Total Drama Boys Taking Care of You When You’re Sick / Unwell ₊˚⊹♡
Writing snippets / imagines of some of the Total Drama boys taking care of you when you’re unwell, specifically in the context of them being your romantic partner.
Characters featured: Cody, Trent, Tyler, Duncan, Alejandro.
Cody ദ്ദി(˵ •᷄ ᴗ -˵)
Cody genuinely goes above and beyond when taking care of you, even if it ends up coming across as incredibly awkward or a bit excessive at times. His fruitless efforts to be perceived as “cool” are more toned down when you are vulnerable and in need of comfort and attentiveness.
His initial reaction to you being sick is a combination of concern for your well-being and an eagerness to prove to you just how much he will do to help you feel better. Internally, he’s worried that he won’t be able to look after you properly, but he will do everything in his power to look after you, while simultaneously, and awkwardly, trying to hide how nervous he is to do so.
His intelligence equips him with some areas of knowledge that are necessary to attending to your specific needs, and he will comprehensively research anything that he needs to in an effort to increase the chances for him to be successful in caring for you.
Expect flirtatious comments intertwined with dorky, well-meaning support.
“Don’t worry babe, the Code-man’s gonna take care of you!”
(Taking your temperature, feeling your forehead) “Wow sweetie, you’re so hot! I mean – literally too, heh!” followed by an “I’ll do everything to make you feel better!”
If you’re well enough and wanting to do so, you’ll cuddle together while playing video games. Whatever game you want to play, he’ll prepare every console or device for you without hesitation. If it’s a game where customization is involved, he’ll thoughtfully go out of his way to create an extravagant in-game surprise for you. This can be something like creating a cozy area for you in a game like Animal Crossing, preparing in-game gifts for you to make you smile, writing doting or flirty messages for you, and buying you game content with real money as a treat.
He absolutely adores holding you and cuddling with you, and it is no exception when you’re sick. He can be quite clingy. Expect verbal reassurance, physical touch, and kisses. His good nature and sweet side shines deeply in this context. He looks at you as he holds you with worry, and when you notice him looking at you in this way, he immediately shifts his expression to a giant, tooth-gapped grin or smirk to avoid worrying you. He really just wants you to feel better and make you feel as happy as he does in your relationship.
He’s always trying to cheer you up and doing endearingly silly things to do so. Perhaps he tries to goofily perform a song for you on his keyboard to impress you or tells you absurd facts he’s studied to make you giggle. His stuffed emu plush, Jerry, often becomes involved as your secondary caretaker.
He’ll do or buy absolutely anything you need, whether you specifically request it, or he takes the initiative to do so himself. If he needs to take a trip to a store to purchase something such as medicine for you, he’ll pick up flowers, a stuffed animal, and candy along the way for you too. He comes home stumbling semi-confidently with tons of stuff in his arms for you that he can barely carry the weight of.
You’ll be slowly rocked to sleep in his arms, his small frame providing surprisingly large, tender comfort. He feels relief when you fall asleep in his arms, knowing that you can’t be in any discomfort or pain while you rest. You are precious to him.
Trent ♫(･‿･๑)
Trent is very sweet and gentle with you, he always is, but he is extra attentive when you are feeling unwell. He hates seeing his love uncomfortable or hurting in any kind of way.
He ensures that you’re eating or drinking enough and in the way that your body needs to during this time period. This entails bringing you soup or any comfort food, prioritizing keeping you hydrated, and always getting more food or water for you without any hesitation or complaints. He’ll spoon feed you if you need, or just want, him to do so, attentively delivering you small portions of food when you’re ready. He’ll also assist you in drinking water, holding water bottles up to your face at a slow pace, gently tilting the bottle to make sure that it is not too forceful for you.
If you are not with him in person for any reason, he will check in on you periodically, messaging or calling you to remind you to be extra gentle on yourself and that he is there if you need him.
“Hey my love, just checking in to see how you’re doing. You let me know if you need anything at all. Don’t hesitate and be gentle on yourself. Cool? Love you.”
If you’re concerned that he will get sick from being so close to you while taking care of you and express this to him, he will endlessly reassure you that him helping you feel better is always worth getting sick, but assures you not to worry and focus on feeling better as he’ll be fine.
