Pain

Pain. It makes an impression.

Pain is a universal concept. If it's alive, it's felt pain to various degrees.

Doesn't matter if your world is normal or, like our game-world, a bit apocalypic. The bitch of it is, we tend to do it to each other. If there are no adults around ... seems the kids are quite capable of dealing out the pain all by themselves.

Physical.

Mental.

Emotional.

Pain comes in all colors & sizes. It's in our game-world too because, hey, universal remember? If you create a fictitious world and it's gonna have any semblance to reality at all, there will be pain.

Examples are easily come by.

Heartbreak? Arianna has lost 3 lovers in less than a year - 2 to war and 1 who walked out because he couldn't deal with her brand of New World justice.

Physical pain? Tristan has made that an art form, subjecting Cecily to methods of torture that she wouldn't have imagined possible ... or imagined that she could survive.

Mental pain? Valentine was kidnapped by a madman, immobilized and stashed in a dumpster where she lingered for days and still has nightmares from.

These are the tip of the ice berg. The characters in our game are truly survivors. Fortunately pain can be offset with pleasures, some as simple as a good meal or a hug or as vital as love.

In "The Tribe," Lex almost died from a simple toothache in Season-4.

Pain. It's universal.

-Chyna

Photo source: copyright Cloud-9 "The Tribe"