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Britta is an insecure, self-hating person and this may come up during threads with her. Because she's extremely vocal about social justice issues, several topics may come up while interacting with her, including misogyny, oppression, police brutality, genocide, religion, oppression, and trauma. She tends to connect fairly innocent conversations to heavy issues, so darker topics will likely come up with her.
Britta's history includes an instance of sexual assault when she was younger. It also includes trauma stemming from bad parenting, victim blaming, bullying, and rejection. Issues involving self-esteem, loneliness, and fear of rejection may also come up.
I don't have any triggers, personally. I'm a little uncomfortable writing anything involving needles, eye trauma, or nail trauma. I'll happily write it, but I'll be grimacing the entire time.
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Britta's history includes an instance of sexual assault when she was younger. It also includes trauma stemming from bad parenting, victim blaming, bullying, and rejection. Issues involving self-esteem, loneliness, and fear of rejection may also come up.
I don't have any triggers, personally. I'm a little uncomfortable writing anything involving needles, eye trauma, or nail trauma. I'll happily write it, but I'll be grimacing the entire time.
If you want to opt out of interacting with Britta for any reason or wish for me to avoid certain subjects, please let me know here.
All comments are screened.
Monster Information
Britta Perry
TrollAddress: TBA
Employment: TBA
Mandatory Changes
[CW: DESCRIPTION OF ROCKS GROWING OUT OF ONE'S SKIN]
+ Long, pointed ears.
+ Hard, thick claws in place of fingernails and toenails.
+ Two small, rough, bumpy horns on top of her head. They are white in colour.
+ [CW: linked of crystals protruding from the skin, mild nudity] Jagged, pointed crystal-like protrusions on her upper arms, back, and shoulders. These protrusions resemble lapis lazuli, and they come in a variety of shapes and sizes. They look similar to this. (*)
+ The ability to grow in size, up to twenty feet in height. Britta also becomes proportionately stronger as she grows. This ability can only be used for the cumulative duration of one hour a day.
+ An affinity for mimicry. Britta can, for the cumulative duration of one hour a day, disguise herself as any person, monster, or creature she's seen. The disguise is illusory in nature and thus will not include the abilities of whoever she chooses to disguise herself as, but Britta won't be more vulnerable when disguised either.
+ The ability to willingly enter a berserker state. They will, temporarily, try to attack pretty much everything they see (the urge to attack loved ones can be lessened with practice) but become stronger, nearly invulnerable, and unable to tire while they are in this state as well. For Britta, this often translates as a verbal berserker state. She will go into an endless rant about politics and socioeconomic issues, and will verbally attack anyone who disagrees with her.
+ Night vision. Britta can see exceptionally well at night.
+ Weakness to sunlight. Direct exposure will weaken a Troll, and in general, Trolls prefer to be out at night or underground. Fire does not have the same effect.
+ A need to feed on human flesh. If Britta goes too long without eating, she will enter the berserker state (physical) against her will until she does.
+ A Fog Form: Britta becomes a creature made entirely out of lapis lazuli. Her form is long-limbed, and hard rocky spikes run down her back and protrude from her arms and shoulders. Her tail is no longer lion-like. Instead, it's much longer and covered in the same sharp, rocky spikes that cover her back, arms, and shoulders. Her hair is also made of rock, and the spurs on the bottoms of her feet add a couple of inches of height.
+ A stealth form: Britta can take on the form of a small rock.
+ Thicker skin with a rougher, more rocky texture.
+ Small, crystal-like protrusions on her forehead, and behind both ears.
+ Sharper, longer lower canine teeth, which stick out even when the mouth is closed.
+ A long, white lion's tail with blonde fur at the end.
+ Long blonde fur that grows on her lower legs, making it look like she's wearing furry leg warmers.
+ Control over rocks and boulders. Trolls can not only make them move on their own to use as weapons, but have no trouble creating cave tunnels in mountains, clubs, or even sculptures with this ability.
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Britta Perry - Ryslig App
[CW: Self-hatred, self-esteem issues. The wiki page that I've linked under "character information" vaguely mentions the sexual assault of a minor and contains a transphobic slur.]
