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Cope by Creating

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Cope by Creating	comment	When a character uses art (such as painting, dancing, singing, crafting trinkets, etc.) as a coping mechanism to deal with extreme stress, such as trauma, loss, or isolation. This trope is a Truth in Television, as studies have shown that any kind of fiber art (knitting, crocheting, sewing, etc.) can reduce anxiety and depression. It is known as a form of sublimation in formal psychology. Captivity Harmonica is a situation- and mechanism-specific subtrope. Compare Cope by Pretending, where the character instead copes by pretending their stress is not as big as it is; Comfort Food and Heartbreak and Ice Cream, a.k.a. "Cope by Eating", and Cathartic Chores, a.k.a. "Cope by Working and Doing Chores". Contrast Percussive Therapy, a.k.a "Cope by Smashing". A Sad Clown is a character who copes by cracking jokes. See also True Art Is Angsty. The inverse of this is Too Upset to Create, which can cause things like Writer's Block when a character's emotions leave them unable to create. See also Escapism.
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Cope by Creating / int_12300cc3	comment	Watchmen: After the Reality Warper Dr. Manhattan flees to Mars in the mistaken belief that he accidentally caused cancer to develop in people close to him, including his ex-girlfriend, he calms himself by creating a huge, intricate glass palace out of the sand.
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Cope by Creating / int_13dc9b0a	comment	The One Ring has this as a game mechanic to heal the Shadow Points that Player Characters accumulate through misdeeds or traumatic events. The character spends a few months of downtime on a Craft or Song skill check, which represents them rebalancing themselves through creative work.
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Cope by Creating / int_14213176	comment	The title heroine of Thais of Athens falls into a deep depression after her Best Friend Aegesichore and her lover Menedem are both murdered in a single day. The only thing that keeps her afloat (until major changes in her life help her overcome it) is riding out into the wilderness and dancing for hours at a time.
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Cope by Creating / int_1a79d8dd	comment	Catherine from Furry Experience is an introvert, and doodles frequently to cope with social pressures. Cat's class notes are littered with doodles. When Cat is assigned Courtney as a project partner, Cat draws Courtney with her cranial cap open and the brain flying out on silly little wings in the Tuesday 8 June 2010 strip. "I don't like her much," Cat admits to Ronnie.
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Cope by Creating / int_20ac8a71	comment	In Doom Patrol, Dorothy Spinner uses her psychic abilities to create lots of imaginary friends as a way of coping with her profound loneliness.
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Cope by Creating / int_23ce2396	comment	In The Mermaid's Daughter, opera singer is a descendant of The Little Mermaid who suffers from severe chronic pain in her feet and tongue. Singing is one of the few things that can distract her from it. Her friend Tom is also an example - singing makes him forget about his insecurities and his father who disowned him for being gay.
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Cope by Creating / int_24a18ffe	comment	Before The Ship Who... Won, Carialle survived a truly harrowing experience and was rescued, poisoned by her own wastes and in utter terror of the dark and of being alone. This being a setting that averts There Are No Therapists, numerous people poured intensive time and effort into helping her, and art therapy was part of this, starting with the suggestion that she paint her fears. She started by flooding canvases with utter blackness, only gradually working her way towards more complex work. By the time of the book she's better, with only a few rare reminders of her trauma, but she's discovered a love of painting as a hobby. With a new brawn who enjoys LARPing, Carialle also happily becomes his Game Master, designing holographic places and characters and challenges for him in her cabin.
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Cope by Creating / int_27f86cfb	comment	Ivan, the caged gorilla in The One and Only Ivan, feels that he's been an artist ever since he was a baby living with his family in the wild, when he would paint mud across the back of his patient mother. Captured and caged in an almost intolerable existence, Ivan mainly Copes By Pretending that things are fine and forcibly not remembering his old life, with a side of being really interested in food. But sometimes his owner gives him paper and crayons and he feels genuine pleasure and excitement, at least some of the time. It frustrates him that to most humans his work is completely abstract, when he thinks he's clearly portraying things in his cage.
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Cope by Creating / int_295048d5	comment	The Plain Doll from Bloodborne seems to have been crafted by Gehrman as a way of coping with the suicide of his star pupil (and secret obsession) Lady Maria. While he has meticulously recreated Maria's physical appearance, however, he couldn't bring the Doll to life, and so appears to have struck a Deal with the Devil to animate her (and the end result was markedly different from the original, personality-wise).
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Cope by Creating / int_2a8943c0	comment	In the Miraculous Ladybug story A Small but Stubborn Fire, while looking at the sketch that Marinette has made of a man in a white suit and mask with words like "love destroys" and "regret" Sabine wonders if this is a silent cry for help from her daughter over being assaulted, not knowing that the drawing is of an akumatized Cat Noir.
