#Anyways I apologize to everyone having to endure this. I will not be healed anytime soon I think.

[weebannihilator]

something to look into : nkbody cares about Tanjiro’s mental health. Nobody asked or looked into it.

(I apologize for any grammar mistakes in advance, I couldn't see very well through all of my god damn TEARS.)

After mourning the piece of my soul that died while reading this ask, it really did make me think. It's true that no ones asks, but I wouldn't say that means no one cares about Tanjiro's mental health. That little man is very clearly loved by his friends! I think the problem is that he just never shows it when he's hurting. If he's in pain, he hides it. No one knows when to reach out to Tanjiro because he doesn't value his own health and prioritizes everyone else's.

I think a really good example of this is his whole, "I'm eldest sibling, I must endure." mindset

He tells himself this to protect others, but that's the thing, it's only to protect others. What he's usually "enduring" is physical pain. Tanjiro thinks being in pain is something he's supposed to overcome on his own.

He thinks it's his responsibility to be some unwavering, human sheild to protect others at all times (I think this is because he never had the chance to save his own family) and he doesn't cope very well with the realization he isn't invincible. This is shown mostly by his reactions when faced with things he's not strong enough to overcome:

During his fight in the demon mansion, he doesn't take his own advice and makes his injuries worst during battle.

Anytime he's having difficulty learning something, he insults himself, saying that he's "Spineless" or an "Idiot"

He also FUCKED UP his palms in his attempt to cut the boulder. The calloused hands are a part of his character design that seems to be emphasized alot.

But what I'm trying to say is:

Overall, he just becomes uncharacteristically self-destructive. I can't think of a single character he treats this harshly other than himself.

When he's unable to live up the impossible standards he built for himself, Tanjiro just refuses to accept it and pushes on anyways, usually injuring himself or breaking down in the process. Even when hurt, he thinks letting himself rest isn't a necessity, but making sure that others have healed properly is very important to him. He's quick to comfort his friends or even strangers, but always insults himself when he feels hopeless. It's very clear, especially after the movie, that the safety of others is far more important to him than his own safety or even his own life.

So back on the topic of the ask!! I think other characters do care about his mental health, there just isn't a way for anyone to tell when he needs help. Tanjiro doesn't make one, becuase he's always trying to make a way for eveyone else instead. He just.... genuinely believes that he isn't allowed to let himself hurt. Physically or mentally.

(Moral of the story, don't come into my inbox with Tanjiro angst unless you want an entire essay written by Weebannihilator <3)

[mythgirlimagines]

I’m sorry for being late! Guess you could call this a tardy Talentswap Tuesday! Anyway, introducing Myth, the Former Ultimate Nurse!

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BACKSTORY AND TALENT

Growing up, Myth was one of the more empathetic and level-headed people of her friend group. She’s always carrying a first aid kit, in case her friends get into any accidents. After her recent scoliosis surgery, Myth decided to get into the medical field, and she started by volunteering at multiple hospitals in her teen years. She was well-known amongst her patients for her kind-hearted and courteous attitude and her amazing bedside manner. But what really catapulted her to medical stardom, was her involvement in the “M-0 H-5” incident. After a fiery explosion at a rock concert has left the lead vocalist amputated, burned, and partially deaf, Myth managed to stay calm and heal up the rock star, until she could stand again.  In her adult years, she is studying hard to pass medical school. But she is willing to put her studies aside to chaperone the Ultimates and Jr. Ultimates on their Kibo-Con journey.

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RELATIONSHIPS

Wyre Anon, Former Ultimate Musician

Ever since Myth met Wyre at the “M-O H-5” incident, Myth has been helping Wyre get back up and rocking again. Despite their clashing personalities, they get along very well. Although Myth usually has to remind Wyre to wear her hearing aid and prosthetic arm, for Wyre has a very bad tendency to be reckless and impulsive, and thus regularly forgets them.

Anon Scar, Ultimate Animator

While Myth admires Scar’s dedication to her craft, Myth wishes that Scar wouldn’t sacrifice precious sleeping hours to work on her latest project. It‘s very clear that all of those sleepless nights had taken a toll on Scar’s mind, for her “Demon of Reanimation” schtick is heavily concerning Myth to say the least.

