We do HC Vi as having chronic pain but we don't often get into the specifics of it because in our experience fandom as a whole, even when it talks about chronic pain headcanons, will often have it more focused on, like... heat pads, or massaging out some aches, or ibuprofen, and yeah, that's totally fine, but we really don't see a lot of, like... major chronic pain talk.
Like, the kind of stuff that can get bad enough to inhibit your thoughts and make you struggle to get logical trains of thought through, the stuff that can make it actively difficult to make it out of bed because if you move the wrong way your brain starts sending out chemicals that make you feel like you're being set on fire, the kind of shit where bad days can paint over almost all of the space you have in your brain for thoughts just to store the fact that you're in pain. It's just... not there, and maybe it's because we're looking in the wrong place or whatever, or the natural side effects of Being In That Kind Of Pain Makes It Hard To Make People Aware You Exist resulting in a knowledge gap, but most of the time when we see "chronic pain" it means just, like. Milder forms. The sort of pain that's low-level present in the back of your mind like static in a radio channel rather than someone yelling at you that something's wrong.
The pain is chronic, sure, and you get used to it, but that doesn't mean that every guy with chronic pain can just Get Used To It, or that you can't get narrative value out of a character with Worse pain. It needs a bit of semantics, yeah, but that's what being a writer is for. Where is your guy getting their painkillers? How well do they work? What if they ran out, or they lost access to their usual supply? What if, like, a bodyswap plot or something similar happens, and another character has to handle it? There's so much fun stuff you can do. We are very much asking you to do it.
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Post-top surgery mental status update:
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Which Phantoms are Starbucks Phantoms? Which ones go to Moka or Beans+Cream? And which ones are too posh for any of that shit? ;)
...Is this also a bad time to say that I don't drink coffee? Or tea? Or imbibe caffeine in any way?
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