ways_back_room | DE: I'll get through...somehow

I'm pretty sure all of mine would try to get on with their normal lives despite any illness. This is not necessarily the wisest strategy, I realize. Some of them (read: Fluttershy) have better support structures than others (read: Felix).

Katya is fine, very much so, get out of her space, nothing to see here... until she gets some place she feels safe, then curls up with a good bottle of vodka and waits it out.

McCoy goes and fixes the problem. And if he doesn't have the medicine to fix said problem, he'll make it. On the fly. Like a boss.

Haymitch holes up in his cottage with his alcohol until the Capitol people come and knock the door down (again) and fix him up (again) because President Snow isn't tired of his District Twelve toy.

Oswin is actually the good little patient out of the group, though she does tend to do a lot of her own research on whatever internet/intarweb/webernet there is, much to her doctors' dismay.

When Glorfindel is injured, he does his damnedest to ignore it and avoid Elrond. This goes about as well as you might expect.

Balthazar is miserable sick. When he had people, the more fuss he could generate, the better. ... He'd still do that, if he had people.

Ace just looks annoyed at the question.

Balthazar has at least one apprentice who is a prime fusser. Sunshine can fuss with the best of them. He would likely have no problem extorting sympathy cinnamon rolls.

I'm now imagining William trying to help Katya when she's sick and the two of them annoying each other a lot.

McCoy goes and fixes the problem. And if he doesn't have the medicine to fix said problem, he'll make it. On the fly. Like a boss.

Allergies don't count, of course. Like the time he took cordrazine by accident and hallucinated a time travel event.

What? Like safe time travel should ever be a thing that doesn't take Spock and Scotty working together.

Can I see fic about injured!Glorfindel doing his damnedest to ignore it and avoid Elrond? And the obvious (lack of) success. That would be hilarious.

Jessica holes up in what essentially becomes a blanket fort and watches lots of TV. She'll ignore calls (unless it's Carol) as there are plenty of super heroes in New York thank you very much. I can see her ordering lots of spicy Chinese delivery.

Val medicates and tackles the ill with science!

Hank likely feel miserable but keeps working. He'll establish quarantine-like procedures to keep others from getting sick and likely tracks the illness in a diary.

Thalia grumps at the ill until it goes away.

Andrea isn't likely to get sick as Lyc-V is a *very* jealous virus. If she were sick, she'd curl up in bed with all her trashy romance novels.

Yrael doesn't get sick, but will quietly (or not-so-quietly) warm the feet of his friends who get sick, and watch over them until they're better.

Sunshine has been sick all of twice in her life - and one was Milliways-induced IMDB-flu. If she were to fall ill, she would likely begin washing her hands even more than she usually does, drink massive quantities of tea until she feels almost-normal, and then carry on... until a disapproving step-father and boss forces her to go home and rest before she collapses.

Zelgadiss is the kind to tough it out until he collapses, because he's terribly stubborn (something all my characters have in common, really) and because he's often traveling or trying to save the world. And who has time to stop for a cold?

Most of mine aren't good at being sick and taking care of themselves. I'm the same way. I know I'll feel better if I rest but my new job has made me feel far more guilty for actually doing the resting.

Will gets injured more than sick and if sick tends to keep going until Tuck or Robin tells him to stop.

Charles is a slightly better patient as he grew up with his Nanny who made sure to take care of him. Though his first instinct is to take care of other people who are sick and if Raven's sick then he can wait. If he is sick then he wants lots of tea, books and his bed. Though I also have the feeling that mutants tend to have a slightly better immune system.

William is great at taking care of Mark but not so much himself. He tends to go until he falls over and has to stop.

Sameth will happily hide away in bed if he can and he does it in canon a few times.

Demeter doesn't get sick but she's good at taking care of people who do get sick.

Jane is happy to curl up in bed with a book or her writing if she feels sick and her mother lets her.

Moist doesn't like being sick as it forces him to stay in one place and if he is sick then he'll hide in a hotel until he's better.

Tumnus, I think doesn't get sick that easily but when he does, rest and tea and he tends to tuck himself away from others until he's better.

The Pirate King takes full of advantage of being sick to be waited on but he gets restless quickly.

Jack battles through, until his CO tells him to stop. Which, you know, hasn't actually happened yet.

