#what is mvc

[akoichoi]

[skyloftian-nutcase]

Ok Wild Angsters, you wanted a continuation, so here you go :)

Four already knew what he would be walking into. His phone had been blowing up for hours. He’d come in to work early. Whether he was assigned to take care of Wild or not was another matter - Vaati loved to try and take all the admissions, convinced he was the best nurse on the unit. If Four could just keep Vaati out of Wild’s room, he’d consider it a success.

When the charge nurse told him he would be admitting the trauma alert, he knew who he was getting.

Pre-admission jitters always made Four anxious, but this was an entirely other level of fear. He almost wanted to request a different assignment, but it was too late now. What if he couldn’t take caer of him because he was his friend? What if that impair his decision making? What if he just wasn’t skilled enough to handle it? He knew Ezlo wouldn’t give him an assignment he couldn’t handle, wouldn’t be there to support him, but still…

Four went over the supplies in his room once more. Safety checks were fine—they had suction, they had a bag valve mask, the code card was nearby—and he had all the supplies he needed. It was just a waiting game.

Four paced the unit at least three times before he looked at the OR status board again. Wild was still in surgery. He poked in his chart, glancing at injuries, looking at vital signs and anesthesia notes. The last update he saw was that Wild had gotten another unit of blood. Estimated blood loss so far was around 2200mL.

2200mL. That… wasn’t too terrible, Four supposed. He’d… seen worse.

Please don’t get worse.

Four knew for certain that Wild had been mass transfused in the ED. Warriors, his primary nurse when he was there, had told him as much. Between that and the multiple blood products he’d gotten in surgery, as well all the crystalloids he was likely getting as well…

Four took a breath. Then another. He grabbed his phone, texting Warriors. You doing ok?

Wars didn’t reply.

Four wasn’t entirely sure where everyone was at this point. Hyrule had stayed at the hospital, lingering in the emergency department and then the operating room waiting area, but Four hadn’t seen him since he’d clocked in. Warriors and Legend should be getting off shift now, but whether they were going to stay up was another matter. Time was obviously in the OR (Wild’s wreck had been around 10pm, he’d arrived in the ED around 10:45, and he’d been stabilized for surgery and gone to the OR by around midnight - it was 7am now… he wasn’t sure how long this was going to take, but it couldn’t be much longer). Malon should be getting on shift now as well - she had come in last night when everything had gone down, alongside Twilight. Wind had been cautiously left out of the loop until Wild had gone to surgery, simply because nobody had really had much information at the time, so no one wanted to worry the kid until they could figure things out. Everyone had their hands full as it was. But by now, Four knew Wind was either in the OR waiting room, harassing every respiratory therapist he knew, or in the hospital library pacing anxiously. As for Sky, the last Four heard he was bouncing between different people, checking in on everyone.

He clicked through more anesthesia notes, looked at flow sheets for blood products. There wasn’t much to go on, as charting was sparse. What Four did know was that Wild had been obtunded, got mass transfused, had gotten a chest tube, had been intubated, blood was evident in his abdomen, and he had an open femur fracture. He’s been taken to Time’s OR for a ex-lap. Head CT had shown a bleed, and they were monitoring it. That was all the information Legend had told the group when he’d had a moment to spare.

Four’s vocera activated, telling him he had a call from the charge nurse. When he answered, he was told Malon had called and said they’d be finishing up in about thirty minutes and were likely to come up open.

Why was he coming up with his abdomen open? When had they gone from exploratory laparotomy to a full on open abdomen?

Ten minutes later, Malon called back to give report. When Four answered, the first thing he asked was, “How’s he doing? Is he okay? Are you okay?”

“I’m fine,” Malon said, even though she sounded exhausted. “And he’s… hanging in there. I’ve seen worse, I’ll say that. I’ll give you the full rundown, okay?”

Four listened as Malon gave report, feeling his heart settled into his stomach, which was tying itself in knots. Multiple spots of bleeding, possible compartment syndrome in his abdomen, a likely kidney injury due to compression from the bleeding on some major vessels, a small hematoma in his brain… they’d had to call neurosurgery to do an emergency craniotomy out of overt concern of swelling, given that Wild had apparently had previous head trauma, based on what they saw in the OR.

Open abdomen, craniotomy, ICP monitoring, bleeding, one chest tube… this was a disaster. Four swallowed as he wrote, feeling his hand shake a little as his heart raced. He was not qualified enough to be admitting this. He was not.

