listen to your heart 😌

[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

[bonecannon]

[ Cheeky little... ]

Yeah, sure. Why the hell not. If you ain't gloating over your past self, you ain't growing.

[oldwarsfinished]

( The smile fades. He swallows hard. )

Do you really think everyone has that potential?

( To grow, it means. And by his tone, it's obvious he isn't questioning Renji, but someone else. )

[bonecannon]

[ Something in Renji's bristled posture unwinds at Kiyoaki's tone, and his reply doesn't sound nearly as indifferent as before. ]

There's always the chance to grow, long as you're still breathing.

[oldwarsfinished]

( While this would probably sound uplifting to most, it only makes Kiyoaki's posture slump slightly, his gaze becoming faraway. )

And when you stop?

( If there's a grain of hope in his voice, he guards it like something priceless. )

[bonecannon]

Ain't likely.

[ After a pause, Renji adds: ] Physically anyway.

[ Kinda hard to gain an inch when you're dead! And fingernails and hair don't actually grow either, it's all the result of dehydration. That's a science fact for the kids out there. ]

But otherwise, even when you stop, yeah.

[oldwarsfinished]

( A scoff. Kiyoaki should have been a better student. He left that to Honda, Honda would have known these things, right? Turning his gaze on the other man, he raises both eyebrows slightly, mock surprise. )

You make high demands of the dead, you know.

[bonecannon]

[ Renji raises his hands, mock defensiveness. ]

Hey, I don't make the rules. I just enforce 'em.

You got a problem with it, get to growing while you're still alive. Then you can kick back when you're dead.