#I've been listening to SCP Find Us Alive and Nary Loves recovery arc has me very emotional

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I'm obsessed with stories where a character who is usually happy and funny goes through something Horrible. Like it completely breaks them down and they just aren't the same after.

After the Horrible Thing, they don't crack jokes anymore. They just can't. The humor they've hidden behind, the defense mechanism they've used for so long doesn't work anymore.

Obsessed with when their friends and loved ones are patient and understanding, always there to listen and to be supportive. They ask what they can do, and offer to help in any way they can.

Obsessed with when this character starts to genuinely open up to people. Starts admitting when their struggling and allowing themselves to be vulnerable. They start accepting when people offer to help.

Over time, things start to change. Little by little. Someone tells a joke and the character cracks a smile for the first time since the Horrible Thing. They accept another characters offer to play their favorite game, or watch their favorite movie. They let out a little laugh when someone playfully pokes fun at them. They start to tease others back.

Obsessed with how, slowly but surely, that character starts acting like themselves again.