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Az'rial

 

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So I was thinking again… sorry… and I found myself wondering about the more “normal” professionals in Paragon City or Rogue Isles… what they might encounter in their daily lives..

Specifically I was wondering what might be said by various heroes, villains and civilians while sitting on their Psychiatrist’s couch…

So… Things heard by Psychiatrists in City of Heroes…

• Port Oakes Construction Worker: “You don’t understand… I’m not saying the work SEEMS like it’s taking forever… the work IS taking forever! Every morning when I come in the work I did the day before is all undone! I swear I’m not crazy!”

• Steel Canyon Fire Chief: “I… I guess I just feel overworked you know, Doc? I mean… there’s no fires anywhere else in the city… but in Steel Canyon? Ten or twelve a day! And always the same buildings!! And the BUDGET restraints!! The city council won’t give me the money for personnel… they won’t give me the money for a fire truck! I have to carry a pallet of extinguishers out to the fire and beg heroes to help me… I… I don’t sleep anymore… when I try all I hear is the sound of Hellions laughing…”

• Fusionette: “Hey Doc… Glad you could see me today… I really wanna talk about how I get no respect in this city… Everyone always makes fun of me and says I’m not dependable and I’m too easily distracted… What? I missed my appointment? It’s not my fault! I got Lost on the way here! No, I don’t mean I couldn’t find it… I mean I got captured by the Lost!”

• Paragon City Bus Driver: “I feel so unreal most of the time… It’s almost like I don’t exist at all… I see evidence that I MUST exist here and there around me… but… it all seems like a lie somehow…”

• Radiation Defender: “I’ve been having some self-esteem issues lately Doc… I mean.. all I hear is Healorz Healorz Our Team Needz Healorz… And I try to tell them I have a heal.. but… well.. it seems so inadequate to what they really want… even when I get on a team it always feels like a pity-invite… I try to tell myself it’s all in my head… that I AM respected… that I DO contribute to the team… but then my own team mates kill my debuff anchor before anyone else…”

• City Representative: “It’s disrespectful… that’s what it is! I have a name… I have a beautiful name… but do they ever call me by it? Noooo… They only call me by my job title! What’s that? You need my name for billing purposes? Oh. Er… Umm… last name Reprezentateef... first name Sitay… It’s French…”

• Troll: “Me am depressed… Me am pretty sure me used to be smarter than me am now… Me am stronger… But me now got anger management issues… Me pretty sure me not used to be this color too… It am true what they say… It am not easy being green…”

• Rikti: “Emotional status: Depressed. Mate: Angry. Mate’s request: Divorce. Personal possessions: Half. Future possessions: Alimony. Reason cited for Divorce: Communication issues.”

• Hellion: “Everyone says I have a problem… it’s not a PROBLEM.. I just like fire a little bit… that’s all… So what if I set fire to some old abandoned warehouse? No one’s using it.. I just want to watch the pretty fire… the lovely flames.. the.. flicker… the smell of smoke… mmmm… those beautiful shooting sparks… uhh… Doc… can I have a moment or two alone in your bathroom? Oh… and can I borrow your lighter?”

• Paragon Protector: “The scientists at the lab tell me that the voices I hear are ‘false memories’… that it’s impossible for me… as a clone… to have any real memories from the hero my genetic material came from… but I don’t think that’s it at all… I think they’re REAL memories… I think I’m reincarnated and in a past life I was Judy Garland.”

• Scirocco: “I’m so conflicted… On the one hand I want to be good! I want to be a hero and rid the world of evil… But… there’s that curse… and I am forced to only do evil acts with my powers… I am so depressed all the time… I wrote a poem about it… would you like to hear it? My sessions over? No it’s not… I have 15 minutes left… Your clock right there on the wall says it’s quarter of… What do you mean it’s broken?”

• Sister Psyche: “Well… I was going to talk about a fight my husband and I had last night… but I sense you are terribly upset about something doctor… something about your son… why don’t we talk about that?”

• Lord Recluse: “I always thought this whole ‘survival of the fittest’ thing was the best possible way to surround myself with the strongest allies in existence… but look at what I have… a freak who doubles my food budget all by himself and always smells like fish… an ******** who thinks World War 2 ‘didn’t take it far enough’…and then there’s Angsty McAngsterton… the only one who is worth anything at all is Ghost Widow… and SHE’S dead!”

• Nemesis: “Doc… have you ever felt like everyone in the world was plotting against you? Well… I don’t feel like that… actually I feel exactly the opposite at times… I feel as though *I* were plotting against EVERYONE in the world…”


My mind wanders so often you've probably seen its picture on milk cartons. - Me... the first person version of the third person Steelclaw

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