#fritso

Peter: wishes he’d had access to banana bags when he was in the dark hungover place first semester of uni. Despite this wish, he does faint at the sight of blood, so it might not have helped as much as you’d think. Will muscle through by looking the other way and engaging the tech/nurse in conversation about sports or theater. His voice is Not Shaking while he does so. He has a Totally Normal, Non-Vice Grip on his boyfriend’s hand, if Balth is with him.

Freddie: goes very pale, sits very stiffly, recites political theory in her head until it’s over. Criticizes the tech’s/nurse’s ability to find a vein despite having gone to less than zero medical school herself. Refuses to allow Kit in the room with her because he can’t be allowed to see her weak. Is an unholy terror the rest of the day because she Must Regain Control. Over her body and everything else.

Ben: Is excited for the free snacks. Has very temperamental veins and bleeds too much, gets a little woozy but stays impressively cheerful. If Beatrice is with him, he holds her hand the whole time. If she’s not, he sends her text updates, often in the form of silly memes.

I’m going to find the post so I can credit the person who first noticed this, but in Aftermath, Freddie is wearing the blue and white shirt that Kitso was wearing last night at the party. (Edit: Kit wears the shirt in Feathers, a still-upcoming episode. So maybe it is Freddie’s and Kit borrowed it from her at some point. But I like the idea that she put on his shirt after they spent Balthday night together and then gave it back sometime before Feathers.) That means Freddie and Kit almost certainly snuck off and hooked up at the party. She finally got to be with the guy she’s been pining for. And she doesn’t get to enjoy it because she’s so anxious about the flat. Maybe she was able to compartmentalize when her flatmates were out of her sight, so she did enjoy her time with Kit, and then the anxiety and need for control came back the next morning when she woke up and realized the rules were back on and that now the flatmates would be more tempted to break them? That seems the most likely scenario, because we know she still likes Kit, so it can’t be that being with him went badly or showed her they aren’t compatible.