Hurt/Comfort

[reanimation]

Hurt/Comfort - 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.

Comments

[goldenplaits]

There is a soft hum in reply to Finrod's statement regarding him still being alive. He is just as surprised by that as everyone else - by all rights, he should be as dead as the men who were around him when he was trapped. And yet he was lucky, hurt badly enough to be left for dead yet somehow having survived.

About the question, however - it is not truly manageable, but it is not the pain that is unbearable: It is that which he knows to not be likely to find an end in Middle-earth, and perhaps nowhere.

"There is no greater gi't that you can gi'e me now than distraction."

[songofstaying]

Finrod cannot guess how hard the coming days will be for his cousin, but he knows his strength; his cousin will learn to adapt, he is sure. But that does not make it easier nor give comfort now. He takes Fingon's hand gently; he can at least let him feel and hear, even if he cannot let him see.

Or can he? An idea flickers to life in the back of his mind, but he is not certain yet of it.

"How would you like to be distracted? Books? Songs? Conversation?"

[goldenplaits]

He has to laugh at the question, though it is cut short when the contraction and movement tug painfully at wounds and he winces and coughs, his burned lungs and windpipe not yet capable of supporting such sudden sounds.

But he will raise a hand as he does so, hoping to keep Finrod from springing into action and giving him the chance to gather himself and hoping that no healers will be alerted, and once he is done explain:"I 'ould hardly 'e a'le to s'eak enou' to call it a con'ersation. Read to 'e?"

[songofstaying]

Finrod stays himself, though he winces himself at his cousin's coughing.

"Well, I have understood you thus far!" he teases, but in truth he does not want Fingon to strain himself with talking. "Let me fetch a book, then I shall return to harass you more."