#they are so abnormal but also ive literally just based them on whatever i feel fkfjfhfh

[the-dawnburnt-captain]

since Rinja is mentioned here ill just add my own reply to. this reply. also because i think its incredibly funny how different their coping really is

firstly, what i need to say, is that rinja is based on me. so guess what, they've got all the same disorders that i have and that is. affecting their ways of coping GREATLY. this little victorian guy has practically no fucking idea who they are as a person (besides mostly uh. being a sequencer. they know THIS for sure). they will also do far too many risky and impulsive things. they are also sensory-seeking as fuck they will feel awful if they do not have any enrichment and yes they kinda do use that to cope

and unfortunately very often the impulsive and risky things they do are related to their mind ! yes they do also have a special interest on that kind of stuff just like i do

the most... normal thing on their list (at least for them) is probably just. zailing to the dawn machine and staring at it. it does feel much better for them to get their mind filled with the thoughts of THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN TH and don't really think about anything else and feel the emotions that feel nice to them and everything else that comes with it. oh, and it surely feels nice to have a purpose instead of just not knowing what to do and who they are. and they do that... relatively often? which may be unusual even for an average sequencer

there are definitely more things they do to cope (not even as much with living in the neath as much as just not knowing who they really are. and also feeling the urge to constantly need to do something. no matter how risky it is)

such as going to the sixth coil, during the estival, and waiting instead of lighting up the place immediately just to feel what is about to happen. or staring at the correspondence symbols just to experience whatever those can do to you. or taking far too much honey. much more than they should. or catching a bunch of bees just to try the red honey. or even fucking drinking like 50+ bottles of laudanum at once rinja what the fuck was that why would you drink 50+ bottles of laudanum (they wanted to know what would happen and the reason is still was just to feel Something). or zailing and not caring about troubled waters. or going back to the magicians purely for one specific small part of... that

no wonder nightmares is a menace they get the most often when their coping involves many, many Terrible Things that they do just to cope with whatever they have going on. to fill the hole they have inside of them and deal with not knowing themselves really all that much

It's almost impossible to make it out unscathed when it comes to living in the Neath, and not everything can be fixed with just a cuppa and a stint in the Beth (for given value of "fixed" when the Beth is involved). For all the strange things your characters have gone through, what are some strange things they do to cope?