indulge me

[puggle]

Let's talk about health for a minute.

What is your character's state of health (both physical and mental, if you like)? Have they suffered any serious injuries or illnesses? Were they ever hospitalized for a long period of time? Do they have any health concerns? Canon related responses as well as in game happenings are encouraged for sharing! Tell us of their battle scars!

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[guardiandevil]

SPOILERS: Matt is blind. The accident that blinded him left him hospitalized for awhile when he was a kid. He was left with some residual, faint scarring from the accident, but aside from that, it's not super noticeable. Except that he like, doesn't focus on things when he looks at them. He's suffered numerous injuries during his tenure as Daredevil. He once stepped in a bear trap and broke his ankle (who the hell puts a bear trap in the middle of Manhattan?). He broke his wrist once after punching Luke Cage, because he is smart like that. He's been shot and stabbed numerous times and has beautiful scars to prove it (I'm looking at you, Bullseye, Paladin, et al.) His health concerns center around growing older and not moving the way he used to when he was younger. He also worries about his hearing sometimes, because he is so reliant on that sense. Basically he compensates for his blindness in ways that not the healthiest, and he really pushes and abuses his body.

Mentally, he's prone to depression and moodiness, to an extreme degree. He's suffered legitimate mental breakdowns, contemplated suicide, lost touch with reality, invented an imaginary twin to take the blame for some of the crap he's pulled...

Yep. That's Daredevil for you, ladies and gentleman.

[magicalworld]

Imaginary twin? Wow.

[ex_engineers208]

madison already had pretty awful social anxiety (blame the x-gene and filthy mutantguilt) before heaving into the states to go to vietnam and getting discharged with severe ptsd―it only got like, progressively worse over the years and after killing his even more traumatized bro. lmao and it was retconned that in those early years he went crazy and enslaved a town in canada with robots and sealed everyone in metal to reenact scenes from his childhood before getting rescued by wolverine and then got shoved in a psych hospital before getting recruited. life hard.

and then he got brainwashed into being gemini and making a robot twin to shoot people with. and then got brainwashed immediately again by weapon-x into solely automating a mutant concentration camp with robots that ended up killing 6k mutants in mass graves and beating his wife so bad everyone who read the book at the time assumed she died.

so suffice to say now his brain is completely fried and damaged with the brainwashing, his ptsd is like infinite in severity, he has horrible bouts of depression, he has trouble telling which way is up or down and has trouble focusing and he's suffering a complete disconnection with humanity along with sudden mechanophilia-by-brainwashing. BUT AT LEAST HE'S PHYSICALLY FINE.

tl;dr brain fucked up thanks like ten writers

also in-game his wife and girlfriend business driving him crazy (ha?)

[heartlessglitch]

D:
arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[futureleader]

In the game- Quentin had two of his fingers broken by Danger and various bruises at the time from their scuffle. HE HAD HIS NOSE BUSTED BY BEING HIT IN THE FACE WITH PURE DIAMOND but Jenny fixed it for him. Quentin has also gotten into various scuffles but nothing serious has happened.

Occasionally in the city he gets really severe headaches because the city is busy with voices so it's sometimes hard to tune them all out to concentrate on his own million thoughts. To block that, he occasionally indulges in drug habits. He's also taken various drugs for the fun of it but isn't a daily abuser. He abuses when he's particularly bored or when he feels like he needs the extra boost such as the headache incidents.

Mentally, Quentin has some insecurity issues and sometimes suffers from depression and loneliness. Though this hasn't be quite as relevant in game as it was at home.

He probably has more injuries in game but I can't remember them all.

At home- Quentin was going through a major change in his body which ws his secondary mutation developing. But aside from that, he took some drugs in his quest for finding meaning with his life that pretty much wrecked his body and brought him to near death. However, he managed to escape the trauma by having his mind placed in a higher dimension. So, while his body apparently died, his mind remained alive. He's since recovering from that.

Quentin has also been seen to be prone to psychic seizures when a great power interferes with his mental abilities. Specifically the Phoenix heading to Earth.

