Let's chat about h/c today!
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frith_in_thornsTo go with naye's lovely post about comfort tropes, tell me your favourite kinds of hurt for your fictional characters! Do you have ones you like to read but not write, or vice versa? Are there some you will read endlessly in any fandom you're in? Are there some h/c tropes you can bash out a 2k oneshot for at the drop of a hat?
Also, do you find you're equal-opportunity with your hurt, or do you hoard it all for one particular character or character archetype?
I'll start, and say that I'm really into hurt resulting in altered-state, as provided by many things but especially concussion/drugged/fever etc. It's something I find endlessly enjoyable to write -- the vulnerability caused by the skewed perspective, and how that plays out in character interactions, but also I... just like... the hurt bit itself *gg* And currently I have a definite Thing for Shen Wei magically exhausting himself and coughing blood and stumbling in a floppy way and having to be supported by Zhao Yunlan. (I don't suppose this is a revelation to anyone. But I'm so glad to know that I'm not alone!)
Anyway, please share your own likes! And recs!
(This is a positivity-only post. Very uninterested in hearing how h/c is OOC or a moral failing or how some people write it badly or whatever, thanks.)
naye's lovely post about comfort tropes, tell me your favourite kinds of hurt for your fictional characters! Do you have ones you like to read but not write, or vice versa? Are there some you will read endlessly in any fandom you're in? Are there some h/c tropes you can bash out a 2k oneshot for at the drop of a hat?Also, do you find you're equal-opportunity with your hurt, or do you hoard it all for one particular character or character archetype?
I'll start, and say that I'm really into hurt resulting in altered-state, as provided by many things but especially concussion/drugged/fever etc. It's something I find endlessly enjoyable to write -- the vulnerability caused by the skewed perspective, and how that plays out in character interactions, but also I... just like... the hurt bit itself *gg* And currently I have a definite Thing for Shen Wei magically exhausting himself and coughing blood and stumbling in a floppy way and having to be supported by Zhao Yunlan. (I don't suppose this is a revelation to anyone. But I'm so glad to know that I'm not alone!)
Anyway, please share your own likes! And recs!
(This is a positivity-only post. Very uninterested in hearing how h/c is OOC or a moral failing or how some people write it badly or whatever, thanks.)
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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!
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Date: 2019-10-02 12:02 pm (UTC)Hands down, the best thing about AOS.
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Date: 2019-10-03 01:28 am (UTC)