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Name: Clari
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CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Britta Perry
Age: 34
Canon: Community
Canon Point: Post-Season 6
Character Information: Here
Personality:
Shirley: And I like you too. I even like that you're a little hard, but if you can't learn to be soft in there, you need to pee alone.
When we first meet Britta Perry, she comes off as a very guarded and cynical person. She seems cool, confident, knowledgeable, worldly, and passionate about issues concerning social justice. She's open about her beliefs and seems to have something to say about everything. Even the simple act of going to the bathroom with Shirley turns into a rant about society's pressures on women, and makeup companies being male-owned. She doesn't joke a lot and seems to take things a little too seriously, to the point where she's called a buzzkill by other characters throughout the series. As the show progresses, however, we begin to learn more about Britta, and we find out just how complex she really is. We learn that this guarded, cynical side of her is just a front.
Britta: Lukka, I knew it. I knew there was pain in there. Just so you know, you can talk to me about anything.
Britta truly is compassionate and caring, for the most part. Most of the time, her heart is in the right place, and she shows concern for her friends and wants to help and support them. For example, in season 2, episode 5, she's willing to pay LeVar Burton money to reschedule his flight because her friend Troy froze up the first time they met, and Britta wants to give Troy a second chance at meeting a celebrity that he admires. In Season 2, Episode 17, she responds with sympathy and a desire to help when she listens to Troy and Abed's friend Lukka hint at a difficult life before Greendale. Britta also shows genuine concern and empathy toward Jeff and the issues that he has with his father, and although her method of helping is pushy and obnoxious, she demonstrates a sincere interest in helping her friend. When she finds out that her friends are hurting, she doesn't ignore the problem or brush it aside. She doesn't mock them, or act cruelly toward them. She tries to support them. In Episode 21 of Season 2, Jeff tells Britta that there is something in her that wants to take care of people so badly that she'll do it until she makes herself sick. She cares. She's supportive. She wants to be a good friend. The only problem is that her attempts at helping often backfire.
Britta-bot,
Programmed badly,
Wires with fraying ends.
Functioning mad and sadly,
No faith in herself,
or friends.
Britta is a well-meaning person, who tries to help others but often fails. There are, of course, instances where her desire to help is entirely self-serving, but (as mentioned earlier) there are numerous other instances where she demonstrates concern and a genuine desire to help people. The problem is that she has a tendency to assume that she knows what's best for others, and intervenes without questioning if they want whatever she's trying to give them. For instance, during Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas (Season 2, Episode 11), she worries about Abed's mental state and tries to trick him into getting therapy, thinking it'll help him. She assumes therapy is the answer, but doesn't consider that it might not be what Abed wants or needs. She tries to push it onto him because she doesn't have faith that he'll help himself. She wants so much to be good and to do good, but she often screws it up because she assumes the best for people and doesn't fully understand how to help. There are other instances of her being a well-meaning person as well, such as Episode 1 of Season 3. Abed finds out that the premiere of his favorite show, Cougar Town, has been delayed to mid-season, which puts him into a catatonic state. Britta tries to help by showing him Cougarton Abbey, the British version that came before Cougar Town. Unfortunately, Cougarton Abbey ends with all the characters dying, and Britta doesn't take into account how badly Abed will react to the character's death. Once she realizes her mistake, she still tries to help. She goes to the trouble of trying to find him another show (Inspector SpaceTime) that he might enjoy, which shows that she truly does care -- and Inspector SpaceTime becomes his new favorite show.
Her aforementioned compassion doesn't always come from a selfless place. Sometimes she wants to help because she's trying to feel better about herself. In Season 2, Episode 19, Troy and Britta attend an acting class together, and during an activity, Troy admits to some childhood trauma. Britta reacts with sympathy, pity, and compassion and tries to do everything she can to support Troy. However, as Abed puts it: "Britta's attracted to men in pain. It helps her pretend to be mentally healthy." Britta wants to give people the help and support she's never received. Britta may become especially passionate about a particular social issue because it's affecting her personally, and she may pretend that she wants to break up a friend's romantic relationship because she's concerned about that friend when in reality she's just jealous.