[ex_engineers208]

aw poor insecure baby

does he secretly think that excuses himself for being a dick

[osreborn]

NORMAN was impaled through the chest with his glider long, long ago, and though he eventually got better he still has a huge scar on his chest/back from it. There was a fight with Spider-Man shortly after the Clone Saga (after that stupid Aunt May story) that he required a nurse and some physical therapy to recover from, but he was also recovering from a massive psychotic episode at the time. He's had a lot of fights and battles, obviously, but his injuries aren't usually much of a problem because his Goblin formula allows him to heal from almost any injury pretty quickly, even moderate-to-severe ones. THAT SAID, right now in canon he's in a coma because he overloaded himself using that stupid Adaptoid technology plot.

Mentally, though, Norman has a great deal of psychosis that he deals with on a near daily basis, though some periods he's more in control than others. He's a psychopath (he has anti-social personality disorder, and narcissistic personality disorder) and manic-depressive, and has schizophrenia with DID co-morbidity. He frequently has psychotic episodes, violent episodes, depressive (occasionally suicidal) episodes and obviously he pays little-to-no regard to other people beyond himself, beyond what he might need from them. Yep!

IN-GAME whoops he was "killed" by Tony Stark a while back, though he actually faked his death, and he faked a broken arm briefly (it broke, but then healed) from I think it was Betty Ross!She-Hulk? He was subject to some unethical ECT while he was in NOHoPE (thanks, Eddie and Einstürzen) and then there was that fight when he got arrested... I'm sure I'm missing some stuff but again, his injuries heal very quickly.

[thegooddoctor]

you're welcome desu~*~ ♥

[doubleoohbaby]

Oh man gotta avoid tl;dr...

James' health physically is top notch, beyond a few vices such as excess alcohol and the odd cigarette. Unsurprisingly his work and his interests involve mass amounts of exercise so yeah, no problems there! However all that strain can cause him plenty of injuries and James has plenty of scars, bone owies, pulled/tight muscles etc and has had lots of visits to the hospital, several of which have been prolonged stays. He doesn't tend to get sick though, which is pretty sweet! Beyond maybe the occasional cold and the usual.

His mental health is a different matter entirely. He's pretty good at covering it all, but depression is something that strikes him all too regularly, especially when between missions and triggered from a mix of boredom, a lack of self-worth and like, everything ever because secretly he can be a self-conscious woobie when it comes to his actions. BUT YEAH...

[couldbeavoided]

Physically, Bob is very hard to injure as the Sentry. He can take powerful hits from powerful people but nothing really keeps him down long, aside from when Thor kills him haha... his worst physical injuries were probably during his fight with the Hulk during WWH. When he was younger, pre-Sentry, his body was a lot unhealthier due to his drug addiction.

His mind is his biggest weakness. Bob has schizotypal personality disorder, agoraphobia, avoidant personality disorder, and DID, all of which leave him as a very nervous, unstable man on his worse days. I... think that's everything, also he just gets addicted to things easily; drugs, alcohol, power. His DID takes physical manifestation as the Void, a violent and usually unstoppable (except by him) force of evil, and most of his schizotypal-esque thoughts are related to the Void, some accurately and some not.

[enigmaestro]

Parker is a physically fit man in his mid-twenties. He's never had any history of physical illness (aside from like, minor allergies), though he does have a family history of Alzheimer's (on his maternal side).

He suffers a psychological addiction/emotional crutch to power, but since he's never without some superhuman power in the City, that hasn't been a severe problem for him in of itself. His drive to accumulate more power (and his failure to do so) has inspired bouts of situational depression.

Eddie is a physically fit man in his late thirties. He once had terminal brain cancer, but -- one convoluted plot line and a Lazarus Pit later -- he now no longer has brain cancer. He has suffered a lot of head injuries, most notably that one dealt to him during Infinite Crisis, which left him in a coma for about a year. His behavior often incites a lot of physical confrontation, which is the sort of confrontation that he rarely fares well in (both canon and in-game examples are numerous). And yet despite that, Eddie has no present chronic physical illnesses (nor any canon familial histories of such) and he usually heals suspiciously quickly from any damage inflicted upon his body.

Psychologically speaking, Eddie's woes are a bit more complex. He has nurtured a severe case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder from adolescence, something developed in part because of his abuse home environment. In the same turn, his obsessive-compulsive tendencies manifested around the guilt that his father's abuse provoked. These manifestations revolve around the epicenter of truth versus lies; for example, when planning committing a crime he is literally compelled to discuss it, and outright lying about it is impossible. Truth folds into guilt, which spurs the manifestation of his obsessive-compulsive state because of his childhood trauma.

