#Blind main character

[awesomeveracity]

Started watching All The Light We Cannot See on Netflix. We really excited to watch it because I am also watching Dark with Louis Hofmann aka Jonas. Also Mark Ruffalo and Hugh Laurie are in it??? And the premise seems intriguing. But why couldn’t Mark Ruffalo just do his regular accent? I mean it comes and it goes and it’s just so strange. I’m just not sure who he’s trying to emulate in this. I need like an accent expert to tell my brain what’s going on here.

#all the light we cannot see #netflix #accent experts #acting #louis hofmann #mark ruffalo #blind main character #aria mia loberti

[kaiaelsher]

Why is MC of LnD so overlooked?

I've seen so many people calling mc a redflag, hating her even sl*tshames her for things that... wasn't even her fault?

It's not her fault that she is destined to be entwined with three men in her lives? All she did was being kind and then fall for each one of them, MC, too, have never had a choice to begin with, in every universe she always have this heart problem, in every universe somehow the men always knew things more than she does. About her forgetting the men, it's not her fault? She literally never wished to forget any of them. She is an innocent kind soul that was dragged to the mud in every universe she gets to live in.

I'm completely BAFFLED when I saw people starting to call MC a redflag because, are we playing the same game? 😭

How could someone who, despite her mortality in the middle of immortal people, wished for her immortal crush to get what he wanted upon the starfall that only happened once a century, when she couldve wished something for herself instead: is a redflag?

How could someone who is a redflag, accompany and love the cruel and cold foreseer, never leaving his side even as he is dying by his mistake of betraying his God, embracing him, crying for him when he couldn't even do that for himself? How a could a redflag be the warming sun of Zayne's life, that is filled by coldness?

How could someone who is a redflag, willingly gave out her heart to her "slave" so he could save his people when, all her life, she has been thinking the only thing she's lived for was for the kingdom that trapped her inside a suffocating castle? How could this someone who is called a redflag, at the end, willingly abandon the kingdom she wanted to protect just to be with her beloved?

Her sacrifices, loyalty, and suffering is so overlooked that it drives me mad. Just because she is unaware of things doesn't mean she never suffered, just because she is destined to fall in love with different men in different universes doesn't mean she's disloyal, it's clear that in each timeline MC wasn't aware of other men's existence beside her beloved, had she been aware, she would not fall in love with three men like that, but unfortunately, the storyline make her did. And all of you blaming her for this thing is messed up.

#love and deepspace #otome game #dating sim #love and deepspace rafayel #rafayel #love and deepspace xavier #xavier #love and deepspace zayne #zayne #rafayel love and deepspace #xavier love and deepspace #zayne love and deepspace #lnd #lads #love and deepspace mc #main character #yall are so blind it makes me so mad #bye

[astralsi]

Ooh, turn your light on Look at us, you and I, back at it again

#this is NOT A STORYYYY its the main characters of a manga called veil. in case it isnt well known JHDFJHSD #pretty art got to me... #anyway i like how this turned out!! cute~!!!!! #basc the lady is emma she's blind and the guy is aleksander... he takes care of her or as she puts it hes her dog LMAOO #and its about their will they wont they romance... screams #anyway she feels his face to be able to see him and he is holding up her arm u just cant see it #!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! cries into pillow #veil #the sims 4 #ts4 edit #ts4 #the sims 4 edit #simblr #sims #dances and twirlks

[motherhenna]

Even though my gaming laptop is dead and I can't replay Oblivion rn, I've decided to design a new Hero of Kvatch anyway that fits into the same universe as my other heroes. And since my Nerevarine and Dragonborn are both women, I figured I should buck the pattern and throw a guy in there lol. His whole vibe was equally inspired by both ancient greek / roman busts and Moses from Dreamwork's Prince of Egypt.

I've always liked the trope of blind characters with the ability of precognition, which is what I decided to explore with Aurelius--likely the result of an ill-advised bargain with Clavicus Vile on his father's part. The man wanted himself and members of his family to be "noticed and recognized by those in power", though failed to foresee that this would apply to more than just kings and nobles. In fact, turns out that drawing the curious eyes of several Daedric princes isn't ideal for the wellbeing of your unborn child, and Azura's boon of prophecy doesn't exactly play nice with bouts of madness and delusion...party favors from Sheogorath and Vaermina.

