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A stolen breath in the dark.

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Notes on Torturing The Character In The Science Facility

my takes on this trope rarely if ever have anything to do with the character being "special" or being studied for powers they innately have, if they are special its something that was done to them

it's about the medical trauma

it's about the violation and lack of bodily autonomy

the "living weapon" trope, but the key characteristic is catastrophic functionality

i love, love, love the concept of "catastrophic functionality" in a person: character that can tank ludicrous amounts of damage and just Keep Going in virtually all circumstances barring outright dismemberment. They can keep going, so do they "deserve" rest and/or pain relief?

after a lifetime of having their distress treated as whiny and unreasonable, they have what would be a dangerously high tolerance to pain and exhaustion.

another key function of the Science Facility is to fix the damage Character takes, maybe using enhanced healing technologies or 3D printed organs or something. this leads to Character's body being treated as relatively disposable cause "we can just fix them"

extreme version of this: Character can't die even if they wanted to

people who work with Character are informed that they're dangerous and arbitrarily violent, and their fear of Character makes it easier to justify restricting autonomy

It is TRUE, cause Character does not have tools to set boundaries or protect their body other than violence. vicious cycle of being perceived as dangerous and therefore denied autonomy, and being forced to use violence to defend autonomy

the restraints used to hold Character look like major overkill, which underscores how dangerous they are. LOVE this trope

character being desexualized to the point that their non-consent to touch, to being stripped down and examined, or to procedures is trivialized. There is no non-clinical context for their body, and the "clinical" framework eclipses any possibility for bodily violation to be understood as violent.

types of uncanniness: Character looks human but has some subtle inhuman traits or characteristics. (I'm obsessed with reflective eye shine, personally.) OR Character looks like they've been taken apart and put back together, like flesh pulled over a much more unforgiving and indestructible metal scaffold. OR Character gives off "undead" vibes; they're just not quite alive in a way that sets off air raid sirens in people's brains

Often, Character is dead and Came Back Wrong (varying levels of literalness)

anyways yeah. i never stopped writing this trope and probably never will. it's a good one

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Jake, after spending more and more time in his Na'vi body, starts acting on Na'vi instincts in his human form, out of muscle memory and instinct. he starts trying to "scent" Q when they're having sex. he's rubbing himself all over that man. he wants that old man musk all over him and he wants Q to smell like him. and Q finds it damn near adorable.

he's also mouthy. more than just an oral fixation. he's making sounds and moving to bite in ways he never did before. same with those damn nails. Q was very used to marking Jake up, but each time they rendezvous in the bunks, it's Q who is leaving more and more battered. and with how vocal Jake's getting, with hisses and yowls and other wild sounds not meant for the human throat to be making, Q's gotta just let him clamp down on his bicep to keep him quiet (one of these times he'll remember to muzzle him before hand).

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I know Quaritch called Jake kitten at least once

he wouldn't be able to help it. it would slip right out of him. and it'd have Jake turning purple.

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quarjake au

feeding baby spider

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raspberries

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quarjake au

spider gets grounded in 4k

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quarjake patre0n reward for this month

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playing hide and seek with the baby

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quarjake au

very light sleeper

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quarjake au

big kitty naps for the big kitty

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quarjake au

wasting some water

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quarjake au

baby naps for all three of them

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quarjake au

hair brushing and grooming

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quarjake au

googling how to keep a baby alive

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your two favorite people

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quarjake crop from my patre0n