The riddle compulsions are the notable manifestations. These are compulsions that he has since tried to transform into an asset of his personality, a signature, rather than a weakness. That success comes in degrees, and often when he is fracturing or losing control of a situation (or of himself), his riddling tendency regresses from a behavioral asset to a blatant compulsion.

Eddie can be callous and whimsical about human life or the right of other human beings, a perspective suggesting something sociopathic in nature (but, at the same time, this perspective can be justified as simply human cruelty magnified by his already established personality disorder).

OH AND obviously, Eddie has been frequently hospitalized in both hospitals and mental institutions.

[futureleader]

Eddie :(

[trickshot]

Clint is generally in pretty good health, because he takes pains to maintain his body. (It is a temple, Wolverine.) He has a pretty good diet and trains to the point of peak human capacity, so he doesn't get ill too often. Injuries, however, are something he suffers from quite often. It's part of his initial origins that he broke both his legs, and that particular injury comes back to him again and again. He breaks bones pretty often and he gets beat up a lot, and he doesn't have much defense against that. He almost went blind, once, because of a condition called occipital blindness. Most alt-verse versions of his future seem to think he's going to actually go blind eventually, anyway. He was deaf, or mostly so, for awhile following his first adventure with Bobbi. He used hearing aides for awhile after that. He has also died a few times, mostly in explosions. And Emma Frost recently set him on fire. Basically: human guy with human limitations. His mental health is generally pretty good and his body's as healthy as he can keep it, but he does spend a fair bit of time in hospitals or wearing casts.

Monica used to be about as vulnerable as any other human, but then her version of Tony Stark gave her some type of serum and we're not exactly sure what it did. So I'm guessing she's hardier than most, now, though she was extensively tortured and possibly sexually assaulted as a normal soldier in Bosnia. Again, as a soldier/spy she probably has taken a fair few beatings, but that incident was the most major.

Damian makes a career of being injured. He's been paralyzed from the waist down and had his entire spine replaced, his mom blew him up once and replaced his internal organs, and he just doesn't have much regard for his body or its needs. He doesn't eat unless he feels like it and eats poorly when he does; occasionally he'll pay lip service to nutrition. He has autopsy-like scars along his chest. He doesn't get sick often, if at all, because he's genetically engineered to have a strong immune system.

He's the only one of my characters to be significantly injured in game; when the Joker was here last year he broke a leg and an arm and spent several weeks bedridden.

[magicalworld]

jeez Clint that link

[governorkang]

...I will try not to teal deer.

Mentally, Kang's got a few issues regarding family and fully trusting most humans. He doesn't know who his dragon parents are (and doesn't want to), and he was forced to kill his own brothers and cousins when he was a hatchling to survive. Metallic dragons then, as a whole, treated their own children as perversions and killed them out of 'mercy'. THEN the existence of females was hidden from the males for forty years, and their former 'allies' tried to kill them all off since they couldn't be controlled anymore if they could breed. Oh, and he was too protective with raising the females, but he learned his lesson there about letting them make their own life choices and not coddling them. Because of this, he's fiercely protective of anyone that ever does reach family status with him, and when he and his mate have kids, he'll do everything in his power to not be like the dragons and let them live their own lives.

As for the trusting humans thing, most humans in his experience have treated him and his kind as cannonfodder, or at the very least, as not an actual person. The 'allies' that tried to kill the race off were 90% human. He doesn't realize it, but he's more likely to trust female humans than he is male humans because the majority of female humans he's dealt with back home treated him like a person.

Physically, he's got a fair number of scars. Most are minor, but there are a few nasty ones, like on the back of his left thigh from being stabbed with a dagger, the one on his back that's parallel to his spine from a goblin sword, and the mass of scars covering his right hand. He can't properly use it anymore, and lacks feeling in portions of it; he almost lost two of his fingers. That one happened from crushing a glass globe in his hand to use the magical energy in it in a last-ditch effort.

Other than the scars, he's very fit and muscular. He does drink fairly often, though (but he's not an alcoholic), and in game, he's not eating a proper human diet because he doesn't realize yet that the diet he's used to in his normal body won't cut it.

Also, he's never been sick from even a minor cold before. Draconians have a natural immunity from sickness and diseases. It didn't carry over to the human body he's in now, though...

[wisecracked]

Cold season is gonna suck for him lol.