Haven't fleshed him or the story out much, yet, but y'all know how I am: always happy to add another softboy to my roster lmao I promise I know how to draw / write men who aren't in some way soft but can't say I'm interested in doing that

#tes oc #tes ocs #tes imperial #oblivion oc #tes oblivion #elder scrolls oc #elder scrolls #these are MY blorbos goddamnit and I'll churn out as many hardgirls and softboys as I want #side characters may be different but I just don't like writing main characters that line up with a bunch of the conventions of their gender #but yeah Re's probably going to fall into paladin territory #and the barefoot thing is kind of inspired by toph's ability to 'see' via what she can feel and touch #which would allow him to adequately fight and defend himself despite his blindness #same goes for the fingerless gloves #art #my art

[yarrayora]

i can fix her (writing because she's the main love interest that exists as a reward for the shounen protagonist so the author didn't even bother making her relevant outside of it)

#sasagawa kyouko #inoue orihime #'oh but orihime actually--' no dont let the shipping goggles blind you #post hueco mundo arc she was basically reduced to a prize #the only other character who got it worse was chad #yarra speaks #addendum #rukia also loses relevance after soul society arc #shes not allowed to win important battles without byakuya saving her #so if SHE became the end game wife #it wont be any better because tite kubo cant write romance OR women #chad is eligible as ichigo's love interest because he got even worse treatment than the two main girls

[lancerious]

thank you for being #1 lancer fan the world needs more lancer fans

Ho ho ho, of course!! Lancer is CRIMINALLY underrated I tell you, kid deserves WAY more attention than he currently gets

Glad to see another Lancer fan pop in <3!

#yk bit of a random thought but i think people see Lancer as relatively surface-level character-wise #they see all these other characters like Noelle & Spamton & Ralsei etc #characters who CLEARLY have more to them you would need to be blind to miss it #Noelle is one of the main characters as of Chapter 2 & has obvious struggles #<- notably her father likely passing away later on & her interest in Susie (not a struggle but yk) #Spamton is a secret boss & has a lot of intrigue & mystique to him #<- plus he already has connections to characters like Swatch & the Addisons #Ralsei well yk how it is with him he's literally one of THE main characters #<- & we still don't know much about him & some people likely still think he could be evil as i'm typing this #<- that's how mysterious he is #but Lancer? he rly just seems like the comedic relief yk #<- the goofy sidekick #but no! Lancer is SO MUCH MORE than that! & it sucks that most people don't see it! #Lancer hs SO MUCH potential man i rly RLY hope he has a major role to play later on #<- not just in Chapter 1 #he's canonically part of the Fun Gang too ain't no way Toby Fox has this be canon #<- & completely tosses Lancer aside in later chapters #i have faith in Toby i think he can & will give Lancer justice in later chapters #just my endless tag ramble #maybe i should make this its own post and go more in-depth #yk what fuck it this is getting a deltarune tag on edit #ask #deltarune

[silverskye13]

"The character looks down and notices she cried on her drawing. She crumples the ruined paper and throws it away."

Lord have mercy -- top 10 ways to tell the person writing the book isn't an artist, that shit is expensive just let it dry

#spazzcat barks #hi im reading books again #this one is called 'Head Like A Hole' by Andrew Van Wey #gonna be honest i went into this book blind ive never heard of it before #and i didnt read the reviews #so... we'll see how it goes #anyway the main character is a flunked out art student #and theyre already going whole ham on the 'traumatized artist draws her PTSD dreams' trope #hoping they do something cool with it

[shadowfloofster]

Watching Bad's vod where q!Foolish, q!Cellbit and q!Baghera are trying to set up q!Bad with q!Forever, now with CC!Bad's comment about his character being oblivious in an aromatic way is great

The others talking about who to ship q!Bad with while he sits in his chair, the aromantic and skephalo flag slowly fading into the background because this man will not be with ANYONE unless it's Skeppy

And I love that about him. They're currently talking in metaphors and q!Bad is just "????? I don't understand" and I love him for it.

Foolish: we're talking about the emotions in your heart right now!

Bad: Diamonds are forever!

