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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...
22. ADDITION. Babies should be joyous things unless you're in a situation where you know you won't be able to care for them. Either you've adopted or found out you're pregnant.

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[[ hey! i ended up (shamefully) idling out of paradisa, but i would still like to play with these two if you're down for it! i rolled a 14 (ironically) and we could play it with their preexisting cr (they could both have insomnia?), but if you've got different ideas and/or want to go on a completely different rail, let me know! ]]

[ ooc: I just dropped Para anyway, ha! A 14 with pre-existing CR sounds fabulous. :) ]

[ ooc: :ooo FATE. also sorry about the lateness!! ]

The kettle on the stove kept blurring in front of Ken's eyes, the kitchen itself fading in and out of view as he tried to keep focused. He huffed a sigh through his nose and took a seat at the nearest counter island at a stool. No one seemed to be able to sleep these days, and three days in, the lack of sleep was starting to take its toll. He sighed. Insomnia wasn't the worst thing to ever happen to him, and long years of putting up with this kind of nonsense has taught him that things were always too hard to deal with while they were happening, and much more manageable in hindsight. It was all a matter of patience. Of course... that didn't help with the here and now, except to give him a little glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel. Hmph. He wasn't the one who was good at hope, here.

Ken shifted his attention to the wicker container in front of him, the mess of tea packets and tins assaulting his dry eyes. Really? He poked through the contents half-heartedly, then, with a long-suffering sigh, dumped the entire thing out, packets skittering to the edge of the counter and tins coming to a rest on their sides and upside-down. He righted the container, setting it down precisely at the edge of the counter, then got to work, collecting all of the tins and setting them in a line in front of them, in alphabetical order. Apple spice, Oolong, Oolong Peach, Earl Grey, Earl Grey decaffeinated, Orange Zest... And after that was done, he'd have to collect the packets, sort them, then find spaces for them, slotting them between the tins. It would be a lot of work for something that would only get as disheveled as before within the next two weeks or so.

He's working intently, but he's facing the door, so it wouldn't be to difficult to grab his attention with a wave or something. However, now would also be an excellent time to sneak up on him if one were so inclined. He does have a tendency to get lost in his work, after all.

Sometimes Jade had trouble with sleep. There wasn't a lot to do about it, really; in Paradisa, there was no Prospit, no dream bubbles. When she slept, her dreams were nothing but her own. A majority of the time, it wasn't a problem. Her bed was comfortable, and she liked her own dreams.

Other times, though, sleep simply wouldn't come.

She hadn't really meant to stop by the kitchen on her walk around the castle, but it was a familiar head of hair that had caught her attention as she passed by the open door. Jade had to bite back the impulse to call out a greeting - he was as sleepless as her, huh? She slipped into the kitchen then, circling behind him and approaching to peer around his shoulder.

"So which one are we drinking?"

Mint, Mint Chamomile, Mint Chocolate - there was a lot of mint, phew! - Milk tea, Milk decaaAH WHO IS THAT BEHIND HIM

"--AH!" The tea packets spill from his hands in a papery cascade as he starts nearly off of his stool. His attention circles from from left to right before registering long hair and green eyes -- Jade, it's just Jade, he realizes as his heart rate settles -- and eases back to a slouch, his hand gravitating to his chest and over his heart.

"Miss Jade... ah. Good evening. Uh." ... Why does he keep on running into her in the most awkward ways? "The question..? I'm sorry, I wasn't all the way here."

"Good evening, Ken!" There's a barely suppressed laugh in her voice; she doesn't want to be mean, but the way he jumps is sort of hilarious to her. Oh, no. She'd meant to startle him, not to actually frighten him, and in a show of apology she moves to lean in and retrieve the packets of tea from the ground.

Oh, right. "Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you. I was just asking what sort of tea you were making -- and also possibly obliquely wondering why you're up so late, but I hadn't really gotten that far yet!"

... Was she in the habit of telegraphing her intentions like that? Well... It's not as though it was a bad thing. He smiles a little to himself and slips off his stool to collect packets with her.

"It's fine. Hmm... One thing at a time, I guess? Anyway, I didn't really know what I wanted, and when I saw what a mess this all was, I guess I got a little frustrated." He probably would have been much more likely to just leave it if he hadn't been so tired. His patience was slipping, wasn't it? Gah.

"What are you doing up? Is there anything I can help you with?" Ken was probably being overly helpful! This wasn't a shop, after all. Still, looking for a way to help was sort of hardwired into him at this point.

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Jade Harley | Homestuck | ota!

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lateness is fine <33

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