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Cope by Creating / int_2fee008d	comment	In Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, after Kamina's death, Simon is seen sculpting several statues of him.
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Cope by Creating / int_3089da71	comment	This Alien Shore: Ian Kent used to be an outpilot until a docking accident destroyed his color vision, making him unable to navigate the ainniq. Now his main hobby is his art. He struggles to capture the beauty of the ainniq, but it would be impossible even with color vision.
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Cope by Creating / int_331e009	comment	Borderlands 2 features a mix of this and Cope by Pretending in the Tiny Tina Assault on Dragon Keep DLC, which takes place after the main game and follows Tiny Tina guiding her fellow Vault Hunters through a campaign of Bunkers & Badasses... which right from the get-go appears to be Tina's means of ignoring (if not outright denying) the recent death of her beloved Parental Substitute, Roland. The players spend most of the game allowing Tina to indulge her wacky fantasies, but as the campaign nears its climax and it becomes increasingly more reflective of recent events through her selectively oblivious lens, they start getting very uncomfortable and try to get her to stop the game and face the truth. They eventually do get to her, and only once Tina comes fully clean with accepting Roland's death does she and the party come up with their own happy ending to Roland's story, allowing her to heal and move on.
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Cope by Creating / int_355f992	comment	The Shawshank Redemption: Andy copes with the monotonous reality of his imprisonment by carving little stone figurines. There is more to it than his fascination with art. He purposefully invokes the trope to avoid suspicion while secretly using the carving hammer to dig out a tunnel and escape. Subverted when Andy gives his friend Red a harmonica as a present hoping it will cheer him up. It reminds Red of the free days too much to serve as solace, so he avoids playing it.
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Cope by Creating / int_370fd67d	comment	Carl from Every Shiny Thing took up gardening after the death of his eight-year-old daughter from cancer. Watching and participating in the cycle of life makes him feel better about what happened.
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Cope by Creating / int_3805309f	comment	Dana from the Pilgrennon's Children series makes Airfix models, on the advice of her therapist that she go somewhere quiet and do something she enjoys that takes up all her concentration when she's upset.
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Cope by Creating / int_3b0fa3aa	comment	Dream SMP: It is revealed that Foolish uses building and construction to maintain a sense of control over his life, a much healthier coping mechanism than burning down and massacring villages as he did in his past. It is implied that one of Eret's main coping mechanisms for dealing with and moving past traumatic events is building monuments or exhibits on them in his museum, like the replica of the Egg, or the monument she made for Foolish after he sacrificed himself to save them during the Red Banquet, for example.
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Cope by Creating / int_3e2c8ec4	comment	Marwencol and its derivative Welcome to Marwen are based on this trope. After a severe beating left him brain-damaged and unable to draw, artist Mark Hogancamp created a miniature town populated by dolls, which he manipulated and photographed to deal with his trauma.
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Cope by Creating / int_3ee3ceda	comment	The Last Continent: The god of evolution reacts to problems by making beetles as he says it relaxes him (the god being based on both Charles Darwin and the "God has an inordinate fondness for beetles" quote). Stibbons, who is ready to give up everything to live with the only scientific-minded god on the Disc runs like hell when it turns out the god's evolutionary masterpiece is a cockroach.
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Cope by Creating / int_3f0d1805	comment	Brian Topp in Spaced discovers he can only paint when he's angst-ridden; after finally finding happiness when he starts dating Twist, his inspiration dries up. Luckily, Marsha spots his predicament and deliberately taunts him about his artistic block, making him just upset enough to start painting again.
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Cope by Creating / int_40cb071f	comment	Outbreak Company: A while after the werewolf Elbia joins the protagonists as their group artist, she starts hiding away in her room, drawing non-stop while avoiding food, sleep, and baths. Shinichi confronts Elbia over this, fearful that he's turned her into a Hikikomori. Instead, she explains that short-term obsessive episodes are considered perfectly normal for werewolves, who had to find more socially acceptable ways of channeling their hunting instincts after they were integrated into human society. The Animated Adaptation, however, isn't an example — Elbia is shown losing sleep, but it's treated at face value as Shinichi getting her addicted to Japanese art (in general, the adaptation drops a lot of the novels' racism themes in order to focus more on its allegories for the British opium trade).
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Cope by Creating / int_49a87cb3	comment	An out-of-universe example: Hironobu Sakaguchi's mother passed away shortly before development began on Final Fantasy VII. Given how strongly the themes of loss and grief are in the game's story, it's clear that he threw himself into this project as a way to cope with his loss.
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Cope by Creating / int_4b790c7b	comment	Tony Stark in Iron Man 3 is shown dealing with the stress from his PTSD of the chitari invasion using this. This results in several dozen different Iron Man suits of various sorts.