Either he did that on purpose or that's the best coincidence to ever happen

#I heard the word aromantic and ran with it #Q!Bad is Aromantic now sorry I don't make the rules <3 #Love him for this #Honestly I'm asexual and shipping makes me uncomfortable a lot of the time it's hard to watch some of the streams sometimes #I don't mean like Foolish and Vegetta or platonic Philza and Missa #I mean more like Bad with Forever and Fit and Foolish and Roier #So... non-canon I guess? it makes sense in my head I just can't put it into words #But anyway seeing q!Bad shipped with practically everyone in existence gets really uncomfortable for me #so CC!Bad making his character oblivious in an aromantic way makes me very happy #because it feels like a “he doesn't feel that way at all + doesn't realise others can so he doesn't think of it as even a possibility” thing #I would watch Jaiden but I struggle to watch other's streams anyway as the eggs are currently my main hook #+ my fixation is Dapper mainly #qsmp #qsmp badboyhalo #just to clarify I do ship Skephalo (I might not like shipping much but I'm not blind!! /lh) #but in a platonic/queerplatonic way #can't describe why though other than it feels more like what me and my queerplatonic partner have than romantic to me

[jennrypan]

..I think it's very obvious when a mixed poc listens more to their white parent 😶

The brain dead takes I be seeing in regards to G3 Clawdeen is staggering like..yall don't have enough biracial characters to harp on?? The fuck.

G3 is so outrageously..white and made for white and other white passing people. Idk how to explain it but thats all I see what this show.

(And no. Some lgbt rep doesn't make this a good show. A few steps forward shouldn't ignore the several other steps back. Be so fr.)

It wouldve been GREAT if they just used new characters cuz like..I think we've gotten past the need for reboots, they're NEVER good (and they've made monster high seem far less accepting which..is a choice. And its not even about fashion anymore?? Like..do kids these days not like fashion dolls or something?? Cmon now.)

#j.p speaks #all the actual BLACK characters wr have barely get any acknowledgement. #and clawdeen was so unapologetically black and now..shes not :// and it fucking sucks #it sucks cuz she was the only black girl in the og and now. #shes just another mixes character cuz we cant be a main character unless we're mixed ig :// #id be less pissed if they TRIED to mix it up like Miles Morales #but wheres her black traits??? where?? like. my god. am i blind?? #monster high #clawdeen wolf #its so. idk disheartening to see and everyone eats it up cuz yeah new body types #but we cant get just one dark skinned girl :// really #we have venus but shes green so i guess its easier to make her black 😶 #im STILL annoyed

[haunted-xander]

I see a lot of people saying Wriothesley might be blind and while I think it'd be cool if he was, I'd like to remind you all that the literal first thing we see him do is read

#id love to get more representation but if we do get a blind character it probably wont be him #the main reason ppl think hes blind is that his eyes arent looking at the drinks #when hes grabbing his tea instead of whatever sigewinne is trying to get him to drink #which is fair enough #except hes clearly reading the papers. you can see his eyes are moving across the lines #THAT SAID. he could still be visually impaired to an extent #just not blind #wriothesley #genshin impact #xander rambles

[nick-close]

I hope Anthony starts planning LESS going into the rest of s2, tbh. I hope we get less plot, I hope we get more stupid things he put in because they were funny, and I hope the story starts to come after the comedy. I think he was really smart in setting up anchors as a plot point again, because it allows the story to become episodic in new environments- which is where I think the cast thrive. I hope he relaxes into doing dumb nonsense and remembers to trust his improv.

I don’t want s2 to keep trying to live up to the second half of s1- or trying hard to please the people invested in the story. I want it to please a group of friends who want to make each other laugh. Those are my thoughts, anyways.

#convo in discord and then I went crazy thinking about I #it #cuz I think genuinely the amount of plot attempted to be in every episode kinda makes it less impactful #and I care about this show so much and the players so much #and I think they should just have fun #this is why I will always go so hard for last ep #and just in general #I love this show #also there’s so much fanservice with Hermie that honestly I think we need a lil less of #not to say I don’t want him #he’s a fun guy #but I hope he’s not in every episode dude #he’s not a main character he’s a fun side character to be played as such #and I think ppl r blinded by their fixation on him #and don’t realize on a larger scale he just doesn’t need to be there all that much #soz #dndads #dndads s2 #dungeons and daddies

[figs-oliomedley]

