Soft and Hurt

1. It fucking HURTS!!! Wherever the infection is will be red hot to the touch, and also be in extreme pain. My infection was in my left ankle and if I tapped my left foot on the ground, I would be crying in pain

2. They are not able of having in depth conversations. The infection messes with your head, even if it is far away from your brain. For me, I was so incredibly tired all the time. You could talk to me, but I felt like I was living in molasses the whole time. It was very, very hard for me to hold a conversation with anyone

3. The person is sick in EVERY WAY. I was throwing up constantly, I could barely keep food down, and anything I did eat made me feel sick afterwards. I was also so weak that getting myself into my kitchen from my bedroom would wind me. My apartment is less than 700 square feet. It is not a far distance between the 2

Would it be ok if I ask for the headless horseman whumpee or is that not your things?

Hey!! Good to see you again 🤗 I don't usually do nonhuman Whumpees but you done asked so nice, I can at least give it a try 🫡 Hope you enjoy!

"What in God's name happened to you?" Caretaker asked, bewildered and thoroughly...curious? He should have been fearful. A more sane man would. But Caretaker assumed himself to have gone mad. Perhaps he felt himself within a strange dream, or a dark fairytale.

Febuwhump2026 Day 4: Blood stains

Please imagine me gently holding your hands, I am not reprimanding you, I say this with nothing but love and respect, but

If you give a character with no access to antibiotics a wound infection, they are going to die.

If a character is delirious with fever, they are going to die.

Make them lose a substantial amount of blood. For reference: For an adult human, about 8% of their body weight is blood. They can lose around 10% of that without much trouble, 20% will cause serious symptoms, more than 50-60% is generally incompatible with life. These numbers are estimations. The slower this blood loss, the better the body can compensate for it. Losing a significant amount of blood will affect the character's consciousness and take days or weeks to recover from.

Fever and malaise. Injuries are stressful. Inflammation is a natural response to that. Destroyed cells release proteins which can cause moderate fever (too much of that can cause kidney failure which is why excessive beatings can kill people, even when they don't initially sustain any life-threatening injuries). The character will be in pain, they'll feel like shit, they'll need plenty of rest and tender caretaking without their limb rotting off.

If you have to infect them, give them an abscess. That way, the pus and bacteria are walled off and can be drained out (by cutting the abscess open), with lower risk of it getting into the blood stream. It's also risky but much more survivable than phlegmone (diffuse infection of soft tissue).

Drugs. Just drug 'em. Ye Olde Opium/Laudanum will put them in a scarily deep sleep while Love Interest can sit there and hold vigil. Now this might also kill them so use with caution.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Date Everything! (Sassy Chap Games Video Game) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Eddison “Eddie” Watts/Volt/Reader, Eddison “Eddie” Watts/Reader, Volt (Date Everything!)/Reader, Eddison “Eddie” Watts/Volt Characters: Eddison “Eddie” Watts, Volt (Date Everything!), Betty (Date Everything!), Dorian (Date Everything!), Nightmare (Date Everything!) Additional Tags: Reader-Insert, Gender-Neutral Reader-Insert, They/Them Pronouns for Reader-Insert, No Use of Y/N for Reader-Insert, Post-Love Ending (Date Everything!), Pre-Realization (Date Everything!), Established Relationship, Nightmares, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, character death is depicted but not real, also slight body horror in that scene, but nothing too graphic, i hope??, worrying about if the reset had gone badly, Fluff and Angst, Protective Volt (Date Everything!), Protective Eddison “Eddie” Watts Summary:

What if the reset hadn’t worked? What if you hadn’t been experienced enough to do it right, or hadn’t followed Eddie’s instructions well enough?

What if, because of you, the worst thing imaginable had happened to Volt and Eddie?

During the DDD intro rendition of Riku and Sora's fight with Xemnas, you can see it is clearly bothering him. He looks at it and flexes it, before Xemnas punts him. This blow appears to be across the face/left shoulder, but it's not really clear. Probably also hurt super bad.

After this, when Xemnas is about to finish off Sora, Riku deflects the blow and pushes Sora to safety, leaving him open to this blow from Xemnas.

Which I believe also fractured the left side of his hip. This is why he had so much trouble walking after the battle, and had to be helped by Sora.

I find Riku's walk very stiff, especially compared to other characters. And I might be imagining it, but I feel like he has an ever so slight limp, barely there at all. Fractures around joints can cause stiffness and arthritis when they don't set properly.

When Riku stands to protect Sora, he presents the left side of his body foremost. His most damaged side.

When the darkness begins consuming his body, the camera again intentionally focuses on his left leg and left hand, and you can see them falter slightly. Especially his hand, you can see it contort. Riku is actually in a shit ton of pain here. That's why Sora gasped and reached out to him, he could see it hurting him.

Riku has physical handicaps, his left wrist and left hip, that both originated from him protecting Sora. Not to mention how he stood there and literally let the darkness eat him alive trying to protect him.

So I want to point out the significance of this scene at the end of KH2.

Upon seeing Kairi, in his joy Sora immediately seems to forget about Riku's injuries, which came from... Riku protecting him. Riku is shown growing distant in the background, walking slowly, struggling, being left behind by Sora. But he's happy that Sora is happy, and safe, because that's what's most important to him. I imagine however, that he was also incredibly sad watching Sora run to Kairi, knowing that Sora wanted to be next to her at that moment rather than him, even though Riku had suffered so much for his sake.

The way the shot is framed, as Sora runs toward Kairi, he blocks out the sun completely.

If he had stopped, turned around, and looked at Riku, he would have been looking directly at the light.

"I don't need you to die for me."

"I'm just trying to protect you-"