I wonder what is preventing WoL from mentally breaking down

[Vyrerus]

I'd say it's mainly the luxuries that come with being savior and hero to multiple nations. For all the suffering and crap the WoL is put through, ultimately they're treated better than most aristocrats/nobles/leaders by most people that they meet. They get a lot of exceptions made for them, lots of cutting edge technology to help them out, and even a fancy dinner here or there.

They get to hammer out stress, literally, whether it be by crafting platemail armor or by bashing a monster's head in(or anyone's given whatever circumstances lead to that).

They have the capacity to be very wealthy, while also being self-sufficient. They are a strong person and a warrior, in spite of we who play as them.

A WoL played to the extremes is a master on the battlefield and a veritable tycoon when off it. My own main WoL has a fleet of Submarines and Airships, a large estate in Lavender Beds, and shows new adventurers the ropes providing any who wish for it a home. This isn't even in a roleplay sense, though I could very well write in the lived experience for it to be one.

The WoL is the Übermensch in all aspects of their life, except for the fact that they've adopted the Scions' morals(or at least seem to have). Despite having and even physically manifesting their psychological problems, they still ride roughshod over them, conquering them. They're put on display because they're really the only way we can relate to such a character, since we are not warriors ourselves(generally speaking, of course). Neither are we the best at literally everything we put our hand to, as is the WoL.

Personally, I think the WoL's greatest struggle is actually in retaining their humanity, and that this is the impetus for them hanging onto the Scions as friends, as well as why they help even the common man(also why they at times detest the chores they take on, as it is the expected, "human" thing to do).

I'd say the only way to really make the WoL have a mental breakdown is to point out that they are ever more not like other people, to really separate them, and point them into a mirror and then contrast who they are with what they want to be. Because what they want to be, they can never be, and thus far they avoid it mostly by stepping on it and tucking it far in the back of their mind. Dismissing it with a chivalrous attitude, as befits a hero of the people.

But once every challenge is won. Once every monster is cast down. Once the WoL must confront a life without challenges for them, then they will break, because having an endless opportunity to rest gives an endless opportunity to reflect, and all of their inner demons will stir to the fore. Leaving them with the choice to endlessly fight that inner self or to let it take the reins. It won't be Myste or Fray, but a new deep seated terrible part of the WoL's repressed humanity, perhaps a worse foe than we could imagine.

[Tsiron]

I'd say the only way to really make the WoL have a mental breakdown is to point out that they are ever more not like other people, to really separate them, and point them into a mirror and then contrast who they are with what they want to be. Because what they want to be, they can never be, and thus far they avoid it mostly by stepping on it and tucking it far in the back of their mind. Dismissing it with a chivalrous attitude, as befits a hero of the people.

But once every challenge is won. Once every monster is cast down. Once the WoL must confront a life without challenges for them, then they will break, because having an endless opportunity to rest gives an endless opportunity to reflect, and all of their inner demons will stir to the fore. Leaving them with the choice to endlessly fight that inner self or to let it take the reins. It won't be Myste or Fray, but a new deep seated terrible part of the WoL's repressed humanity, perhaps a worse foe than we could imagine.

Zenos was onto something, huh...