#kunsel an hour later looking good as new... but his helmet is dented :(

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“ come on… wake up. please… please wake up… “ luka — @noblehcart

He had a choice -- save himself, or save Luka.

Kunsel took the fall. Chances were he could take it. It was still only a chance… but it was one Luka didn't have.

He's found later, at the bottom of a ravine, his body buried beneath the rubble, a sight that would mean death to any mere man… but that's not what SOLDIER are. Breath is still drawn, eyes move behind eyelids now visible, helmet lost in the fall, a steady stream of blood trailing down his eyebrow from a bad cut - he's alive but unconscious. If he doesn't wake up… it might mean a mako coma, damage too extensive to recover from properly. without intervention from the Science Department

But after an excruciating minute of complete stillness, Kunsel twitches awake, one eye blinking open while the other is stuck together with blood.

"… That hurt." It takes him another minute to compose himself, accessing his own damage, but soon enough he's trying to sit up. "Is everyone else ok?" And just like that, awareness comes back in a startling efficiency, and although there's the occasional pained grunt, little effort is expended on digging himself out of his own burial.

SOLDIER are men just as they are monsters, unnatural in strength and resiliance.