scawwy ✦ lucas proust

[recession]

maybe ill find a shitpost later

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[recession]

You can afford to do more. Enough that there's no wiggle room. To the point where you think it's probably uncomfortable.

[ Unless Lucas is a soft boi who is easily uncomfortable. In that case, try harder or something. ]

[faithkept]

[HELP. Probably uncomfortable is a little vague but he will DO HIS BEST!!

By which i mean he tightens it by a few increments and then glances hesitantly over at Daan again.]

[recession]

Better. I'd probably more go for this though.

[ Reaches over and just pulls the fabric TIGHT!!! Makes that thwip sound. There you go. This thing is sturdy. And makes a firm knot. ]

Not hard enough to cut off blood flow, but you shouldn't really be able to do that with a wrap like this.

[ Because then it'd just be a tourniquet. ]

[faithkept]

[WAGH THE THWIP. He will lift the stick bundle to examine the tightness closely and see exactly what it looks like.]

I see! That's quite tight, indeed... But I suppose this bone won't be going anywhere.

[recession]

Nope. That's the point.

You shouldn't put any weight on it still, but...

[ He takes it, pressing the tip against the ground and putting some light pressure on it. Between the splint support and wraps, it doesn't budge. ]

In a pinch, you could move on this if you needed to.

[faithkept]

[The idea of running on a broken splinted bone makes his shoulders hunch up just a bit. NOT THAT...]

...I'll hope that things don't come down to that, either. But I do understand what you mean... Ah - if I'm recalling, I also learned that you're meant to hold the arm against the body if possible. Is this true?

[recession]

As in straight by the side? Think that might get uncomfortable after a while.

If you're lying down, keeping it elevated would help?

[faithkept]

More like this.

[He folds his arm across his chest. Buddy binding...]

I haven't heard about elevating it, though.

[RICE didn't exist in the 1800s.]

[recession]

Ah, yeah. I think that's just what's most comfortable for people. If you leave it hanging, all the blood will pool downward, too.

[ That tracks. ]

That concludes that lesson I think. Pretty simple.

[faithkept]

You have a knack for teaching, yourself. Very concise and easily understood! I appreciate it.

[HE PASSED THE COURSE!! He will carefully start to unwrap the sticks so he can give the bandage back to Daan.]

[recession]

...

Only forwarding how I learned it, I suppose...

I wasn't very good at learning it all from books, so I got demonstrations much like this.

[faithkept]

Hands-on is a good teaching style, undoubtedly. It's much easier to show some things in practice rather than in mere principle.

[recession]

I'm just not a reader.

Even the thought of a book makes me kind of want to yawn...

[faithkept]

[Ah... A teacher's natural enemy...]

Any book at all? Surely you've found at least one that you've enjoyed in your time.

[recession]

It's not like I hate them... they re-a-lly just -- [ He's interrupted by a tiny yawn which he covers with a mouth to be polite. ] Make me want to take a nap. See, what did I tell you...

Can't knock it's benefits though. Sometimes I'd see a book or two passed around in my platoon... can provide a good distraction.

[faithkept]

Oh, my... You really weren't exaggerating.

[Said lightly, like he finds it funny, which he does. The rest has his head canting to the side a bit, though.]

Your platoon?

[THE WAY THEY DON'T HAVE AN ARMY IN VIRCHE BECAUSE THEY'RE FUCKING ISOLATED. He may know very vague basics from books that have washed up ashore from elsewhere but girl help.]

[recession]

Yeah.

...The Second Great War. The Kingdom of Rondon got involved... so I had to go.

Signed up as a field medic.

[faithkept]

[What is this weird AU of earth. His brow knits a little.]

So you've been working as a medic presumably for some time, then? ...May I ask what this "second great war" was?

[recession]

I was just learning... though I guess, I've always been a little involved with it on and off, sure.

Field medic, just for the war.

[ I don't know when Rondon got involved and therefore how long he was actually on the front lines though. ]

Big war... roped up a lot of nations across Europa. That's why they call it "Great". The Bremen Empire against Bohemia, helmed by the Kaiser.

[faithkept]

[Just nodding as he explains his FIELD MEDIC PAST and on and off love affair with doctoring. The idea of a great war between a fuckton of nations is so wild to him, though, primarily because thinking about a fuckton of nations at all is still novel.]

What in the world started this...? And why twice?

[YALL HAD TWO GREAT WARS??]

[recession]

[ The only thing more appalling than one great war is that there were two of them. ]

I wouldn't know... I guess I don't count as a civilian, but I'm just someone caught up in it all...

Plenty of people are.

[faithkept]

It sounds like such an enormous thing to be caught up in... Rather - I suppose it's exactly because it's so enormous that people end up caught up in it.

[Maybe Arpechele is actually better off in perpetual isolation? Much to consider.]

[recession]

Chicken or egg conundrum. In the end there's no point to questioning it if it doesn't change anything.

[ To die young of a weird curse... or to die young because of war... choices, Lucas... ]

[faithkept]

[Better the devil you know or something......]

I suppose that's the case. [A light little sigh, and then:] I'm sure it comes as no surprise, but our country doesn't have an army. The closest we come are the Royal Guard.

[All they do is guard Royals and they suck at it.]

[recession]

Yeah, from what I heard... you have some kind of royal family.

[ It's the youngest royal family line ever. ]

What do they guard the family from, exactly?

[ Everything okay, like, politically over there? Or do you have strife because your frontal lobes are statistically still developing. ]