#fear landscape

[applesauce1131]

The Imagination Station with the Novabox part is the Fear Landscape from Divergent.

[that1girloverthere]

tris:

[that1girloverthere]

Tris: have I ever made you feel unsafe??

*thinking about his extreme fear of heights*

Four: well...

Tris: perfect, so you should be used to this by now!

[that1girloverthere]

“Four. Four fears.”

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[ladygeekgirl-and-friends]

Fear is a powerful thing, and creatures that terrify, from the Nazgul of Lord of the Rings to Septimus Heap's magogs and the Sidhe of The Call, are ubiquitous throughout fantasy literature. The characters who face these creatures don't simply stroll onto the battlefield and take them down; they are afraid, and in overcoming their fears are able to defeat their monsters.

In many series, magic is used to help characters face their fears without necessarily having to face down the actual thing causing the fear. Consider the boggart in Prisoner of Azkaban, for example: while it takes the shape of the things it senses that Lupin's class fears, it doesn't progress past that. A boggart-turned-dementor cannot Kiss away a soul, for example. While learning to face a fear does not always remove a character's fear entirely, being able to recognize and acknowledge what they are afraid of can help them grow and develop as characters. Genre fiction is ideally placed to allow characters to do this because of the magic involved, and in doing so, it can offer us important guidance for dealing with our own fears.

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[nelli-crain]

Four’s fear landscape

[mostlyallinoneline-blog]

What having a PTSD episode is like using the book Divergent as an example.

Having a PTSD episode is like going into your fear landscape at random inconvenient moments. You feel like your worst fears are happening, and feel like you are really and truly in danger, even though you are safe. The only way to break free is to find ways to convince yourself that you are safe, and what seems to be happening isn’t real. 

[dauntegation-blog]

Four’s fear landscape.

“Becoming fearless isn’t the point. That’s impossible. It’s learning how to control your fears and how to be free from it.” - Tobias Eaton

February 15,2250

This is the day that Four saved me from Peter, Al and Drew, we got closer, but, he still treated me like how he treats the other initiate, especially when we are with the other initiates, because he wouldn’t want the others to think that I was getting high scores in my simulation tests because of our relationship.  

Four invited me to his fear landscape. He asked me to figure out why people calls him Four and what his real name is. Therefore, I went with him because I was curious. Finally, we were already in his fear landscape. His first fear was fear of heights, then, fear of confinement and fear of killing . His fourth fear is what shocked me the most. We were in the Abnegation and I saw Marcus, the leader of Abnegation. At first, I was so confused, but then, I figured it all out. Marcus started calling Four, Tobias and I realized that Four is Tobias Eaton, the boy who transferred to Dauntless because of Marcus’s cruelty. Because Four was so scared, I defended him. When Marcus was about to beat Four with a belt, I stepped in front of Four and grabbed the belt and swung it towards Marcus instead. Then after that, the landscape ends, and I realized that he has only four fears, that’s why they call him Four. Four then told me, that ever since he came to dauntless, his four fears have not changed.

Through going in Four’s landscape, Four and I became closer. He also told me to start calling him as Tobias, because now I know who he really is. I don’t know why he trusted me to see his fear landscape, and shared with me something extremely personal, but all I know is our relationship became deeper because of that. 

Truly, no one can ever be fearless, not even the strongest or bravest person in the world.  You just have to be brave enough to face those fears.