But the turnaround on his unit was pretty insane, and he was the most experienced nurse on the unit today. At least Ezlo was charge; he knew he’d be well supported.

This was a nightmare. But Four had dealt with nightmares, and he would deal with this. He wasn’t going to screw up taking care of any patient, but especially his friend.

Sighing, he hung up the phone after thanking Malon, pushing worries for her and Time aside, trying to focus on what he would need, who he should grab to help him, and how he should prep his room.

It was time to get to work.

When everyone arrived from the OR, Four made brief eye contact with Time. He couldn’t read much from the man, who was stone faced, aside from the exhaustion evident in the dark circles under his eyes. Four got to work quickly, assessing Wild from head to toe as he looked to see what IV medications he was on. A coworker wrote the note while Ezlo helped detangle his lines (the OR always brought up a mess, after all). Time gave an overview of the surgery, and Four listened along as he checked pupils, as he zeroed the arterial line and the ICP monitor, as he listened to lung and heart sounds, as he checked the chest tube and stripped it with his fingers to ensure patency, as he checked peripheral pulses, as he looked at the abdominal dressing to get a baseline in case there was swelling from bleeding later. One of the techs connected the chest tube to wall suction, and Four looked over his drips. Only having levophed at 2 wasn’t terrible, and he was getting a unit of red blood cells, which was in a transfusion set that was y’d to some lactated ringers fluid. He was on propofol for sedation. Another nurse grabbed a blood gas from his arterial line and sent off labs. His foley he had was temp sensing, and Four quickly ascertained that Wild was cold, so he set up the blanket warmer and covered his friend up.

His friend. His friend.

Four shook his head. He had to focus.

As Time left the room, he put a hand on Four’s shoulder, making him freeze. The surgeon didn’t speak, just locking eyes with him. Four wasn’t entirely sure if it was for his own benefit or not. But he had no more time to let his emotions make any decisions for him. He nodded to the doctor, who nodded in return, and then the two went their separate ways.

This was going to be a long day.

[maxwell-grant]

[genopaint]

shuma gorath back mvc2 real????

[todayisafridaynight]

what are your interests that aren’t yakuza

uhm. a lot !!! I think !!!

[piratesexmachine420]

Somebody needs to go talk to the W3C and inform them that, frankly, the document metaphor is dead. Nobody* has made a webpage designed to be a page of hypertext in twenty years. It doesn't, hasn't, won't happen. We gotta find something better.

*Within a reasonable margin of error, and with exception to Wikipedia and similar projects

[siruerto]

Drew my MvC main finally! Pretty one first, and the boring one next:

[teabutmakeitazure]

Discrete math… that name… it still haunts me till this day… may god be on your side during the next semester my brethren… I would start my prayers during summer, either to survive the class or to have a rich ginger whisk you away from the need of a job…

I haven't chosen CE yet but i will have to do discrete math no matter what I choose. It's my fault. I chose STEM. I shall suffer.

Thank you for the advice wise anon. I shall praying now. I also have multivariable calculus to conquer next academic session so I shall pray to not go insane (and have a rich ginger whisk me away. seriously. i need a rich ginger. where is he)

[sad--tree]

i 100% absolutely cannot i repeat CANNOT allow myself 2 fail this course bc this is my last chance at taking it otherwise im removed from the program but i

cannot make myself do the work. i can't start. we're halfway thru the term ive lost a HUGE percentage of the grade already and i sit down 2 start googling how tf to do what i need 2 do and i fucking c a n t and now the whole course has become this hot-stove-item in my brain and im lying in bed practically vibrating with anxiety abt to let another (re-negotiated!!!!!!!) deadline pass and like!!! why am ilike this!!!!!!

ANYWAYS if any of yall know literally fuckall abt python...... pls........ 🙏 help........ 🙏

[quinsixtridrupled-k]

Disney TVA Platform Fighter

Last December, I thought it'd be neat to have a Disney-focused platform fighter especially since Nick had some success with Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2. So I figured... why not a Disney one? For those who don't know, platform fighters are a sub-genre of fighting/party games - the most famous and primarily example being Super Smash Bros.

And so, with that idea, I asked a friend to assist me in aiding with creating a graphic for this hypothetical game's roster, lo and behold:

Pretty neat, eh? Now you might be asking... why Disney TVA specifically? For one, focusing on the animated tv production side might be more feasible compared to the whole Disney library, that, and it allows some spotlight on very interesting and varied roster choices.

