r/7thTimeLoop • u/Ok-Sherbet4457 • Apr 16 '26

Is Rishe Trauma-Resistant? Spoiler

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?!

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u/lunarprinc3 Apr 23 '26

Its cannon that she has nightmares of dying sometimes, and there are a few times where she gets PTSD like triggers (like getting poisoned, and feeling like she's dying.) imo rishe IS very resilient and tries to be as optimistic as possible, but I also think she's using that optimism to cover up her despair and fear. She avoids thinking about the bad as she rushes through one life into the next. She doesn't even realize how afraid she is of death until she (somewhat) tells Arnold that she's afraid that she's already dead.

tdlr rishe IS traumatized, she's just powering through it with optimism and passion for learning

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u/Ok-Sherbet4457 Apr 23 '26

I hope the more Rishe opens up to Arnold, the more we see how deeply those death affects her. Girl needs a safe space to actually process the trauma. 

Now that you mention it, I think her PTSD may aggravate her to be more reckless? As in, it clouds herself from her usual level-headedness. 

I think she tried to cut herself when she was poisoned so that her blood washes out the poison (I may be wrong since it's been more than a year since I read book 3) before Arnold got mad and sucked her neck instead 

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u/lunarprinc3 Apr 23 '26

I think it definitely contributes to her carelessness with her own life, yeah. some of it is her confidence in her skills, but she definitely acts reckless and is continuously reeled in by Arnold. She's way more likely to put herself at risk or sacrifice herself than to put anyone else in danger.