#thinking about little diego struggling to get out of his binds while reginald impassively watches and tells him to figure it out | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

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I don't think we talk enough about how badass it is that while in a 1960s asylum, Diego successfully escaped a straitjacket by forcibly dislocating his arm (ow), and picked the lock to his cell with a pen (?) he smuggled in despite being in massive pain and presumably high on the cocktail of drugs the nurses would have kept him on in order to keep him agreeable.

#thinking about the fact he had to have learned that as a kid #and the scene gets more horrifying with that knowledge #thinking about little diego struggling to get out of his binds while reginald impassively watches and tells him to figure it out #''number one has already broken out by sheer strength alone number two. if you do not find a way to free yourself #you will remain there until you can.''#and then diego breaks his arm trying to get out. and oh he gets out. with tears and snot and blood in his mouth from biting into his lip.#and his arm is screaming by the time he does it but the pride burning through hid chest is enough to make him grin through it.#he grins up at reginald like its one big fuck you but a tiny tiny bit of him hopes his unique escape will win him a little praise. a nod.#anything at all.#instead reginald just announces diego's time scribbles something down in his book and tells him he'll need to shave off four minutes.#in other words: disappointing.#diego cries privately about it later while grace tends to his arm in the infirmary and he punches luther before bed.#out of knives [ooc];

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