Option: Meek

{if Male = true}You’d always been a shy guy. As a child you’d been more prone to sit in the back of the class reading then socializing. Confrontation scares you. It was as if there was a barrier between you and the rest of the world. Women scare you even more than confrontation. That you’d worked up the courage to ever find a woman who would love you might have been a minor miracle.{endif}

{if Female = True}You were always a shy little thing. As a little girl, you’d been more prone to hiding in the back of the class with a book than playing with the popular girls. It was as if it was your little barrier. As the other boys and girls had grown and you remained so petite, it was only because it was harder for you to assert yourself. Confrontation scares you. And from the moment you realized you realized that you were gay, other women scared you even more than confrontation.{endif}

That you had beaten the odds and found a pretty girl who loved you back was a never ending well of happiness. It felt like a minor miracle.

You look at your shy smile in the photo, and remember the swell of emotions that it had been hiding on that fateful day. How could you have even expressed the joy in knowing you weren’t alone anymore?

And of course, your wife had never seemed to mind. At least, not until everything had gone wrong. She would always respond to your lack of self confidence by reminding you just how much she loved your naturally passive and soothing disposition.

Player Gains Trait: Fear of Confrontation (Meek)

Your gaze moves from your face in the photo to hers. Despite your efforts not to fixate on her, in this low moment, you can’t help but wallow in painful nostalgia. Her smile from your wedding day seems to radiate off the picture.

It was as if that version of her is more real than the one who confronted you earlier. Certainly it felt more like the woman who you loved.