Oh hey, something that's actually relevant to my character's current state!
She's actually still going through most of these right now, and has yet to reach Stage 5:
1. Denial: She went through this one pretty quick. At first she wanted to believe that everyone got out alive and she just needed to find them. The evidence at the scene, however, was conclusive enough that she quickly leapt to Stage 2:
2. Anger: Mostly, she was (and is) angry at herself for not being powerful enough to do something to prevent it. Even if she needed some kind of clairvoyance or even borderline omnipotence, she feels she could have done something to prevent their collective deaths.
3. Bargaining: Irrelevant in her case, because everyone is already dead. That being said, I imagine in other cases she'd probably do what most people do: try to renegotiate terms in her favor somehow, assuming such a thing is even possible. If this fails, she jumps immediately back to Stage 2.
4. Depression: She hides this most of the time, but occasionally she will drink herself to sleep to cope with it. It's particularly complicated because she's become really good at hiding it most of the time, usually because she's distracting herself with the outside world.
5. Acceptance: As said, she hasn't reached this stage yet, and it'd probably take a particularly keen and kind-hearted soul to get her to reach it. Most people who try to get in on her business will simply trigger Stage 2 again. Yeah, she does that a lot...
T'rahnu's inability to deal with and accept her own grief is a big part of her character right now, and it will probably continue to be so for the foreseeable future.
She's actually still going through most of these right now, and has yet to reach Stage 5:
1. Denial: She went through this one pretty quick. At first she wanted to believe that everyone got out alive and she just needed to find them. The evidence at the scene, however, was conclusive enough that she quickly leapt to Stage 2:
2. Anger: Mostly, she was (and is) angry at herself for not being powerful enough to do something to prevent it. Even if she needed some kind of clairvoyance or even borderline omnipotence, she feels she could have done something to prevent their collective deaths.
3. Bargaining: Irrelevant in her case, because everyone is already dead. That being said, I imagine in other cases she'd probably do what most people do: try to renegotiate terms in her favor somehow, assuming such a thing is even possible. If this fails, she jumps immediately back to Stage 2.
4. Depression: She hides this most of the time, but occasionally she will drink herself to sleep to cope with it. It's particularly complicated because she's become really good at hiding it most of the time, usually because she's distracting herself with the outside world.
5. Acceptance: As said, she hasn't reached this stage yet, and it'd probably take a particularly keen and kind-hearted soul to get her to reach it. Most people who try to get in on her business will simply trigger Stage 2 again. Yeah, she does that a lot...
T'rahnu's inability to deal with and accept her own grief is a big part of her character right now, and it will probably continue to be so for the foreseeable future.