[indentcision]

The left side of Harvey's face, neck/shoulder, and his left hand are horribly scarred! He had acid splashed on him during a trial and it left him burned so severely his skin wasn't able to heal from it. Throughout canon (some in continuity, some not) he's been able to get reconstructive surgery, but he always reverts back to his scarred state somehow or another. Many of the nerves in his scarred areas are dead so he feels less pain on that side, though his hearing is poorer, and his left eye is blind. He's had a lot of injuries throughout canon, though most weren't particularly significant.

Mentally, he obviously struggles with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia with some DID co-morbidity. It's definitely schizophrenia with DID-leanings rather than DID proper; he hears the voice of Two-Face in his head and can converse with him, in his head, and Two-Face is in essence Harvey's rage personified rather than a real person of his own. Harvey also has steadfast delusions and obsessions related to fate, two/doubles/so on, and of course his coin. His coin can trigger one personality's strength over the other, and it's obviously used as a tool to distance himself from direct responsibility or decision-making. His bipolar disorder usually manifests in extreme anger or extreme depression. He's committed or attempted to commit self-harm.

In-game he's been beaten up a few times, been acided in the face by SkrullKate... no big deal. I hope I'm not forgetting anything I'm kind of out of it today??

[retconman]

Max's canon is full of horrible injuries. He was shot by a Manhunter almost fatally and was hospitalized, then his metagene activated after the Invasion and he collapsed/had brain problems, Ted Kord stabbed him while brainwashed, he was shot again and comatose (and then possessed) for a while, then he got a brain tumor and DIED FOR REAL except not really. It's implied that use of his ability might have caused the tumor, since every time Max uses it it creates a minor hemorrhage in his brain (thus causing a nosebleed).

Then... after dying for really-real at the hands of Wonder Woman, he came back in Blackest Night/Brightest Day and did a huge mindwipe of the planet that caused him to hemorrhage blood basically from his entire face. Using his powers to extreme extent will do that to him, so certain things he can really only do once because they're so physically taxing. Mentally, there's nothing in particular up with him except for his genocidal METAHUMANITY IS BAD ideas.

[motherfucked]

MAX YOU ARE MY FAVORITE DAMSEL IN DISTRESS

[soulbondee]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
STATE OF HEALTH
RUKA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[magicalworld]

AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

[wisecracked]

Physically speaking Kenzi is perfectly healthy here in the City. Well, as healthy as an alcoholic can be. She's sustained a few minor scrapes but nothing worse. Mentally is another story.

Since most of her past hasn't been revealed in canon it's hard to say what exactly in her mind is wrong but this a girl that went through abuse from her stepfather (supposedly it was sexual in nature but she only talks about him locking her in a closet for laughing too loud as a kid). She ran away from home at fifteen (or so she said at one point, she's a liar so it might not be the truth). She's lived on the streets for years, fending for herself. She has trust issues for sure. She'll happily talk about anything as long as it's nothing too personal to her. You try to pry into her past and she's going to get defensive. She's also willing to put her life on the line for those closest to her but otherwise she's pretty selfish.

Back home she nearly died from a stab wound, thank god for a certain siren being able to put his whistle on a high enough pitch that he was able to cauterize the wound. Seriously Lauren, what kind of doctor are you if you don't come prepared for injuries like stab wounds?! She's also got something nasty and possibly life threatening going on with her arm that's been a left a mystery because DAMN CLIFFHANGER SEASON FINALE! Something I've chose to ignore here until it's revealed in the next season.


Jade just got here and despite all her confusion she's mostly okay. Although you know, dieing (technically) twice in canon has had an affect on her. Plus all the mass destruction and watching her friends die. She doesn't sleep well anymore because of that and the lack of Prospit (and dream bubbles here).

[centurybaby]

lmfao cries i'm already all over this post i guess i'll do one lazy wehhh.

OKAY JENNY Q: is a healthy fifteen-year-old girl, but only because when she was eight, she reality altered herself to be like six years older. Before that, when she was three or four years old, her twin sister, Jenny Fractal (also a century baby, but much stronger than her because of torture and conditioning by the Chinese government!!!) killed the shit out of her. But then Midnighter went back in time and basically killed newbord Jenny Fractal while she was asleep next to newborn Jenny Q so that Jenny Q's spirit could take Jenny Fractal's body. NOT CREEPY AT ALL.

Later, SPOILERS, Jenny absorbs an exploding baby universe and dies again, leaving humanity without a century spirit when she's like sixteen and it's pretty shitty for everyone.

