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Therapy/Trauma Themes
Raz is a character who comes from a game that's built around exploring these themes, but in a one on one roleplay setting, this can be exhausting emotional labor and extremely one sided in too many cases, even when it's pretend. If we're in a group setting and you want your character to be getting some therapy from Raz off screen I'm 100% down for it. Chat me up and we'll discuss their treatment plan! However, actually playing out heavy therapy sessions is probably going to be a rare thing for me. I just don't have those kinds of spoons, and those kinds of topics are much easier to deal with when they come up in conversation naturally between characters anyway.If we want to do a fun, 'journey to the center of the mind' kind of scene, that's a little more on the table, but this is your character and your character's mind, so my expectations are more for Raz to act as a sort of psychic body guard and guide for your character within their own mind rather than me to act as a DM for the whole thing. A Psychonaut's job is to help someone face their own demons rather than to fight them for them. If you spring either thing on me without asking and try to force the subject, I will end the roleplay, full stop. Please don't use me or my characters to process your own trauma through yours. It feels icky. |
Walking the Balance
Raz is a highly trained agent within an international spy organization full of psychics-- he knows how to kill, has done so before, and will do so again if necessary. He is still one of the good guys though, and this is typically an outlier situation. The Psychonauts games are about helping people, not hurting them, and I like to play Raz in situations and worlds with similar vibes, even if things get serious sometimes. I am uninterested in grim-dark or extra gritty scenarios and settings.
Romance
It's not 100% off the table, but I would be very hard pressed to do any romance plots with Raz. He's in an on again off again relationship that's already kind of messy, and he's not keen to add more complications into the mixture, but it's not impossible that something might click. Don't play with me just because you're looking for romance though. You're bound to be sorely disappointed.
Canon Police
This is an AU. If you don't like it, you're more than welcome to go make your own. Don't buzz in my ear or I'll swat you. I have no problem showing rude people the door.
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