He is the type of boyfriend to hold you softly when you’re unwell, tenderly rubbing your head and your back, gently brushing your hair out of your face, all while gazing at you with so much genuine love and concern. Expect soft kisses to your warm forehead, assisting you to get out of bed by holding your body for support, welcoming you to lean into him when you need to with open arms.
You’ll watch comfort films together when you’re in the mood for it, with him constantly looking down at you while his arms are wrapped around you under the large cozy blanket he placed around you to make sure you’re warm and hugged with comfort. He rubs your back in soft, soothing motions throughout a movie. He’s enjoying whatever you’re watching together, but his attention is shifted more strongly to ensuring that you’re alright. You always come first for him.
As you begin to fall asleep from exhaustion, he will gently play his guitar to soothe you to sleep. He does so in a serene and soft way, the strums of the guitar strings gently encouraging your body to heal and rest. Alternatively, if the guitar is too loud or overstimulating for you in the moment, he’ll sing you a quiet lullaby or ballad to bring you peace. He sings with tremendous love.
Tyler (ง • ̀ᴗ •́) ง
Tyler adores you, and seeing you sick hurts his enormous heart! His concern for you will be transparent on his worried facial expression and immediate, over-the-top but good-hearted intentions to care for you.
“My poor baby! Don’t worry! I’ll make sure you’re feeling all better real soon, babe!” (emphasized as he clumsily staggers around to retrieve anything he needs that he thinks will help you feel better)
While taking care of you, he inevitably manages to injure himself in several ways, such as ramming into the door frame of your room as he energetically rushes to your aid with whatever he sought to get for you, loudly pretending that he’s totally fine after the ordeal.
He makes sure to tell you how beautiful you look even when your sickness weighing down your body is visibly showing. Importantly, he really means what he is telling you. Even in your most vulnerable state, where you are not polished and feeling confident in your appearance in various ways, your beauty never hinders for him, not even slightly.
He’ll hold your hair back out of your face and take your makeup off for you if you were out or had your makeup done before you started to feel poorly. He may not know the right products to use, but his boyish attempts to do so make you giggle and get the job done thoughtfully. He’ll hold your face gently while doing so, which takes a conscious effort for him due to the extreme strength he possesses in each of his fingers!
He’ll pick you up and carry you wherever you need to be. Carrying you from your bed to the bathroom, the kitchen, and back to your bed. Tucking you into bed, placing your covers over you lovingly, is another responsibility that he is content in fulfilling. Your relationship is wholesome and brings about a sense of joy that reminds you of a nostalgic type of delight.
He feels honored to be able to take care of you and does so with pride.
“You’re gonna be okay, my y/n, I’ll make sure of it!”
He’ll kiss you on your lips tenderly, completely forgetting that doing so will likely result in him inevitably getting sick. This revelation does not arise until he comes down with the same sickness you had a few days later.
He will buy you one of those ginormous teddy bears, which you end up resting on. He finds it so adorable seeing you by it, so grateful to have such a precious partner and hoping that you’ll feel completely better soon.
Duncan ( •̀⤙•́ )
Duncan attempts to act nonchalant when the earliest signs of you feeling sick begin to emerge, reassuring you that you’ll be fine and it’s nothing to worry about, but truly, he’s incredibly concerned and wishes he could take away every ounce of discomfort in your body and mind. He brushes your worries off as much as he can, but his love and concern for your health is rather transparent, to his dismay.
He is a massive “baby” when he’s not feeling well and equally turns to mush when he’s exposed to seeing you unguarded and hurting, it just takes a bit of time and comfort. The sentimental heart he possesses under the thick layers of his harsh exterior is shown to only a select few individuals, and you are the one who sees it in its truest form, even if it’s not too often. When you’re sick, his softness gradually, though slowly, emerges.
Expect mild “baby talk” amongst his typical flirtatious comments, but don’t tell anyone. “Alright baby girl, I got you, take it easy,” he tells you with his arms wrapped around you, somehow expressed in a slightly rough yet tender manner at the same time. It is comforting, not aggressive.
