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Break for Jamie?

Aaaaahhhhh thank you thank you thank you for asking!

break: What would cause your OC to break down completely? What do they look like when that happens? Has anyone ever seen them at their lowest?

This is actually something that happened to him at least once pre-plot, so I know at least one thing that does it.

Okay so some brief Context, because I've never spoken about any of these little dudes here really. Jamie is a healer and a freakishly impressive one, which isn't to say he's never lost a patient, he has. That's life. But not a lot.

So, Jamie hates being trapped, but more than that being silenced (something that can happen in a very real way, if you're caught breaking the law by say... using healing magic without the permission of the church). But Even More Than That, his breaking point is being responsible for someone dying.

Now losing a patient? He recognises that sometimes that's going to happen regardless of how good he is as a healer, sometimes you don't get to them in time or there's just not enough left to heal. BUT at least once he tried to help by very lightly healing two people who'd gotten in a fight (all of them were institutionalised for illegal magic) which resulted in both people he'd helped getting killed by the People In Charge for use of magic.

When Jamie found out he just shattered. Which is, for him, giving up entirely. He stops eating, stops trying, just becomes a passenger in life completely devoid of agency because his agency got someone killed.

And yeah, our Quiet-Friend saw this, he the only reason Jamie survived it actually. It's resulted in him being incredibly protective both because Jamie's younger than him and smaller, and because he has to basically Be Jamie's will to live externally for a while or he'd just have ceased to be.