[florence nightingale effect meme]

[dispairages]

Florence Nightingale Effect Meme

1. Previously aloof tough character gets injured, lets the love interest treat their injuries, and reveals a newfound trust and intimacy. This might or might not involve the tough person making that hissing sound when the love interest touches their injured face, but not quite pulling away...

2. The love interest gets injured, and the tough character treats them and suddenly reveals a tender side.

It's an old trope, admittedly, but an understandable one. You're hurt - physically or emotionally - and perhaps even on the brink of death. And then, out of the blue, someone saves you and brings you back. They heal you, they feed you, cloth you, wash you. In the human mind, the intimacies can bring up warm feelings, even in the hardest of hearts. Will you fight them or let them grow? And what about when it's time to leave? You may not feel like leaving your angel...

HOW TO PLAY
1. Comment with your character and preferences. Mention if you'd prefer to play the healer or the healed - or both, for greatest versatility!
2. Reply to others.

NOT EXACTLY PROMPTS, BUT IDEAS

- The finding and saving
- The hurt/comfort care process, I.E. cleaning wounds, bathing, wrapping bandages, etc.
- Feeding, finding clothes, etc.
- Mother hen behavior ("you're still hurt, don't do that!")
- Comforting from trauma
- Unwilling patient
- Pulling away, trying to be all aloof
- Realization of growing emotions
- Denial
- Attempts to instigate something more
- Jealousy at seeing your savior with someone else
- Confessions
- Mutual attraction
- First (accidental or no) kiss
- Obligatory sex scene option
- Make your own scene

Comments

[ssnape]

[[Snape trusts no one to bandage him up. So there's that. Maybe after a random scuffle with those pesky Order members?]]

[discipuluschaos]

[ooh! xD <3 i find your ideas intriguing and wish to subscribe to your newsletter...! ;) <3 but not at this moment; i don't have time to fill out all the pesky paperwork for the subscription; i mean, my BUS is gonna be here in like, less than ten minutes, so... yeah...! xD <3 i'll catch you when i get to my next wifi access point! :D <3]

whoops SO SORRY it took me so bloody long to get back to /this/ tag...! D: <3

[discipuluschaos]

"Oh dear God," Selwyn muttered under his breath, as he realised that the wound had actually opened again -- if it had ever closed at all -- as he had Apparated away from the little -- skirmish in Chester, Cheshire, between the Order of the Phoenix and his own "Knights of Walpurgis" (as he insisted upon calling them in his own head, even as the other members embraced the new title of "Death Eaters" that Lord Vol-de-mort had made for them...) He collapsed upon the doorstep of the home he'd come to; he could only pray it was a wizard's house, at the very least, for he could only imagine what sorts of medical horrors he may be subjected to, if he had somehow chosen to land upon a Muggle's doorstep.

(Not a willing choice, at any rate, but a mistake along the lines of Splinching -- say, had he left a bit of the torn flesh behind without him? could that be why the bleeding had suddenly started up again?) Anyway, he was here, and he was deathly (ha ha) certain that he could not move again, on his own... And so, he gingerly lifted one hand from the wound, in order to rap sharply upon the door, still sending up a silent prayer to Heaven that he's turned up bleeding half to death upon a Wizard's front lawn, rather than some damnable Muggle's!