As we get to know Britta, we learn that she is a hypocritical person, whose convictions aren't quite as strong as she makes out. She criticizes her friends for holding a protest when she's doing nothing to help, claims she's a vegetarian but wears leather jackets, and chastises her friends for visiting her parents and "meddling in her affairs," while getting herself involved in Jeff's relationship with his father. She says she hates liars and then lies. She claims she values honesty but isn't honest with herself.
She protests simply for the sake of protesting because she wants to show people that she's a good and caring person who has a passion for 'the real issues.' Unfortunately, this passion can come off as completely self-serving. A lot of her protests come from a desire to look good and feel good about herself. Unfortunately, other people quickly realize that her politics are shallow. It isn't that she doesn't care, but she doesn't do anything that is truly effective and doesn't always have a strong understanding of the issue in question.
Jeff:She wants everyone to be honest, but she lies to herself. She's seen the world but doesn't get it. She has more fights about stuff that doesn't matter than a YouTube comment section. She's passionate, which I find stupid but entertaining.
She approaches social justice issues on a very superficial level. A group of her old protesting friends point this out to her in season 5, episode 7. By "selling out" her friends are able to raise money, organize charities, and help people more effectively than Britta, who would rather pick up a can of spray paint and make a little noise. Britta IS passionate about life and gets very fired up when she hears about injustice but she doesn't know how to truly fix things. She's very eager to stamp her feet and "fight the power" and she has gotten herself involved in protests in the past. The problem is that she's ineffective. She cares but she isn't committed and doesn't bother to learn more about the issue in question. And so, she doesn't always fully understand what the issue is about. She wants to help people but she has a tendency to be lazy and unfocused, and she distracts herself with other things so she doesn't have to commit. During the first two seasons, she attends community college but doesn't seem to know what she wants to do. It's only in season 3 that she decides she wants to pursue psychology as a major. Her passion can also come off as off-putting because she turns many conversations into a rant about social issues.
Britta is mistake-prone, and tends to screw things up so frequently that her friends have coined the term "Britta'd It" to use whenever someone makes a mistake. People tend to avoid asking for her help due to the high possibility that she'll mess something up. It's so bad sometimes that Britta will even burn every sandwich she makes while trying to look after her friend's sandwich business. She'll say that she's going to biology but she'll be carrying her chemistry textbook and she'll try to explain a psychology term or a concept and completely mix it up.
She says and does awkward things as the series progresses, but she's always been a little awkward. In seasons one and two, she awkwardly drunk dials Jeff, and accidentally knocks a corpse out of a window because she wants to put a tiny hat on a frog. She mispronounces bagel as baggel and looks embarrassed when she gets laughed at. Britta merely lets her guard down in later seasons and allows herself to be goofier because she's more comfortable around her friends. She acts guarded and tries to look cool for people she doesn't know, but she has nothing to prove to her study group. She knows they are her friends, even if they make fun of her sometimes, so she tries to be more fun and carefree. She shows her awkward, vulnerable, silly side -- making up silly phrases as she walks goofily up to grab some pizza, or more easily making mistakes because she feels that she can without getting ostracized. She no longer feels that she has to project an ultra-cool, worldly version of herself to people when she's comfortable with them. And although she comes off as unintelligent, this isn't always entirely the case. She can be insightful and thoughtful, but she just struggles to explain things sometimes, and sometimes her observations come out sounding unintelligent or awkward. An example of her being insightful and unintelligent at the same time is in Season 3, Episode 12. Jeff goes on anti-anxiety medication, and Britta says that without anxiety to keep his vanity in check, he's at risk of his ego getting way too large. Unfortunately for Britta, she uses a strange apple analogy that undermines her point. Britta softens as the series goes by but she is still very opinionated and concerned with social justice. She just becomes a little less serious.