Mentally, she's pretty tough. She lacks a lot of normal moral constraints because of how she was raised on Authority-style violence. She is actually probably the cruelest member of the Authority (both her dads are terrifyingly violent and vindictive tbh, so she is too) and has no issue with murder or torture to her own means. Generally this works out because she's the protector of mankind and has good ideals, like a "a finer world" and all. She also has father issues like everyone else because when she was five, Midnighter left the Authority and Apollo raised her on his own for three years up until she reality altered herself to be older. She still sometimes wonders if Midnighter wouldn't be better suited to life without the responsibility of being her father and has canonically (IN BADLY WRITTEN ARCS) tried to direct him away from her purposefully. She also doesn't make friends well and never had any friends her age in her own universe.

[crab]

physically -

in general karkat is not at peak physical health, thanks to his diet of whatever gamzee scrounges up/cooks (mostly faygo and things that should never go together, food poisoning ahoy) and junk food other people treat him to. he's somewhat malnourished, and has gotten thinner and lost a lot of muscle tone. he doesn't have the same stamina he used to and will run out of energy quicker.

he has died once due to a massive injury to his torso where a hole the size of someone's forearm was blown through it, and during the war games was clawed in the calf by one of the dog abominations. those are the two most severe injuries he has suffered here. at this particular moment in time karkat is suffering from multiple wounds from the demon dimension. mainly it is a lot of easily treatable bruising/bitemarks/clawmarks/horn injuries, but there are some deeper puncture wounds where he has been gored, and a more severe contusion where a punch from dead!Equius grazed him along the upper arm. all in all though, he should be fine; he can take a stabbing and walk away from it no problem whatsoever. trolls are sturdy creatures. it just hurts a lot for now.

mentally -

karkat is not at a peak of mental health either. i'm sure this is a surprise to everyone! it says a lot that this shaken up soda bottle of issues is still one of the most well adjusted of the trolls. he suffers from deep seated self loathing, may be in the process of developing a guilt complex when it comes to serious situations (though thankfully he isn't quite there yet, he's still able to recognize when there was nothing he could have done in some situations, despite how the realization frustrates and enrages him, since he loathes being useless), he suffers from a blood color related inferiority complex, he needs to feel useful and needed, because if he's not needed then he sees no reason for anyone to want him around. he has concealed and repressed who he really is behind a wall of vitriol and insults for so long that the idea of not doing so is an unfathomable one to him. he sees himself as weak and useless and there is no one and nothing in any universe he hates more than himself. he has extreme difficulty opening up and trusting, there's a case to be made for him suffering from mild post traumatic stress disorder, AND JUST JESUS FUCK SOMEONE GET THIS KID A THERAPIST.

[dogwitch]

Is Jade going to have to go out of her way to make sure Karkat and Gamzee get good food?

[culver]

nill is healthy except for the fact that she's got a bullet hole in her right now. she is mute, probably because her vocal cords were removed. before heine found her she had been physically (and possibly sexually) abused. she sometimes still suffers from mild androphobia.

gemma used to have the standard cinched waist of corseted women. she has been punched, stabbed, and shoved around with magic. she has a scar on her right side, about two or three inches long, where she was stabbed back in her world. she suffers from insomnia, and has since before she came to the city. she's had at least two mental breakdowns in canon, and one in the city that resulted in her death.

rikku is probably pretty scarred up. she has a scar on the back of her neck right below her hair line from where brother smashed her into some rocks with a thunder spell when they were kids. she also probably has scars all up and down her body from working with machina her whole life. she has died once in the city.

molly hooper is healthy except for an addiction to coffee and crisps. she needs very little sleep.

scathach has no scars because she heals too quickly for them to really form. but at 10000+ years old, she's probably just a little bit mentally unstable. she was almost beaten to death by the joker thanks to his power nullification abilities.

[ex_engineers208]

aw poor nill :c

always poor nill

[backstabbing]

CANONLY ISABELA IS AS HEALTHY AS A WOMAN LIVING IN A MEDIEVAL FANTASY SETTING CAN BE she just has a really really really bad habit of

well

catching STDs

luckily it's a fantasy game so everything's solved with a fix of magic and magic salves and the like.

here she's 100% healthy as a horse and clean as a whistle as far as STDs and other diseases go. why? because one of her powers is having immunity to all disease. she can't even catch a cold.

admittedly she is rather alarmed at the lack of itching.

