chroma | catchall for damien

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it's fun to not be canon familiar bc then i get surprised by cr

but it also sucks not to be because i have to wait to make visuals until i learn more through cr and that makes me more likely to forget to do them

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week zero, monday

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[here they are in ... the mansion!

they've been herded over to a speed dating table by some zombies, which are lingering nearby to make sure they don't just leave immediately.

there's a dish in front of them that looks like it's got some sufficiently gross looking body part on it for garnish instead of an actually decent garnish. icky.]

I don't want to eat this.

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I'd be worried if you did.

[ there is a finger on his plate. he pokes it with a fork. poke poke poke. ]

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Is there some point to this...?

[she glances at the zombies



the zombies are watching them expectantly.]

week zero, sunday

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[medical treatment is done, their pizza has all been stolen (WHY), it's just a normal sunday aside from the horrifying paintball match damien just got out of.

but anyway.]

...there. How are you feeling?

[highrisk]

[ he has been broody and annoying through this entire process, but eventually just kind of realized it's happening and let her do her work...

and seems to still be trying to figure out? how to handle this??? ]

... Bad?

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[she grabs one of the painkillers from the medbay's supplies]

This should help with the pain. They're safe; I took one myself, earlier in the week.

Is there any part of you that's hurting that I haven't seen to already?

week one, thursday

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[jiuqing has been in and out of the medbay all day today. she's paying particular attention to damien when he comes out of the pod, though - just because he had such a strong reaction to the idea of going to a medical center before - and when he's stabilized, she's immediately there.]

Sir Damien... how are you feeling?

[highrisk]

[ actually it's really nice that she's there and attentive because when he gets out of the pod he immediately looks... well, still kind of out of it, but like...
A LITTLE offended? and a little bit afraid?

until he spots her and that's a little bit comforting, because she DID patch him up last time. ]

... Uh...

[ he brings his hand up to touch his throat, which has lightly healed over. ]

Bad?

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That's not unexpected. Which areas hurt most? I'll see to them.

[she is Ready. at least he knows she knows how to treat him!! time to get him out of the pod and into one of the regular medical beds, probably.]

week one, saturday

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[surprising no one, she is in the medbay again!

her hand has been cleaned out and bandaged, and now she's just. putting the supplies away when she hears footsteps approach. when she spots damien, she nods to him once.]

...hello.

[highrisk]

[ he nods back. ]

Hey.

Came to see if you're alright?

[ like he didn't. want her to get bit??? so. ]

week two, friday

[highrisk]

[ hello damien is headed into the medbay to find her! ]

You busy?

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[she is just putting some supplies away after some injured person or another has finished their treatment.]

Not too busy to talk. Is there something I can do for you?

week three, monday

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[jiuqing is slowly starting to come to the conclusion that she likes this week's effect even less than last week. she's taken to trying to stay out of sight from others to avoid getting stuck in a bubble, but -

well, somehow she still ends up in one with damien. she sighs.]

This again...

[so far, her memories haven't been anything too terrible, and nothing she didn't already allude to at some of the earlier party games - and she assumes damien likely doesn't want her to see much of his past. so she reaches out to put a hand on the bubble, watching with resignation as the bubble glows with a soft color and they're pulled into a memory.

it's not what she expects. some memories are unforgettable. but the ones she's been made to share so far have been from her second life, not her first -

and it's never pleasant to relive your own death, even just in memory.

when it fades out, jiuqing is sitting there, frozen, one hand up so that her fingertips are brushing against her neck.]

[highrisk]

[ oh this is... weird? at first it's a tense sort of drama that he's just enough of an asshole to want to roll his eyes at, but then she gets straight up murdered. and wakes up. it makes him think it was just a dream, for a second, but can these bubbles even share dreams?

he can wrap his head around dying and coming back, now. given that he's pretty sure he died in his little thursday adventure, and knows that all these worlds are crazy and some have magic. he just hadn't realized hers did.

he glances over to jiuqing. he understands that motion; he finds himself touching his throat a lot now too.

time to say something compassionate! ]

Wow, what a bitch.

[ okay. ]

week three, sunday

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[what a fuckin day!

jiuqing can be found awake in the medical bay some number of hours later, her neck properly bandaged. she's sitting upright in one of the cots, a medical textbook open on her lap. she seems engrossed in it, but not so much so that she doesn't hear his footsteps and look up.]

Oh... hello.

[she smiles faintly. she's glad to see him, but also - she's exhausted and drained from that fight with malik! so.]

[highrisk]

[ he just comes over to the bedside to... hover awkwardly. ]

Hey. Came to uh. Check in. I guess?

[ help ]

week 5, thursday

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[ almost just labeled this monday bc i was staring at the header for our first pc OKAY ANYWAY. damien is here and fresh out of the healing pods, but he could use some help with bandaging his clawed up shoulder. ]

And here I was just starting to think I didn't need you anymore.

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[she gives him a tired smile as she walks over, takes a look at his clawed up shoulder, and just takes the bandages to get to work. at least ask first, damn.]

We really need to stop meeting like this.

week 5, friday

[highrisk]

[ hello he is here for pain killers. where is crow during this private conversation in the medbay? where are any of the injured fuckers???

who knows. don't worry about it. they're alone. ]

Hey, Doc.

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[they're sleeping probably it's fine.]

Damien. [she looks a little tired, but. what else is new.] What can I help you with?

week 6, thursday

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[ hi he's here to check on her. ]

Are you okay?

[ like obviously not, but,, help, ]

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[welllllll uh.

she did use the pods! but she looks significantly more worse-off now that the black, tarlike substance is gone, because instead of looking like someone just dumped black goo on her, it is now possible to see the full extent of her injuries. she's pretty heavily bandaged all over, and most of the parts of her that are not bandaged are mottled with bruises.

how is she even alive. don't worry about it.

anyway, she doesn't answer his question. instead, she asks one of her own.]

Vin and Kashuu... are they...?

week seven, saturday

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[medbay for old times' sakes!!



which i forgot means the clover field, now. jiuqing came here because she had a lot of first aid supplies she didn't need to use, and now she's sorting through the ones that are safe to put back (such as unopened creams or bottles of painkillers) and the ones she should probably keep (such as bandages and gauze since they've been Out And About).

it's nice here, though. peaceful. jiuqing looks out at it and smiles.]

...it's sort of nice, don't you think?

[highrisk]

[ what up. he comes to stand next to her to talk, but there is really nothing he can do to help out. also even if there was he wouldn't do it. anyway. ]

Nicer than it usually is, yeah. Places so sterile are creepy.