#norrie-does-art

Or, that just woke up from a nap pee urgency hits different with a UTI!

This is more detail than I usually add, but things got rough and I needed a distraction. Maybe the outcome can be a triumphant return. But as for how it relates to my story, I see this as later in the day after what happened. Once T3nna got back from his errand to get some things to help Sp4mton feel better, they both had a day in together. They were already tired out from everything. Sp4mton is already feeling better from being rehydrated and having some medicine in him, but he still constantly has to pee. Not just because of the infection making him feel like he has to. He’s drinking a lot to help flush the infection out and because it burns less to pee when it’s diluted out, his smaller than average bladder can’t stretch out to hold as much when it’s all thick and inflamed, and it’s getting filled up faster.

Naturally, drifting off for an unplanned nap led to him waking up desperate. He got fuller than he could have awake, and then woke up to a bladder spasm. Sp4mton knows the jolt from landing would make him leak or worse if he tried to jump down during a spasm, so he either has to try to wait it out, or ask T3nna for help down. He’s still shy about asking, so he chose to fight and hold on. But T3nna noticed him struggling and asked if he needed to pee, and he was too desperate to deny it on the spot and asked for help down then. Lucky thing, T3nna is feeling okay and only has heating pads on his shoulders preventatively because he’s learning to be less stubborn in recovery and to take care of himself before the consequences of not doing so set in, so it’s no trouble for him to help Sp4mton down, or even carry him to the bathroom so he doesn’t stress himself into locking up by running there.

At the risk of doing too much cha.rl.ie br.own wah-wah, I went all out with the background for stress relief. I tried to imagine how T3nna would do his bedroom in c4s.tle t0wn, and decided to make it reminiscent of his game show set and the gr33n room. The color of his duvet being like the curtains, the wall color, and the headboard of the bed being made of solid boards like a stage floor. His arm support pillow, too, and hanging a string of night lights up between the bed posts. T3nna has a bunch of pillows to support his arms however he needs, and Sp4mton has a lot of pillows because I think he’d be used to being surrounded by a lot of things when he sleeps, so a wide open bed around him might be unsettling. And since T3nna has a pillow reminiscent of his set, I gave Sp4mton a sky pillow. They deserve nice things and that just felt right in the moment. A lot of it was impromptu feel good things.

Or a drawing that tested every bit of my patience, and was an excuse to draw M3ttat0n with double crossed legs before anything else because crossed leg fidgeting in omo makes me feral, double crossed legs are even better, and who would be better to do them with than MTT?

The outline for the future story is pretty well developed, but probably won’t come together for a long time with the way my Relief In Recovery series is flowing. For those who don’t know it, M3ttat0n gets his body in the l1ght w0rld in my AU, but it’s much more mechanical than how he would be in the d4rk w0rld. There’s not as much plot to it and it’s way far along in the timeline. It’s a maintenance day story. M3ttat0n is doing T3nna’s l1ght w0rld maintenance, and has gotten to the step where he has to lay T3nna on his side to reach a few places to check and clean wires there. This step makes T3nna dizzy in the d4rk w0rld and can stress him out if he’s already glooby, so M3ttat0n tries to get through it quickly and only takes breaks to comfort T3nna if he’s getting upset.

But there’s just one problem. It’s mid summer and the air conditioning isn’t working, so M3ttat0n has been running through his coolant fast. And he’s consumed more than he usually does in an entire day in just a few hours to keep from overheating. He was too focused to realize he had to pee until tilting T3nna over sloshed his tank, and then his urgency sensors and internal high capacity alarms started going off. M3ttat0n doesn’t want to leave T3nna alone when he’s on a step that can be stressful, so he’s trying to hold it until he finishes. Even though it’s rapidly getting worse and he can’t remember the last time he’s ever had to pee so bad in this body. Despite not getting the countdown alarm yet, he feels like his tank is going to emergency release at any second, but while trying certain positions that make the urge just a little less distracting, M3ttat0n may be having an awakening of his own. And is it just him, or are the feelings he picks up across dimensions from the d4rk w0rld from T3nna less anxious than usual?

The Paruretic and the Polydipsiac. aka bathroom problem moral support frenemies, stuck waiting in a bathroom line somewhere in c4stle t0wn under the cut