Fusion Anon, Reserve Course Student

Both Fusion and Myth have a mutual respect for each other, in part due to their similar wise and caring personalities and even interests. They regularly meet up with each other to have conversations about various topics over some healthy snacks, such as studying methods and the antics of their more reckless classmates.

Fusion Anon II, Ultimate Mechanic

While they initially didn’t get along very well due to their opposing personalities, they both found a common interest after Myth witnessed Fusion II not only fix but also improve Wyre’s robot arm: prosthetics! Now Fusion II is on Wyre duty alongside Myth, watching over Wyre and making sure that she doesn’t damage her prosthetic limb again.

Just Anon, Ultimate Yakuza

Between Janon‘s hostile demeanor and his dangerous family business, Janon is one of the most concerning individuals in Myth’s book, and that just gives her more reasons to constantly keep an eye on him. Janon can’t stand Myth’s constant coddling of him every time he gets harmed in fights against rival yakuza families. Janon’s resentment of Myth isn’t helped by her constant teasing of him over his romantic feelings for Curious.

Sparkle Anon, Former Ultimate Team Manager

Apart from Wyre, Sparkle is the Former Ultimate that Myth gets along with the most. They both could, in a way, be considered the ”moms” of the Kibo-Con roster, for they regularly care for and pump up the young Anons, when they’ve got a bad day. Behind closed doors, Myth regularly flirts with Sparkle, which only manages to boost Sparkle’s already large ego.

Egg Anon, Former Ultimate Gamer, and Wet Sock Anon, Former Ultimate Photographer

This cursed twosome manages to tick a lot of boxes in Myth’s checklist for “NEEDS HELP IMMEDIATELY”. Between Wet Sock’s violent and aggressive attitude and cursed comments, and Egg’s impulsive and somehow even more cursed comments, Myth regularly tries to crack open the Freak Twins’ psyche to find out exactly what went wrong in the twin‘s life to make them act this way.

Curious Anon, Jr. Ultimate Animal Breeder

You’d think that with their similar talents, Myth and Curious would fit each other like a glove, and you’d be right. Curious has a calm and tranquil demeanor that puts Myth at ease whenever she interacts with both them and their pet Collie, Barkley. Barkley reminds Myth of her own dog back home, and that just makes her even happier being around Curious.

Anon Nerd, Former Ultimate Traditional Dancer

While Nerd‘s dance moves are tranquil and peaceful, Nerd has a foul-temper, and the mouth to match when off the stage. You’d think that it’ll discourage Myth from interacting with him, but there is a slight issue: Nerd has a very blatant crush on Myth, that he isn’t doing a very good job of hiding. Myth regularly flirts with the dancer, and endures fan smacks and geta stomps from him. It’ll be worth it in the end, when she gets him to open up to her.

Dream Anon, Ultimate Princess

Myth can’t help but feel humbled when around the crowned princess of the island nation of Kyuuhai, but Dream insists that she should be treated like any other student here. Dream is always happy to show off the customs and athletics of her home country. Unfortunately for Myth, Dream has a hostile bodyguard/boyfriend that prevents Myth from getting closer to her. Speaking of which…

Eldritch Anon, Ultimate Swordsman

Having been trained as Dream’s bodyguard for all of his life, Eldritch has a hostile distrust towards everyone, apart from Dream, and Myth is sadly not an exception to this. However, Myth is working hard to prove to the overzealous swordfighter that she is worth trusting. From patching up Eldritch after sparring sessions to attempting to set up Eldritch and Dream on a date, Myth’s attempts have slowly, but surely restored Eldritch’s trust in people.

Iris Anon, Jr. Ultimate Gymnast

Iris might just hold the record for the most visits to Myth’s office, and the various bandages on her person could easily explain why. Despite her talent requiring grace, Iris is superbly clumsy when off of the balance beam. Myth ends up regularly thinking, “Oh, Iris! What will I ever do with you?” anytime Iris has an accident and Myth winds up having to patch her up. 

