16 for all of your OCs from psychology asks?
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16: How openly does your OC show their emotions?
That, is a great question, and I hope I don’t ramble-
Haider’s not great at naming what he’s feeling but he doesn’t really feel the need to keep it under wraps, regardless. He’ll probably say “I feel weird,” when he means “I feel disconnected and nothing makes sense”, but if he wants to cry, he’s going to cry, if he wants to laugh, he’s going to laugh, if he feels alone, he’s going to seek someone out- if he feels wronged he doesn’t yell, but he does lecture whoever’s wronged him, so pretty openly, really. Everything’s meant to be shared, you help your people and they help you, and what’s the shame in feeling things if all it shows is that you’ve got a heart that can?
With Sybilla, there’s a slight contradiction. She cries the least out of all of them- not because she doesn’t feel, but because the tears don’t fall. But all the same, she is very emotional, and her tells are pretty obvious to those who know her. However, she’s extremely secretive, and keeps her cards so very close to her chest, though she can’t always contain her emotions or keep it under wraps. So she’s the kind of person who would spiral and fall apart very openly, but wouldn’t, for the life of her, tell you what’s wrong, although she makes it very evident that something is, you feel?.
With Nurlan, it depends on what emotion. She’s all exuberant and upbeat and generally very cheerful and confident, and doesn’t keep that hidden. But with emotions she thinks are “negative”- anger, pain, grief- all of that is kept under lock and key. She doesn’t like showing a face to the world that she doesn’t think is her best, and she hates looking like or admitting she needs help- so she’d rather bulldoze her way through those feelings and put on a show rather than admit to them.
Zurkhi feels a lot of conflicting emotions, but he generally, well unless he’s in the middle of a heist and he needs to keep a clear head, shows it all. Zurkhi needs to be heard and understood and talked to, and as much as he hates taking orders, he finds great value in what the people whom he trusts have to tell him, and they can’t do that unless he communicates, so he does. Fear is one thing he tends to keep hidden though, out of habit, and the idea that he has to be fearless.
Kadambari is a gentle soul, and she embraces her feelings. Though she’s shy by nature, Kaathu honestly has a tendency to be too naiive and trusting, to share parts of herself with the wrong people, and if anything, that’s gotten her into trouble before. She also has a tendency of talking in circles and going off on tangents so much that you don’t actually catch what she’s admitting to, so if there’s any mystery to her emotions, it’s the fact that the way she shows it can be a bit fragmented and all over the place.
Balam wears his heart on his sleeve, but sometimes he wishes he didn’t. His emotions are almost always turned up to eleven, and a lot of the time, he can’t contain it within himself, and he worries all the time if it unsettles the people around him. He can’t hold them himself, how can he expect someone else to? But even if he tries to smooth it over and put on a brave face, the facade always, always cracks. He needs the assurance that people can “handle him”, or he has a tendency to pull away whenever he feels something he thinks would burden them. (Except with his parents, with them he knows to put on an poker face better than anyone else.)
Sanzhar is also very emotional, and he veers to quietly stewing and wallowing in his feelings rather than confronting them head on. It makes him introspective and very in touch with how he works emotionally, but he actually doesn’t notice how much he keeps to himself until someone points it out to him. He’s not exactly Loud about his emotions, and takes a while to come out of the way he drowns in them enough to talk about them to someone else, but he’s not out of touch with them the way his sister is.
