Florence Nightingale Effect Meme

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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

Clara Oswald | Doctor Who

[egomaniacly]

Sansa Stark | ASOIAF | injured

[mislike]

Padmè Amidala | Star Wars

[uncondoned]

Jessica Hamby | True Blood

[notevenagirl]

ooc: I'd like for her to be the caretaker though if you have a prompt in mind and your character knows enough about the supernatural, it could work either way.

[conceivedeceit]

ooc: how do you feel about a Loki?

The Doctor (10th) | Doctor Who | OTA

[not_a_hero10]

august w. booth | once upon a time

[unstringed]

[scrappier]

ooc: stranded in some AU and he's turning to wood and she has to help him kind of thing??

Vanessa Ives - Penny Dreadful - OTA

[anotherdid]

Alleyne - the Headless Horseman ♞ OUAT/SPN OC ♞ OTA, prefer F/M

[ridesheadless]

Anne Boleyn || The Tudors || OTA, prefer F/M

[happyfalcon]

((ooc: Healer))

Dejah Thoris || John Carter/A Princess of Mars || OTA, prefer F/M

[barsoombamf]

((ooc: Can be either))

Legolas Thanduilion | 4 of those books Tolkien wrote | ota

[tithen_calen_lass]

[ooc: Would preferred to be the one healed but can be either.]

[memory_lapses]

[ how do you feel about cross-canon? ]

Hansel | Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters

[sickfrom2muchcandy]

Ava Spencer ❋ OC ❋ F/M

[mystika]

[Good with either role, also open to gen scenarios and OTA for those. PM with any questions or discuss here.]

Isuke Inukai | Akuma no Riddle | F/F for ships

[croptopped]

[ Either role! ]

Marie "Rogue" D'Ancanto | X-Men movies | ota

[whatiwanted]

(OTA for platonic closeness, F/M for shipping.

She can be either the healer or the healing.)

xerxes break | pandora hearts | ota

[decrepit]

( could honestly go either way. no smut options. )

[maybeitsmaybelline]

(Open to cross-canon? I love Break, and there's a pleasing symmetry to these two cane-wielding one-eyed assholes. Willing to play either role, or maybe a little of both roles if their adventure went poorly enough.)

Lady Door | Neverwhere

[templeandarch]

[Either or is fine!]

Rachel Conway | OC | m/f

[gotbottle]

[ Probably more likely to be the caretaker but I'm good with either. ]

sho minazuki / persona 4 ultimax

[plumeofdusk]

[ooc: the injured, and an extremely tsun one at that]

Tris Prior | Divergent

[factioned]

Sasaki Haise | Tokyo Ghoul:re | OTA

[rc_2753]

Raphael | Abrahamic Mythology

[iatros]

Peregrin "Pippin" Took | Lord of the Rings | OTA

[peregrintook]

(ooc: More likely to be the injured one.

Open to cross-canon, cross-medium and assumed cr! If you have any questions feel free to give me a PM. Also available in a Modern!AU flavor if that fits in better with your character.)

Peggy Carter | Marvel Cinematic Universe

[daringnotdamsel]

[Was a field nurse before being in the SSR. Can be the nurse or the nursed.]

Arthur Pendragon - Merlin

[hopeforall]

[Arthur is the one that got hurt.]

[servantgwen]

To Guinevere it had just been a normal day. She had gotten up early in the morning and made her way to the Lady Morgana's chambers as she did every morning to wake her and ready her for the day ahead. However Morgana had not been there when she arrived. She had rushed outside to warn Arthur and the rest of the hunting party about the dangers they may face after having a vision. Of course Arthur being Arthur didn't listen and set off despite the warning.

When Guinevere first knew Arthur she wasn't fond of him. She thought him to be a bully and a selfish young man who had a lot to lean about the world and how to treat the people in it...but recently she had started to see a different side to him and she found herself caring for him more and more. Of course she wouldn't admit it out loud, it would be entirely inappropriate. True to Morgana's warning Arthur came back to Camelot injured but thankfully not life threateningly so (probably on account of Merlin and his protection). He had been struck in his side, whatever it was that attacked them pierced right through his armor.

Gaius had been summoned by the King for some reason so when Merlin brought Arthur to Gaius' room they found Gwen there instead. She rushes over and helps Arthur in, sitting him down on the edge of the bed. Her eyes are drawn to the blood. She's already gathering up some water and a cloth. "What happened?"