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[ceitfianna]

Its after 10 am and there doesn't seem to be a Daily Entertainment up so I thought I'd snag it. I'm currently fighting off being sick and would like to be home and sleeping so my question is inspired by that.

Hopefully it isn't too long since a variation of this was asked but I'm having trouble finding the DE with more DE ideas so if anyone wants to provide a second question, just let me know.

How do your pups cope with having to rest? When they feel they're going to be sick do they soldier on through it or have someone take care of them.

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[innerbrat]

Mel keeps going until she falls over.

Dinah is more reasoned: she listens to her body and resst when she needs to, but usually gets up earlier than she should and pushes when she judges it important. But then she'll complain and take a nap.

Um.

I'm sick too, Fi! Brain not working.

[ceitfianna]

*sends tea* Brain's need to work, they'll useful.

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

Hey, I was just writing up a DE idea. = ]

Ben just soldiers on until he falls over. He'd never admit it but he'd need someone to fawn over him to help him feel better. Ben is know for lots of naps though so rest he completely gets, it's when he's sick that he pushes through.

Jessica will make time to rest and it would be a bad idea to interrupt her. Assuming she has the time and there's no world crisis of course.

Barbie will take time as well unless she's in the middle of filming or a photo shoot.

Val would take medication to keep going.

Thalia would get surly and snappy until she finally can't stand people anymore; then she would hole her self up somewhere until she felt better.

[ceitfianna]

Aww, poor Ben, he wants to be looked after but doesn't like asking.

Oh sorry about that, I guess great minds think alike.

Also if you have a Thalia voice around, I have an EP where William currently thinks he's Percy.

[sdelmonte]

Kirk is canonically notorious for not taking care of himself. McCoy has spent years enforcing periods of rest for his commander.

Knox is inherently lazy. When he's tired, he sleeps. Though not at his desk.

Gibbs is a pirate, and therefore also good with setting his own hours to sleep.

Cy tries so very hard to get 60 minutes distance run out of his hour. But needing to literally recharge his batteries forces him to rest at least once a day. Also, his experience with a hypercharger chip from STAR Labs taught him a valuable lesson.

Charlie knows the value of being a rested fighter. His days of burning the candle at both ends ended a long time ago.

[ceitfianna]

That's useful for Cy to have a built in thing that forces you to rest.

I love Kirk and McCoy's constant back and forth about taking care of each other. *uses appropriate icon*

[withherhands]

LOL Jack is horrible at that. He'll push himself as long as he can keep moving, especially considering some of the injuries he's worked through on "those" days. Anything else he's all "I manageed to foil terrorists after I flatlined for two minutes, this is nothing!"

When he has to rest, though, he'd rather just hole up by himself and hates being fussed over. He'd probably rather that no one even know, though in the bar he doesn't always get that luxury.

[ceitfianna]

Oh Jack, I think he must share some genes with Wolverine considering how he keeps going.

[yakalskovich]

Teja is horrible about it; he keeps pushing, and ignoring the sickness as long as he can possibly manage.

Urquhart will keep going despite anything, while on a job. If he's in a safe place, he will lounge about and pamper himself as much as he can, in order to be fit again as soon as possible, all the while vigorously denying he is sick at all; he is merely lazy, and might be a bit hungover.

Bridgette, as a little kid, might be expected to be whiny and demanding when sick, but she isn't. She is a very meek and quiet patient. She'll lie in her bed and plot the shortest course from one bit of shadow on the ceiling to the next, or suchlike inane things.

Tower, Sirona, Margolotta and Donovan are all not prone to sickness at all, for various reasons.


What does it say about me that of my seven charries in Milliways, four are more or less supernatural, and two of the others are technically dead?

[ceitfianna]

That you don't like the limitations of humanity just as I prefer playing in other worlds and times. Oh and Moist is going to be tending tonight and feeling the first effects of IMDB flu, I think its going to sneak up on him.

After all if you count Mixed Muses, I have three supernatural, one goddess, four humans and only one of them is from anywhere near a modern era.

[gorgonfondness]

Mia and Lucas are about the same: soldiering on until someone tells them they need to be in bed resting, at which point they'll usually listen, or continuing until they fall over.

[ceitfianna]

That seems to be the trend in Milliways.

[arrin.livejournal.com]

Oh man, Thirteen is horrible at the whole, being sick thing. I'm sure House has sent her home on more than one occasion when she thought she could work though it. As for general tiredness, though, that's nothing, she's used to working on little to no sleep.

AndrAIa, on the other hand, never really had the option to rest if she's sick or exhausted. This goes goes for her Game hopping days with her husband, and even more so back when she was in her own Game. Now, though, she's adapting better than Matrix is.

Kaidan is completely fine with resting if his body needs it due to exhaustion and/or sickly-ness if he's not in the middle of a mission. Training conditioned him to get things done, then go and collapse.

[ceitfianna]

Do Sprites get sick? I can never keep track of how they work.