Pierce: Britta Perry. Do you know that you hate yourself more than you should? And that your passion inspired me? To Miss Perry, I leave my iPod Nano, filled with music to take life less seriously by.
Britta is an insecure person who believes herself to be a screwup. She was bullied and excluded in the past which contributed to her low self-esteem. Britta calls herself 'the worst' on more than one occasion, and admits that she hates herself, showing the audience that underneath that guarded exterior is someone vulnerable and unconfident. She objects to things just to appear cool and alternative, because she wants to be admired and liked by people. In season 2, people start looking up to her after Jeff walks out on her during her love confession, and she encourages their admiration because she enjoys the popularity and the attention that she is receiving. The attention is short-lived, but she embraces it while it lasts because it makes her feel better about herself. She also gets competitive with Annie because she's jealous and irritated that Annie is making more money than her during a charity event, and this results in her trying to tear Annie down. She wants to help people but often fails, and that makes her feel self-conscious and insecure as well. She's very hard on herself because she feels like she should be rebelling and protesting instead of going to a community college. She's afraid that people might think she isn't compassionate, so she goes the extra distance to be someone who is caring and compassionate. It's also implied that she is attracted to mean people and "losers" because it helps her validate her lack of self-worth. She's terrified of being boring, so she makes a lot of noise and does things like dropping out of high school to make herself appear more interesting.
Britta can also be self-righteous. When she sees an opportunity to be morally superior, she seizes it, flaunting that superiority in people's faces until she's knocked off her high horse. For example, Britta -- who is very vocal about feminism -- chastises and mocks Annie because she believes Annie is using her femininity to appeal to men and get donations. Her activism is used to judge others about their choices. She gets preachy over Shirley taking antacids while Shirley is pregnant. Britta claims that antacids are full of chemicals and says she wouldn't expose a baby to that. When Shirley states that her doctor said antacids are safe, Britta suggests that the antacid company paid for the study. She acts like she knows more than doctors and more than a woman who already has two perfectly healthy children.
Britta can be very determined as well, to the point of being stubborn. In Season 4, Episode 8, Dean Pelton announces a Sadie Hawkins dance. Britta decides that the dance is sexist and announces a Sophie B. Hawkins dance. Her friends point out that she means a Susan B. Anthony dance, but Britta doubles down and refuses to make her mistake. She is determined to get Sophie B. Hawkins to Greendale and does everything in her power to try and get her there. She wants to study psychology so much that she'll ignore everyone who advises against it because she wants to believe that she can achieve her goal. When Abed has trouble accepting that Troy is leaving Greendale, Britta tries her best to help him through it and doesn't back down even when things get out of control.
Britta is a complex woman. She's caring and compassionate, and she's also self-serving at times. She's lazy but she's also incredibly passionate and determined. She isn't exactly smart, but she's also insightful. She's flawed and that's what makes her human.
5-10 Key Character Traits:
+ Compassionate
+ Determined
+ Passionate
+ Insightful
+/- Well-meaning
+/- Awkward
- Self-Righteous
- Hypocritical
- Insecure
- Mistake-prone
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Somehow, Britta managed to befriend a human after a couple of days in Bavan. She'd made a lot of noise, claimed to be vehemently anti-gods, and showed concern for the humans of Ryslig, and that had charmed one of them enough to want to get to know Britta more. This woman, Lucy, invited Britta to stay with her and Britta accepted. She'd heard about the 38-8 but refused to move in, claiming that moving into the apartment building would somehow bring her one step closer to being brainwashed by the Fog. The truth was that she was just trying to make herself sound independent, rebellious, and cool; she wanted to show this new world that she cared so much about people that she was willing to give up free housing.
The other truth was that the monsters terrified her. They horrified her, and although she knew she was doomed to become one as well, that didn't make her any less frightened of them. She hoped Lucy wouldn't figure her out too quickly, wouldn't work out that Britta was making noise but highly unlikely to go much further against the Fog, and against monsters that ate people. It was easy for Britta to say she was against the deaths and the horror, but it was a lot harder to actually do anything to protect people. She was, ultimately, pretty useless and she knew it.