The biggest thing keeping me rooting for Skailor in canon is the way she makes Kai crumple like a leaf

he literally burns himself with his own fire when talking to her oh my god

#how do you spell the ship name #he's such a confident flirt with any other girl but around her he just disintegrates #they are very cute and I love them both but there are like no big interactions between them #*since season 4 #and Skylor has like no character development or quirky things #shush I've seen crystalized don't @ me I want more #really hope she forces her way into the main characters the way Pixal did #a blind puppy in hell would do a better job at drawing Kai's hair #I have no idea what I'm doing when it goes to that lol #I'm also bad at drawing fire could you tell #Kai's emotions making his fire hotter should totally be explored more #except how would you do that #oh man this fire feels hotter than the other fires #they should totally change the fire's color like I've seen in all that fanart #really proud of the smear frame I drew #ninjago #kai smith #skylor chen #kai x skylor #canon ship #proud of this one #digital sketch #my stuff #I kinda wanna rewatch Season 4 again #FOR THE SIXTH TIME #lol

[galaxiiaa]

AAA, pure vanilla angst goes brrrr

anyways, my take on how the dark flour war ended! Everyone lived except from pure vanilla and dark enchantress! Don't ask me how PV became healer cookie, I do not know XD

Still on stage 5 on the normal map, but I am HOOKED!

#pure vanilla cookie #dark cocao cookie #hollyberry cookie #hollyberry crk #golden cheese cookie #polyancients #implied a little #closing eyes of a dead person #or rather #cookie #cookie run #crk fanart #krita animation #animation #storyboard #sketch #angst with a sad ending #main character death #he fucking died #blind pure vanilla cookie #dark enchantress cookie #white lily cookie #white lily crk #pure vanilla crk #pure vanilla fanart #dark flour war #soul jam #tw blood #cookie blood

[flashhwing]

thinking about that show, can’t remember it’s name, where the leading woman was blind. I think the writers were seeing iirc im not sure but what I DO distinctly remember is reading an interview with them where they were like “yeah we wanted it to be authentic so we auditioned mostly blind actors for the role. but ultimately we went with a seeing actress because we felt she embodied the role and did a better job of portraying blindness” than the actually blind actors???? You cannot be serious rn

#this has been a post #it might’ve been called like in the dark or something idk #the main character. blind girl. works as a seeing eye dog trainer. witnesses a crime but since she can’t see police don’t take her testimony #uhhhhh somehow gets involved in money laundering

[scattered-winter]

sometimes i see a post and its like. hm. you actually care very little about the story or characters or plot at all bc all you want is for the token male twinks to kiss.

#i KNOW i know. tumblr. twink kissing website. #but still. genuinely. #my criteria for if i trust someone's takes on voltron are their opinions on allura and hunk. and ships other than klance. #and the non-romantic relationships also. that's a big main one actually. #has not led me astray yet. #like to clarify i LIKE klance ok. i am an enjoyer of them. but idk.....the way that theyre the Only thing anyone writes/cares about. #like yeah klance was done dirty but what about the characters of color. what about the disabled characters. #what about the platonic relationships. what about the familial relationships. what about the themes of war and genocide and imperialism. #what about the very real queerbait that happened right in front of us but everyone ignored #and whined about the fake made up queerbait that happened in their heads. #idk. people can engage with media however they want and its not a horrible world ending thing if they only view it thru the twinks kissing #but i dunno. viewing media with the shipping lens can blind you to all the other things. #AND I KNOW THE IRONY OF POINTING THIS OUT FOR *VOLTRON* OF ALL THINGS. I KNOWWW I KNOW I KNOW. #its not a problem that is exclusively this fandom either i see it everywhere. side eyes buddie fandom. #but idk man. im sick of not being able to find fic/art/meta that is focused on things other than the twinks kissing. #i think thats why im putting such a big focus on the other relationships in quintenary stars tbh. like there IS klance #or will be eventually but its just one of the relationships that will be happening. theyre found family theres siblings theres friends #theres the Themes and the Motifs and the storytelling devices. et cetera et cetera. #anyway this isnt really directed at anyone im just thinking out loud #winter speaks #voltron #anti klance #<- not really???? but i dont want ppl yelling at me so.

[clickerflight]

Joseph: Part 4 - Officer Muir

Masterlist

Part 3

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I'm so excited about this. This story has really grown in my mind and I have PLANS! You'll have to bear with me, though. Since it's been so long since I wrote the last piece there are a lot of differences. There are not goblins or werewolves in this world. Anyways! I hope you enjoy!

Content: Vampire whumpee, human caretaker, body horror, temporary blindness, grief, hospital whump (specifically the noise and isolation), overstimulation, panic attacks

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Officer Muir sat in his car, watching the cars pass by and checking their speeds as they went.  It was always amusing to watch people slow down drastically when they spotted him, but he let them go by. He was quite content to sit and think. 