[a1enzo]

Enzo can't actually get sick since acquiring his Guardian code; at least, not usually. It'd have to be a really unusual bug.

That doesn't mean he never needs to rest, though. If he's just plain tired, well, he is tired, and he will rest until he is not tired. If he were injured and forced to rest... then we would have a problem.

[ceitfianna]

So hopefully its an injury that keeps him in bed for some time at least or else he'll keep escaping?

[parkerlee]

*sneaks in under pup journal*

This is a hard one to answer for Castiel, since angels don't really get sick in the conventional sense. But it seems like they can get hurt and they can get tired (or at least Castiel does when he's cut off from Heaven).

So running with that, I think Cas is the sort who would just keep going until he dropped over dead. Or until Meg told him to take it easy. One or the other.

Parker, I think, is half and half. Half the time she's good about being sensible and taking care of herself. The other half of the time she gets a bug up her butt about NEEDING to do something and crawls to work/class with strep throat.

Luna? I'm honestly not sure about Luna. I'll have to give that some thought. But I think in general Luna is fairly compliant on that front.

[ceitfianna]

*giggles at the icon*

Parker can get really determined about things so it makes sense that she would just go when she probably should rest.

[alsoagreengrass]

Scorpius would most likely attempt to soldier on, before hiding under his covers because he's dying, and then, finally, drag himself to the Hospital Wing in a very dignified manner for a Pepperup Potion or the like. All of which would happen over the course of a few hours.

[ceitfianna]

Aww, Scorpius, I can see him being slightly pampered at home and so that would make it harder at school too.

[genarti]

River can soldier on through if there's an actual need, and she has at various points in her life dealt with ongoing med side effects of various sorts. (I mostly keep this handwavy, but I think I millicanoned a certain level of just-post-med-taking nausea for a while.) However, as a rule, she is grumpy and vaguely petulant like many normal people whenever she gets sick or injured or otherwise has to deal with physical limitations. She's fine with being taken care of, at least!

As far as tiredness, she actually takes care of herself okay with that. Again, she'd push herself if she had to -- she's a dancer; she's good at that -- but otherwise she'll just sleep. Occasionally in unorthodox places. (Mostly not, though.)

Trowa was raised with the idea that you take care of your body, because it's one of your necessary resources for fighting, and your squadmates need to be able to depend on you. This is also why you tell them if your ability to function is impaired.

...Trowa's childhood was very nurturing, yeah.

Anyway! He is pretty good about resting and stuff in the course of ordinary life. If there's an emergency or a mission, then all bets are off, and he will run himself into the ground as much as he feels necessary. His attitude towards being sick is pretty similar: he'll take time off the circus acts if he feels that he can't be certain to hold his end up safely (although not if he just feels kind of tired/yucky/whatever), and he'll behave himself and listen to a doctor's orders. That is, right up until the point when he decides that it's important to do something anyway. Then he will calmly go ahead and do it, behind people's backs if that's relevant.

Lan sucks at idleness, resting, or admitting to any weakness. ALWAYS STOICISM, yo. Also, he's totally spoiled by having spent the last twenty-odd years hanging out with healers; he runs himself into the ground, fights injured, goes without sleep, etc, and has come close to dying any number of times, but he hasn't had to deal with a long recovery period since he was twenty-six. Either he dies (not yet, obviously) or he gets magically healed so that if need be he can do the same thing tomorrow.

More maybe later! Work isn't allowing for much DEing today.

[ceitfianna]

So much stoicism, its good they all have people to take care of them.

[acts_of_gord]

Gordon doesn't really remember what it's like to rest. The last time he remembers getting sick, it was IMDB flu and he only half remembers everything that happened then. Otherwise he has a tendency to keep on going with whatever has to be done until he literally loses the physical integrity necessary to do so. Or until Alyx pins him down and refuses to let him out until he's gotten better, whichever comes first.

Medic shouts at whoever's treating him and tells them they're doing it wrong and is generally a horrible patient if he doesn't agree with whatever course of treatment he's being given. Fortunately, someone with a good academic background and a willingness to shout back can convince him to shut up.

Vergil is good at behaving. Vergil goes to a specially built shelter called a 'squid house' and recharges and self-repairs.

Adrian cusses a lot, and it makes a lot less sense than usual, because being sick or injured pisses him off and the angrier he gets the less sense his cussing makes. If he has to spend any length of time in bed he also pouts. Before the whole thing with the Combine he used to hit on female caretakers if he thought he could get away with it.

Ellen listens to her doctor and does what she's told, and then tries to go back into normal function immediately the instant the doctor says she's all right to get up and move around. She considers it humiliating and shameful for rehab after a medical situation to take very long, although this attitude was set long before she ever met any real soldiers; sick time in Vault 101 was time you were a burden on Vault resources, and recovery time that didn't meet somebody's idea of the right schedule was as bad as deliberate slacking.

[ceitfianna]

Oh Ellen, that's a rather warped perception of being sick.

Is the squid house canon?

