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Me: *Playing my fun immortal space wizard looter shooter*
Eris Morn: Buckle up bitches, we're going to therapy!

So, this season of Destiny is really fucking good.

I don't generally expect (Triple A) video games to acknowledge trauma and mental health issues, or if they do, it's usually to go 'yeah, this character is traumatised' and then never really develop it or mention it again, and the character will probably be miraculously fine.

Destiny has acknowledged it before in the lore (bits of stories and text which you find on various weapons and pieces of armour, and lore books you can collect through doing various story quests) and I was already impressed with that! Lord Shaxx, the relentlessly encouraging Brian-blessed-esque Guardian who runs the PvP area, the Crucible? There's lore from the most recent expansion (Witch Queen) where he talks to another character about getting therapy and taking anti-depressants.

Crow's actions last season were massively informed by his trauma and he was borderline suicidal.

And I kind of expected that to be it. Hey, we've acknowledged there is trauma, let's go back to punching aliens.

And then this season started.

( Spoilers for Season of the Haunted )