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nightfell mods ([personal profile] oblivium) wrote in [community profile] nightooc2022-10-01 11:15 am
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SOULIDARITY


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ABOUT YOU. ASPIRATIONS. ABILITIES. LOOKING FOR? FEARS. OCCUPATION. ISSUES WITH? MONSTER AFFINITIES IF ANY. ETC.

            
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[personal profile] janescayre 2022-10-02 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
["formed a soulmate bond already?" What, was anyone here that big of a skank?

Or was this girl implying that not having a soulmate by now means you're deficient? Embarrassing even???

How dare she]


Fukawa Toko swiped left, send a message at your own perils.
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[personal profile] craters 2022-10-02 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll take that as a no, then...?
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[personal profile] janescayre 2022-10-02 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't expect other people to do the dirty work for you! Form your own bonds!

Besides, expecting anyone to approximate the intimacy of a "soulmate" when we're all complete strangers is ridiculous.
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[personal profile] craters 2022-10-02 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
why is no one supervising this unruly child (?!)...

Part of forming an accurate hypothesis is a broad spectrum of data. You don't have to participate if you don't want to, it's entirely voluntary.

Are you okay?
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[personal profile] janescayre 2022-10-02 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[They're the same age???? How rude!!]

What kind of a stupid question is that?

WE'RE ALL DEAD. How can anyone be expected to be "okay"?

And reducing the beauty of love and companionship to something as cold as a hypothesis, that's completely unforgiveable. You're as bad as the people that set this whole thing up.
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[personal profile] craters 2022-10-02 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Dead or not, we're here. Making the best of it is all we've got at the moment.

taking this tantrum in stride tho...

I understand what you're saying about romance, and I feel the same. But given that it's the only thing the 'Hierarchy' really told us, we can probably reliably assume it's an important and expected feature of our lives here. We should learn what we can.
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[personal profile] janescayre 2022-10-02 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Fine, then make yourself into a guinea pig. Just know that not everyone is going to be so eager to muck around in this filth with you.

[Likely because some of them won't find soulmates.

And by some she may just mean herself. Any system set up to judge for attractiveness spells doom for Fukawa...

#foreveralone. As in life, so in death.]
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[personal profile] craters 2022-10-03 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sorry you feel that way.

But if you ever need help, please reach out. I am still a doctor, after all.
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[personal profile] janescayre 2022-10-03 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
I don't want your pity!

[Somewhere in Stygia there is a string of curses and mumblings and utterances such as "I'm not pathetic, you're pathetic!"

After some time:]


It's so stupid that anyone would even need a doctor in the afterlife, but I suppose we're at least suffering this idiocy together.
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[personal profile] craters 2022-10-03 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
It's not pity. Please don't assume to know my feelings.

Toko-san, if you don't have anything productive to add to the conversation, I have other things I should attend to.
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[personal profile] janescayre 2022-10-03 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
No one is forcing you to reply to anything. Just ignore me then, if everything I say is so worthless.

[Never mind that Sakura is completely right. They're just talking in circles, and Fukawa is getting furious over things neither can control.

Maybe she should just throw this stupid phone into a river. What good has it done her so far?]
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[personal profile] craters 2022-10-03 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
that's the problem with having started the first mental health clinic of its kind in... not even konoha, in the entirety of her world. it means she can recognize certain behaviours for what they are. so. she leaves this alone for several hours, and then eventually comes back to it. she's not exactly in a good spot either — nobody really is, but at least she has a physician's obligation to try, brushing her own annoyance aside. people like this really get under her skin, but that's not her fault.

I didn't say it was worthless.

Hey, do you know anything about first aid?
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[personal profile] janescayre 2022-10-03 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[She'd taken the radio silence as a sort of pyrrhic victory. It's a shock to see the notif hours later.

It's better this way, actually. By now her foul mood has mostly dissipated, and she can brush the olive branch aside without picking another fight.]


Whatever.

I'm not very well versed in it. I used to faint at the sight of blood.


[Getting over that had become a tragic necessity.]
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[personal profile] craters 2022-10-03 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
hemophobia... it's a disorder she's spectacularly well-versed in, all things considered.

Well, if you'd like to learn, I have a few patients down near the docks with some minor injuries I haven't had the time for. No blood, just things like sprains.

