Tagging: @catnip-smuggler-radio @miqo-vynnie @eligos-venator @handofcards @ishgard @rinrin-rinalys @smira-asah-xiv @voidsentprinces @illia-ast @unatobajhiri - and yourself! Whoever wants to do it. I’m bad at tags, and I’m sleepy.
You appear to have multiple, equally prominent lifetraps. It is possible that you have several lifetraps that are all strongly expressed and which co-exist in you. But, on the other hand, it is also possible that one of these lifetraps is your primary one and that the others merely accentuate it. We are unable to say.
In which the test tells me: Jak is too fucked up to figure out...and now we know why she’s convinced she’s too broken to be lovable - even the test can’t tell her why. xD
“Your primary feeling is one of pressure. You feel as if you can never relax and enjoy life. That you must always push to get ahead. For you, life is only doing. It is having to work or achieve all the time. You feel frustrated and irritated with yourself for not meeting your own high standards.
“Physical stress is common with you. You may have headaches, digestion or bowel problems, as well as high blood pressure and/or insomnia. At root, you probably feel chronically angry, but with no apparent object to direct that anger towards. Instead of staying with that anger, you channel it outwards to your surroundings. Everything has to be perfect. You need to feel in control.
“Most likely you are successful. But you rarely stop and enjoy your success. The balance between work and pleasure feels lopsided. You turn many forms of activity into work and it enslaves you. You seem to have lost touch with your basic self. You go through the motions, but no longer know what makes you happy.
“One of your parents may have used shame or criticism when you failed to meet their high expectations. As an adult, you feel you cannot let go of your need for perfect order, achievement, or status. But your excessively high standards are in fact impinging on your quality of life. You are successful, but not fulfilled. You need to learn that you can lower your standards without feeling like a failure.”
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Hey, next time, just @ the marshmallow when you call her out.
You appear to have multiple, equally prominent lifetraps. It is possible that you have several lifetraps that are all strongly expressed and which co-exist in you. But, on the other hand, it is also possible that one of these lifetraps is your primary one and that the others merely accentuate it. We are unable to say. For the same reason, we are also incapable of giving you a more personalized description. But you can consult the charts below in order to see which lifetraps you scored the strongest on.
[[ Failure Impairment, Unrelenting Standards, Social Exclusion, Emotional Deprivation are spot on, for as far as I understand them.
It is important to remember that Francel’s current position is elected from within the House of Lords by a canonically slim margin. And up to a certain point, House Haillenarte is the most looked down upon since ARR. Certainly some events have happened in the years since we first meet Francel at Skyfire that has risen their status. But, certainly you gain no glory being sworn to them.
This thought process can be summed to. “I cannot fail. I cannot make mistakes. I cannot give them a reason--” so on, so forth for the impending response is likely, “What did you expect from one of House Haillenarte’s?”
I dunno, a kid that makes himself faint from stressing so much, you know there are some fears and problems with emotions there lol.
Being a Lord of a High House, I imagine there is a lot you have to pull away from and can’t really-- you know there’s so many words...
TBH there is so much I could say, but I’m just not going to because that’s a lot of words. Too many I don’t feel like typing anymore you can ask if you like LOL xD]]
Link for test here: HERE
Tagged by: @voidsentprinces , and @placesyoucallhome
Tagging: @thefrostflower (I think some of yours would have some interesting answers to this, tbh...) @star-reader-ffxiv, @house-corvidaine (c’mon do both? pretty please???), @ffxivvalentinnoix (if you’re interested!)
ALSO any others I’m running out willpower I love you all I promise please show me.
Your primary feeling is one of loneliness. You feel excluded from the rest of the world because you feel undesirable and/or different. As a child, it is likely that you felt inferior to other children because of some observable quality (e.g. looks, height, etc.). It is possible that you were rejected or humiliated as a child. Now you feel you have nothing to offer in relationships.
You feel different or inferior to the people around you. You exaggerate the differences between you and others and minimize the similarities. You feel lonely, even when you are around people. At work or in school, you are on the periphery. You are likely to keep to yourself.
