hurt / comfort

[kristaliske]

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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[onelittlefeather]

Something bad. Something really bad. Something Miu hasn't been able to leave behind along with all the rest, because Tomomin's grave is far enough away in Sapporo as is. It isn't guilt she's carrying with her, not something so bothersome, but it's definitely something heavy like a shadow. Even if a shadow is supposed to weigh nothing at all. Frowning lightly, not an expression that would otherwise mar her features, Miu knows that she should say B. Now that she's said A. It's just that somehow this seems so much worse than being a lesbian. Because it's her... failing to be a girlfriend.

"After Tomomin's death, I didn't attend her funeral. We were at the beginning of a run! And I wasn't invited either!" A brief pause for breath. "So it's not as horrible as it sounds. It's really not, Ayako-chan."

[feathershedding]

The words seem to almost rush out of Miu-chan, like she's been holding them back for so long that there's no other way for them to be expressed. Only this - something close to a ramble. Ayako can't sympathise, not exactly, though in this case she would love to do so. She's not a terrible person and this is harsh; harsh not to be invited and harsher still, to stand back and stay away. But all she can think is - stupid, selfish Kotori Miu. To have something valuable like that, something precious and to treat it so carelessly. Her voice turns hard now, hard like the streets that her mind hasn't quite forgotten.

"What, all the trains suddenly stopped working that day? Or something? Why wouldn't you go?"

She doesn't even care that she's being merciless. With Miu-chan, there is no other way for her to act, especially not when she knows the other girl refuses to fight back with anything but sugar. It's too natural, to get angry and mean and horrible; to fight that shell of hers, that thing she keeps presenting to the world like it's a good thing. Ayako knows it isn't. It just means that Miu-chan is tiny like the rest of them.

[onelittlefeather]

Of course Ayako-chan is harsh on her. She should have expected it. She did expect! These are the words she has wanted to hear all along; those questions. Because she holds the answers, right? She knows exactly what to say in response, because she did the right thing. Straightening up again, Miu moves her bag down on the floor. Slowly, but restlessly. Returns to an upright position, her head held high. She honoured Tomomin's family. She honoured her troupe mates and the Takarazuka management. She honoured everyone, everyone but Tomomin... Which is what Ayako-chan is telling her. Why didn't you? Why, oh why, didn't you go?

Miu has all the answers, yes, but the one she presents is meek, although her voice isn't. It's neutral, but strong still. "I had to fulfill my obligations to Takarazuka and also show respect for Tomomin's family. Tomomin would have understood." Then, an afterthought. "Mmn, I'm sure she would."

[feathershedding]

Obligations. That word. She uses that word, does Miu-chan, with such a casual attitude, like she's the only person in the world who's ever had to justify failure. She sounds too neutral, too unaffected; like explaining it away and making it sound pretty is enough to make it bearable. Feeling truly angry now, she rises from her seat quickly, movements jerky with emotion. She doesn't care about Kotori Miu's unacceptable love life. She doesn't care that her lover died. But this crazy compensation she's aiming for, this fake mask she keeps wearing, fooling everyone, making herself look better...

"What a stupid thing to say, Miu-chan." She stands with her back to the other girl, voice calm but her words slower than usual. It's a thing that happens when she's angry; her mind slows down, walks more carefully. She glances at herself in the full-body mirrors on the wall. Her hair has slipped out in strands, black tracking down her cheeks. Wow. Miu-chan really is insufferable. "Who would have cared? If they didn't even know! You would have been a stranger in the crowd, that's it."

[onelittlefeather]

"But it's about respect! About showing the right attitude!" The words rush out of her in one cohesive stream, like one word couldn't live without the other which is true, in some ways. With those words she has just spoken. Because she was trying to show respect for everybody involved, not to just live by her own wishes and desires. Maybe Ayako-chan is right, that she could have called in sick for a few days, gone to Hokkaido and no one would know her there, but it wouldn't be in accordance with how they'd lived their life together, Tomomin and her. She can't... know whether Tomomin would have liked it. No, rather play it safe, be respectful of what she knows for sure already and go from there. Definitely.

So as Ayako-chan stands up and turns her back on her, Miu gets to her feet as well - clutching her bag between both hands. For some reason, one thought remains a strong presence in her mind and she can't just dismiss it. Not with Ayako-chan looking and talking like that.

"I understand if Ayako-chan thinks I'm a coward, though."

[feathershedding]

A coward? Ayako takes a moment to let the silence around them spread enough to leave the word hollow, her own anger turning into a lesser sort of frustration; it's another faulty conclusion and she won't bother breathing any life into it. As she turns towards Miu-chan slowly, her hands still balled into fists, she looks the other girl over. Miu-chan really is very persistent. Truly that's an aspect of Kotori Miu that seems oddly genuine, amidst all those creepy, fake-looking smiles of hers. You don't have to be all that smart to realise that she's driven. No, it's just that... Sometimes, you have to hate how she seems to be driving around in circles.

"I don't think that." She takes a small step closer, trying to relax her stance and failing. She's not afraid of this - of talking to Miu-chan and telling her that she's wrong. Again. But there's something about it that feels out of place anyway. Yes. Because normally, putting other girls down doesn't hurt. "I just think you're missing out. And if she liked you, she wouldn't have wanted that. Respect or not."

[onelittlefeather]

Miu can honestly say she both knows and refutes the notion that she's missing out. Simultaneously. She knows, of course, that there are plenty of things she won't get to experience as long as she approaches her surroundings this way, but at the same time - are any of those things really so important? When they can so easily disappear again, between your hands like water or sand. She had everything back then, too, and she lost it in a heartbeat. It's true that she has just as much now, things and important people, but losing all of that... It might be cold to say, but it's the truth! It wouldn't be unbearable in the same manner, to lose it. Because she hasn't attached herself. That's her reason.

Stepping forward as well - closer, closer - Miu looks at Ayako-chan intently. She doesn't mind begging, but it isn't necessary at this point when everything has already been said in clearer terms. A smile forming on her lips again, a genuine one, she says: "But like this, I can't lose. Everyone strives for that in their own way, right? Winning."