He heard his radio crackle to life and a voice came over the radio. 

"Distressed vampire on highway 60 between exit 820 and 821. A human male is keeping the vampire company currently. Ambulance dispatched. Are there any officers in the area that can evaluate the situation?"

Officer Muir picked up the radio and said, "Officer Muir here. I'm two exits down. I'll be there in a moment."

He put the radio down and turned on the lights and sirens. Vampire in distress really wasn't much to go off of. If there was a human there, it could be trouble. Vampires were usually very hostile when stressed out and could turn on the man easily. 

Officer Muir sped past the cars that pulled aside for him and soon spotted a large mower and a man crouching in the grass over something. Officer Muir pulled up and got out of his car, looking over the situation. The grass hid what the man was looking at, but he got up, phone pressed to his ear as he talked with the emergency operator on the other side. 

"Oh, an officer is here," the older man said. He was obviously human as his wrinkles and dull graying hair proved, which meant the vampire was laying under the coat that Officer Muir could now see through the grass.

"I almost ran 'im over with my mower," the man said. "I spotted ‘im just in time. I let ‘im drink from me. He's in bad shape."

"Gotcha. What's your name?"

"Lloyd Montgomary," he said as Officer approached the coat, noting the twitching movement underneath. 

"Alright, Mr. Montgomary. Thank you," Officer Muir said. He crouched by the vampire and could hear the man's whimpers and whines over the sound of traffic. 

"Yeah. He's a Moderna vampire. Wasn’t burning in the sun."

Officer Muir nodded and lifted the coat to get a better look. 

The vampire was curled in on himself, but Officer Muir could tell he was missing limbs. Not in a torn off way, but in a growing them back sort of way. 

"Hey, man, can you hear me?" Officer Muir asked, and the vampire turned his face to him. 

Officer Muir recoiled from what he saw. The vampire was growing back much messier than most vampires he'd met. His sightless eye sockets stared out emptily and he still needed to regrow the skin on half of his face.

Office Muir collected himself quickly enough, putting a hand on the vampire’s back through the coat. 

“Hey, man. I’m Officer Muir. There’s an ambulance on the way for you, okay?”

“Okay,” the vampire said breathlessly. He flinched and whined, long and drawn out. “It hurts,” he whimpered. 

“I know, man. Hang in there. He’ll get you to the hospital and they’ll give you painkillers while you grow out the rest of the way, okay?”

The vampire nodded. 

“I’m sorry,” Mr. Montgomery said anxiously as the sound of sirens became audible in the distance. “Was I not supposed to feed ‘im, I-”

“It’s fine.” Officer Muir soothed. “He’s going to be okay and what you did was very kind.”

Officer Muir turned back to the vampire and asked, “Hey, what’s your name?”

“J-Joseph.” The vampire looked faintly like he was going to be sick for a moment before he asked, “What year is it?”

Warning bells went off in Officer Muir’s head. “Were you held captive?”

“They, they put me in a box,” Joseph managed. A dry sob wracked through his body, making him spasm in pain.

“Hey, hey, it’s going to be okay,” Officer Muir said. “I’m here. They can’t do anything to you. They’ll have to go through me.”

Joseph nodded, his not-quite-formed hand reaching out blindly and Officer Muir held it. “What year is it?”

“2019.”

Joseph sucked in a shuddering breath. 

“How long did they have you?” Officer Muir asked, leaning closer as the sirens got louder. 

Joseph just wailed, gripping Officer Muir’s hand tighter, struggling to get closer. Officer Muir gently pulled him closed, settling on the ground so the vampire could hide his face in Officer Muir’s pant leg. 

The paramedics were there soon enough, and they coaxed Joseph onto a stretcher. Other officers came and started taking Mr. Montgomery’s statement. Officer Muir was grateful for that because, despite the vampire only having about three and a half fingers in total, he had a deathgrip on the Officer’s hand. 

“Sweetheart,” one of the paramedics said gently. “How about you let his hand go?”

“Please,” he whispered, sightless eyes turned to Officer Muir. “Please. Don’t leave.”

Officer Muir sighed. He turned his head and spotted Officer Granger, a vampire woman who often acted as his partner when he wasn’t on duty at the roads. 

“Oi! Granger?”

She turned and he tossed her his keys. “Can you get someone to take my car to the hospital? I’m going in the ambulance. And could you let the chief know?”

She rolled her eyes. “She’s gonna tear you a new one when you get back.”