And for another... I just like the animated series side of Disney better. Now, the most important thing to remember is that this encompasses strictly the Disney TV Animation production label only, so any animated series not created under that studio will not be included (more so to keep consistency). I've also elected to choose some more unconventional picks (Yzma, Genie, Bonkers, for example) just to give some variety.

And what's a fighting game without DLC characters, eh? So here are the three waves of it:

(Wave 1, featuring Stitch, Wasabi, Kick Buttowski and Shego)

I'll admit that Shego's placement as DLC over base roster in favor of Drakken is purely thinking from a marketing standpoint, but it does make sense on the long run. In Stitch's case... I mostly forgot Lilo & Stitch had an animated series while making the base roster lmao.

Wasabi was left out of base roster because of limitations, and I felt Hiro, Go Go, and Fred offer a more balanced variety of size and playstyles but I still didn't want to leave him out, so I figured DLC is his best bet.

(Wave 2, featuring Mike Wazowski, Marcy Wu, Spinelli and Zurg)

Color me surprised that Monsters At Work is a Disney TVA production - Mike was chosen over Sulley or Tyler as the main rep for that series because he feels like he'd have a lot more interesting potential and material to work off of with his general slapstick and comedy routines.

Figured I'd complete the Calamity Trio with Marcy as DLC - just like Wasabi, she was left out of base roster because of limitations.

I figured people would want a Recess fighter, so I chose Spinelli since she's one of the more popular character and she'd serve as an analog to Helga in the first Nick All-Star Brawl.

Zurg was originally meant to be a boss character only, but I opted to put him as DLC because well... it is Zurg. I feel like you could incorporate a lot of Dr. Doom's MvC moveset on to him and they wouldn't feel out of place lmao.

And finally, they're here for you - they're the third wave of the DLC crew!

(Wave 3, featuring Oscar Proud, Simba, Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur and Oswald)

This is... definitely the most experimental of the DLC waves. I think I've exhausted a lot of the picks I wanted at the time so I figured we could do with a more different direction.

Oscar is definitely there to ride on the coattails of Hugh Neutron in Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 1 as a funny joke pick. I haven't actually watched The Proud Family so I don't think I would know if there are better picks, but still... I enjoy the wacky picks, they make a fighting game a fighting game.

Simba was gonna be in as far back as Wave 1, but I held off because... I'm not really sure why, but I forgot about him until I was making the third wave, so there he is now!

Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur are definitely there for being the main Marvel series under the Disney TVA label (alongside Big Hero 6, by technicality), and would definitely make an interesting choice considering Devil's size - you'd probably have to shrink him down to a point where he still manages to be big, but not... gargantuan big, which may seem like a disservice to a character who is a large T-Rex but I think you can still make it work (it worked for Ridley in Smash, and Iron Giant in MultiVersus).

Oswald is included by a mere technicality, due to having a small cameo or two in the Paul Rudish Mickey Mouse shorts, and I figured he has a big enough fanbase to warrant an inclusion, so yeah there he is.

And just for fun, we also have a bonus character:

Powerline! From A Goofy Movie!

Powerline seems like a very out there choice, but I figured you could make a moveset for him entirely out of his theming of electricity! And if you think he'd overlap with Megavolt... then, yeah I guess you are right on that part. But I figure you can differentiate them with how they play (Megavolt being a zoner, Powerline being a rushdown). Note, this doesn't mean he's only available through pre-order, but you'd get him free with it - otherwise you'd have to pay, but he's separate from the DLC characters.

So yeah that covers the playable roster. I understand that there are still a lot of series I didn't rep mostly because of limitations, or I forgot to put them in (Fish Hooks, for one) but I'm only human in how I make these, mistakes do happen so please understand...

I do hope that Disney takes a dabble on this someday, although I'm not sure how keen they are on their characters fighting each other in a silly fighting game. Still, it'd be an interesting thoight, what do you think?

[ponett]

I saw that allison has a fight stick on top of the dresser in her and likes fighting games. What fighting games does she play and what type of characters does she use?

she's not particularly good at them but she likes very flashy and chaotic fighting games, so things like dbfz or mvc. she picks characters based on how cool she thinks they are, with bonus points if they have a sword. she would absolutely main zero and dante in mvc and future trunks in dbfz. she would main i-no in guilty gear because she thinks her guitar is cool

[pampanope]

Hello, how are you doing? I’ve come with more questions >:3

1. Since cannonly Graves’ died in MW2, how is he alive? Did some cute girl/boy/enby necromance him or something? Or was it something more reasonable and realistic. Hell, was he even in the area when he was supposedly killed.