Alfred would keep working, until Thomas told him otherwise. He'd just keep a pocket hankerchief more handy than usual, that's all. Also, do his best to keep out of the way more than usual.

Erik has been known to hide in bed if it's a particularly bad illness, but his students could be relying on him, so, these days at least, he'll make some effort to be accessible by e-mail, even if that's lying on his bed with his (slow, clunky) laptop.

Max is much like Erik, just without the connectivity options. There's just apologies and lots of rapid letter sending when he gets back in.

Bean has lived within a few days of dying of starvation, a little bug isn't going to keep him down.

The last time that Mark got sick, he was five years old. He whined about it, but got to stay home from school and watch cartoons, and his mom made him tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches. Aside from feeling icky, it wasn't a bad day.

Thanks to his Viltrumite heritage, he hasn't been sick since. He feels cheated after a fashion. Especially because, given his father, he couldn't even lie about being sick (plus he pretty much sucks at lying).

River is quiet when she feels really miserable, and toughs it out or goes quiet when she just feels a little ill, but she's sulky and grumpy when she's starting to feel better and not quite 100% yet.

Regan is similarly quiet when she feels really awful. If she doesn't feel too bad, she tries to push through it if she has a lot to do. If she's got some leisure she tries to see it as an excuse to be self-indulgent and lazy, which is kind of fun for a while and then she gets really impatient with all the stuff she isn't getting done.

Clare ignores it and pushes through. Until she passes out, if it comes to that. Canon! To be fair, while Clare is notably stubborn, a lot of this is reinforced by the Claymore life. (There's one instance where Becca's character Ilena knocks Clare down, holds her face-down, and informs her calmly that if she wants to die Ilena will save everybody a lot of trouble and kill her, but otherwise she needs to rest and eat. This is actually pretty nurturing by Claymore standards.)

Trowa will push through a whole lot if he has cause to. Otherwise, he's actually a pretty good patient; he will absolutely and reflexively hide how awful he feels, but he'll listen to medical advice and take it (most of the time). This is because what was drilled into Trowa in his youth wasn't so much machismo as it was "take care of your weapons, your body is your first and last weapon," and the lesson stuck. If Trowa's feeling sick, expect him to mostly self-quarantine in his room, occasionally emerging for soup or tea or whatever.

Thor... well, movie canon has yet to specify whether Asgardians can get sick under normal circumstances. (Comics canon has specified things, but I think these things have been contradictory sometimes, because comics. Anyway Thor is MCU, and I borrow worldbuilding from mythology and my own brain as much as from comics for him.) I tend to think they can, but it's relatively rare and not from the same things humans can. Anyway, he hasn't gotten sick in centuries, but Thor was not immune to childhood colds and fevers and stuff. He was a sniffly, demanding patient as a kid, equally prone to self-indulgent neediness and to going SEE I'M ALL BETTER, I CAN TOTALLY GO TRAIN, MOM AND DAD!! Nowadays he would be much more stoic. (Still kind of sulky, but mostly stoic.)

Ako is actually pretty good about the theory of getting better, and ok at putting it into practice. Expect lots of hot baths, that sort of thing.

Tyler is terrible. And by terrible I mean he keeps working on novels, just shuffling around in his housecoat instead of going out and trying to draft things on bar napkins when Sam has a gig.

Artemis tries to push through. When things are really, really bad, she wants rice noodle soup with extra hot sauce.

Robo doesn't get sick. If he did it would probably add to his issues with things like insects once he pinned down the cause.

Janet grumps, shuffles around wrapped in a quilt and demands noodle soup. All the noodle soup.

Gordon gets quiet and grumpy when he's sick, but nobody should be surprised at anything that makes Gordon get quiet. He'll go looking for the nearest available reputable doctor if it's something serious, but otherwise he's prone to over-the-counter remedies, or meal-based treatments like soup and tea, rather than bothering anyone else about it.

Adrian tends to be of the 'oh, just walk it off' school of thought for anything that doesn't involve "Huh, so that's what $BODY_PART/$UNUSUAL_BODY_FLUID looks like" happening as a result of an illness. He tends to cover his mouth and nose with his upper arm when he sneezes, like a B-movie vampire covering his face with a cape.

