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HOW TO WRITE A CHARACTER WHO IS IN PAIN

first thing you might want to consider: is the pain mental or physical?

if it’s physical, what type of pain is it causing? — sharp pain, white-hot pain, acute pain, dull ache, throbbing pain, chronic pain, neuropathic pain (typically caused by nerve damage), etc

if it’s mental, what is the reason your character is in pain? — grief, heartbreak, betrayal, anger, hopelessness, fear and anxiety, etc

because your character will react differently to different types of pain

PHYSICAL PAIN

sharp and white-hot pain may cause a character to grit their teeth, scream, moan, twist their body. their skin may appear pale, eyes red-rimmed and sunken with layers of sweat covering their forehead. they may have tears in their eyes (and the tears may feel hot), but they don’t necessarily have to always be crying.

acute pain may be similar to sharp and white-hot pain; acute pain is sudden and urgent and often comes without a warning, so your character may experience a hitched breathing where they suddenly stop what they’re doing and clench their hand at the spot where it hurts with widened eyes and open mouth (like they’re gasping for air).

dull ache and throbbing pain can result in your character wanting to lay down and close their eyes. if it’s a headache, they may ask for the lights to be turned off and they may be less responsive, in the sense that they’d rather not engage in any activity or conversation and they’d rather be left alone. they may make a soft whimper from their throat from time to time, depends on their personality (if they don’t mind others seeing their discomfort, they may whimper. but if your character doesn’t like anyone seeing them in a not-so-strong state, chances are they won’t make any sound, they might even pretend like they’re fine by continuing with their normal routine, and they may or may not end up throwing up or fainting).

if your character experience chronic pain, their pain will not go away (unlike any other illnesses or injuries where the pain stops after the person is healed) so they can feel all these types of sharp pain shooting through their body. there can also be soreness and stiffness around some specific spots, and it will affect their life. so your character will be lucky if they have caretakers in their life. but are they stubborn? do they accept help from others or do they like to pretend like they’re fine in front of everybody until their body can’t take it anymore and so they can no longer pretend?

neuropathic pain or nerve pain will have your character feeling these senses of burning, shooting and stabbing sensation, and the pain can come very suddenly and without any warning — think of it as an electric shock that causes through your character’s body all of a sudden. your character may yelp or gasp in shock, how they react may vary depends on the severity of the pain and how long it lasts.

EMOTIONAL PAIN

grief can make your character shut themself off from their friends and the world in general. or they can also lash out at anyone who tries to comfort them. (five states of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and eventual acceptance.)

heartbreak — your character might want to lock themself in a room, anywhere where they are unseen. or they may want to pretend that everything’s fine, that they’re not hurt. until they break down.

betrayal can leave a character with confusion, the feelings of ‘what went wrong?’, so it’s understandable if your character blames themself at first, that maybe it’s their fault because they’ve somehow done something wrong somewhere that caused the other character to betray them. what comes after confusion may be anger. your character can be angry at the person who betrayed them and at themself, after they think they’ve done something wrong that resulted in them being betrayed, they may also be angry at themself next for ‘falling’ for the lies and for ‘being fooled’. so yes, betrayal can leave your character with the hatred that’s directed towards the character who betrayed them and themself. whether or not your character can ‘move on and forgive’ is up to you.

there are several ways a character can react to anger; they can simply lash out, break things, scream and yell, or they can also go complete silent. no shouting, no thrashing the place. they can sit alone in silence and they may cry. anger does make people cry. it mostly won’t be anything like ‘ugly sobbing’ but your character’s eyes can be bloodshot, red-rimmed and there will be tears, only that there won’t be any sobbing in most cases.

hopelessness can be a very valid reason for it, if you want your character to do something reckless or stupid. most people will do anything if they’re desperate enough. so if you want your character to run into a burning building, jump in front of a bullet, or confess their love to their archenemy in front of all their friends, hopelessness is always a valid reason. there’s no ‘out of character’ if they are hopeless and are desperate enough.

fear and anxiety. your character may be trembling, their hands may be shaky. they may lose their appetite. they may be sweaty and/or bouncing their feet. they may have a panic attack if it’s severe enough.

and I think that’s it for now! feel free to add anything I may have forgotten to mention here!

