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Originally Posted by Bruno
I think it's more a Vow or Code of Honor. Compulsive Behaviors have to be indulged daily - that would be going out and picking a fight.
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I think Bruno has it. Most posters have concentrated on Brave Face applied to combat, but it could apply equally to non-combat situations, e.g. being pinned, possibly crippled, under a tree.
It seems that what you are looking for in your Brave Face is something rather close to the eighth law of Boy Scouts/Girl Guides: "A Scout smiles and whistles under difficulties./A Guide smiles and sings under difficulties." Some versions have it as "is brave and whistles/sings under difficulties." The whistling/singing actually does help psychologically in "bucking up." Given the nature of the law, I'd be more inclined to call it Code of Honor, rather than Vow, but I think it's what you're looking for.