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Cope by Creating / int_4c5e0447	comment	My Child Lebensborn is partly about caring for a bullied child. One of the means by which the child deals with what is happening to them is by drawing. There is at least one event during which the child spends a time unit unavailable for tasks that require their physical presence because they are busy drawing.
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Cope by Creating / int_4d8931d9	comment	Utopia Falls: After she's traumatized by being caught in a riot, Sage learns capoeira as not only a self-defense technique in the future but to heal, which works.
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Cope by Creating / int_4e7bc558	comment	Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail: Chloe Cerise writes a lot of macabre stories to help vent out frustrations in her life about people not noticing her — or if they do it's about her following her father's footsteps — and her bullying problems and school.
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Cope by Creating / int_584365d4	comment	The title character in Melody writes songs and plays them on her guitar to console herself whenever she misses her deceased mother. The protagonist may do this as well. He is shown to have written songs that are relevant to situations that he faced in life.
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Cope by Creating / int_599de590	comment	Best of Three: In high school, Helen vented her frustrations with her unrequited crush on Grant by writing poetry, which she sees as a given for all angsty teenagers. It's something of an Old Shame for her.
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Cope by Creating / int_61f7d6cd	comment	Alantutorial: Alan attempts to cope with his problems the only way he knows how: by doing the one thing he loves and making tutorials for the internet, even if he's stranded in the wilderness.
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Cope by Creating / int_6744d821	comment	In The Owl House episode "Reaching Out", Luz Noceda is depressed over the fact that she's unable to perform her yearly ritual of visiting her father's grave with her mother and basically does anything she can to keep herself distracted. When Eda and King wake up, they find her furiously scribbling down notes on a board to try and figure out what Belos' plans are, with her having already started work on a (haphazardly thrown together) portal door prototype and discovered a new glyph combo before they woke up. Both of them are immediately able to tell that something is bothering her.
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Cope by Creating / int_6a8aff51	comment	The Stormlight Archive: When Navani believes that her brother-in-law has been betrayed and killed in battle, she dissociates slightly and paints a huge prayer-glyph on the ground. After her mind clears, she realizes it's the symbol for "Justice".
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Cope by Creating / int_6ca7ec42	comment	Throughout Waitress, Jenna channels her problems into new flavors of pie. Most of them are inspired by her Awful Wedded Life, conflicted feelings about her affair, or both (i.e. â€œI can't have no affair because it's wrong and I donâ€™t want Earl to kill meâ€� pie).
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Cope by Creating / int_705bb59a	comment	Vampire: The Masquerade: The deformed Nosferatu Vampire Variety are usually stuck living in underground enclaves at the fringes of undead society. They're also a rare exception to vampires' Creative Sterility, channeling their alienation into eerie sculptures, haunting songs that use the acoustics of subway tunnels, or bizarre fungus gardens.
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Cope by Creating / int_73d7930f	comment	In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Hard Time", O'Brien is sent to prison and, in order to cope with forced isolation, taught by his cellmate how to make "eseekas", geometric patterns formed by tracing his finger in the sand covering the cell floor.
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Cope by Creating / int_76c01b30	comment	Subverted in V for Vendetta. Delia Surridge thought that the Man In Room Five's fooling around with fertilizer and grease solvent was just him trying to cope with the trauma of his experiments through art. In reality, he was using the various chemicals to create napalm and mustard gas for his eventual escape.
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Cope by Creating / int_7832b74c	comment	In the Steven Universe episode "Made of Honor", Steven explains to Bismuth the revelation that her leader Rose Quartz was also their supposed worst enemy Pink Diamond, that she had faked her shattering the rest of the Crystal Gems were corrupted as a result and that he had unbubbled her without telling the others. When Steven tries making her reappearance a surprise to the others, Bismuth wanders off and drowns her sorrows by working in her forge, making weapons for an army that will never use them because they have either died or were driven mad with corruption presumably because of an idea she had given to Rose.
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Cope by Creating / int_7dce7773	comment	In With Pearl and Ruby Glowing, Luz and Kyle made (poorly written) fanfiction based on their abuse, and several guests on Bev's show pour their trauma into acting, dancing, or book-writing. The writers have also noted this is what they're doing themselves with the entire AU.
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Cope by Creating / int_7e9d1a6c	comment	Frozen (2013): After Elsa escapes Arendelle, she creates a beautiful ice palace both to test her Elemental Powers and to release her pent-up emotions. She is singing "Let It Go" as it forms around her.
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Cope by Creating / int_7f640c5a	comment	In The Sims 4, you can tell Sims that are Angry or Sad to paint paintings based on their mood. The resulting paintings have an aura based on the mood of the Sim that painted them, making any nearby Sim that same mood. The possible paintings change as a result of this; Angry Sims, for instance, can paint a house burning down.
