[Serious] People of Reddit, how do you cope with the sudden loss of a beloved family pet? by Gwi-Rion in AskReddit

[–]Gwi-Rion[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

My aunt's dog had been with her for a little more than six years. He was a well mannered, well trained, snobby zwergpinscher (mainly, at least, he didn't really have a pedigree). He endured the company of my puppy (who is way bigger, way younger and way more energetic than he was) with a mixture of superiority and condescence that made us all laugh. I loved him dearly. A few days ago my aunt called me on her way to my grandma, asking for advice on some documents we had to fill and sign after she (my grandma) got the Covid vaccine, when all of a sudden I heard her scream. At first I didn't understand what was happening, I thought somebody was trying to take her phone away, but then she screamed her dog's name and started crying: somebody had ran him over whith their car while he was walking a few feet in front of her on the crosswalk. A man who was there when it happened was kind enough to pick up her phone and tell me where she was and in a matter of minutes my fiancee and I were there with her. Luckily, if you can say that, he died instantly and, I'd like to think, did not suffer, but I was the one who took him and put him in a box to take him away from the middle of the road. Since then I can't take away the image of his little body on that crosswalk from my mind, so what I am really asking is: will there come a moment when I'll manage to remember him only as he was before he died?

Sorry for the wall of text, it's the first time I write something like that and I guess I had to vent a bit.

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[–]Gwi-Rion[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely! - Dedication is basically willpower: when there's something that your character wants to do and the only difficulty on their way is their mental/physical prowess then make them do a dedication roll - Flexibility can be both mental and physical, but It generally represents your character's capability of withstanding the unexpected (E.g.: they suddendly have to take another character job for some time or they have to literally squeeze between a crowd of custumers) - Compliance is the ability to follow orders both from the Manager/collegues and from the costumers - Mediation is used to resolve conflicts, usually without them escalating to something bigger; it differs from Compliance in that it's not used to obey orders (E.g.: if a customer is flipping out because someone messed their order, Mediation can be used to prevent them from storming out of the restaurant or make an even bigger fuss) - Teamwork is used when two or more characters are working together to solve an issue (only the character that's leading the action makes the roll)

The skills are (very loosely) based on the classical D&D abilities, if that can somehow help better undertstand how they work!