heyyyyyy it's me again, being totally normal about Aura like I'm not rotating him in my mind 24/7 now. Sooo something I realllllyyy would love to know if you're willing to share: what's his unhealthy and kinda self-destructive coping mechanism? (I will not easily believe he doesn't have one, he seems like he needs one for relative sanity)

CLAPS HANDS. are you ready for this. you asked for cope singular but oh boy

sorry for this character being pretty unsympathetic to anyone reading. probably cw for physical and substance abuse

• risk-taking: one of his favourites. disturbingly addicted to danger and subconsciously seeks out situations where he can prove his resilience and feel alive. if he gets injured oh boy thats just great. His choice of career really lends to this.

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• memory suppression and emotional detachment: he already has a fractured psyche from his warp related trauma but he is profoundly emotionally detached and struggles to form connections or receive support. this coldness protects him from feeling his own pain but isolates him.
• substance abuse: he does this alone without exception. he’ll smoke casually any day though. that’s a somatic pleasure for him.
• sadism: oh boy this one got long. bog standard combating feelings of helplessness. maladaptive way for him to feel power after feelings of being dealt immense suffering and unfairness. this is also inseparable from his sexuality. whenever this manifests, if he likes you or finds you attractive, he’ll want you to want it. if you giggle when he hits you and you parse as especially pretty or feminine, you’ve just activated his crazy button. engaging with him in any way will frequently overstimulate him which brings out his heavily expressed “cuteness aggression.” If he REALLY likes you, this will 80% of the time make him feel absolutely terrible and he’ll disassociate for a few days before acting like it never happened. might even ignore you, too. if you survived the ordeal and didn’t wind him up too much. psyker drama. with men he likes, he’s immediately engaging in psychological warfare, testing their boundaries and power stripping.
• on the flipside, he would not consciously initiate it but masochism works on him too because it threatens his most sacred tenet of never letting himself become vulnerable and for some?? reason??? he likes that violation. idk man, this guy

there’s an obsessive need for control and his 100% biggest fear is his own vulnerability. he’s always flirting with the fear and attraction of violation and is always looking for turbo mental stimulation.

ofc this is like a general profile. he’s capable of having individual experiences with anyone.