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Subject: Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome of RE characters Mon Sep 12, 2011 8:00 pm
This video got me thinking:
How do you think that the characters of RE deal with PTSD? I mean, I can't see how they can't have at least some. Chris looks extremely shook up from the Kijuju incident, and he's a trained operative. What about civilians like Claire or the characters from the Outbreak games? I mean, they have to have nightmares at least from time to time, yet we hardly ever hear anything about it.
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Subject: Re: Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome of RE characters Mon Sep 12, 2011 10:18 pm
Everyone deals with PTSD in their own way. As far as Chris goes, that commercial was part of RE5's ridiculous "fear you can't forget" campaign and isn't really representative of the characters in-game.
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Subject: Re: Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome of RE characters Mon Sep 12, 2011 11:55 pm
Rebecca is about the only one who appears to suffer from any sort of stress caused by the different incidents. She goes from being cool as a cucumber in RE0 to being rather distrubed in RE1.
Her nightmare in Umbrella Chronicles with the Yawn is also my favourite video in the game.
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Subject: Re: Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome of RE characters Tue Sep 13, 2011 7:40 am
TeRoR KiD wrote:
She goes from being cool as a cucumber in RE0 to being rather distrubed in RE1.
Lol That's the last phrase I'd ever use to describe Rebecca. Now if she were wearing sunglasses...
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Subject: Re: Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome of RE characters Tue Sep 13, 2011 10:06 am
PTSD, huh? Might explain why Leon is an emotionless f**k in RE4.
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Subject: Re: Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome of RE characters Tue Sep 13, 2011 11:50 am
Emotionless in RE4? Don't you mean Degeneration?
Many of the characters of RE probably don't even have PTSD. Many of them were trained very well, but I would bet money that at least a few have at least a slight version of it. Nightmares and such.
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Subject: Re: Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome of RE characters Tue Sep 13, 2011 11:59 am
If you pay attention in RE5, you can tell that Chris is definitely hurt and stressed out due to recent events. And think of all the emotions he must've felt when he found out Jill was working with Wesker. You can see it all over his face. And even before that when Jill sacrificed herself to save him. Imagine your long time partner of 7 years (I think it was) sacrificing her own life to save yours, thus leaving you alone in an eerie mansion filled with those freaky guardians. Though Chris still made it out okay, but imagine what was running through his head the entire time between then and RE5.
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Subject: Re: Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome of RE characters Tue Sep 13, 2011 12:47 pm
I think some of them experience it off screen in the time between games. It would be interesting to see a second case of it in a game though.
Poor Rebecca. She had to pretty much marathon two terrible nightmares with little to no sleep. It's no wonder she didn't fight so good in RE1.
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Subject: Re: Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome of RE characters Tue Sep 13, 2011 1:28 pm
I just want to let everyone know that Rebecca really did not show much in the way of PTSD symptoms. People rarely function at all when they have PTSD.
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Subject: Re: Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome of RE characters Tue Sep 13, 2011 1:54 pm
The Knife wrote:
PTSD, huh? Might explain why Leon is an emotionless f**k in RE4.
He had emotions. sarcasm mustve been leons defense mechanism.
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Subject: Re: Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome of RE characters Tue Sep 13, 2011 3:59 pm
Spike991 wrote:
The Knife wrote:
PTSD, huh? Might explain why Leon is an emotionless f**k in RE4.
He had emotions. sarcasm mustve been leons defense mechanism.
Similar to Noah's on TribeTwelve. It's evident in his formspring account.
Sometimes not giving a poop, or acting like it, may help with fear. It also makes Leon seem less intimidated to his enemies.
Of course Leon's a pretty tough guy.
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Subject: Re: Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome of RE characters Tue Sep 13, 2011 5:49 pm
Yeah thats exactly what i was talking about.
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Subject: Re: Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome of RE characters Tue Sep 13, 2011 6:43 pm
The Knife wrote:
PTSD, huh? Might explain why Leon is an emotionless f**k in RE4.
Dude I thought I was the only one who felt this way. He had such a bright personality in RE2. I feel like the developers were too worried about making him more cool than human. Paul Haddad is better than Paul Mercier to me.
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Subject: Re: Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome of RE characters Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:03 pm
Bub537 wrote:
The Knife wrote:
PTSD, huh? Might explain why Leon is an emotionless f**k in RE4.
Dude I thought I was the only one who felt this way. He had such a bright personality in RE2. I feel like the developers were too worried about making him more cool than human. Paul Haddad is better than Paul Mercier to me.
no way. leon showed plenty of human emotions and qaulities in re4, and was a perfect development from re2 leon. degeneration is when he become a robot with a strange face.
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Subject: Re: Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome of RE characters Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:10 pm
Spike991 wrote:
Bub537 wrote:
The Knife wrote:
PTSD, huh? Might explain why Leon is an emotionless f**k in RE4.
Dude I thought I was the only one who felt this way. He had such a bright personality in RE2. I feel like the developers were too worried about making him more cool than human. Paul Haddad is better than Paul Mercier to me.
no way. leon showed plenty of human emotions and qaulities in re4, and was a perfect development from re2 leon. degeneration is when he become a robot with a strange face.