Britta sat down at the kitchen table, her hands wrapped around a cup of tea. Steam rose up from the ceramic mug, carrying with it a soothing, comforting smell that reminded her of home. Reminded her of sitting down at a cafe with her friends, or around the table in the study room doing anything but studying. Lucy sat with her, her own mug sitting untouched on a coaster.
"So... you're all alone here?" Britta asked, tilting her head, her brow slightly furrowed. She watched her new friend, focusing all of her attention on the other woman. She was listening, wanting to hear this woman's story -- which would be undoubtedly tragic.
"Yes. I... lost my family. To monsters. A long time ago," Lucy responds, voice wavering a little.
Britta feels her heart sink down into her stomach. This poor woman's life has been destroyed by monsters, by the Fog God's evil curse. It isn't fair. The Fog brings people in and expects them to become pawns in her sick game. Her war against the people. She expects people to yield to her, to become her brainwashed little soldiers, and it disgusts her. Britta reaches out, placing her hand over Lucy's, flashing her a look of empathy. A couple of quiet seconds pass before she speaks, her voice soft.
"I'm so sorry. That must have been horrible," she shakes her head. "You're living in fear every day because of this... oppressor!"
"It's a common story here," Lucy shrugs. Britta squeezes her hand and then lets go.
"And it's so unfair that it is," Britta answers, before slamming her hand on the table, surprising the human and causing her to jump a little. "I'm going to spray paint the walls of every institution that supports the Fog. I'm gonna go on a hunger strike! Gonna say no to the Fog."
"...Don't go on a hunger strike," Lucy winces at that, but Britta? Doesn't seem to be listening.
"She can't make me eat meat. You can't force someone to go against their beliefs! There's a word for that! It's..." She starts waving both hands around in circles in front of her, as though that might help her think of the word. "I... can't think of it right now, but you know what I mean!"
"Please. Don't go on a hunger strike," Lucy repeats softly, and she is unsure if she's even getting through to Britta now. "Maybe... talk to one of the monsters about what you can do?"
"To one of the... monsters? Y-Yeah. I can do that," Britta says, clearing her throat. There's nothing to be afraid of, right? They're former people. They're victims of this place as well, victims of the angry, cloudy oppressor who brought them here. She needs to hear their stories.
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Name: Clari
Contact:
Age: 37
Other Characters: Dee Reynolds (
agiantbird)CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Britta Perry
Age: 34
Canon: Community
Canon Point: Post-Season 6
Character Information: Here
Personality:
When we first meet Britta Perry, she comes off as a very guarded and cynical person. She seems cool, confident, knowledgeable, worldly, and passionate about issues concerning social justice. She's open about her beliefs and seems to have something to say about everything. Even the simple act of going to the bathroom with Shirley turns into a rant about society's pressures on women, and makeup companies being male-owned. She doesn't joke a lot and seems to take things a little too seriously, to the point where she's called a buzzkill by other characters throughout the series. As the show progresses, however, we begin to learn more about Britta, and we find out just how complex she really is. We learn that this guarded, cynical side of her is just a front.
Britta truly is compassionate and caring, for the most part. Most of the time, her heart is in the right place, and she shows concern for her friends and wants to help and support them. For example, in season 2, episode 5, she's willing to pay LeVar Burton money to reschedule his flight because her friend Troy froze up the first time they met, and Britta wants to give Troy a second chance at meeting a celebrity that he admires. In Season 2, Episode 17, she responds with sympathy and a desire to help when she listens to Troy and Abed's friend Lukka hint at a difficult life before Greendale. Britta also shows genuine concern and empathy toward Jeff and the issues that he has with his father, and although her method of helping is pushy and obnoxious, she demonstrates a sincere interest in helping her friend. When she finds out that her friends are hurting, she doesn't ignore the problem or brush it aside. She doesn't mock them, or act cruelly toward them. She tries to support them. In Episode 21 of Season 2, Jeff tells Britta that there is something in her that wants to take care of people so badly that she'll do it until she makes herself sick. She cares. She's supportive. She wants to be a good friend. The only problem is that her attempts at helping often backfire.
