Monday DE: Blood In The Water

[splash_of_blue]

Well, I'm awake, and that's about the best that can be said of this.

Moving on...

How good is your character at dealing with blood - their own or someone's else's?




(Nebula and Max are both, for rather different reasons, just going to laugh and laugh...)

Comments

[takethatnature]

I think my entire cast is unfazed by blood, come to think of it.

Wilson didn't serve in WWI, so pre-canon he might have been squeamish about blood, but in the Constant he had to get used to killing for survival and dealing with bloody injuries.

Thurlow also had to get used to blood after getting involved in the dangers of Fallen London, though in this case they have more to fear from armed and dangerous people (of various species) and environmental hazards than from threatening wildlife.

Bastion doesn't even have blood, but they've spilled a lot of it and they know how much a human can afford to lose.

Alternia is a dangerous enough place that only especially young and/or sheltered children (like Wanshi Adyata from the Hiveswap games, who's about 11 in Earth years and has spent most of her life confined to the brooding caverns) aren't used to bloodshed and death. Aradia, however, used to play FLARP, a popular roleplaying game with lethal stakes, so she saw even more blood than the baseline for an Alternian kid. By contrast, Cirava didn't really have any violent hobbies beforehand, but got entirely too familiar with their own blood when they nearly died during The Incident. And since troll blood (also lusus blood, but I'm not sure about other Alternian animals) comes in a rainbow of colours that dictate pecking order in the Empire, the colour of the blood they see - whether actively flying or dried onto an implement or bit of scenery - tells them something about what kind of person it came from and how many trolls got hurt.

[lonesome_moonflower]

Wormwood doesn't have blood either, and hasn't made an extensive study of animal anatomy, but isn't totally unfamiliar with blood since they eat meat opportunistically and live alongside both the animal life of the jungle and a settlement of animal-people. They know meat-beings contain blood, which tends to leak out when their hide is cut or punctured. What purpose it serves is a mystery.

[lupintrois]

Lupin's been shot...a lot. A whole lot. It's just Tuesday for him at this point.

[lupintrois]

That's not counting how bloody things get when his canon dips into the darker end of things (there's one OVA literally called
"The Blood Spray of Goemon Ishikawa" and it lives up to that title).

[zenigatcha]

Insert the Kill Bill Sirens here re: Bloodspray.

[bjornwilde]

I kinda want to say Ahsoka isn't that familiar with blood since lightsabers cauterize wounds, but then she's also had to hunt and kill an akul in order to get her headdress, so I guess she's fine.

Sabine seems like she'd be fine or if she wasn't you wouldn't know.

Jess has no troubles with it and neither does Tybalt.

Alustin is professional about it and deals while it is happening and things need doing. I've just decided he will freak out after and that is entirely headcanon.

Ben hates blood and when he was ordered to make it happen.

[canttrickmeanymore]

i dunno if i can say he's 'no stranger' to blood, but he's gotten tossed around and beat up a little, so it's not unfamiliar territory.

[bright_daughter]

Marian really does not love it, especially when it's the common, innocent people who don't deserve the violence visited upon them. Still, she's come to have some tolerance to being the one effecting it upon guards in Nottingham.

Star is absolutely unconcerned with it. As The Walkers who come to her have just passed through The Tower, it's often one of the million states they wander into the darkness of her lands in.

Jo has grown up surrounded by the gore caused by the monsters in the dark and doing triage on top of pool tables and in the field. She doesn't love it, but she's also really good at pushing through it for what's necessary.

(Sara is wholly unconcerned if it is her blood or the blood of someone she's just killed, but she gets really sometime quite violently involved if it's one of her people. #AssassinGirl Allison has a penchant for bloody drag-out physical fights, even though she could rumor people to turn into dust a room away from her; blood is far more an accelerant than a deterrent to her, and most of the time she never pays attention to when she is bleeding. #CrazyChildhoodTrainingFTR Octavia considers it a given of her path and not worth giving attention to, unless it's the blood of the person disasterously in her way on the ground in front of her. #UnlessItsBellamyorHope )