The Hurt/Comfort Meme

[winterbolt]

Hurt/Comfort - Hurt/comfort is a fan fiction genre that involves the physical pain or emotional distress of one character, who is cared for by another character. The injury, sickness or other kind of hurt allows an exploration of the characters and their relationship.

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1. INJURY. You've been injured. Broken bones or bleeding out or maybe just a tiny little papercut. The choice is yours.
2. SICKNESS. You're sick and laid up in bed, at home or in a hospital. The severity is up to you.
3. FEAR/ANXIETY. Something is happening and you're scared beyond belief.
4. LOSS OF SENSES. Sight, touch, taste, hearing, smell, etc. You've lost some important sense or ability and now you're left to deal with it.
5. DESPAIR. Nothing is good or right anymore and you can't shake the depression. Maybe that friend of yours can help though...
6. BREAKUP. You've been dumped. You need someone to comfort you, possibly by the one who dumped you.
7. MAKE UP. Fight or break up, it's time to makeup.
8. RESCUED. You've just been held captive and/or tortured for however long and finally, someone has come to the rescue.
9. BAD ROMANCE. Fight, cheated on, abused, whatever the case is, someone else can clearly see you need comfort from someone who isn't your terrible lover tonight.
10. LOSS. You've experience a loss of some kind and need help getting through it.
11. INSANITY. You're seeing things that aren't really there, hearing voices, or you're just convinced you're at your wit's end finally and you're going to crack. Maybe someone can give you a helping hand.
12. TIRED. You've had a heard life recently and you're just worn too thin to really care anymore. There's no fight left in you anymore. Can someone help change your mind?
13. ADDICTION. Drugs, alcohol, sex, gambling, or any other type of addiction has got you in its grasp. First time or relapse. Will someone be able to save you?
14. INSOMNIA. You can't sleep anymore, no matter how hard you try. Maybe someone can give you company.
15. NIGHTMARES. Or, on the other end of the spectrum, you can't sleep without gruesome, horrible nightmares. Either someone is stuck in your dream with you, witnessing it or they're just waking you up, soothing you out of it.
16. BLACKMAIL. You've been caught doing something you shouldn't and you were blackmailed because of it
17. SEPARATION. You're going to be separated for awhile or were separated for a long time. Either make up for lost time or try to spend every last moment together.
18. VIOLATED. You've been violated in some way. Can include sexual overtones or not. Can someone help you through it?
19. STRANDED. You've been stranded somewhere remote, with no help of anyone finding you for awhile. Can you survive this together?
20. SINS You're feeling the weight of your sins and guilt clearer than ever. Can someone give you absolution or lessen the ache any?
21. SECRET. It's difficult having to keep that secret of yours, be it a relationship or something you just don't want to share with anybody else. Maybe it's okay to talk about it now though...

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Daniel Kanegem | OC | OTA

[scattered_rose]

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[kuukai]

For the most part, she really tried not to bother humans or demons. She just lived, usually by herself, always out in the forest. It gave her less to worry about; eat, find shelter, sleep, ward off enemies. That was what she did.

A clamor some ways away from her favorite berry bush startled her one day, and she pondered whether or not to address it. Not her problem. Somebody else should deal.

The clamor grew louder as it approached her. With an annoyed grumble, she lumbered towards the noise. If it wouldn't keep quiet, she would make it stay quiet.

[scattered_rose]

The sounds were mostly coming from a rather large Chaotic, like you took a Clydesdale horse and stood it up, then added further bulk to make it half again as large, and a nasty scorpion tail. And it was making noises because it was struggling with something a third its size.

A cloaked figure currently had his arms locked around the Chaotic's throat, clinging on in his chokehold as the beast tried, in vain, to buck him off. It snarled and charged for a tree, throwing its shoulders into it, and still the person clung on.

The more the Chaotic wound itself up though, the more the lack of air got to it and it was soon struggling to make any move at all, going down to one knee and then the other. It was letting out breathless, snarling coughs now, and as it fell its opponent scrambled higher up onto its shoulders and pulled back one arm, his gauntlet there glistening in the filtered sunlight.

He clenched his fist and grit his teeth, and a blade shot out from behind the handguard. His other hand braced in the Chaotic's burnt fur, he plunged the blade in between head and neck, pulling a pained roar out of the monster. Magic sparked where the blade went in, tracing up behind it as he pulled it out, and then stabbed it in again. The vicious beast struggled a few seconds and then went still, and its opponent rolled off and to the ground as the body began to fade away.

He stayed there in a crouch, breathing deeply, arms hanging tiredly down at his sides.

[kuukai]

She watched the battle, somewhat surprised that a battle of this caliber was taking place so close to her territory. She watched from a few trees away, perplexed, but didn't say anything as the fight continued.

The Chaotic faded, and with it went many of the smells -- sweat and bile among them. But another smell reached her nose, and it twitched in surprise as she regarded the boy: he was bleeding, and badly.

Well... what should she care, right? Except a mothering instinct took over. She had never once had children, but she imagined that she would want to care for any of her cubs that got injured. She didn't see prey, she saw someone hurt.

She lumbered into view from her hiding spot, a large red grizzly bear with only the barest hints of humanity (a bow behind her ears, certain expressions she made).

[scattered_rose]

He startled at the sound of brush crackling and instantly went on alarm, rising and half-spinning in the direction of the sound. When he saw it was a bear he relaxed, but only mildly, watching her with a curious sort of wariness.