Ellen was raised in a society where only the very young, the very old, and the sick or severely injured did not work. Sick people who stayed sick too long were often viewed with suspicion of deliberate malingering in order to get out of work, and so she tends to worry that if she doesn't get back on her feet quickly, she'll be accused of using up resources. She was trying to do pushups in the Milliways infirmary within a few days after staggering in from a radiation-induced coma, and angry with herself for not being able to do more than sixteen without collapsing, because two weeks of down time and advanced medicine should've been enough.

Mordin tends to go "ooh, interesting", catalog his symptoms, and go about testing various medicines and procedures for efficaciousness in curing himself when he gets sick.

The similarity between Mordin and Hank's answers make me think they need to meet someday.

That can be arranged!

I don't think I'd be up for it today but definitely soon!

Helena will fall over dead proving she isn't sick before she admits that she is sick or needs to rest.

Great timing, I just discovered a low-grade fever last night, so I sympathize with them all.

Henry tries to ignore it a bit, but not for long, then gets quiet and miserably and wants chicken soup and hot chocolate with cinnamon in (more than usual). I think lately he'll be a little more vocal about wanting some pampering, but growing up under Regina? Not so much.

Lois tries to push though if she wants to, but at some point gets miserable for herself and those around her--unless you have the patience to be gracious-but-not-doormat about it. This is (predictably) the Kents and Ella, before she died.

Tavi used to alternate between pushing and letting Isana fuss, depending whether he wanted to be smothered or not. As an adult, he definitely pushes until crashes and everyone who notices gets cross at him.

I imagine Regina would coddle Henry's colds, within reason of the typical Working Single Parent paradigm. She worries over him so much for smaller things, that she'd probably be That Mother when he's genuinely ill.

Also, feel better soon, you! ♥

Leela -

eyeeyecaptain - I feel like it's a bit of both, depending on the day ~~and comedic value~~. Injuries and illness don't slow her down when there's a job to do, but she also likes being pampered.

Porthos -

srspirate - Porthos gets manflu. Which means he whines, then medicates himself with wine. Hey, Aramis says a little wine is good for stomach ills, it must stretch to other areas.

Grace Augustine -

donthidemycigs - Grace gets grumpy. Oh, sorry - grumpier. Luckily it's not an issue on Pandora, but if it were she'd know when to avoid contaminating any of her subjects/work, and stubbornly keep working the rest of the time.

Renee Walker -

whathastobedone - She pushes herself, within reason. Renee prides herself on not taking sick days (or vacation days, but that's another story).

Ray Carling -

flickedmethevs - Another manflu subject. He hasn't a problem with calling out to rest up ~~or sneak off to footy matches~~, has no clue how to treat a common cold/flu, and if anyone were in earshot he would moan about it.

Lily Bell -

maidenofthewest - There isn't time or luxury to feel poorly.

Zoë Washburne -

someonetocarryyou - Zoë kicks sickness in the face, and moves on.

Regina Mills -

happilyneverafter - Regina is miserable when she's sick. Not necessarily whiny, but an unbridled complainer and demander. Don't get within fifty feet of her when sick, or else you may find yourself fetching juice or bringing her soup.

If it's not a serious illness/injury, Mike will milk it for all its worth. He'll play the pouting patient demanding such things as Gingerale, grilled cheese, and tomato soup.

However, if he's really actually very sick, he'll just get quiet and withdrawn and try to play it off like he's fine.

That last bit can also be said of Raph and Splinter, to varying degrees. Raph just gets far more cranky, and Splinter far more quiet than usual.

Aang is a horrible patient. Horrible. He will not sit still, nor will he follow instructions, which can problematic for anyone around him. An Airbender with a cold is a dangerous person to be around. In one of the comics Sokka and Katara had to physically restrain him.

Bumi doesn't have time to be sick, and so...he probably makes himself sicker.

Oh, hey, Autor just did this! He tends to deny being sick until the symptoms are clearly obvious, and then brings on the, "I'm going to die" terror. Unfortunately for him, he's predisposed to illness due to lack of sun/diet/sleep/decent health care in general.

I have the feeling Amascut would be scared out of her mind if she got sick. If she could get sick, that is.

One part of me thinks that Tommy would just soldier through sickness; the other part of me thinks he'll turn into a big baby with a man cold.

DE: I'll get through...somehow

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look, a perpetual motion (sickness) machine!

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