Programmed badly,
Wires with fraying ends.
Functioning mad and sadly,
No faith in herself,
or friends.
Britta is a well-meaning person, who tries to help others but often fails. There are, of course, instances where her desire to help is entirely self-serving, but (as mentioned earlier) there are numerous other instances where she demonstrates concern and a genuine desire to help people. The problem is that she has a tendency to assume that she knows what's best for others, and intervenes without questioning if they want whatever she's trying to give them. For instance, during Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas (Season 2, Episode 11), she worries about Abed's mental state and tries to trick him into getting therapy, thinking it'll help him. She assumes therapy is the answer, but doesn't consider that it might not be what Abed wants or needs. She tries to push it onto him because she doesn't have faith that he'll help himself. She wants so much to be good and to do good, but she often screws it up because she assumes the best for people and doesn't fully understand how to help. There are other instances of her being a well-meaning person as well, such as Episode 1 of Season 3. Abed finds out that the premiere of his favorite show, Cougar Town, has been delayed to mid-season, which puts him into a catatonic state. Britta tries to help by showing him Cougarton Abbey, the British version that came before Cougar Town. Unfortunately, Cougarton Abbey ends with all the characters dying, and Britta doesn't take into account how badly Abed will react to the character's death. Once she realizes her mistake, she still tries to help. She goes to the trouble of trying to find him another show (Inspector SpaceTime) that he might enjoy, which shows that she truly does care -- and Inspector SpaceTime becomes his new favorite show.
Her aforementioned compassion doesn't always come from a selfless place. Sometimes she wants to help because she's trying to feel better about herself. In Season 2, Episode 19, Troy and Britta attend an acting class together, and during an activity, Troy admits to some childhood trauma. Britta reacts with sympathy, pity, and compassion and tries to do everything she can to support Troy. However, as Abed puts it: "Britta's attracted to men in pain. It helps her pretend to be mentally healthy." Britta wants to give people the help and support she's never received. Britta may become especially passionate about a particular social issue because it's affecting her personally, and she may pretend that she wants to break up a friend's romantic relationship because she's concerned about that friend when in reality she's just jealous.
As we get to know Britta, we learn that she is a hypocritical person, whose convictions aren't quite as strong as she makes out. She criticizes her friends for holding a protest when she's doing nothing to help, claims she's a vegetarian but wears leather jackets, and chastises her friends for visiting her parents and "meddling in her affairs," while getting herself involved in Jeff's relationship with his father. She says she hates liars and then lies. She claims she values honesty but isn't honest with herself.
She protests simply for the sake of protesting because she wants to show people that she's a good and caring person who has a passion for 'the real issues.' Unfortunately, this passion can come off as completely self-serving. A lot of her protests come from a desire to look good and feel good about herself. Unfortunately, other people quickly realize that her politics are shallow. It isn't that she doesn't care, but she doesn't do anything that is truly effective and doesn't always have a strong understanding of the issue in question.
She approaches social justice issues on a very superficial level. A group of her old protesting friends point this out to her in season 5, episode 7. By "selling out" her friends are able to raise money, organize charities, and help people more effectively than Britta, who would rather pick up a can of spray paint and make a little noise. Britta IS passionate about life and gets very fired up when she hears about injustice but she doesn't know how to truly fix things. She's very eager to stamp her feet and "fight the power" and she has gotten herself involved in protests in the past. The problem is that she's ineffective. She cares but she isn't committed and doesn't bother to learn more about the issue in question. And so, she doesn't always fully understand what the issue is about. She wants to help people but she has a tendency to be lazy and unfocused, and she distracts herself with other things so she doesn't have to commit. During the first two seasons, she attends community college but doesn't seem to know what she wants to do. It's only in season 3 that she decides she wants to pursue psychology as a major. Her passion can also come off as off-putting because she turns many conversations into a rant about social issues.
