chroma | catchall for damien

[countermeasures]

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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[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?

[countermeasures]

[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?

[highrisk]

[ ... he takes it... ]

No, I'm fine.

[ except she probably knows from how fussy he's been that he would say that whether it's true or not, so. ]

[countermeasures]

[just gives him a Look]

Really?

[highrisk]

[ ... luckily he's telling the truth! he's just annoying!!! ]

I've had worse.

[countermeasures]

[she sighs]

So have I. But just because you've had it worse before doesn't make it any less unpleasant now.

[...]

Can I ask you something?

[highrisk]

... Go ahead.

[countermeasures]

Yesterday some of the others said they felt compelled to feel or act a certain way.

Did that happen to you, today? Did anything feel strange, once you were free of that archway?

[highrisk]

[ he like opens his mouth to answer

and then closes it, thinking for a second. then: ]

... No. I wasn't compelled.

[countermeasures]

[hmm. even when he was kind of rude in their first thread he didn't come off as that much of a psycho, but jiuqing will remember that he didn't need to be compelled to set things on fire.]

If it wasn't a compulsion, then was it something else...? Your attitude toward Riff seemed a bit different once you were out.

[highrisk]

I don't know what you're talking about.

[countermeasures]

[my dude she has eyes she witnessed how you stopped trying to murder riff once you came back]

...I'm not trying to be intrusive just because I can. I just want to understand what's going on here.

Something certainly seemed to be affecting them, at any rate - they were more aggressive than I've ever seen them.

[highrisk]

[ who's to say!!!! ]

... Yeah, something went weird with them.

[countermeasures]

Yes. I'm worried...

[she glances at her phone.]

...but I'm sure they're resting right now, so it's only natural that I need to wait for them to reply.

[highrisk]

The others grabbed them and they can obviously do a lot more than we can. So.

[countermeasures]

Yes... I'm sure they're in good hands.

[probably more hands than three other npcs should have but hey, it's fine if they don't know how to look like regular people]

[highrisk]

... Right.

[ wait he was saying he wasn't compelled. ]

Not - not that I care.

[countermeasures]

Yes, of course. You don't care at all.

[highrisk]

[ don't like that smile........ ]

[countermeasures]

[tee hee]

[highrisk]

So, what do you want from me?

[ now that you patched him up you must? want something?? ]

[countermeasures]

For you to promise not to overexert yourself and reopen your wounds.

And for you to allow me or someone else to regularly change your bandages and clean out the wound until it's healed.

[highrisk]

No promises on the first one, I'll do it myself on the second.

[countermeasures]

You were stabbed in the shoulder. Trying to bandage it yourself will be difficult and is likely to aggravate your injury.

[highrisk]

[ annoyed that he can't really argue with that... ]

Still...