If someone in your life was aware that they were sick and had the careless audacity to be around you before you fell ill, he would be absolutely enraged by their neglect to care for your safety in exposing you to their sickness. He is extremely protective of you, of both your physical self and your mind. He’d announce his frustrations in front of you vocally, developing an immediate, powerful distaste for whoever was indifferent to exposing you, holding you tightly in his strong arms while you lean into him.
His temper with everyone in his life is further shortened during the time period in which you’re sick. He is mentally exhausted from being so concerned for you, as well as trying to hide the extent of it, and an extra short fuse with others is the result. Not with you though, he does his best to not allow himself to lash out at you when you’re not well.
He cares for you deeply, although he definitely isn’t always the best at actually demonstrating this to you when you’re feeling sick. He might do small research (quick, not thorough, but well-intentioned internet searches) on how to help someone feeling the way you do feel better.
You catch him staring at you with an expression that you rarely see on his face. His face is riddled with apprehension and despair. His eyes are soft and sad, and his entire face is slightly droopy. He doesn’t realize that you noticed this. He loves you so much, and the thought of your sickness getting more severe terrifies him in ways he can’t and won’t willingly articulate.
When you’re sleepy or resting, he will be by your side, serving as your protector. He’ll hold you tightly, keeping you warm with his body, your head buried into his chest. The faint sound of the television from the movie he put on to try to distract you from your aching state lulls you to sleep. In anticipation for your body’s need to rest, he discreetly lowered the volume. You and your well-being are always on his mind.
Alejandro (˵˘ ³˘˵)
Alejandro can sense that you are becoming ill long before you begin to question whether you’re catching something or finding yourself increasingly under the weather. He is so attentive to your being, and the instant that something is even faintly different, he knows.
As he does throughout the entirety of your relationship, he both affectionately and flirtatiously refers to you with a variety of adoring pet names as he tends to your sickness. “Mi amor,” “Mrs. Burromuerto,” “Princesa.”
“Rest well, my princesa, I need you back to yourself.” “Did you know you’re gorgeous even when you’ve got a cold, Mrs. Burromuerto? It's hard to resist.”
He is prepared to both cook and exquisitely prepare curing recipes to you that are traditional within the Burromuerto family. His mother would cook them for him and his brothers throughout their childhood as effective homemade remedies for their ailments. These family recipes are personal to him, bringing him reminders of moments of comfort throughout a sometimes-competitive childhood. He wants to impress you and actually heal you simultaneously. His delivery of these remedies to you are extravagant, yet personal, and he reassures you that he would never give you anything that would hurt you.
“Ah, mi amor, please don’t resist, I made it special for you. My Mama used to make it for me, it will help you feel better, trust me.”
His protective nature surrounding you comes to light when you’re sick. He is observant and committed to providing you with round the clock care. He is charming in his bedside manners, calculated yet sensitive to your needs. He can read your body language well and adjusts his language and behaviors to correspond with what he sees. He will tease you, but every comment is enclosed in an envelope of passion for your well-being. Getting what can be considered a gentle annoyance out of you to keep things lighthearted and in his control, is something that he may bring about at times.
He will caress your hair, kiss your shoulders and forehead, and embrace you. He remains cautious when he cares for you, as he wants to avoid the likelihood of him getting sick from you to the greatest extent possible, but your comfort comes first regardless. He prides himself on being someone who doesn’t get sick often, viewing it as some sort of advantage that supports his view on himself and his capabilities.
When he caresses your forehead and hair, he locks eyes with you intently. It is intense, but filled with an enormous amount of deep passion, love, and care. His tender worry for you is evident in the way his eyes soften while still maintaining a strong gaze into yours. His eyes connect with yours, providing you with the reassurance that he will always, always, protect you. He soothes you to sleep without any tension, with you feeling deeply safe in his presence.
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This is my first time posting writing like this, and I hope it was able to bring you comfort and make you smile ♥︎. I tried to maintain and respect the characters’ canon characteristics as much as possible, though I apologize if anything felt distant from their true personalities. Thank you so much for taking the time to read ( ˘͈ ᵕ ˘͈)!
Divider Credit - cursed-carmine ♡
