except, no matter how many years it's been I feel obligated to always touch on Enoch, who feels very strongly and cries openly when he feels he needs to. This is canonical in every single sense (as in, both to El Shaddai (more so in the print timelines where there's more space devoted to direct character focus) and the original Books of Enoch)

onward to the video game people (some of which do have tabletop sheets so they're not ONLY video game characters technically, but they have no tables so)

easiest first - Fortuna - Shadowrun: originally created in Shadowrun Returns' original campaign, Dead Man's Switch. Trying to recreate her in real SR 2e was...interesting, since you have to sacrifice build options to play nonhumans? Rude. Anyway...lol. What good does crying do? You won't catch her tearing up.

something something grungy dystopia

can't show weakness, etc

Not really interested in developing my STO or FF14 folks here at the moment so just going to skip to

Neverwinter/BG3

in one category because I decided it would be fun if BG3 was one more module dropped into the insane mess that is Neverwinter's content for both my Neverwinter characters

never mind that they're separate timelines because they resolved the Zariel situation differently

I can fudge things since Neverwinter is such a disjointed narrative. It's here to be a playground, not so much focus on overarching story, just individual ones. Which makes it more flexible

Nymzen - cries fairly easily. In personal distress, in response to the distress of someone he cares about...he just makes every effort to make no sound. Alerting your fellow drow to your distress just prompts them all to make mental notes about what caused that response so they can use it against you.

Ferlarys - basically never cries, in contrast. Not out of a need to avoid it, it's just not her first response. She'll get angry or focused on problem-solving immediately instead, depending on the situation.

Rovanna - the one BG3 character who actually was level 1 at the start of the game. Arguably the one who needs this most since she doesn't have literal years of being played with beforehand. She...doesn't cry easily, I want to say? but she also spent a great deal of time before the game's events in kind of a numb muddling-through state so

so far the only thing I've written her to cry for is grief? Don't see happy tears. Maybe angry tears? Betrayal might do it but that's linked pretty heavily to grief, it's a shocking sudden loss

Might go into these three in another plurk later? idk. I'm in one of those "self-conscious about talking about my characters in a public space" moods

onward to

SWTOR

Flow - cries very quickly. At nearly anything. Absolutely shit at reining in physical displays of emotions. Relatedly, has zero finesse with Force pull/push. This is fine since his Force usage is mostly just augmenting his speed/power and ambient empathy he never (can't?) turns off

Oberon - Almost never cries except in trusted company, but when he does he does it silently, for similar abusive/hostile environment related reasons as Nymzen above (exception: he can be pushed to completely breaking down, but if he does around you when he could leave, it means he trusts you a whole hell of a lot)

when your Sith is the more stoic one

Abric - absolutely does not cry and if you catch him crying he just had something in his eye. Grew up with some super toxic ideas about displays of emotion and is still chipping away at its bullshit years on. In private or with only his husband to hear he can let it out if it needs to be let out, but he lets it build dangerously

Natirru - very sensitive and not afraid to show it, but when he must hide it he's perfect. Spy things, you know? Story-related trauma has impacted his emotional stability (and the ability to fake it) some but it's fine he's away from the Empire now