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Rocket: So, dead brother, huh? Yeah, that can be annoying.
Thor: Well, he's been dead before. But this time, I think it might really be true.
Rocket: And you said your sister and your dad-
Thor: Both dead.
Rocket: But still got a mom, though?
Thor: Killed by a dark elf.
Rocket: A best friend?
Thor: Stabbed through the heart.

Subaru: So, is the plot going to kick in anytime soon?
Crusch: Does suffering count as plot?
Subaru: No...?
Crusch: Too bad!

"The hand of God has touched me. Look at me!
Every hope I ever had,
Every task I put my mind to,
Every work I've ever done
Annulled as though I had not done it.
My trace extinguished in the land,
My children dead, my father's name
Obliterated in the sunlight everywhere...
Love too has left me."
J.B., J.B.

Brockwell: For such a big bloke, you're a bit timid.
Bran: Forgive me, my lord, but I have been slaughtered in battle, immersed in a witch's cauldron, then recruited into an army of the dead where my soul was cast into a dark abyss! And upon my return to life - which I am extremely grateful for - I've been confronted by a dragon, dragged into Annwyn and bitten by an air elemental! So aye, I'm feeling rather more battered and wary than I was at dawn yesterday.
This Present Past, by Traci Harding

Eugene: How are you doing?
Rapunzel: [Beat] How am I doing? Okay, let's see, um: I found out my father's been lying to me for months. A secret squad of guards hunted us down in the dead of night. Oh, I destroyed my childhood home and most recently I committed treason while helping an extremely unstable alchemist steal the most powerful object in the Seven Kingdoms. But enough about me, let’s talk about you. How are you doing?

Stressors are not courteous; one stressor does not leave because another one arrives. Stressors add up. The cumulative effect of minor stressors can be a major distress if they all happen too close together.
FM 21-76 US Army Survival Manual

A lot of terrible things have befallen Eddie in the past couple of hours. Or, rather, he's become aware that a lot of terrible things have befallen him. Losing most of his body, for instance, including such old favourites as his heart, his lungs, and his penis. Being ineptly wired up to an unremittingly ugly metal replacement body which would make his own mother run away from him screaming. Losing everything he ever had, not to mention everyone he ever knew, and suddenly finding himself several centuries away from his own lifetime. But of all the tragedies, ills and discomforts, the one that distresses him most is the green gloop. Not the gloop itself: he's resigned to a life submerged in mucoid slime. It's the relentless greenness of it. He finds himself wishing, more than anything else, that it wasn't green.

Is it just me or is 2020 totally sucking? Every time it looks like we’ve sunk to a new low something else takes the “Hold my beer” meme literally and we descend even further into chaos. If Planet of the Apes isn’t a documentary by December I’ll be taking it as a win.

"Humans can cope with many hardships and losses. But there must be time to deal with them, to accept and come to terms with what happened. However, if someone suffers a barrage of calamities with no chance to recover, the effects don't just add up, but multiply and reinforce each other. It's like an army that must fight of waves and waves of attackers... no matter how strong they are, if they don't get an opportunity to rest and resupply, they will eventually fall."

"Why aren’t my powers back? Aren’t I reliving every horrible thing that’s ever happened to me? A Gem I barely know is trying to kill me. I’m paying for stuff my Mom did that had nothing to do with me. I’m struggling with my powers! The world’s about to end! What piece could I be missing?! This is the story of my life!"

Priyanka: Well, you seem to have made a series of miraculous recoveries, but that doesn't change the fact that you experienced trauma. You've recovered physically, but have you recovered mentally?
Steven: You think there's something wrong with my brain?!
Priyanka: Not wrong! It's that adverse childhood experiences, or childhood trauma, can have a lasting impact on how your body responds to stress. This can affect your social, emotional, and physical development. When humans are in crisis, the brain releases the hormone cortisol. Your heart races, your muscles tense. I wonder if your body is reacting to a gem equivalent of cortisol. Steven, do you remember anything bad in your childhood that particularly stuck with you?
Steven: I-I guess. I kinda freaked out when they cancelled my favorite ice cream! And then I got attacked by a giant bug monster... And I got trapped in a bubble and almost drowned... I lost control of my body and turned into a blob of cats... I almost turned so old I died... Amethyst almost died... Pearl DID die... Garnet got destabilized right in front of me...I woke up with a black eye imprisoned on a spaceship
Priyanka: Steven, this is serious!
Steven: But—that was just the early stuff!

Ranboo: lmao this is the dreamsmp
Ranboo: there is no compensation for trauma
Ranboo: just more trauma

"He cursed me. Because of what I did, he cursed me. Everything in my life was fucked up after that. My dad disappeared. My mom stopped talking for a while. I had to spend two weeks in juvy for accidentally killing that rabbit. My bike got stolen. I missed so much school I had to take summer classes. It's been one bad thing after the next. Ever since then horrible things have happened to me or around me."
Larry, Sally Face

"Ever since I got back, it's just been one thing after another! I keep trying to do the right thing, but all it's cost me is everything I love! What was it all for?! And to top it all off, you morons even found a way TO RUIN MY NAME!"
—Kirito, Sword Art Online Abridged Episode 16

I’d just like to remind everyone that in-game we met Billy yesterday... And everything from the Reaper Ship all the way up to now has been in the span of a few hours. To recap:
* Everyone Billy has worked with for the last four years is dead.
* Billy’s faith has been discovered by be just a load of shit and his church is just a front for Sky Nazi slavery.
* Also all his superiors were child molesters.
* Subsequently he’s now unemployed while having an Orphanage and little sister to support.
* Billy’s mentor has turned out to also be a Sky Nazi. And had his mom killed by zombies because she wouldn’t bone him.
* He’s been attacked by an anime bunny girl, a female robotic version of himself, and probably gotten a concussion from Id. And now said mentor peeled off all the skin on his face and is trying to kill him too.
* He accidentally just shot his dad out of a cannon.

It’s been a rough one for poor Billy Lee Black.


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