2. Is MW3 cannon in the ShadowDadlderverse? I hear it’s really really bad and not many or everyone considers it to be not cannon. This question goes hand in hand with the former

3. How did Graves’ feel when he realized that his dad wasn’t a hero? Did his finding out happen to coincide with Bell? Or is Graves still blind to what Addler did to Bell?

4. Since the Shadows are notably close in their verse, they most likely have game night. What games and movies do they play while together? What games and movies are banned?

5. Since I cannot go five questions without asking about fantasy and dnd, what would Graves character sheet look like? Class, race, backstory, spells, weapons, etc.

6. why is last name Graves? Is it his mother’s last name? Does like 7-11 call him Phillip A. Grave when pissed or something?(i definitely need to dig into the gas station man)

7. What is relationship with Laswell? And maybe if you’re feeling extra extra dangerous, maybe say what you picture Laswell’s wife to look like.

8. Also how old do you think Graves is? He can easily be seen as like 25-41. Or how old you think he is in your Au?

I know I am definitely asking some pretty deepish questions when it comes to your Au, but I like to learn. I especially like to learn about characters. And since your interpretation of Graves’ is currently scratching the itch I am internally inclined to ask these questions.

Stay safe!

Okaay here i gooo

1. I rly believe that tank was an unmanned vehicle that Graves controlled remotely while Soap ran around frantically XD hurling insults and a Shadow thumping him on the shoulder when he got carried away.

2. The only canon a peel off of mw3 and slap onto the Shadowdadler verse is that Makky is at large and Graves flew off into the sunset|

3. It depends on how he found out. If Graves knew what his father did at an early age, it’s be less of a shock. If Adler was honest about why a masked man was lurking somewhere nearby, told his son that he hurt one person for the sake of millions, it’d be better than if he tried to hide his actions. It wouldn’t surprise me if adult Graves grew to have a similar mentality as his father.

4. Game night’s full of multiplayer games (snash bros, mario party, MvC, etc). There’s a DnD session off to a corner. Ruined jenga towers litter the floor. A circle if Shadows play charades. Monopoly is DEFINITELY banned, too many fights break out. Any high shakes gambling on card games is also prohibited (there Shadows who are talented at card counting and sleight of hand). Any and all genres of movies are watches, with the exception of the Star Wars sequels. Those are unanimously banned.

5. I’d die if Graves was still the leader of a mercenary group but classed as a bard XD high charisma definitely. Still human. Idk enough about DnD as a whole to say what spells he’s gonna use but I like ghe idea of him boosting his part members that do the fighting

6. Ok so in one of my Dadler comics, Adler fights off and kills enemy agents that wanna target him and lil Phillip. He buries them in their backyard. Phillip learns one day that there are dead bodies there. Learns that they had to die for him to keep living. He’s looking at graves. The memory would stick with him. Lol 7-11 calls Graves Sir when the commanders being stubborn ir reckless 🤣 (funny, the Lt. can be just as stubborn and reckless)

7. Oh! I like her and the role she plays. I liked the sneaky sneaky part she had~ Her wife? I picture her a bit taller than Laswell. She’d be a brunette, soft featured, a bit tanned, down to earth and honest about her thoughts and feelings, something Laswell appreciates as someone used to subterfuge.

8. I got Graves at a solid 40. A tiny bit seasoned to be out in the field, but still young enough to be effective. He ages gracefully 🥰 hehehe

[crascet]

I'll be seeing Deadpool & Wolverine in a couple hours from now, but I want to say a couple things about the whole X-Men movies first. I don't want to call this a eulogy, but rather a salute to the films.

I started this retrospective not just to get ready for D&W, but to give me an idea of what these films mean now, especially since this is the year of the X-Men, or I guess "The Year of X" with not just the release of D&W, but with X-Men '97, the relaunches of X-Men comics post-Krakoa, and the release of the MVC Arcade Collection all within the same year. And throughout this retrospective, I give these movies the respect that they earn in how they were made before and during the MCU.