ALSO SHE DOESN'T BRUSH HER TEETH OR BATHE ALL THAT MUCH......

as for mental health, she has her share of troubles and issues and doubts...and self-destructive habits such as drinking and getting into brawls and basically living a pirate's life. she's the sort, however, who can handle it mostly on her own and when she can't she covers it up really well. her mentality is a bit healthier compared to the rest of the DA2 love interests (which ISN'T SAYING MUCH LET ME TELL YOU) as in, she doesn't really need anyone flat-out guide her every inch of the way. she does need some coaxing and influence when it comes to deeper, less shallow emotions, but other than that she's pretty well off for herself and knows what she wants.

[motherfucked]

BUCKY ➢
Physically · Bucky is a single-limb amputee; he blew his left arm off joyriding a 1945 smartbomb. The phantom limb pain is worse in the City than it is in canon, because in canon he got fitted straight-away with a nonsense hi-tech robot limb, here in the City he let the porter patch him up and ignored the problem for a while. He's otherwise physically fit, far, far more physically fit than he really ought to be, since he's gotten shot/stabbed/tied-up/tortured and the whole nine yards on panel way more than I can rightly count. He is always cracking ribs and getting holes blown in him, yet still go for posing shirtless all the time free of scarring or disfiguration!! He explains that he's always healed fast— he's someone who's always had the physical gifts naturally that Steve had to pump himself full of comic book juice to get, and I think that's an interesting parallel.
Mentally · Bucky has probably less PTSD than you think, but he still suffers from grim flashbacks that turn his nightmares into a Steranko homage. Recently the War Games plot has brought that to the surface, and he has been in a sort of funk.

JESSICA ➢
Physically · Jess got her powers from a car crash that left her family dead and left her comatose for months. She has been beat up a bit in her superhero career, but she got out before the normal amount of injuries could accrue. She mentions that she doesn't know if she's bulletproof— she is not sure how much damage she can take, which says something about how much damage she's taken. Jess drinks and smokes heavily, but she's too young for that to really be screwing her over quite yet.
Mentally · TRIGGER WARNING Jessica suffers from severe PTSD following her captivity at the hands of the Purple Man, who pumped her full of pheromones and made her watch him rape women, made her wish he would rape her. When Jess broke free, she attacked the Avengers and Defenders accidentally, still hopped up on the pheromones, and they fought back, not hard, but enough that her mind collapsed (she says she "popped") and she fell into another coma. This is why she drinks and smokes and makes her bad life decisions, she feels the need to punish herself, to feel something different. She's gotten better in canon, but is still pretty raw in-game.

NATASHA ➢
Physically · Natasha has some Soviet super-science inside of her that keeps her from not aging, it probably makes her heal neater, too. She's been hurt a whole bunch from the standard superhero career, but rarely in any Big Time multiple-arcs significant way, pretty astounding for a female character who has been appearing since 1964!! Most recently I guess she was brutally stabbed in Marjorie Liu's run. One wacky feminist-commentary twist on Natasha's Soviet super-science treatment is that it made her infertile. Take that, tumblr!!
Mentally · There's a big stupid retcon that has vague bunches of Natasha's past being false memories implanted into her by the KGB!! This is a stupid retcon because Natasha isn't really about rediscovering herself, she is about mining the tragedy of her past and finding ways to draw strength from her sorrow. So I tend to minimize all the brainwash canon as much as possible, thanks Brubaker for drudging it all up again to draw annoying shipper parallels. There always has been some degree of, I don't know how to put it, the politics of propaganda writ large, in Natasha's superhero backstory, there have always been questions about the degree to which she belongs to herself. But her superhero origin is her reclamation of herself, and I think it's wrong to see her as fractured. Not unscarred, but not unwhole, either.

[gevurah]

Oh, wow. I knew Jessica's backstory had something like that in it, but not that... exactly... :(

gently placeholds

[yelloweyesdarksomething]

Monster in the Dark

[yelloweyesdarksomething]

I am not entirely sure if Monster knows what it's like to be injured - the only time he ever expresses pain in canon about anything is when he tries to eat a letter and get a paper cut on his tongue. He finds swords ticklish and just plain doesn't notice people attacking him with knives?

In City, there were a few times he got sick because he ate something he probably shouldn't have... but he's actually pretty much in perfect health physically -- except maybe being hungry like, ALL the time.

