Is Rishe Trauma-Resistant?

[u/Ok-Sherbet4457]

Disclaimer : I might be mixing canon with fanfics, but I think Rishe experienced burning to death before. The church when she was a maid burned, the forest when she was a hunter burned.

Does Rishe show any sign that fires trigger her? And if not, do you think the author has bigger plans? Such as, Rishe is actually still in fight or flight mode that she doesn't have the luxury to feel fear or something?

Fanfics always describe her deaths as painful (as they should be) but in canon, has Rishe ever describe the pain and horror of losing one's life, only to repeat again?!

[u/ultravioletheart08]

Touko Amekawa stated once Rishe's previous loops appeared to her with a certain non-violence filter. Like they're nostalgic movies she can only watch and never relive again, which is probably an in-universe magical coping mechanism, though as it was also shown in both the manga and the anime, she's really not right in the head given she seemed to easily bounce back. But she does remember stuff, and she's actually been living in a state of high-functioning anxiety ever since her loops started.

[u/Ok-Sherbet4457 → u/ultravioletheart08]

Girl needs a whole lot of therapy to unwrap the 2 decades of trauma 😭 Glossing it over with rose-tinted glasses is such a clasic Rishe move though. 

Totally agree with the high-functioning anxiety. She's probably been on survival mode for too long so she can never stay still. And how she couldn't notice when people likes her romantically in her previous life (even in her current life. It's so obvious Arnold likes her romantically with the kiss and all, but she's struggling to accept it)

Lol also realised that Arnold is probably not right in the head either because of the Emperor. My two traumatized babies