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

iris xanthos | original character | ota

[aphonos]

[ definitely the healer but can play either role | f/m if shippy | info in journal ]

shal gurdn | original character | ota

[cheekbandage]

[ either role | info in journal ]

Rey | SW:TFA | OTA

[thesefirststeps]

[ooc: Either / or.]

Inquisitor Trevelyan | Dragon Age: Inquisition | ota

[lordherald]

[Either role. If not a canonmate, let's talk first about assumed cr!]

Sam | Until Dawn | OTA

[tiredofthis]

[Either]

Edward Elric | Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) | OTA

[tochallengethesun]

[Probably the injured.]

Roze Thomas | Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) | OTA

[makewayforroze]

[Probably the healer.]

Kristen Kringle l Gotham

[misskringle]

(Can go either way depending on canon point (my go to is "Knock,Knock") and pairing)

frank castle | daredevil

[unloading]

[ m/f, hard pref for caretaker who doesn't own painkillers sorry lady ]

[sutures]

[ for every bad situation claire finds herself in, she can usually backtrack it to a specific bad decision made on impulse, usually a result of acting on instinct that's been ingrained into her. more often than not she finds herself elbow deep in blood before she has time to think beyond someone's hurt and help them, and as a result she's found herself on the shit lists of a number of bad guys. fortunately, not many of those bad guys have known enough about her to do anything about it, the russians aside, but tonight had been something of a different story. tonight was a matter of her having been in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong guy, and she'd ended up nearly getting blown up along with the store some enemies of castle's had launched a grenade into.

some time passes between the grenade going off and the two of them ending up wherever they do; she's not sure how much. she's conscious for some of it, aware of movement and being in a car, but she fades in and out ( she doesn't think she's ever really out because the ringing in her ears doesn't stop and she can hear frank's voice trying to keep her awake; she tries to answer but it's difficult to make out what he's saying ). she awakens fully somewhere dark and quiet, stretched out on a cot. the ringing's gone quiet, though she's not sure if that's because her hearing's gotten better or the pain's gotten worse - there's a dull, steady throbbing in her head and an uneasiness in the pit of her stomach, both of which go from unpleasant to nearly unbearable as she tries to sit up. she's still come away from it with far less than she probably should, with bruises and cuts and a growing bump on the back of her skull instead of the broken bones or lacerations she would have expected from surviving an attack like this.

doesn't make dealing with what she did come away with any more pleasant. her stomach rolls again as she pushes herself into a sitting position, her arm gives but she steadies herself by gripping the edge of the cot. ]

Frank. [ her voice is thick and rasping; she swallows hard before trying to call out again. ] Frank.

[unloading]

[ grenades come with all kinds of connotations: military-grade weapons access, federal corruption, terrorist fear-mongering. he won't find out who the blame will be pinned to until he checks the headlines. with the speed of information these days, it could already be written and circulating. he's technically dead but he'd rather they put it on him than stir up the yokels further inland into a frenzy of hate crimes and "god hates" protest signs. like it won't happen regardless.

his priority now is claire temple, unofficially the unluckiest woman in new york. if the crew he's up against can get their hands on mk3's, his typically unstable faith in the system holds together like loose dirt. he put a bullet through every enemy he saw but it takes one slip-up to lose everything -- he'll gamble with his own life like that just fine, but not hers. he makes corpses before and after scooping her out of the rubble, one-handed shots that pierce the wailing sirens that approach. he takes the lord's name in vain several times as he flees the scene with her because the area had been clear of civilians, damn it, and not because there's a knife sticking out of his thigh.

he's established one safehouse in the city. it's 90% safe and 10% house: an abandoned subway tunnel he found while interrogating a nice chap on the C-train tracks. all he keeps there currently is medical supplies and a cot from a pawn store he couldn't very well pass up for five bucks. frank does his best to keep her conscious. her lucidity wanes lambently while he palpates her skull for damage and questions her on everyday information: her name, the date, his name, how they met. some are easier than others, which is to be expected after taking a hit like that. he snaps his fingers when she closes her eyes and doesn't let her get any rest. she's so out of it, it probably feels like blacking out anyway. he's stepped away for a bottle of water when she speaks. she sounds sharper than before. ]

Whoa, slow down there. [ despite giving an order, his tone is softer and more obliging than that, and he's kneeling at the bedside within an instant. ] I didn't go anywhere, okay? Now take it easy. Here, [ he holds the bottle up in front of her, then twists the cap off; he's also testing to see how long it takes her to register it and reach for it ] drink.

Morrigan | Dragon Age

[courtintrigue]

(Probably healer, but either role's doable. Mutual caretaking also cool.)

chloe decker | lucifer

[nofluffybunny]

( m/f, can be the caretaker or the injured one, up for either role )

avenger (edmond dantes) | fate grand order

[gankutsuoh]

[ rather be healed, but ask ]

[sandango]

[ for whatever reason nightingale is not here to take care of dantes. probably because the rng gods had mercy on master and steered him far away from that ugly soab. okita's here at dantes' bedside instead, even if she's really no good at anything other than treating flesh wounds. he's bandaged up anyway, and she's made tea. it's no coffee, but it should help? ]

[gankutsuoh]

[ he was already informed that the woman he saw lost in his castle of illusions the day he first appeared had her own identity, and he shouldn't arbitrarily name her anything. it doesn't matter, anyway. that was awhile back, but now he's here, unconscious, awaken by the feeling of bandages and a sting on his head and arm and torso. he remains there, looking at the ceiling. ]

. . . What are you doing?

Wanda Maximoff | MCU

[seeingscarlet]

[either; m/f for shippy things]

[causesearcher]

(okay for crosscanon similar face situation?)

[seeingscarlet]

(Sure!)

matt murdock | daredevil

[fightlikehell]

[Either the healer or wounded.]

[barkingmad]

[ Car horns. Ambulance sirens. Trucks backing up. Heavy bass thumping out of passing cars. Street musicians. Out of the susurration of Hell's Kitchen, a story unfolds.

From down by the warehouses, a commotion. Some sort of high end alarm blurting its warning. Angry voices, a lot of them. They're chasing someone. They fill the streets and their quarry is fleeing across the rooftops. Shots ring out in the night air. A woman's voice cries out and chokes into silence. The pursuit swarms and diminishes. Silence rises.

Someone emerges from hiding, and her ragged whimpers tell him, she's hurt. Badly. ]

[tiltheend]

[ He's only passing through this area of the city when he hears a struggle. Bucky stops midstep and listens. The sound of a fight in the alley. He's not one to go out of his way to intervene, but he's reminded of that memory of Steve in the alley.

Which is why he's rushing in headfirst. ]

[spideyguy]

[Peter tries not to make a habit of this. Watching another vigilante was like asking for a fight (Deadpool had proved that single-handedly, on multiple occasions). And with this guy, from the looks of it, it was asking for some very painful bruising.

The criminal is out cold when the guy finishes with him, and Peter hangs upside down on a streetlamp. He might as well say hello, welcome him to the neighborhood (shh, Peter knew this wasn't his neighborhood, but still. The city is my home principle still stood, even in Hell's Kitchen).]

I'd just like to formally apologize now if my actions have in any way influenced your nighttime activities. I keep telling people I'm an awful role model but nobody listens.

Daniel Rand | Marvel | ota

[dannyrand]

[Either/or (probably not the tough/aloof one, however.) And probably not very good at either role.]

X | Megaman X Series | OTA

[maverickhunterx]

[Will probably end up being the caretaker. Protecting people is sort of his natural state of being orz.

But him being protected would be a nice shift, too. Since he's so used to protecting others, being cared for is probably not something he's used to.]