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Cope by Creating / int_7f959890	comment	In Barbie as Rapunzel, Rapunzel often paints as an escape from her miserable living situation, including painting places she dreams of visiting one day once she's free. Her painting skills come in handy when she gains a magic paintbrush that turns her paintings into portals to real-world locations.
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Cope by Creating / int_833ad429	comment	Daughter for Dessert: For a time, Amanda deals with her crush on her father by writing erotic stories about a father-daughter couple who run a diner. Notably averted with Kathy. She has dreams of being a successful writer, but she tends not to do anything when somethingâ€™s bothering her.
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Cope by Creating / int_9c2dce7b	comment	In Little Women, when Jo is deep in grief after Beth's death, Marmee suggests she comfort herself by writing again, which (apart from one poem about Beth) she hasn't done since her professional career failed in New York. Jo takes the advice, and not only does it help her to heal, but she soon revives her career by publishing her short stories and poems in a magazine.
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Cope by Creating / int_a12cd9cf	comment	Big City Greens: Gloria copes with sadness and extreme stress by painting and is happy to explain how she felt when she painted each work as well as what she was coping with at the time. Unfortunately, she's a Butt-Monkey and nobody sees any beauty in her paintings until Cricket adds crude drawings of common objects to the canvases. The very fact that her paintings got no attention without the help of a small annoying child does not escape her notice.
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Cope by Creating / int_ae01c9d3	comment	Katya from By Any Other Name painted to cope with missing her dad, who had made powerful enemies through some kind of business deal, and worrying about his safety. But it was her own safety she should have been worried about, because her father's enemies kidnapped her to hold her to ransom.
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Cope by Creating / int_ae0356e0	comment	Courage the Cowardly Dog: In the episode "King Ramses' Curse", a plague of locusts begins to destroy the Bagges' house. Upon witnessing this, Muriel goes into the kitchen and begins rapidly baking cakes until the curse passes.
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Cope by Creating / int_af01e8ee	comment	Starr from Orange Clouds, Blue Sky deals with her problems, including her father's abandonment and her mother's depression and drug addiction, by drawing with crayons. When she's drawing, she can shut out everything bad and focus on her work.
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Cope by Creating / int_b9419bd1	comment	Implied in Deus Ex: Human Revolution. A desk in Adam's apartment is covered in handmade clocks, which is either this trope or doing delicate work as physical therapy (or perhaps both).
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Cope by Creating / int_bbcdaddc	comment	Maria no Danzai: Maria was once a happily married woman and a mother. However, her beloved son was killed right in front of her, and she discovered that she was killed in a prank gone wrong by demonic bullies who tortured her son before they killed him. She snapped toward revenge and threw away her life and marriage, eventually taking a new identity as a nurse at her son's old school to kill the bullies one by one and destroy them emotionally before killing them. It was revealed in chapter 14 that in her spare time at home, Maria sews together sock dolls of her deceased son Kiritaka; she has dinner with the doll and pampers it like it was her son. It's clear that this is a coping mechanism Maria uses when she's not focusing on destroying the demons that took her son away.
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Cope by Creating / int_c4282b71	comment	In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Fame and Misfortune", when Rarity's boutique is being boycotted because of negative reviews about the friendship journal, she copes by "stress-sewing" and churning out large amounts of dresses. She's later seen wearing a completely ridiculous and tacky outfit. When Rainbow Dash asks her what it is, Rarity snaps, "My emotions, darling! STRESS COUTURE!"
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Cope by Creating / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who, "Vincent and the Doctor": Discussed by a museum curator regarding the art of Vincent van Gogh. Going by van Gogh's reaction, he hit the nail on the head.
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Cope by Creating / int_d9673ef7	comment	The Handmaid's Tale: Offred, the story's narrator, mentions that Wives are not very satisfied with the grim realities of women's life in Gilead either, even though they are the top class women who have servants and their husbands are in power. About the only creative things they can do is gardening or knitting scarves for soldiers who fight at the fronts.
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Cope by Creating / int_e137e518	comment	A Second Chance: When Luanâ€™s in a state of serious depression, she falls into â€œmime melancholyâ€� (as her siblings call it), where she takes a vow of silence and stays in her mime persona for the indefinite future. This happens in No Good Deed Goes Unpunished, when her family accepts to stay at Kathleenâ€™s summer home for a week and Luan's â€œprotestingâ€� (staying outside and roughing it) goes horribly wrong immediately, leaving with nothing but to sulk in her own bizarre way.
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Cope by Creating / int_e5d739e8	comment	The title heroine of GRIS copes with personal loss by singing. Notably, she cannot actually sing for most of the game (the "Sing" button is mapped, but only elicits weak gasps from Gris), only finding her voice again in the penultimate stage. At the climax, singing finally helps her to overcome her depression.
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Cope by Creating / int_ed9f77b7	comment	Dororo (2019): Mio sings so that she doesn't feel sadness even when she's selling her body.
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