Mentally, however - denial, denial, denial, denial. Monster has been used, abused, insulted, demeaned, forgotten and abandoned in canon - traded off and passed around like a neat weapon or zoo animal. He also doesn't think on purpose. And while he's pretty cheerful and chill, there've been a couple of scenes (and gags- "I eat to fill the loneliness") that have made it pretty clear he's Not Okay.

This continues in the City that while he likes the City a lot, almost all of the friends he makes get ported out, and more than a few have gotten injured and killed and he's been kidnapped and attacked by monsters (irony?) and YEAH. So he latches onto the nice people on the Network and assumes that everybody is just gonna leave him, but instead of THINKING about it - DENIAL, DENIAL, DENIAL.

[intothewoods]

Jay is the most stable of all the main Marble Hornets characters, but... that really isn't saying much. Unlike Alex, who dealt with his fear by lashing out and becoming aggressive, Jay's become much more withdrawn and quiet since everything has started. He doesn't really trust anyone anymore -- none of his canonmates are exactly paragons of virtue (and Jay is guilty of doing some less than moral things himself), and he can't bring himself to open up and talk about what's happening to him. He's been doing everything alone for three years, the isolation eating away at him more than he will ever admit, but he just doesn't know how to talk to people anymore. The guilt for his actions -- getting Jessica involved, possibly being the reason an innocent man was murdered, not being able to help Alex before he did a pirouette right off the handle, accidentally inspiring others to follow his example and make their own slenderseries -- weighs pretty heavily on him.

More than anything, Jay is a guy who is running scared. He's been stalked by an eldritch abomination and masked men for years. He blacks out sometimes and wakes up with no memory of what happened to him, and while he has a pretty good guess of what's causing them, there are times when he doesn't have an explanation for his blackouts, and it's terrifying for him to think that he might be so messed up at this point that he's losing chunks of time on his own without any outside influence. He films himself constantly to act as his memories.

Physically, he isn't doing so hot, though he has been doing a little better since arriving in The City. He doesn't really eat healthily, since doing so is kind of expensive, so he's lost a lot of weight. He comes down with unexplainable sicknesses sometimes (spoiler alert: it's Slender Man's fault): fevers, headaches, and a hack-up-your-lungs bad cough. Sleeping soundly through the night is a rare event for him.

[chugway]

i suggest a cnc event where EVERYBODY JUST PATS JAY'S HEAD AND FEEDS HIM SOUP that is my grand plot idea

Jack Bauer

[out_of_time]

Jack Bauer is a mental and physical wreck. His body is covered with so many scars that when a doctor saw him naked, he had to explain that it wasn't a skin condition. Despite that and his age- he's over fifty- he continues to keep himself in near-peak physical condition so he can punish himself even further through his work. No matter what he endures, he remains supremely capable.

Recounting the injuries and tortures he's endured on the show would read like the script to a snuff film, so I'll just hit some of the highlights:
-he was once captured, stripped naked, and tortured with electricity until his heart flatlined and he died. Then they brought him back so they could torture him some more, then he broke loose, killed them all and saved America.
-He also spent close to two years in Chinese captivity undergoing regular torture.
-When he was released, it was only to be turned over to terrorists so they could torture him.
-He was infected with an experimental bioweapon that gave him a fast-acting variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. The infection caused his physical and mental deterioration over about nine hours until he slipped into a death coma at the end of the day. (He was saved by an experimental stem cell transplant from his daughter)
-He's been stabbed, shot, and hit over the head more times than can be counted.

His luck has continued along this vein in C&C. An ordinary man frequently thrown into superhuman conflicts, Jack often gets injured somehow when he goes into action in the Cityverse. The highlight so far was during a battle in Times Square where he got in a car crash, escaped his car exploding, got shot with a shotgun, hit by a crowbar, then fell from a helicopter.

Mentally, I don't even know what's going on with this guy but it's not good. The dark side of Jack's fearlessness has always been a near-total disregard for his own wellbeing. This man simply does not give a shit if he is maimed or disfigured or killed doing what he thinks he has to do. After the murder of his wife, this escalated into outright contemplating suicide. Even after Jack picked up the pieces of his life, he has continued to show a distressingly unflinching willingness to volunteer for any plan that involves him dying for a good cause. Any time there's a suicide mission, Jack's down for it.