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He doesn't like hats.

My contribution to @chunklet's fallout fanzine.

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Tactical Gas Mask dudes are epic

Truly one of the most based of character design tropes.Most surely, anyone dressed like this immediately gains my interest and appreciation.I cannot think of a single character designed like this I do not love

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utterly terrifying: person youre following who doesnt follow you back randomly reblogged a few of your posts without explanation

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This is a fully-online course using Canvas. This is a fully-online course using Canvas. This is a fully-online course using Canvas. This is a fully-online course using Canvas. This is a fully-online course using Canvas. This is a

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Very good news for the world.

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https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/tradition

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ngl this is the funniest procedural thing ive made in a while i saw https://genders.wtf/gauntlet/ and realized that the only way it could be better is if it went forever

kinda curious to see what ppl get

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Just like a cokey cola...

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the peanut butter fandom is shockingly small on tumblr. i love peanut butter but it's so hard to find other fans on here

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are all animals dangerous?

every animal has the potential to be dangerous under certain circumstances. for instance, a dog could bite you, a moth could distract a UPS driver into plowing through your living room window, you could inhale and choke on an earthworm.

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which oc is presumed dead? bonus: are they actually dead?

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its so fucking sad how toxic the lgbt+ spaces are on tumblr. as a trans person, i stopped visiting them and tagging my posts with lgbt+ tags because i'd just get a bunch of harassment telling me that i wasn't a real trans, even if my posts were uplifting and postive towards the whole community. and that was just from fellow trans people, let alone terfs

the whole community honestly made me a little sick, there's always drama on how [insert identity] is fake and makes the rest of us look bad. and its always the same shitty takes but in a different identity. its full of fellow lgbt+ people trying to put down others to make themselves more tolerable to cishets

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i think someone should make a restaurant with like. all the hype and pretension of a Traditional™️ italian restaurant but they make authentic food from Ancient Rome.

there's a bottle of garum at every table, and new world ingredients are nowhere to be found

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Hot take, but cis people have gender identities. They aren't the gender they identify as because of their genitalia or what their birth certificate says. They're only cis because they identify with a gender and it happens to match their government documentation. Cis men aren't men because they're "obviously" men for having a penis. They're men because they identify as men. It's the self-identification that dictates this, not any other factor, even for cis folks. And we should be framing it this way. A cis man identifies as a man and a cis woman identifies as a woman. There is no automatic or inherent gender.

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Another List of "Beautiful" Yupik & Iñupiat Words

for your next poem/story

Anetmun - toward the outside, downriver

Aŋmaaḳ - flint, firestone

Atsaruaq - chamomile

Ayagturainartuq - he is finally leaving after not being able to

Ciutnguaq - dried fruit, particularly dried apricot or apple

Ikpaksraaḳsugruk - many days ago

Ilutequq - he is emotionally pained, grieving

Im’utuunrituq - it is not as before

Ḳatraḳ - echo

Merr’aq - holy water

Mitḳuḳ - feather

Nangtequq - he is in pain, is ill

Nautchiaḳ - flower

Niġiŋa - rainbow

Pisuktuḳ - wants, desires

Qimugta - dog

Siḳiñiḳ - sun

Suŋauraaḳtaaḳ - blueness

Tangrruartuq - he is having a vision, hallucination; he is seeing something in his mind’s eye; he is watching a movie

Tuqutekluta - dying for us

Tuutaruaq - rose hip

Umyuaq - mind

Uvlaaḳ - morning

Uyumiḳsuḳ - misty, blurred

Yuurtuq (also yug’urtuq) - he became a person; was born

If any of these words make their way into your next poem/story, please tag me, or send me a link. I would love to read them!

Sources: 1 2 3 ⚜ More: Word Lists ⚜ Part 1