oooooh! (how did i miss naye's post? i need to find more time for dw...)
i find altered states really appealing too, although i have to be careful bc unstable experience of reality can sometimes touch upon a (triggery for me) experience of certain types of mental illness. but fever is great, and so are drugs. while i'm open to alternatives, i generally find it easier to read h/c when the hurt is temporary and doesn't have long-term effects (other than scars - i do enjoy scars).
re: pain, it can be a very useful tool for unsettling characters who need to be, well, disrupted in a specific way so that they can reevaluate their situation/strength/life choices etc - and all the more so when they seek it out, consciously or not. for example, it was SUCH a pleasure to watch chris pine's kirk get his ass kicked a bunch of times in the star trek reboot because he, uh, really knows how to take a beating - in so many ways. :D
btw, while the show has left me with a super intense need for shen wei h/c (emphasis on "c" lol), the seeking-out-pain thing is what makes zhao yunlan a good candidate too in my head. maybe it's part of his whole danger kink package (as someone brilliantly called it on twitter recently). i'm also 100% down when it falls under the "this might help people/shen wei, so of course i'll willingly throw myself into pain" setup.
i think the further the type of pain is from my personal experience, the more likely i am to go along with it & be able to enjoy its description in fic (and fever can be kind of enjoyable? idk, that may be just me). so bullet wounds and stab wounds and magical injuries - sure! but headaches and sleep deprivation - no thanks. too real!
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Date: 2019-10-02 12:08 am (UTC)i find altered states really appealing too, although i have to be careful bc unstable experience of reality can sometimes touch upon a (triggery for me) experience of certain types of mental illness. but fever is great, and so are drugs. while i'm open to alternatives, i generally find it easier to read h/c when the hurt is temporary and doesn't have long-term effects (other than scars - i do enjoy scars).
re: pain, it can be a very useful tool for unsettling characters who need to be, well, disrupted in a specific way so that they can reevaluate their situation/strength/life choices etc - and all the more so when they seek it out, consciously or not. for example, it was SUCH a pleasure to watch chris pine's kirk get his ass kicked a bunch of times in the star trek reboot because he, uh, really knows how to take a beating - in so many ways. :D
btw, while the show has left me with a super intense need for shen wei h/c (emphasis on "c" lol), the seeking-out-pain thing is what makes zhao yunlan a good candidate too in my head. maybe it's part of his whole danger kink package (as someone brilliantly called it on twitter recently). i'm also 100% down when it falls under the "this might help people/shen wei, so of course i'll willingly throw myself into pain" setup.
i think the further the type of pain is from my personal experience, the more likely i am to go along with it & be able to enjoy its description in fic (and fever can be kind of enjoyable? idk, that may be just me). so bullet wounds and stab wounds and magical injuries - sure! but headaches and sleep deprivation - no thanks. too real!