“No she won’t. She loves me!”

Granger sighed and shrugged. With that, he turned back to the vampire and climbed into the ambulance. 

Joseph was breathing heavily, rolling his head around nervously as the paramedics got things ready for him. 

“Alright, this should help a little with the pain,” the gentle paramedic said, gently poking a needle into Joseph’s half formed arm and plugging a drip to it that would feed in pain killers. 

Over the course of the ride, Joseph started to relax, though he never let go of Officer Muir’s hand. After a long silence where the paramedics conferred and joked together, Joseph turned his head to Officer Muir. 

“Three years.”

“What?”

“I was in a silver box for three years.”

The paramedic’s fell silent and Officer Muir found himself running his thumb back and forth across Joseph’s knuckles. “Want to tell it… from the beginning?”

Joseph took a steadying breath and nodded. 

“David and I… er, David’s my sire, we were going to the store? Or maybe going out to get drinks? I don’t remember,” Joseph said sorrowfully. “A weird van pulled up and, and…. some guys grabbed us. Dressed in robes and stuff. They had silver weapons and there were a lot of them. I never was good at fighting.”

Joseph swallowed nervously. “They took us somewhere remote. They…. I think they were cultists. They tied us up and they poured silver on David’s face. Why would they do that? We weren’t even-” his voice broke off as he heaved another dry sob. He took a moment, the skin growing across his face as he fought for control. “They killed him.”

Officer Muir squeezed his hand, and Joseph squeezed back. 

After a long moment of silence, Officer Muir asked, “Do you want to talk about what they did to you?”

Joseph’s breath quickened. “They cut my heart out.”

Officer Muir winced. 

“Put me in a silver box and buried me, I think. Someone found the box. And someone put blood in me and cut a part of my heart off. Then I…… I don’t know how I got on the side of the road.”

Officer Muir frowned. “It sounds like they were testing for your age. There’s been a rise of crime rings selling the hearts of ancient vampires around for their knowledge. How old are you?”

“I was born 1984.”

“Kay. So they saw you were a modern vampire and probably tossed you out. You got lucky.”

Joseph shuddered. “Doesn’t feel like I did.”

“I know, man. But you did. You survived. You’re going to get healed up and get some help and you’ll be on your way. Did you have a coven?”

Joseph shook his head. “I’m Hemijeoa Moderna.”

Officer muir tightened his grip on Joseph’s hand. “David was your… bondmate then?”

Joseph was silent for a long time. Officer Muir could see him working his jaw, trying to say something, but all he could do was nod, skin creeping closed over his eye sockets.

“Please don’t leave me,” he whispered. 

“Okay. Okay, I won’t,” Officer Muir replied. “I’m Officer Muir… but you can call me Joshua.”

“Joshua,” Joseph whispered. “Joshua.”

Officer Muir hummed softly and Joseph relaxed a bit more. 

“Where are you from, Joseph?”

“Mmm? Oh, It’s a small place. Forreston. Where are we going?”

“We’re going to Keaton. Have you been there?”

Joseph frowned. “No. I lived in Forreston my whole life.”

“It’s nice. It’s a small city, so it shouldn’t be too much of a problem.”

“And you’ll be here?”

Officer Muir ran his thumb over Joseph’s knuckles again. “I will probably have to leave at some point. I am technically on duty, but-” he said quickly as Joseph went pale and his breathing picked up again- “but, I’ll give you my number and I’ll come visit you when I get off, okay?”

Joseph took slow breaths again, calming himself down. Officer Muir couldn’t imagine what he was going through. Losing your pairbond like that and then being trapped in a burning box for three years? Officer Muir couldn’t begrudge the fact that the vampire was being clingy. It was actually kind of nice. He still didn’t have many friends in the city, after all. 

It was too early to be thinking along those lines, though. Soon enough, the ambulance pulled up at the hospital and Joseph was taken to a room where he could grow out the rest of the way, another drip of blood being hung up alongside the pain killers. 

After making sure Joseph was settled and comfortable, Officer Muir said, “I have to go, okay. I’ll be back this evening.”

He slid his hand from the vampire’s and pulled out his notepad, writing down his phone number and pressing it into Joseph’s hand. “You can call me if you need to, but I should be back soon,” he said. 

Joseph nodded as he clung to the note, eyelids fluttering, though his eye sockets were still empty as the ocular muscles were only just beginning to develop. “Okay. Okay. Thank you.”