Britta is mistake-prone, and tends to screw things up so frequently that her friends have coined the term "Britta'd It" to use whenever someone makes a mistake. People tend to avoid asking for her help due to the high possibility that she'll mess something up. It's so bad sometimes that Britta will even burn every sandwich she makes while trying to look after her friend's sandwich business. She'll say that she's going to biology but she'll be carrying her chemistry textbook and she'll try to explain a psychology term or a concept and completely mix it up.
She says and does awkward things as the series progresses, but she's always been a little awkward. In seasons one and two, she awkwardly drunk dials Jeff, and accidentally knocks a corpse out of a window because she wants to put a tiny hat on a frog. She mispronounces bagel as baggel and looks embarrassed when she gets laughed at. Britta merely lets her guard down in later seasons and allows herself to be goofier because she's more comfortable around her friends. She acts guarded and tries to look cool for people she doesn't know, but she has nothing to prove to her study group. She knows they are her friends, even if they make fun of her sometimes, so she tries to be more fun and carefree. She shows her awkward, vulnerable, silly side -- making up silly phrases as she walks goofily up to grab some pizza, or more easily making mistakes because she feels that she can without getting ostracized. She no longer feels that she has to project an ultra-cool, worldly version of herself to people when she's comfortable with them. And although she comes off as unintelligent, this isn't always entirely the case. She can be insightful and thoughtful, but she just struggles to explain things sometimes, and sometimes her observations come out sounding unintelligent or awkward. An example of her being insightful and unintelligent at the same time is in Season 3, Episode 12. Jeff goes on anti-anxiety medication, and Britta says that without anxiety to keep his vanity in check, he's at risk of his ego getting way too large. Unfortunately for Britta, she uses a strange apple analogy that undermines her point. Britta softens as the series goes by but she is still very opinionated and concerned with social justice. She just becomes a little less serious.
Britta is an insecure person who believes herself to be a screwup. She was bullied and excluded in the past which contributed to her low self-esteem. Britta calls herself 'the worst' on more than one occasion, and admits that she hates herself, showing the audience that underneath that guarded exterior is someone vulnerable and unconfident. She objects to things just to appear cool and alternative, because she wants to be admired and liked by people. In season 2, people start looking up to her after Jeff walks out on her during her love confession, and she encourages their admiration because she enjoys the popularity and the attention that she is receiving. The attention is short-lived, but she embraces it while it lasts because it makes her feel better about herself. She also gets competitive with Annie because she's jealous and irritated that Annie is making more money than her during a charity event, and this results in her trying to tear Annie down. She wants to help people but often fails, and that makes her feel self-conscious and insecure as well. She's very hard on herself because she feels like she should be rebelling and protesting instead of going to a community college. She's afraid that people might think she isn't compassionate, so she goes the extra distance to be someone who is caring and compassionate. It's also implied that she is attracted to mean people and "losers" because it helps her validate her lack of self-worth. She's terrified of being boring, so she makes a lot of noise and does things like dropping out of high school to make herself appear more interesting.
Britta can also be self-righteous. When she sees an opportunity to be morally superior, she seizes it, flaunting that superiority in people's faces until she's knocked off her high horse. For example, Britta -- who is very vocal about feminism -- chastises and mocks Annie because she believes Annie is using her femininity to appeal to men and get donations. Her activism is used to judge others about their choices. She gets preachy over Shirley taking antacids while Shirley is pregnant. Britta claims that antacids are full of chemicals and says she wouldn't expose a baby to that. When Shirley states that her doctor said antacids are safe, Britta suggests that the antacid company paid for the study. She acts like she knows more than doctors and more than a woman who already has two perfectly healthy children.
Britta can be very determined as well, to the point of being stubborn. In Season 4, Episode 8, Dean Pelton announces a Sadie Hawkins dance. Britta decides that the dance is sexist and announces a Sophie B. Hawkins dance. Her friends point out that she means a Susan B. Anthony dance, but Britta doubles down and refuses to make her mistake. She is determined to get Sophie B. Hawkins to Greendale and does everything in her power to try and get her there. She wants to study psychology so much that she'll ignore everyone who advises against it because she wants to believe that she can achieve her goal. When Abed has trouble accepting that Troy is leaving Greendale, Britta tries her best to help him through it and doesn't back down even when things get out of control.