I could use a hand if you feel up for it.
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CW: self-harm mention (also just realized, should I use sakura or haruno in meta text?)

[personal profile] janescayre 2022-10-03 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[.......

There's no answer.

But forty minutes later, there's someone at the edge of the docks. Dithering at the wooden lip is a rather unkempt girl, her hair over-long and her sailor fuku ripped in several places. Most obviously along her left leg, where the skirt splits high on her thigh and teases two rows of hand carved tallies. The marks are old, but sit vivid and cruel between the fraying pleats.

Fukawa watches the other girl through large glasses, her expression knotted with unease.]


... Y-you're that medic girl, right?
Edited (Location....) 2022-10-03 21:25 (UTC)
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(either one would work! use whatever is natural for ya girl)

[personal profile] craters 2022-10-03 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
even if she were only trained as a doctor and not a shinobi, she'd be hard-pressed to miss those marks. her mind doesn't go first to self-harm, which has entirely different connotations in her world, but torture of some sort — thinking about the awful, awful scars all over karin's body.

Yep, that's me. she gives the other girl a nod, not quite ready to try a reassuring smile. Call me Sakura. Does your culture do handshakes?
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she's rude and refuses honorifics too, so plain old sakura it is

[personal profile] janescayre 2022-10-04 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
[She's sort of stuck in place. The nod helps, but Fukawa's still unsure if she wants to swoop in and help. This is very much outside of her expertise, and she feels quite foolish now that they're meeting face to face.

She pulls at her knuckles. Purses her lips. Why did she have to be named Sakura, of all things? Sure, it's as common as dirt back home, everyone knew at least three. It's just, well. Hard to shuck the memories away.

Nightmares, rather.]


F-Fukawa. [Sakura might feel bold, but she won't offer her given name in return. That's far too familiar.] Um. Isn't that b-bad practice for medicine? You don't know where I've been.
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[personal profile] craters 2022-10-04 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Generally, in unhygienic conditions. But I do have a sanitizing station set up inside.

plus, she can use chakra to sterilize her hands, but that's neither here nor there. ultimately, she's not concerned, though she's hardly going to insist on a handshake.

I know it's not much, but — a bit of a gesture at the ramshackle 'clinic' she's set up. it's neat and tidy, but it's a tarp pinned up against a reasonably sturdy wall. there's an operating theatre cordoned off to one side tucked away behind a sheet, the whole space is brightly lit and there's three available cots, two currently occupied, and the little sanitizing station is set up near the entrance, with a second one in the small theatre beyond. it's slapdash, but put together with knowledge that can only come from experience. Thanks for coming.
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[personal profile] janescayre 2022-10-04 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Man, what CAN'T chakra do?

Fukawa ducks in after the other girl (even prettier in person, the pettiest part of her notes, probably because she's standing next to you) and is rather impressed with what she's managed so far. Better than most would in a pinch, and she's seen enough slipshod disaster relief to know.]


D-don't thank me just yet, [She mumbles, fixing herself up at the sanitation station.] I'll probably give them ulcers with one touch.

[Once she's certain her hands are clean, she turns expectantly to the other girl.]

Well? It's sprains, right? Sh-show me what I have to do.
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[personal profile] craters 2022-10-05 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
so, sakura leads her to the first patient, a woman in her mid to late thirties with a sprained ankle. sakura has healed the worst of the tissue damage itself, but she still wants to support it properly for a few days, just to make up for the reduction in her healing ability. she's already asked and received permission to use this as a teaching session, so —

This is Etana. Etana, this is Fukawa. She's going to watch me wrap your good leg, and then she's going to try doing the wrap on the injured one if she's feeling up for it.

so, she goes through all the motions. shows the girl how to properly hold the foot so it doesn't pull on the bad side and remains neutral during wrapping, how to unravel the bandage as you work so you can keep the fishbone pattern smooth and not too tight, and importantly — to always begin away from the heart and work towards it for proper circulation. she'll pause at any point if fukawa has questions, and explain her techniques or redo anything, and when she's done and has gently affixed the bandage to the woman's ankle —

There. How does that feel, Ms. Etana?
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[personal profile] janescayre 2022-10-05 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's rather nerve-wracking. She hangs back enough to feel awkward, to stay locked in Sakura's shadow and avoid meeting the woman's eyes. Why did she bother coming? This sort of work pinched at every flaw she has. Terrible with people, awkward, clumsy, cowardly. Someone's going to walk in cut to pieces and she'll have to leave, or she'll mess up the bandaging and leave this woman in worse shape than before.