Example: when infected with the aforementioned bioweapon, Jack ended up chased by terrorists who wanted to harvest it from his organs to use in terrorist attacks. Too weak to fight or escape, with no place to hide and no help coming, Jack did the only rational thing: he broke into a garage, doused himself in gasoline, and tried to set himself on fire with a road flare so the disease would be destroyed along with his body.

Jack has other psychological issues aside from that. He seems to have the ability to just switch off his own conscience: when he feels it's necessary, he just stops having feelings about killing or hurting people. He uses this talent to avoid processing the traumas he's endured too- after being released from two years in Chinese captivity, he just goes right back to work for 24 straight hours of incredible violence and hardship. Because he has to. Considering how deeply passionate Jack usually is, the contrast created by him 'switching off' is downright eerie.

Mordin Solus

[heal_or_execute]

You see how one of Mordin's cranial horns is shorter than the others in that icon? Yeah, he wasn't born that way. He used to be a member of the Salarian Special Tasks Group, and was injured on a dangerous mission. He also has a fair number of facial scars.

Mentally Mordin appears to be surprisingly healthy for how much death and suffering he surrounds himself with. He is very good at rapidly processing his emotions and moving on, to the point that he can seem very callous despite the depths of his feelings. He is still haunted by guilt and ambivalence over his dirty past with the STG, but at the time he came to the City he just sacrificed his life to make up for it so he feels pretty much atoned for that now.

It's worth noting that Mordin is old for his species, near the upper limit of the Salarian lifespan of around 40. He's in good physical health for his age and can still work and fight, but if he's in C&C for too long I'm gonna have to do something to keep him from dying of natural causes.

Calvin

[magicalworld]

Calvin is a healthy kid aside from his talent for getting into trouble. He's visited the doctor and is mortally terrified of shots, been home from school with the flu, gotten stung by bees and scraped his knees. Normal stuff for his canon. Mentally, there has been speculation that his short attention span and hyperactivity might be the result of some kind of condition, but I don't feel that's the case.

In-game, he's been exposed to more of the City's dangers than he ever would have wanted. He got smacked by Godzilla once (long story) and experienced a terrifying encounter with the Other Mother from Coraline that he still has nightmares about. Other than that, he remains largely unscathed.

[amiga]

Helena was once committed to Arkham while under the influence of psychotropic drugs, but that only lasted a few weeks at most. She's more or less mentally stable if not somewhat overly reliant on her relatives (READ: DICK) for emotional support. She goes through her civilian life in sort of a pleasant haze. Her real personality is somewhere between Huntress and Helena Wayne, the two personas are exaggerations of the true woman. This act can leave her feeling emotionally exhausted at times and unable to truly connect with others.

In terms of physical injuries, she's been pretty unscathed for a superheroine. She's probably suffered some broken bones and minor injuries, but there was nothing major of note in her canon. Her most traumatic injuries were the ones that resulted in her death via building collapse. Whether it was smoke inhalation, burns, or blunt force trauma that caused her demise is never established, but one can surmise that it was a pretty painful and horrible way to go.

[longbowhunter]

Ollie died! He was vaporized by a WMD instead of allowing himself to become crippled after his arm was caught inside of it. Ollie doesn't spend a lot of time dealing with his own death in his canon, and seems to find it easier to focus on the health and well being of his family, so uh, it's kind of hard to say how much it effected him. Also, there's the funniness of him coming back to life without his memories after a certain point, so for the first few months of his resurrection, he didn't actually remember that he'd been dead. Idk, that one was traumatic to everyone around him but him, probably?

He was injured back ten years or so before that and raped by his caretaker, Shado. She conceived a child from the rape and while he doesn't have a lot of issues with the assault itself, he and Dinah did break up as a result of the child so there's that. And again, I headcanon that he does have some issues he's just not willing to deal with. Ollie expects everyone around him to be emotionally mature and talk through their problems, but it's not like he ever does that.

Prior to arriving in the City, he took two arrows to the chest and passed out. After the One Year Later jump, it turns out that he was taken to a remote island and had been passed out for right at around a week. He's also sustained various typical vigilante battle injuries, and been shot a few times (by bullets and uhh. other projectiles.). This is headcanon again, but I think his most traumatic injuries are those to his hands. He gets shot or stabbed a fair amount through the hands and shoulders, both of which have the potential to screw up his archery thing permanently, which he sacrificed himself to prevent before. I imagine that every time it happens and a battle is out of his control, it's the thing that weighs most heavily on him after the well being of his family.