#warheadau

Skipper is emotionally drained from the trauma he wnet through when Private got kidnapped. So anyone close to him crying would resurface those memories. When that happens, he shuts down. Everything around him he drowns out, and all he can see is those terrible memories.

Rico's mind terribly broken, but he still understands emotional pain. . . to a degree. When someone close is hurt, he tries to help them feel better by giving them dead things hes collected, or just flops on top of them like a weighted blanket.

Kowalski is emotionally hurt and traumatized from past events, and also sees emotions as a flaw. He surgically modified part of his brain that signals emotion in his process to be perfect. So, if someone, like his brothers, is hurting. He will go stand next to them or open up his arms for a hug, but there is no feeling behind it.

Who has the most trauma? 

Rico. Definitely Rico. Being tortured in a “correction” facility, having iron restraints surgically bolted into his flippers, and neglected. I don’t know how he WOULDN’T be traumatized

Hmmmm. . . I’d say Dr. K. He’s very emotionally closed off and chooses to stay distant from others.

Yes! Rico often gets trauma nightmares from his time at the correction facility (still yet to be named). Miss Dolly was the only thing that comforted him during that time, so he has a very special connection to her. If she gets lost or damaged, he will start to panic and become violent. Dr K. says he does not care, but he often spends time with Rico in his room at night.

Rico can rasp out a few words. He calls Kowalski ‘KiKi’ and Skipper ‘Pipper’, but those are the only words he can really say. The rest is grunts and his collar talking for him.

I have yet to design it (mostly since I’m scare lol). But they live in a large underwater sub/war base in the shape of an angler fish. So they live all over.

Rico tried to fight when his restraints were surgically put on. It felt like he was getting torn apart and put back together, and that pain didn't subside until weeks after the surgery.

Miss Dolly being damaged would send Rico into a panicked rage. Her going missing makes Rico feel like a part of him is missing, and that nagging feeling is unbearable to him.