] Does watching factory tours count?

[Listen........ as far as EMPATHY GOES. That's pretty neutralizing you have to admit.]

[He is also dead-certain no one else in Hell gives a flying fuck about factory tours. Even his brothers veer away from that sheer level of spicy neurology. So it's definitely a uniquely Lucifer no one else thing.]