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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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[John, it would seem, is a surprisingly quiet crier. All he really does is leak, and his breath hitches every so often. Shifting his hands, he fiddles with the fabric of her shirt as he winds down and just sort of hangs out in hugville. Because Rose Lalonde hugville isn't a town one visits often in their lifetime.]

[it is indeed an almost mythical village spoken of only in legends. she hums a little to herself as he calms down, little snatches of lullabies her mother used to sing to her during thunderstorms when she was young]

[He's quiet when he talks, a bit unlike him. He's never been a terribly loud boy, but he's never been terribly quiet, either.]

...I really wish I could say that this would just... fix everything. Talking helped, just... being around you-- I guess being around Dave and Jade every so often wouldn't hurt, either, but...

[A sigh.]

I don't think I'm ever gonna get 'better'. I mean it's been forever.

I don't think that anyone was expecting a miraculous recovery from one visitation. [her voice is soft, thoughtful]

I want...we want to get you to a place where you're comfortable with yourself and the world around you. Scars don't fully heal or fade, but that doesn't mean life grinds to a halt because of them.

Is there a way to force a person to not dream?

No healthy methods. I wouldn't recommend it even if there were.

Lame.

Not particularly. The things that come to us in dreams are better confronted than pushed to the back of one's mind.

It makes me feel like a baby, to be so scared of the things I am. I just... want it to stop.

Fears are rarely rational, and even when they are they never manifest themselves in a way anyone would be proud of. You'll get through it if you're patient enough.

Patience is so never something I've had, you know that.

[He reluctantly recoils from her hug and rubs at his eyes, pulling his glasses off of his forehead to wipe them off on the hem of his shirt.]

Neither is cowardice. [she smooths the hem of her skirt, more for something to do than any actual disarray] You'll get through this, even if it seems rather bleak at the moment.

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