Still though he was leaning on the balls of his feet despite his injuries, ready to spring away in case need be.

[kuukai]

"Relax."

For a bear, her voice is too high; for a teenage girl, her voice is too low. She looks him over -- the wounds aren't as bad as they could be, but he needs shelter or else another Chaotic could come.

"Ya fought good. But ya need rest b'fore ya fight another one." She lowers down, her back a slope for him to climb. "Get on. I'll take ya home."

[scattered_rose]

Her observation wasn't far off-track; his injuries were shallow but varied. Blood was smeared on his face from somewhere up in his hair, he had a few random slashes, and both knees were scuffed, with one knee of his pants completely torn open. Nothing serious, but they definitely needed to be tended to, and of course any Chaotic could show up at any time.

He stared at her for a few moments, then shifted forward and climbed on top of her. He walked over with something of a limp, favoring the leg with the torn knee, but managed well enough.

[kuukai]

Once he was on, clutching tightly to her fur, she lumbered back into the depths of the forest, passing trees and bushes she knew like the back of her paw. It was only a short ride back to the cave, and she could feel his blood trickling down to moisten her fur.

"Wha's yer name?"

[scattered_rose]

At least he did his best to stem the worst of it, using part of his cloak to wipe away at his face. Whatever hadn't dried already came off well enough, but otherwise he was a quiet, still ride.

"Daniel."

[kuukai]

They got to her cave, and Kyouko laid down again to let him off. "Wait here."

When he was free, in whatever state, she moved out of sight, back into the underbrush for a moment, then shuddered and changed. From where Daniel sat in the cave, a rumbling could be heard.

She returned, moments later, as a human girl, the same bow holding her hair up, a tattered green hoodie and shorts adorning her. "Hang on. I got some stuff in th'back." She set off immediately for her stash in the back of the cave, pulling open a hidden rock to look for first aid supplies.

"Yer a brave one, ya know tha'? Sheesh."

[scattered_rose]

He climbed off with a wince and a breath through his teeth he couldn't quite stop. While she was gone he started cleaning up his own wounds with a mini first aid kit he carried, looking up as she re-entered. Her new appearance was noted with interest, but without comment.

"It's what I do."

[kuukai]

She found a bit of a more well-stocked first aid kit in her hidey-hole, and returned to him with it.

"Here." He's already started cleaning up the wounds rather well, but she tears off a strip of gauze with her teeth and starts binding the larger gashes. First on his hand, and then she goes to press one carefully to his belly.

"Wha' ya do is really effin' dangerous."

[scattered_rose]

He leaned back to let her do her work, keeping an eye on her all the same.

"I know. But it's what I've been trained to do, all my life."

[kuukai]

She nods. She knows something about that -- having only one way of life you've ever known, regardless of what other people think about it. Demons go wild sometimes. Nobody's gone as wild as she has, that she's met anyway.

"Well. Guess th'best I can do is wish ya luck. An' patch ya up." Which she continues to do, carefully binding his wounds one by one, her hands gentle.

[scattered_rose]

Chaotics need killing, and somebody's got to do it. Might as well be the Sentinels; after all, they've been at it for centuries. Why stop now?

He watched her quietly, thoughtful. "Thank you."

[kuukai]

She shrugs. She has no idea if he'd do the same. But it's the principle of the thing. It's what she wants to do.

Sometimes you just can't leave somebody behind, alone and bleeding in the woods.

"M'name's Kyouko. 'm a werebear." Obviously.

[scattered_rose]

"Nice to meet you." He made a vague gesture at his bandages. "Even if it was under strange circumstances."

[kuukai]

"Yeah." She inspected his wounds -- they seem tightly bound enough, but she wasn't sure he should be going anywhere like that anytime soon.

"Cave's yers. Ya should rest here b'fore ya go out, an' definitely b'fore ya fight somethin' else. An' if ya want ta wear my fur ta keep warm, ya can do tha' as well."

[scattered_rose]

"Thanks, but my cloak keeps me pretty warm." The rest sounded like a really good idea though, and as much as he felt out of his element right now, particularly with someone he'd only known for 30 seconds, he was heavily leaning in that direction.

"I just have to let someone know where I am, first."

[kuukai]

"How? Ya got a phone?" One of those devices that Kyouko just doesn't have. But since she's done working with her hands, she gets up to put away her medical kit.

[scattered_rose]

"I do, yeah." And after a bit of readjustment so he could do it with his uninjured hand, he pulled it out and was typing on the screen. "Thankfully it's got just enough pull out here. I've vanished... on them before, wouldn't want to do it again..."

His speech was starting to slow down as the tiredness crept in, the adrenaline from the battle fading fast. The message was sent and he tucked the phone away again.

[kuukai]

While he worked, she leaves the cave again. Seconds later, she returns in her bear form, lumbering over to him.

"Gettin' some sleep too. Monsters don' come in here, an I'm not gonna attack ya." She lays down against a wall near him, curling up into a huge furry ball.

[scattered_rose]

He looked up, and even tired like he was, he managed a lopsided grin.

"Yeah. I doubt anything short of a mammoth would want to mess with you."

[kuukai]

"Nobody 'round here messes with me."

She allows him a grin from where she's curled up. "Cause they know'm so awesome."