Purple Anon, Ultimate Lucky Student

While Iris holds the record for most visits to Myth’s office, Purple holds the record for most accidents escaped unscathed. Because of Purple’s timid and avoidant nature towards anyone besides Fusion, Myth isn’t really given many opportunities to talk with or socialize with her. According to Fusion, Purple avoids others to prevent them from being infected by her luck and dying in an future accident because of it.

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APPEARANCE

Nurse!Myth wears her undyed hair in a shoulder-length bob that covers her right eye. Her hair is decorated with a white flower barrette and a pink hairband with a heart pin. She wears a white lab coat with a Red Cross design on each pocket and pink lining on the end of the sleeves and pockets, over a pink turtle neck sweater. She also wears a teal skirt, black stockings and white slip-on shoes with pink soles and a Red Cross design that matches her lab coat.

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PERSONALITY

Around the younger Anons, Nurse!Myth is a calm and tranquil person, who would always be there for you in case of an emergency or a bad day. So, Nurse!Myth is more of a mom compared to Romantic!Myth. But when around the Former Ultimates, she shows a more devious side. Around the adults, Nurse!Myth drops her ”mom friend” facade, and becomes more teasy and flirtatious, a bit more like Romantic!Myth. Nurse!Myth just lives for the reactions of the people she flirts with. Despite her laid-back attitude, Nurse!Myth is still very studious and educated. She is a professional nurse, after all. Nurse!Myth’s personality can best be described as Kirumi with a hidden Teruteru side.

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Once again, I’d like to apologize for my tardiness, but I hope this Myth makes up for it? What do you think of Nurse!Myth and the other talentswaps in this AU? I’d love to hear your personal thoughts on this AU!

-Fusion Anon

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No need to apologize! I really really like this version of me, it kinda showed me a little of what it would be like if I had become a doctor or nurse (which I actually did want to do after my surgery haha). I think I would like to be her the most out of the other Myths

[sarah--writes-blog]

Sleeping On The Job

Anon: Voltron where Keith's sick and doesn't say anything about it because he doesn't want to worry the rest of the team. So they end up going on a really draining mission and Keith's exiting his lion and ends up passing out on the way out and everybody freaks out scolding him for not telling them.

A/N: In which Red is me. Lance is just jealous he didn’t get to nap.

The Red Lion’s clock ticked over to the Earth equivalent to 6 pm. It marked the twelfth hour of their extended mission. It wasn’t as much of a test of skill as a test of endurance. In the process of driving Galra forces away from a small resource planet, Voltron may have destroyed multiple sentries. While they were ultimately appreciated, the citizens of the planet wanted their sentries back. With Pidge, Hunk, Allura, and Coran down repairing them, it left the rest of the paladins acting as the watchdogs.

There isn’t anything to even watch for... Keith thought, eyes threatening to droop close, We already took out all the Galra ships.

“Shiro, are you sure we still need to be out here?” he asked into his helmet microphone.

“Yes, Keith.”

“But there isn’t anything out here!” Lance complained on the other end, “We kicked the Galras’ ass! They’re not coming back anytime soon!”

Shiro sighed, his breath coming off as static in Keith’s earpiece, “I know. There’s no threat. This is a show of apology and solidarity. We broke their sentries, so we have to act as them until the others get them fixed.”

Keith sighed and turned his volume down. A pounding headache started its assault five hours ago. It began as a small ache behind his eyes, but now it felt like a hammer was slamming against his skull with every blink. Red was acting strangely as well. Her interior lights were clearly dimmer, and her movements through space seemed to be smoother than usual. Even now, as they made around orbit around the planet to greet the local star, she put extra shields up to prevent more light from coming through.

“Thanks, Red...” Keith muttered, gently brushing his armrest.

“What was that?” Lance asked.

“Nothing, just talking to my lion. Hey, I’m gonna shut my eyes for a bit - do you guys have it covered?”

“We’ll take your watch, Keith,” Shiro approved, “Get some rest.”

“Wait, we’re Voltron! We’re not supposed to sleep on the job! I know there’s nothing out here, but come on! What if the Galra come back?”

Shiro rolled his eyes, “We might be Voltron, but we’re also human. We need to sleep. Don’t worry, Lance. We’ll take shifts. Just leave your helmet on in case we need you.”