Britta is a complex woman. She's caring and compassionate, and she's also self-serving at times. She's lazy but she's also incredibly passionate and determined. She isn't exactly smart, but she's also insightful. She's flawed and that's what makes her human.
5-10 Key Character Traits:
+ Compassionate
+ Determined
+ Passionate
+ Insightful
+/- Well-meaning
+/- Awkward
- Self-Righteous
- Hypocritical
- Insecure
- Mistake-prone
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Opt-Outs: Arachne, Gargoyle, Faerie, Goblin, Simulacrum, Shade (+ Waldgeist because Dee)
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Somehow, Britta managed to befriend a human after a couple of days in Bavan. She'd made a lot of noise, claimed to be vehemently anti-gods, and showed concern for the humans of Ryslig, and that had charmed one of them enough to want to get to know Britta more. This woman, Lucy, invited Britta to stay with her and Britta accepted. She'd heard about the 38-8 but refused to move in, claiming that moving into the apartment building would somehow bring her one step closer to being brainwashed by the Fog. The truth was that she was just trying to make herself sound independent, rebellious, and cool; she wanted to show this new world that she cared so much about people that she was willing to give up free housing.
The other truth was that the monsters terrified her. They horrified her, and although she knew she was doomed to become one as well, that didn't make her any less frightened of them. She hoped Lucy wouldn't figure her out too quickly, wouldn't work out that Britta was making noise but highly unlikely to go much further against the Fog, and against monsters that ate people. It was easy for Britta to say she was against the deaths and the horror, but it was a lot harder to actually do anything to protect people. She was, ultimately, pretty useless and she knew it.
Britta sat down at the kitchen table, her hands wrapped around a cup of tea. Steam rose up from the ceramic mug, carrying with it a soothing, comforting smell that reminded her of home. Reminded her of sitting down at a cafe with her friends, or around the table in the study room doing anything but studying. Lucy sat with her, her own mug sitting untouched on a coaster.
"So... you're all alone here?" Britta asked, tilting her head, her brow slightly furrowed. She watched her new friend, focusing all of her attention on the other woman. She was listening, wanting to hear this woman's story -- which would be undoubtedly tragic.
"Yes. I... lost my family. To monsters. A long time ago," Lucy responds, voice wavering a little.
Britta feels her heart sink down into her stomach. This poor woman's life has been destroyed by monsters, by the Fog God's evil curse. It isn't fair. The Fog brings people in and expects them to become pawns in her sick game. Her war against the people. She expects people to yield to her, to become her brainwashed little soldiers, and it disgusts her. Britta reaches out, placing her hand over Lucy's, flashing her a look of empathy. A couple of quiet seconds pass before she speaks, her voice soft.
"I'm so sorry. That must have been horrible," she shakes her head. "You're living in fear every day because of this... oppressor!"
"It's a common story here," Lucy shrugs. Britta squeezes her hand and then lets go.
"And it's so unfair that it is," Britta answers, before slamming her hand on the table, surprising the human and causing her to jump a little. "I'm going to spray paint the walls of every institution that supports the Fog. I'm gonna go on a hunger strike! Gonna say no to the Fog."
"...Don't go on a hunger strike," Lucy winces at that, but Britta? Doesn't seem to be listening.
"She can't make me eat meat. You can't force someone to go against their beliefs! There's a word for that! It's..." She starts waving both hands around in circles in front of her, as though that might help her think of the word. "I... can't think of it right now, but you know what I mean!"
"Please. Don't go on a hunger strike," Lucy repeats softly, and she is unsure if she's even getting through to Britta now. "Maybe... talk to one of the monsters about what you can do?"
"To one of the... monsters? Y-Yeah. I can do that," Britta says, clearing her throat. There's nothing to be afraid of, right? They're former people. They're victims of this place as well, victims of the angry, cloudy oppressor who brought them here. She needs to hear their stories.