“Course,” and with that, Officer Muir left. 

………………………………

Joseph sat and regenerated. Without the pain, there was just a tingling where his limbs were growing. The only thing he really didn’t appreciate was the noise. It was so loud here. The machines never stopped beeping, voices passed down the hall constantly, he could smell blood and fear and could hear screams on the other side of the hospital. Every so often a code would be called and he would jump out of his skin, his ears and heart throbbing with fear. 

He pressed the blanket to his face, trying to distract himself with the feeling while avoiding the small bumps that were starting to form under his eyelids, biting his lip as his hair grew in and just kept growing until it reached the length it was when he was turned, ticking his ears and cheeks. He pressed his face into the blanket harder, shoulders up around his ears as someone laughed loudly down the hall and the beeping just kept going. 

There was something crawling under his skin, something constricting around his chest making it harder to breathe and he still didn’t have feet to escape with. 

Desperately, he dropped the blanket and put his hands over his eyes, muffling the sound, but they wouldn’t go away and now he could also hear the rush of blood in his palms. 

He was crying, and now he could actually form tears, the droplets hot on his face as he tried desperately to breathe. He tried to keep the sounds down in his throat, his breathing almost unbearable to him, nevermind the stupid whimpers he couldn’t keep himself from making. 

A warm hand touched his and he flinched back, opening his eyes. He could faintly see lights and blurs of darkness. 

“Hey, what’s wrong?” a male voice asked. It wasn’t Muir. Stars, Joseph wished it was Muir. He’d felt safe when Muir was there.

“”S loud,” he whispered, unable to fight back the hot tears that were still traveling down his face. 

“Okay, give me a moment,” the man said and the blur moved. 

Joseph watched him go and covered his eyes, watching the blurriness around him for movement. 

The man came back. Joseph smelled him coming and only flinched slightly when he felt another touch on his hand. 

“I brought you some noise canceling headphones,” he said softly. “It’s pretty normal to get overwhelmed, especially if it’s your first time. Do you want any music?”

Joseph almost said no, but then he realized he really didn’t want to listen to his blood and heartbeat again. He needed something. He nodded.

“Kay. Is there a specific album you’d like? Something longer, if you can think of it, so you have time to get your sight back before you need to change it.”

Joseph shook his head. “Anything works- wait. No. Minecraft music.”

“Okay.”

The man put the headphones gently over Joseph’s ears and, after a very uncomfortable moment of listening to himself, familiar sounds of Minecraft music began to play, reminding Joseph of the mindless hours he and David played the game together. 

He closed his eyes, willing himself to relax as he sensed the man leave again. 

Joseph kept crying, but it wasn’t because of the pain or the overstimulation. All he could think about was David’s triumphant grin when they killed the ender dragon on their fifth attempt. 

………………………………..

Muir stepped out of the Chief’s office, his ears still ringing a little bit from the bit of shouting she had indulged in. 

Granger was waiting for him outside, eyebrow lifted and a little smile on her face. “Favorite, ey?”

“I am,” he replied snidely as he took his keys back from her. “And she was yelling at me for something else entirely anyways. She was only a little mad about me going to the hospital.”

“I see. Was he alright?”

“I think he’ll be okay. I’m not sure. I’m going to check up on him tonight, actually, after I finish some paperwork.”

“Okay,” she said. “You said he was a Hemijeoa, right?”

“Right.”

“Where’s his bondmate?”

“Died in the same incident that got him where he is,” Muir replied, making his way to his desk. 

She raised her eyebrow. “You’d better be careful, then. He’s in a fragile state. He might try to pairbond with you.”

“And what would be so wrong with that?”

“Well, you’d have to stick around him a lot more. Plus, you’re human. You wouldn’t feel the bond enough to actually keep up with it and keep him healthy.”

“I thought humans pairbonded with vampires all the time?”

She huffed. “I guess. Still I don’t think it’s healthy.”

Muir rolled his eyes. “I don’t think you get to have opinions. You’re a Ferox yourself, aren’t you? You don’t need any bonds.”

She shrugged. “Just be careful. You don’t want to have to deal with a clingy vampire for the rest of your life.” Without letting him respond, she took off to her own desk. 

Muir rolled his eyes and got back to work. 

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Part 5

#vampire whumpee #human caretaker #body horror #temporary blindness #grief #hospital whump #auditory overstimulation #panic attack #I love my boy #also #and officer muir is great #he's a main character now!