The original trilogy were one of the biggest movie series in the 2000s and made the idea on how superhero films can be grounded and serious in the modern day, for better and for worse. And the films after have ranged from ok to some of the best in the genre that also took risks in how they adapt the source material, like with one of the first R-rated superhero movies with Deadpool and how it became a huge success, to having a more serious, sad but beautiful western type feel film that is Logan, and even a brief trip to horror with The New Mutants.

Another shoutout to the great performances in them as well, with Stewart, McKellen, McAvoy, Fassbender, Reynolds, and of course Jackman for giving iconic performances that people always think of when it comes to thinking about Professor X, Magneto, Deadpool, and Wolverine.

There were some problems with them be it with productions problem from the studio, delays, buyouts, or Bryan Singer, or just with the films themselves especially with The Last Stand. However, I want to give my respect to these films in how they contribute to the X-Men as a whole. So, thank you X-Men films and here's to seeing how the future of the team will become. Here's to many more!

[resineat]

crk oc :3c

im not into crk lore i was just making my mycookie and i was like damn this fit is so pretty 🥰

uh their backstory is that theyre made outta plastic.... thats why tehy're so shiny.... idk if that even makes sense (i skipped all cutscenes ^w^) they act like a know it all but they dont know what they're on abt....

their class is support and their skill heals their party a bit and grants like a outlandish atk spd buff... like 50%.... idk.... also grants enemies atk spd debuff ����

i liked that quiz game... i mostly guessed but it was pretty easy 😌

(btw i wish there were more costumes..... i need my mvc pinecone to get a cool fit .........)

[cervi-deergurl]

I'm bored at work and obsessed with Necrons so I was thinking of what different Necrons would be like in a figting game.

Trazyn - Tricky gimick character. Can summon his soilders to different points on the stage to either attack when the enemy gets close or swap places with him. Also can summon random bullshit from his collection like Faust from guilty gear. Has unique taunts when fighting Orakin.

Orikan - Slippery mage character with teleports and counters like JP from SF6. Works best at full range zoning or geting up in your face in the corner for tricky mix ups and pressure. Has an install to go energy being mode like the end of infinite and the divine. Needs to meditate(taunt) a number of times through out the match to get access to it.

Imotekh - Straight forward rushdown like Sol Badguy. The agro shoto of the game. Strong agressive allrounder.

Szarekh - The boss character. Has huge full screen atracks and screen polution with minons and projectiles. You must fight your way to him if you want to beat him. Thinking Justice from Guilty Gear.

Anrakyr - Fast paced rushdown with mix ups. Can call in vehicals and artilery to fire at the opponent from off screen similar to Jin calling in his mech in MvC. Keeps opponents locked down with artilery to keep mixing them up.

Szeras - This is a weird one but I think Seraz would be the big body grappler of the game. Hes bigger than most the other necrons and I think he'd want to get close to "examine" you. He'd have command grabs where he uses his disection tools to dismember oppnents and a supper where he operates on you like Faust.

Phillias - The big brusier of the game. Big scyth big super armor. Will bully you into the corner in neutral and lay down huge damage. The Marisa or Vaseraga of the game.

Oltyx - I'm thinking a "stance swap" character but like Aba from guilty gear. He can swap between his different sub routines giving him new moves but the sub routines that take over are random and he can build up to a big super mode like Aba's Raoh which would be his anger sub routine.

Yenekh - He would be a master of close range combat and dominate neutral but suffer on defence. Solid normals that are good for wiff punishing and a counter move. A master swordsman who is good in the hands of someone that can read thier opponent well.

Zandrekh - He's a puppet character who cant fight well alone but relies on his loyal "friend"(lover) Oboryn to fight for him following Zandrehk's master tactical skills in battle. Zandrehk would have a mechanic where he "gets tired" because still thinks he's flesh and blood and Oboryn would need to help him get back on his feet.

Zoltanehk - He's just having a good time. Most of his moves feel like hes just dicking round. Has a move where he puts his hands out to his side giant dad style and walks forward. He can absorb one move, in this stance, taking reduced damage and negating hitstun then use one of a few different follow up moves. His normals he can be charged slightly to delay them and fuck with the opponent. Somewhere between Belial from GBVS and Slayer.

Neth - Janky "robot" character think Robo Ky. Seems bad on thier face but if you learn how to use his weird gimicks he can put in work. Constantly malfunctioning in ways that hurt him but also his opponent.

