Thinking about this again and, I think I'm just gonna post a concept I talked about in a server near word for word xD :
Choosing to imagine Endurance and Volition being Floor Time™ buddies. Harry took a load of Health and Morale damage and hasn't healed and Volition and Endurance are both laying face down on the floor bc ughh everything feels BAD. Sometimes they lie on each other, the pressure helps (its totally not cuddling, shut up).
Like this except Volition is less floofy
Clutching it like a plushie, Volition luckily doesn't need to breathe bc it's pretty sure if it did Endurance would be suffocating it in its tits, I mean sorry pecs. So warm and snuggly. Volition kind of wishes it could enjoy this but it just feels The Bad™
Endurance is doing its best to live up to its namesake and Endure but g-d its pretty sure Harry is going to start coughing up an actual lung. Its coughing itself, all wheezing and thick with phlegm, Volition has perfect audio from its place pressed against its chest and the jolts from the coughing fit kinda hurt but it just feels empty about it, everything is bad and pointless so why even care?
However Endurance starts petting its back and sides to have something to do with its arms and hands while it waits for the headache from all the coughing to subside, and Volition is just 'hm everything sucks and I feel worthless, but the petting is soothing' Harry is just sitting on a bench sadly and then is like 'huh, I feel physically and mentally better, and kinda like I'm being hugged, this feels nice…' as the thing for healed morale and healed health pops up bc of the (totally not a) cuddle session.
I think mostly they'd do this just to not be alone, bc of the skills tied to health/morale pools, which to me implies that Endurance and Volition both get quieter and may want to isolate when feeling like that. Like a sick cat hiding. Usually Volition tells Harry to look after himself, but when Harry is at his worst, Volition can't really help him much bc Volition is also doing bad (bc ultimately it doesn't matter how high your volition/endurance is, if you don't actually heal from the damage there is no difference between low volition/endurance bc of lack of skill points and low volition/endurance bc of lack of morale/health).
A friend also added the idea: "What if, when skills are low or debuffed, their colours are less vibrant. When Volition and Endurance are both at their lowest they're almost gray." It's almost hard to tell them apart… not like which is which but more so, where one begins and the other ends. A grey mass of messily organised limbs, you can see like,, the top of Volition's head, one hand sprawled out and its feet and some of its right calf, everything else is buried under Endurance's sheer bulk.
Just.. I like the idea of them having done this since *before* the whole dating thing, and afterwards, they kinda didn't stop? Like they did a bit, and don't do it as often or as easily, but they gravitate towards each other. Volition is too weak to say no, to push Endurance away bc it can't deny it wants the affection and it feels so empty and apathetic, and Endurance feels like shit, sick, and struggling and wants to curl up somewhere safe and it knows Volition can be that. I like the idea of the two of them being like... Stone walls of a skill in their own rights, and leaning on each other when they aren't sure of their own stability...
Endurance, Half Light, Authority and Physical Instrument all do this to varying degrees (to me)
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