Oh no it's another newbie D:

[accidentalrebellion]

Hi, Exsilium!

I'm Caitlin (or Caitlin 2.0, as I've been labeling myself to hopefully eliminate confusion c:), and I will not lie, I have been eyeing this game for months but never could figure out who I wanted to app. SO I am really excited to be here. Like, really excited.

I'll be bringing with me (or, I should say, bringing back) a miss Katniss Everdeen, that girl with the bow and arrows who started a rebellion from that trilogy of YA novels-now-being-adapated-into-movies about kids being forced to kill each other on live television in a very pleasant version of the future. YEP. She's coming to you from the fourth chapter of the third book, Mockingjay, where things are pretty bad but other really bad spoilery things haven't happened yet. ... This is me trying to be vague. I don't think it's working out terribly well.

I can be found on Plurk at decipio or on AIM at wedeceive. Looking forward to playing with you guys!

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[accidentalrebellion]

See, Katniss? SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS TRAUMA you guys should be friends ;; And so no one will care if an arrow is fired during the night one night, right? Good.

I'm definitely even more interested in Homestuck now, so when I get a chance, I need to catch up! Gosh, so much trauma to go around here.

[speakveryclearly]

YES... KANAYA UNDERSTANDS... FRIENDS... even though she is going to be so so wary of Katniss at first it will be worrrrrrth it. I've... gotten her into so much trauma roleplaying that I'm seriously researching trauma disorders at this point and ALL I KNOW ABOUT THEM IS THAT KATNISS HAS ONE... [shaking and crying]

Sadly the site is down in the hurricane, but I do strongly recommend the work! If. You don't value your heart. Or your free time.

[accidentalrebellion]

Poor girl here has PTSD written all over her :( (I was actually a psych major in college, so I end up using what I learned in school in RP a lot. And RP is, actually... turning out to be the thing I use that degree the most on right now. Sob.) Sounds like they'll be mutually wary, but eventually they can find their way past that. And it will be beautiful. Glorious and beautiful.

... Honestly, I quit valuing my heart the moment I became a Hunger Games fan. I think I'll fit right in :')

[speakveryclearly]

They will kill so many people together come battletimes

I threw PTSD around for a little while but some people told me I was doing it too flippantly!! I've gotten a couple suggestions of acute stress disorder?? I've been trying to form a more accurate psych picture so if you'd like to throw some opinions in on that some time when you get to know this character better it would be AWESOME...

And man I know the feeling I have read the trilogy and just man you guys have it pretty bad.

[accidentalrebellion]

Oh, yeah, feel free to bounce any psych questions off of me! I'm always happy to answer those c: I really do love my subject. But, yeah, just to throw a basic distinction out there, the biggest difference between PTSD and acute stress disorder is the timing of it. Acute stress disorder diagnosis occurs within the first month of exposure to a traumatic event, whereas someone cannot be diagnosed with PTSD unless the symptoms have persisted for 30 days or longer, in a nutshell. I can explain this in more detail, though, if you'd like!

This trilogy breaks my heart. I've only managed to read the whole thing twice. ;;