[ SECRET POST #7019 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #7019 ⌋

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[fscom]

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Transcript by OP

[fscom]

It's a meme among my friends that I enjoy male characters with anger issues.

I don't, though. I enjoy male characters that recognize they have emotional issues that require self-discipline, cultivate that discipline, and never ever crash out. It's the self-mastery part that I'm keen on.

Anger is just usually the only emotional issue fictional men are allowed to have.

[iff_and_xor]

Any characters who fall under this heading that you (or anyone else here) particularly enjoy?

My first thoughts were Raylan Givens from Justified and Bruce Banner in the MCU, but they both have significant incidents of explosive anger. I just especially love watching them in the moments where you can feel it bubbling under the surface, but it's all tightly controlled through hard-won practice.

[(Anonymous)]

Mountain from Arknights is pretty cool. In a lot of ways, he’s the ideal hero—strong, kind, clever, and charismatic. He’s aware of his anger and can keep from doing bad things with it. But when his anger and his sense of justice both lead in the same direction, he can do things he knows damn well are stupid.

SA

[(Anonymous)]

Come to think of it, does Spock count for this?

[(Anonymous)]

My fic weakness is characters recognizing their emotional issues and then going forth and learning how to correct or live with them in a healthy manner and coming out the other side a healthier happier them. It's not about discipline or mastery for me, it's about recognizing a problem and fixing it in a healthy way. I just love fucked up people figuring out how to be happy with their fucked up lives/minds.

So yeah, I definitely get where you're coming from.

[(Anonymous)]

I can definitely see how the distinction matters with this. As someone who is squicked by most full-on dark dynamics, but who enjoys dynamics that are weird and a bit problematic, my taste is very often, "I like [X] as a kink, but only when it's handled in a way that minimizes the toxicity/abusive vibes." So I feel like I kind of get where you're coming from with this.

Personally, I'm ok with characters crashing out, in fact I often love it. But how they crash out matters a lot. Hot-mess coping strategies and self-punishing behaviors? I am seated. But if they crash out by taking their feelings out on others, I nope out in a hurry.

[(Anonymous)]

Do you have any examples where the issue isn't anger? Curious if you have any favorite characters of this type with another issue.

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed OP, even though I don't have a list of such characters in mind.