I Put My Favourite Characters In Pain

grumpy team leader showing up on monday morning with their arm in a sling, coat draped awkwardly over their shoulders

young, bold up-and-coming captain desperately trying to hide a limp to avoid being benched

visible bruises hidden under a sweater that keeps riding up, or poorly covered with makeup, dodging questions as their friends get more and more concerned

medic counting on their team not paying too much attention to the slowly spreading stain underneath their field jacket and the way that their hands are shaking

reliable, steady intelligence source doesn’t get sick, and the way their voice is cracking over the radio is just a bad signal

a meeting that they have to lead in five minutes and a black eye that they’ve resigned themselves to not being able to hide

absolutely refusing to admit anything is wrong despite the poorly-muffled coughing and sniffling

Whumpee being too weak to hold their head up for long and only taking a couple small sips. They then drop their head back on the pillow and breathe heavily, already tired, with their eyes closed.

🌡️ someone doing back-to-back readings with an oral thermometer because there's no way the first one was correct (it was).

🌡️ Person One using an infrared forehead scanning thermometer on Person Two, who's fallen asleep at their desk/sitting up/on the couch. Person Two basically never naps during the day unless something is wrong.

Leaning on cabinets and against walls in people's houses. Propping their head up with their hands at the dining table. Steadying themself against a banister on the stairs. Holding on to the post of the traffic light for dear life while they wait to cross the road because if they stand still unsupported they will fall to the ground.

overeating when there's an abundance of food around because they feel like they won't know when their next meal will come around and throwing up

similarly, overeating at an event when they keep seeing people not finishing their food because they don't want people wasting it, and again vomiting

panicking to the point of making themself sick when there's no food in the fridge or the budget is a little tighter

giving themselves food poisoning after not throwing out expired food because they thought it could still be usable

similarly, forcing themselves to eat food thats gone bad because they didn't eat it fast enough, and getting food poisoning

catching a stomach bug and desperately trying to keep everything down because they just ate a good, filling meal

eating way too quick because they've always had to do so to secure an adequate amount of food, and getting acid reflux or something similar

not eating during meal times so that others can get a bigger serving, and fainting or vomiting because of it

avoiding going to the doctor in exchange for a bigger food budget, and ending up way sicker than they wouldve been if they went in the first place

getting seriously ill but not going to the doctor until they're in extreme danger because their parents did the same to them as a kid

never getting tested for food allergies / intolerances and just vomiting anytime they eat a certain food or food group

ignoring a chronic symptom they've had since they were a kid just to find out oh, they have (insert chronic illness / disease / condition)

accidentally being a shit caretaker to another character because they don't know proper remedies or medications to help them feel better

being extremely emetophobic because their parents would panic severely infront of them anytime they vomited

character being terrified of shots because they never had them growing up and now they have to make up for all the vaccines they missed