Lysikor - tricky set play/trap character constanly weave you more and more into thier trap. Testament from the old Guilty Gear/Byakuga from Undernight. Uses canoptek constructs for traps.

[skyloftian-nutcase]

(I realized on the second or third read that this is quite heavy on the angst so fair warning)

"Am I heartless?"

The words echoed in Legend's mind as he stood in the bathroom staring at himself in the mirror. Sky's voice screamed in his head, loud and soft, accusatory and questioning, hurt and resigned.

The person staring back at Legend wasn't really someone he seemed to know anymore. Tired eyes, skinny face (when had he lost so much weight? Had he always been this thin?), dry hair. He'd finished an eight night work stretch and it showed. He wasn't hungry, but he knew he hadn't eaten in twenty-four hours. He'd only had an energy drink as his entire sustenance at work last night. He'd worked a code, magically healed someone's stubbed toe, dealt with a family member snapping at him for taking too long to get test results that he couldn't even control, cleaned up someone's excrement four times, treated someone's migraine, told a creep that he could hold use the urinal just fine without Legend's help, saved another nurse from getting hit on by yet another creep, taken care of two teenagers who were coming from an MVC, and told someone that she'd miscarried.

And then he'd gotten off shift, driven to Sky's place since his friend had offered him a quiet place to decompress, slept, woken up, and read a book like it was a normal day. And then that evening Sky had the gall to ask if he was heartless. As if Legend hadn't just spent the night grumbling and laughing and making jokes with Warriors, teasing Hyrule whenever he saw him, and making dark comments about the entire situation.

Legend had long since accepted he was an ass. He'd accepted he was bitter and hurt, he'd accepted that he coped through keeping everyone at arm's length and laughing at the darkness around him. It's how they all coped.

He'd accepted that he was heartless. He had to be.

Sky's insistence on that being untrue healed something in his heart he hadn't even known was broken. He wondered if his other coworkers felt similarly. It was hard to tell - emergency personnel often didn't talk about what bothered them. They just laughed at it.

Why did it matter, whether he could feel things or not? Why did it matter that work bothered him but didn't? Why did it matter that he could watch someone die and crack a joke that would make people's heads snap towards him within the same minute?

Just how broken was he? Was it worth fixing? Why could he be having a good day and then all it took was one idiot to sour his entire opinion on humanity? Why did he get so angry, so hurt, so bitter? Why did the mistakes, the idiocy of one person make him distrust all people? Why were people just awful?

Why was he like this?

Legend reached up to his face, his fingers finding his earlobe and messing with the little hole where an earring would usually sit. He remembered the small, delicate hands that pierced them, the smell of the sea and laughter in the wind, the music and the fun nights, and the times when he did actually have some joy in his life.

He remembered the sand mixed with blood, the taste of bitterness and regret, the heavy decisions made in a single day.

He remembered all the emergency departments he'd finished, the poor management, the overworked staff, the entitlement of some patients, the desperation of other patients, the fear over being able to afford getting basic life saving care, the anger at how broken the system was, the frustration that could only be taken out on healthcare staff. He remembered the cases of abuse he'd reported, the anger in Hyrule's eyes when he brought in a drunk woman who survived a crash that she'd caused while the young mother she'd hit had been killed, the assault victims he'd treated, the frequent flyers who would just come for a sandwich but would cause a scene if they had to sit in the waiting room while actually sick people were taken back, the anger and hurt and bitterness and why were people like this?!

But it wasn't always bad. It wasn't. So he shouldn't just focus on the bad. He shouldn't just remember the bad. Why was that all he fixated on?

"What's wrong with me?" he muttered, leaning his head against the cool mirror on the wall.

"Am I heartless?"

No. No, Sky wasn't heartless. Sky had gone through a war, had seen things he refused to talk about, and he still had a warmth to him that Legend couldn't even fathom. Legend hadn't fought in a war, and yet here he was, being bitter about life.

You've fought in a war and you damn well know it, he reminded himself. As if the emergency department wasn't a war zone in its own right, as if he hadn't seen things that people weren't meant to see.

Ravio's words echoed in his mind next, insisting in how he was a hero, how all healthcare workers were heroes. It wasn't a new sentiment - many said it. But it didn't sink in. He didn't feel much like a hero. He just felt broken.

Maybe Sky was right. Maybe Legend wasn't actually heartless. Maybe he was just heartbroken.