Keith nodded, set his helmet aside, and turned the volume up. If they needed him, he would hear them without the constant talking in his ear. He would only sleep lightly anyway, right? He settled as comfortably as he could in his pilot's chair and closed his eyes.

“I’ll just be down for a minute or so, Red...” he mumbled, “You know what to do...”

“-th? Keith?! He’s not responding, we need to get his lion open!”

“Are you kidding me?! It’s Keith’s lion for a reason, she’s just as stubborn as he is!”

“How else are we supposed to get to him?!”

Keith’s eyes lazily drifted open. People were yelling, he didn’t like it. They were being too loud. He automatically reached to his head to adjust the volume on his helmet, but his hand bumped into his head instead. He wasn’t wearing his helmet?

He looked around, finding all of his surroundings were fuzzy and tilting to the side. He tried to blink the sleep away, but the environment only spun further. But his friends were screaming at him from the helmet. He hastily shoved it on.

“Guys, guys, I’m here. What’s going on?”

“Are you okay?!” Lance shouted.

“Yeah, I-I’m fine! Just dozed off for a second, what’s going on?”

“Your lion put on an emergency broadcast, almost crash landed on the planet, and put her barrier up! And you were unresponsive for over an hour!”

“Lance, stop yelling at him. The important part is that he’s okay and no one got hurt. Keith, hop out of your lion, we need to see why you were unresponsive. Pidge is gonna run a diagnostic on your lion.” Shiro ordered. Keith nodded, though Shiro couldn’t see him, and got up from his seat. The ground spun beneath him, forcing him to grab a solid surface and breathe. Was it cold in the lion? No, it was too hot. So why was he shivering?

Slowly, Keith made his way to the mouth of his lion, using every handhold he could to move forward. The world wouldn’t stop moving around him, no matter how long he stopped to breathe.

“Shiro...” he breathed, “I think something’s wrong...”

Red’s mouth opened in front of him, and he saw the last bits of her barrier disappearing. Still, Shiro vaulted over the remaining pieces and rushed towards Keith. Without the stability of walls around him, Keith pitched forward as darkness overcame his eyes.

“Keith!”

Shiro jumped over the Red Lion’s teeth just in time to catch his falling paladin. Keith went completely limp in his arms, disturbingly limp. Hunk and Lance joined him, keeping Keith’s head upright and worriedly pacing around Shiro respectively. Pidge ran past them all, device ready to scan the lion, but not without a look of concern for her fellow Voltron arm along the way.

“Pidge, stay on the line,” Shiro said as he hoisted Keith up, “I wanna know what’s going on as soon as possible.”

“You got it.”

“Lance, run ahead and get a healing pod ready, just in case.”

He didn’t need to be told twice. The Blue Paladin sprinted towards the castle of lions, parked only a small ways away. Hunk stayed by Shiro’s side for the comfort of both of them.

“What do you think happened?” he asked, trying to keep Keith’s head as steady as possible.

“I don’t know. He said he was going to take a nap, and that’s the last we heard from him.”

Shiro got Keith into the castle just as he was waking up. He was set on a table outside the healing pods and frantically fussed over. It wasn’t until Hunk pulled out the more earth-like medical supplies that they figured out what was wrong.

“He’s just got a high fever,” he reported after scanning Keith’s forehead, “It’s not dangerously high, but it’s enough to make him woozy and pass out, obviously. He just got up too fast. There’s literally nothing else wrong with him.”

“What?!” Lance rushed over from his station at the healing pod, “You mean to tell me you almost crashed your lion on the planet we were helping just because you were a little warm?!”

Keith opened his mouth to respond, but Pidge did for him over the intercom, “Actually, no. Red had a lot of firewalls I had to get past, but I eventually cracked her open. She knew. She somehow read Keith’s temperature. And based on the vitals she calculated after he fell asleep, she thought he was in danger and brought him to us. Keith didn’t do anything except take a really deep nap.”

Everyone sighed in relief, except for Lance. He opened and closed his mouth a few times, trying to think of what to say. He wanted to be angry at Keith for scaring them so much, but he was also incredibly relieved. He settled for staring Keith straight in the eyes.

“This is why we don’t sleep on the job.”