She's almost nibbling her thumb as she watches Sakura work. Then she remembers she'd just washed up, and clenches her hands to fists instead. The weave of the bandage appears to be simple. Perhaps she can manage it?

"It feels quite all right, dear." The woman smiles warmly at them both. Fukawa gingerly takes the next bandage.]


...Y-you're sure you want to risk yourself?

["It's just a sprain. I'm sure you'll do fine."

Fukawa winces and casts a sour look at Sakura.]


You b-better not make fun of me when I fail miserably. [It was her idea, after all.

No matter. With a sour grunt she makes her start. The hand that holds the foot keeps the grip light, she's too scared to use any kind of force. Round the bandage goes. The pattern is inelegant, not the tight and even criss-cross of Sakura's work. Fukawa swears under her breath.]


God. D-do I have to start over?
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[personal profile] craters 2022-10-07 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
Not at all, see?

she gently tugs a few of those crooked criss-crosses straight, just so there's no wrinkled pressurepoints beneath the patterned weave. the tension isn't bad — it probably could be a touch tighter, but the woman will be able to walk on it, and the ankle is well supported.

she gestures to the area that wraps the woman's heel, which she hadn't needed to correct —


Look here, this part? This was perfect. It's always hardest to wrap any sort of curve.

it feels all right to me! see, dear? the woman says with a smile, reaching out to touch fukawa's shoulder in a reassuring pat.
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[personal profile] janescayre 2022-10-08 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
[She didn't fuck it up?

At first she's sure Sakura's patronizing her, because with her jittery hands there's no way she laid anything in place. But the adjustments made are minimal, and (blotches of pink start to paint her pale face) she even calls the heel section perfect. No touch ups.

She startles at the fond touch from the patient too, spluttering.]


Ghh— w-well, it's not like th-that part was hard! It's not spinal surgery!

[Get a hold of yourself. Say thank you.

...]


Okay, so. [Maybe next time.] You said there were more?
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[personal profile] craters 2022-10-10 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
We can work our way up to that one.

#unbothered. she's been around rude jerks her whole life, it's not like she ever expects a thank-you. she undoes the bandage from about the woman's good foot, rolling it back up on itself as she goes, and then walks her through some light care over the next few days. keep it elevated, ice if possible, etc, and then she sends her off on her way. etana tries to offer her payment for her services, and sakura shakes her head firmly.

It isn't about the money. If you'd like, once you're feeling well again you could bring some food over for the other patients, all right?

they hem and haw a little more over that, like someone trying to haggle at a market, and finally they settle on a nice fish stew to be dropped off in a few days' time. etana's cheerful as she hobbles out the door, waving goodbye to fukawa especially, and then sakura gestures to the other bed.

Come on, let's do it again! Same thing, but the other foot this time.
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[personal profile] janescayre 2022-10-10 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[What's with all this unearned enthusiasm?

The flush won't go away, even after Fukawa takes a step back and turns her back to them. She's wringing her hands and biting her lip. (Feet!! She's been touching someone else's feet!! And people were so quick to call her filthy before.) This girl, she must want something from her, right? Maybe she planned to train her up and abandon her own post at the first opportunity! Then she'd be stuck here with all these smelly invalids, inept and ill-socialized and in over her head, and no one would lift a finger to help her. She's not comely or charming, convincing anyone to lend a hand would be ten times more difficult than it is for this girl. Was that even her natural hair colour? Could anyone's eyes be that green without fake lenses?

Except Etana is so cheerful, waving her goodbye, and Sakura keeps that sunshine beaming as she hustles to the next patient. And the next one after that. The limbs shifted, wrists over ankles, etc, but the work stemmed from the same base. Fukawa remains reticent throughout, shying from thanks and sneaking sidelong glances at her mentor.

It's not until they have a spare moment that she speaks up, low and hesitant.]


Wh-why are you going through all this effort? You know I can't st-stick around.

[Hard to work in medicine with a fear of blood and all. Besides which, if she had the misfortune to sneeze? Fukawa might be a piss poor physician, but Syo would be even worse.]

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