cactusspatz:

missmarionmac:

comfortingcatharsis:

Good Types of Tropes For H/C

• No Pain Killers Available
• Gotta Stay Quiet To Avoid Discovery
• Feverish Delirium And Mumbling
• Cowboy Medicine: Whiskey Internally & Externally Applied
• Huddling For Warmth
• Desperate Hand-Holding
• “Breathe, Just Breathe”
• Protectively Cradling A Broken Arm
• The Word ‘Winced’
• Whimpering
• “Easy, Easy There”
• Being Carried; Bridal, Fireman’s, Two-Person, Doesn’t Matter- Being Carried
• Coughing, or, God-Forbid, Sneezing, With Broken Ribs
• Fainting
• Waking Up Not Knowing Where They Are
• Animal Attack
• DIY Bullet-Removal
• Field-Medicine in General
• Blankets/Shirt Collar Shifting Just Enough To Have Bandages Peeking Out
• Gentle Shushing
• Needing Help To Drink From A Glass
• Brushing Hair From Brow
• Collapsing Off Of Horse
• Dramatic Irony Injury Reveal (Audience Knows About It But Other Characters Do Not)
• Frantically Feeling For Breath Or Pulse

(feel free to add on!)

– “…you stayed?” “Of course I did.”

-The comforting one watching the hurt one sleep and feeling incredibly ~fond~

-The hurt one waking up to see the comforting one asleep near them and feeling incredibly ~fond~

I feel called out. …Also you forgot a few important ones:

• otherwise stoic character flinching, either because they’re so out of it or the pain is Just That Bad
• the injured person having to walk their comforter through giving them stitches
• the hurt one suddenly losing their balance/too weak to stand and the comforting one is right there to catch them
• character gently cupping someone’s cheek while they’re asleep/unconscious and the hurt one turns their face into their hand