You are nervous and self-conscious around others. You cannot just relax and be yourself. You worry about doing or saying the wrong thing. You do not let most people see the unconventional parts of you. You have a secret life or feelings that you believe would lead other people to humiliate or reject you if they knew. You have never accepted certain parts of yourself because you think other people would think less of you if they knew them. You compare yourself to other people who have the hallmarks of popularity that you think you lack. In this way, you keep sending yourself the message that you will never be accepted for who you truly are.
->Quiz Here<-
Tagged by: @mazinkhin & @kich-rp (Thank you both for the tag! ♥)
“You have a fundamental belief that you will lose the people you love and be left emotionally isolated. Whether you imagine that they will die, send you away, or leave you, somehow you feel that it is inevitable that you will be left alone. You expect to be abandoned, and you see the state of loneliness as the default condition in your life. In your heart, you feel it is your destiny to live completely alone. You often read the intent to abandon you into even innocent remarks made by others. Anything that feels like others have disengaged can trigger these fears in you, even if there is no actual danger. Once triggered, you tend to go through a cycle of negative emotions – anger, grief, and fear.”
“People with abandonment can be alone for long periods of time. They might withdraw from close relationships out of hurt, or out of fear of being hurt again. Many have already faced loneliness as children and know they can survive it. Loneliness is not the issue. Rather, it is the process of separation that is devastating – that is, having a connection and then losing it, only to be thrown back into loneliness once more.”
I borrowed this from @ever-searching, and will not be tagging anyone directly since this can be pretty rough. However, if you decide to fill this out for your character, or if you would like to see results for another character of mine, do tag me!
The test may be found here: https://www.idrlabs.com/lifetrap/test.php
Edit: For those curious, I collated the results text for all 11 categories here.
Description and further commentary is under the cut due to heavy psychological themes.
The emotion most recurring in you is shame. Shame is what you feel when your defects are exposed. Consequently you go to great lengths to keep your defectiveness hidden. You feel that your defectiveness is inside you and not immediately observable. You feel like you have to pretend to be someone you are not to be accepted. You hide your true self to fit in, but that also means that many people in your life will never know the real you.
At your core you feel completely unworthy of love. It is possible that you struggle with feelings of depression - a kind of low-level depression always lurking in the background. You may be drawn to partners who are critical of you and put you down. They generate high chemistry, but reinforce your feelings of defectiveness.
It is likely that you spend a lot of time comparing yourself unfavorably to others and feel inadequate as a result. You feel like an impostor when you are successful. You are anxious that you cannot maintain your success. Your sense of well-being is fragile, and even small setbacks or failures may be enough to make you nervous and stressed. You often feel humiliated and inadequate, as if the whole world is about to catch sight of your defectiveness.
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The wording on the description is a little too specific to fit completely, but this is accurate for Zhah’ra in a general sense.
Zhah’ra believes that in order to be loved and accepted (and to have one’s basic needs met), one must be worth keeping. If that is not the case, then one must be useful to offset the resources being taken up.
He believes that he is fundamentally both worthless and useless, and that any needs he might express therefore create a burden for others.
While Zhah’ra acknowledges that he is undeniably skilled in a few areas, he believes that they all constitute a performance which either presents the appearance of being what others need, or creates an artificial want where there was none. All he can offer is therefore either a useless luxury (the first thing given up to make room for necessities) or a stopgap substitute (to be -- quite correctly -- left behind as soon as the real thing becomes available).
His fear, then, is not that someone will find out that he has some specific defect, as such. Rather, he expects that his performance will eventually be seen for what it is, and he will be (correctly) rejected -- and quite possibly punished for asking for more than he deserved.
His runner-up lifetraps all relate to this core in some way:
Social exclusion: “I don’t fit in.”
Zhah’ra feels that his worthlessness has always been extremely evident to others (unless he makes active efforts to obscure it), leading to fear of being cut off from relationships with others when they inevitably grow tired of being charitable -- or, worse, having his social debts to them be suddenly called to reckoning.
Failure-Impairment: “I feel like such a failure.”
He believes that, because he is fundamentally useless, if he is so arrogant as to try to do something actually useful, he will inevitably fail -- and humiliate any who supported him.
Subjugation: “I always do it your way.”
He often falls into a pattern of people-pleasing and fawning to avert rejection and/or violence.
Unrelenting standards: “It’s never quite good enough.”
He feels a heavy pressure to perform to others’ liking in order to preserve others’ willingness to give him what he needs to survive.