[sardonicynic]

Yeek; here's hoping you feel better ASAP.

Ben Wade is the worst sick person ever; he's ill-tempered and snappish, and would just like to pull a dying dog -- he'll curl up alone beneath a porch, cradling a bottle of whiskey, and sleep until he dies (or wakes up all the better, whichever comes first).

Kate Warner will power on through until she absolutely can't anymore; she takes care of everyone else around her before she takes time for herself. (24 is the type of canon that doesn't suffer the less-than-strong, anyway. See also: Jack Bauer.)

Mary Morstan, on the other hand, is leaps and bounds better at self-monitoring; she'll surround herself with the comforts of honey-lemon tea and her favorite detective novels if she falls ill, but it doesn't happen all that often. Working with children and dealing with dreary London winters bolster her immune system.

Raylan Givens only needs more bourbon. But if he's truly beat to hell, figuratively or literally, he will accept help. Grudgingly. (Most notably from his ex-wife.)

[ceitfianna]

At the moment I'm tired as opposed to slightly feverish so that's progress. I do wish that I hadn't offered to take another shift tonight, but I'll manage and drink lots of tea.

I love the description of Ben, "pull a dying dog" and its probably cruel of me but sometime I'd love either Tiwa or William to find him like that and go, no, get up. Since I think William is really good at taking care of sick people though he's not good at being sick.

[ikissdhimbck]

It's hard to get Kate to recognize when she needs to rest, and impossible to get her to accept when she needs to be taken care of. She's a woman of the 19th Century, out on America's frontier. they started their days with the sun, minding the needs of a household -- which often times were quite large -- and either a farm, ranch, or business. You worked morning to night, despite how you felt, in charge of: feeding, cleaning, milking, sometimes butchering, and otherwise taking care of animals; keeping the estate clean to ward off disease; planting, harvesting, nurturing crops; mending, washing, sewing; taking care of the children, often times in charge of their education; preparing the meals, cleaning the tables, minding the books for your business... and so forth.

The working women of the era were tough. An entire family could fall or succeed under their charge. So you had to be strong, quick-witted, and independent. You were the caregivers, and therein lies Kate's mentality. She's an inherent caregiver and she naturally takes charge, which she shouldn't always do. Bless Guppy for trying to get her to slow down every now and again. She, simply, doesn't know what to do with situations where somebody is trying to take care of her.

[ceitfianna]

That makes sense for her, but is going to end up getting her in trouble sometimes. Most of mine are that way, other people come first.

[mechanicalswans]

I have a bunch of stubborn-bastard pups. Either they're from a culture/era where admitting weakness or a need to rest would be a serious liability/threat to their masculinity (Weyland, Skaði, Antony), or they aren't exactly opposed to having somebody take care of them but they don't have anybody but themselves to rely on (Johnny, Butch to some extent, Joe Bonham (at least since leaving his parents' home)).

Hedwig demands that other people take care of her, if other people are around. She is suffering, dammit. But if other people aren't around she can manage just fine (...but she will resent it).

Al will soldier on through if he has to, but he has a fondness for nurses, so if there's no risk to whatever mission he's on, and there's an attractive lady concerned about his well-being? You'd better believe he'll make the most of it.

Squirrel and Multifacet, being parody supervillains, get sick in big and messy ways and will not do anything until they're feeling better. They're both pretty healthy, though.

[ceitfianna]

I like the phrase stubborn-bastard, it captures so much in just two words.

[mm-spinelstar.livejournal.com]

Three of my pups can't get sick.

But when Data's malfunctioning in any way, he tends to soldier through it and fix the problem himself. His systems were designed to do that, so he rarely asks for help, even from Geordi. Though if he's concerned there's something his self-diagnostic might have missed, he does go to his friend. And obviously if he shuts down completely, someone else has to fix him.

Rosalie in her human days probably secretly resented being taken care of. She likes being fussed over but I think she would have hated too many people seeing her at her worst. She would have hated being sick and taken it out on everybody. And if there was some big social event going on, she would have gone to it even while sick. Now she soldiers through everything-- I suppose you could say it's like "not feeling well" when she has to go to school hungry.

Eiji needs to be taken care of. He desperately wants someone to mother him and be there to complain to.

Frederick would want to be taken care of too, but partially because he thinks it's funny to be a really bad patient. He wants someone to scold him when he sneaks out of his bed to go do something fun.

[ceitfianna]

Tiwa would take care of Frederick up to a certain point and then start pranking him if he was causing trouble by leaving.

Aww, Eiji must be adorable and slightly annoying.

[lady_bols]

Alex refuses to acknowledge it, usually. She soldiers on quietly, career and child taking precedence over her own health and yes, sanity. She doesn't sit down until she's alone, if then. If she's feeling really miserable, a hot bath, a bowl of soup, and a quilt on the couch with a good book is her go to remedy. But usually only for an evening, and then she's back to work.

[ceitfianna]

That sounds like if she's really feeling bad, it could catch up with her in a big way.