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𓀐 @txHeBHEe: I made a writing rubric to avoid "therapy speak" that everyone seems to hate in modern media now. I would also like to say, that for the writing advice I'm gonna give, do not look at these as an objective rubric or write your scene around this rubric. Write in the way you want to first, and then look at any of these things and consider if adding any of these things would improve the emotional talking scene. I'll call the person comforting the character the "giver" and the person receiving the advice as the "receiver". 1. If the receiver is having an emotional breakdown, have the giver stand back and let the emotions play out first. The crying, the screaming, the panicking, as it might help the pacing and make sure the audience feels the emotions with the character instead of it being immediately interrupted. 2. Make it so that the giver is acknowledged either through meta-text or through their own personality, behavior or just outright saying it that they're imperfect and don't know all of the correct advice to give, or know entirely what the receiver is going through. 3. If the scene is one of one character trying to comfort another, have the giver acknowledge the receiver's positive traits/actions instead of just jumping straight to giving them the perfect advice. 4. Allow the giver to demonstrate their own vulnerability. Either bringing it up, or meta textually acknowledging them or even the receiver mentioning it. 5. If the receiver is unwilling to open up about their problems, the giver could get them to open up about it naturally, through conversation, probing, even pushing them. Unless they're super psychologically manipulative, the giver should make these topics appear through natural means. 6. Make the receiver open up at their own pace or even able to decline talking all together. 7. Make it a genuine conversation between two characters. Too often these kinds of scenes involve one person dominating the entire conversation and effectively infantlizing the person receiving the talk. Hence the Gameoverse criticism. 8. Allow humor, teasing and even disagreement between the giver and receiver. Especially if the receiver disagree with the giver, this gives the receiver more agency. 9. End it off with substantial emotional development either positive or negative instead of it being an instant fix.

I think this fails at step 1 Having an emotional breakdown in the first place is fundamentally therapy-pilled. 'Realistic depiction of a panic attack' is basedboy nonsense. Real people bottle their shit and evade all accusations until they explode and get into arguments/fights. There is no "we just talk it out" until after they fight. There has to be some sort of fight

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