Exactly. It was kind of funny when he would just stand there motionless and rattle off facts. I think that experience in Spain probably rattled him to an extreme degree, and he was trying to hide it.
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Subject: Re: Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome of RE characters Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:17 pm
Monster Mash wrote:
Spike991 wrote:
Bub537 wrote:
The Knife wrote:
PTSD, huh? Might explain why Leon is an emotionless f**k in RE4.
Dude I thought I was the only one who felt this way. He had such a bright personality in RE2. I feel like the developers were too worried about making him more cool than human. Paul Haddad is better than Paul Mercier to me.
no way. leon showed plenty of human emotions and qaulities in re4, and was a perfect development from re2 leon. degeneration is when he become a robot with a strange face.
Exactly. It was kind of funny when he would just stand there motionless and rattle off facts. I think that experience in Spain probably rattled him to an extreme degree, and he was trying to hide it.
Well he did have to deal with some of the worst horrors in any re game in spain, like ashley's screamig. theres probly a logical reason, but i think they just tried to make him uber cool, and in the process made him super lame, in degeneration.
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Subject: Re: Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome of RE characters Tue Sep 13, 2011 9:43 pm
Spike991 wrote:
Well he did have to deal with some of the worst horrors in any re game in spain, like ashley's screamig.
Yeah, her screaming would make even Jill lose it and want to end it all.
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Subject: Re: Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome of RE characters Tue Sep 13, 2011 10:12 pm
Ghost Leader wrote:
Spike991 wrote:
Well he did have to deal with some of the worst horrors in any re game in spain, like ashley's screamig.
Yeah, her screaming would make even Jill lose it and want to end it all.
LEON HELP!!!
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Subject: Re: Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome of RE characters Wed Sep 14, 2011 9:43 am
In reality they would be half peachy keen. Seriously now. You would be a little effed up after seeing zombies eating your friends or the local police.
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Subject: Re: Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome of RE characters Wed Sep 14, 2011 11:45 am
Claire sent him a text saying LEON HELP!
He no longer has a phone
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Subject: Re: Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome of RE characters Wed Sep 14, 2011 12:47 pm
NiteKrawler wrote:
Emotionless in RE4? Don't you mean Degeneration?
Many of the characters of RE probably don't even have PTSD. Many of them were trained very well, but I would bet money that at least a few have at least a slight version of it. Nightmares and such.
That too. *facepalm*
BUt even then, Leon DID show a disturbing lack of emotion in RE4. I mean, the only ones I can remember are two certain characters dying and Leon calling Saddler a bastard.
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Subject: Re: Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome of RE characters Wed Sep 14, 2011 1:59 pm
I think they show little emotions related to friends not to their situations
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Subject: Re: Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome of RE characters Fri Sep 16, 2011 1:17 pm
The Knife wrote:
NiteKrawler wrote:
Emotionless in RE4? Don't you mean Degeneration?
Many of the characters of RE probably don't even have PTSD. Many of them were trained very well, but I would bet money that at least a few have at least a slight version of it. Nightmares and such.
That too. *facepalm*
BUt even then, Leon DID show a disturbing lack of emotion in RE4. I mean, the only ones I can remember are two certain characters dying and Leon calling Saddler a bastard.
Right, he showed frustration with saddler, and hate whenever mike and luis each died. not to mention any time ashley was captured. ″What did you do to her?!″
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Subject: Re: Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome of RE characters Mon Sep 19, 2011 2:33 pm
The Knife wrote:
PTSD, huh? Might explain why Leon is an emotionless f**k in RE4.
I wouldn't say he was emotionless, when your IN the situation you can't very well break down and cry or shit your pants every time something bad happens. You wait until the end of the mission THEN shit your pants. Until then your pretty much on autopilot, letting your training do the work, your body just responds. I wouldn't be surprised if there weren't SOME scars from those events but Leon is a professional, he wouldn't let the situation affect the mission.
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Subject: Re: Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome of RE characters Mon Sep 19, 2011 2:38 pm
Spike991 wrote:
The Knife wrote:
NiteKrawler wrote:
Emotionless in RE4? Don't you mean Degeneration?
Many of the characters of RE probably don't even have PTSD. Many of them were trained very well, but I would bet money that at least a few have at least a slight version of it. Nightmares and such.
That too. *facepalm*
BUt even then, Leon DID show a disturbing lack of emotion in RE4. I mean, the only ones I can remember are two certain characters dying and Leon calling Saddler a bastard.
Right, he showed frustration with saddler, and hate whenever mike and luis each died. not to mention any time ashley was captured. ″What did you do to her?!″
Also, training DOES NOT prevent PTSD. PTSD is a natural reaction our body has to extremely stressful situations. Training can suppress it, for a time and allow you to continue to operate throughout the situation but it WILL NOT EVER completely get rid of it, it's not possible. Some people handle it better then others and find an outlet for it. Hell, some people get to actually like it, it's like a drug for them, but your average everyday joe, even your extremely well trained soldiers, get PTSD all the time, it's not something you can train out of your body.
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