#hallucinations/psychosis generally are usually treated as a big dramatic angsty thing

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i love ichiban so much. like in general but like. he's so neurodivergent. so so much i haven't been able to let go of it since i started playing. he's still filtering everything through dragon quest after 18 fucking years in jail without touching it and his loved ones realize and adapt to this bc they're cool so theyre like,, okay,, lemme put it like this. so you got a debuff from your one night stand. it's gonorrhea. and he's like okay i understand. that blows but im ready to hear my treatment options. and then he'd handle it like a well adjusted adult. he just processes it in a roundabout kinda way. he's just like me fr. and he's fully hallucinating gamer shit in the middle of street fights and his friends (who he met 2 days ago) are like lol ok cool cat that's wild. keep hitting them idc. my stats are going up? that's actually really cool ty for telling me i love you forever. i would die for you. and they're right for it. like they just accept him as-is with little fanfare because that's just ichi. they get on his level conversationally and it's not some awful horrific burden to talk about a thing he likes. and he hallucinates and he's not portrayed as some scary monster or unsettling pitiable thing. he's a cool guy and he's got all these nd traits and i think a lotta ppl probably need to see that. it feels very humanizing to me idk. he's a deeply kind and intelligent and loyal and dependable and wonderful man. one of the game protagonists ever maybe THE game protagonist ever and he's always in fucking situations constantly, as is the case with every rgg protag. anyway i love him. i know a lotta ppl look at him and go oh adhd for sure bc he's bouncy or whatever. and while i question that impulse i see you,, but that is NOT all okay. my man has some comorbidities. he's at a quaint little buffet of the dsm-5. something is UP with him and he's doing marvelously and everybody loves him and I love him too. yeag

#i mean. dq wouldnt help him understand stds more than growing up in a soapland did. regardless #basically i missed a neurodivergent character bracket submission and i was thinkin about him #and like all rgg protags hes just. in situations constantly. hes just plopped into whatever and he excells or fails comedically #rgg #ylad #kasuga ichiban #he's just like me he's got the stinky brain #also the party members who arent in the scene where that '? you guys arent seeing that???' conversation happens like. when do they find out #i hope i worded this right? i think he's interesting rep and there's good things to take from it #like. the hallucinations arent brought up ever again i dont think. theyre like ok ichi but we gotta solve this mystery or whatever #hallucinations/psychosis generally are usually treated as a big dramatic angsty thing #but instead theyre like okay. you wanna go play mario kart? #idk there's something nice to me about it #i imagine it would be kind of a relief to tell someone that and have them just accept it and not tret you any differently for it #but i also dont experience hallucinations/psychosis broadly (probably? tbd) so like. grain of salt on this post. my perspective is limited #anyway i would ask him to help me move. i would trust him to pet sit for me even if hes wacky hijinks prone bc he's a protagonist. etc