So I’ve started watching Peaky Blinders for the first time (because of Blades in the Dark) and I noticed that a major part of the show (specifically in the first season at least) is about how the characters deal with trauma (mostly) inflicted upon them by the horrors of WWI and the social situations that it created . In game, most of these characters trauma’s are accounted for (Tommy would be cold, Arthur would be unstable, and so on) by the stress and trauma mechanics of the gang. Except for one I think, Freddie Thorne – the committed communist. Freddie, even being a ‘good’ person (in my opinion) who lives to help the poor and downtrodden and who is a relatively good lover, ultimately puts everything and everyone in his life at risk for the sake of his ideals. His trauma is his idealism, it is what put’s him at odds with the social order and those who love him, and it is where he went after being abused and then discarded by the state he probably once felt a patriotic love for.
Idealism could fall under being obsessed, but the feeling of being obsessed is a very internal and individual thing, where as idealism is much more directly social and pertains to effecting the social order itself.
What does everyone here think about adding this to list of trauma’s that a character can suffer? How do you think it would play out?