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thinking about a character who knows they're getting sick. it's night-time and they're making something hot for themselves for dinner. their throat hurts and their sinuses feel tender, like that feeling before your nose fully stuffs up, but at least they have something warm to eat. idk how to explain it but it's such a cosy feeling/vibe

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Route 0, Day 49 (Night)

How I imagine the undying flames boy may have reacted (fretful felt right)

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Unearthed Scrolls (RainCode God AU Side Stories) Tale 6: Waning Crescent

Please click here to read!

Tags are for each individual story! Please check the authors notes as well

Chapters: Story 6 Rating: Teen and Up Relationships: Yuma Kokohead & Makoto Kagutsuchi Characters: Makoto Kagutsuchi, Yuma Kokohead

Summary: Makoto had everything planned. He knew exactly how he was going to meet his satellite and knew exactly how he was going to hint to Yuma that he should contact Shinigami, Goddess of Death… of course that plan went up in smoke much like the submarine after Yomi got impatient and blew it up, so now, naturally, Makoto had to go save his brother. 

But how does a God take care of a sick fellow God when he has no idea what he's doing, especially when the second God shouldn't be able to get sick in the first place! God Makoto was in for a long couple of days.

Here we are! Sickfic time once again! Even when they're immortal Gods I will still find a way to make Yuma suffer with an aliment!  Hope you like this too Pixel! 

And thank you @draconicsparkle for beta reading!

SPOILERS FOR THE WHOLE OF RAINCODE!

Not tagging people I tagged in the main story as all these stories are wildly different, however if you do want to be notified for when the next story drops please let me know!

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If any Yuma fans ever enjoy my work, it makes me happy c: Even if I make their favorite little guy miserable half the time… 🤭 I can’t help it, he’s a pathetic little creature. The perfect victim

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Does Labkoto fall ill often due to his body being mutated?

Yes, Labkoto has an extremely fragile immune system — worse than classic Yuma and classic Makoto. He gets sick easily and becomes emotionally regressed, acting like a clingy child around Shuichi. Symptoms include fever, headache, runny nose, sweating, noise/touch sensitivity, and trouble breathing. He dislikes being cared for by Shuichi's boss (a cold, distant Yuma variant) and gets jealous if Shuichi gives him more attention. Ironically, that Yuma also gets sick from overwork, so Shuichi ends up caring for both. 🎭🧪

Shuichi keeps the place clean, offers simple food and natural remedies (Labkoto doesn’t trust medicine), and tries to keep the cold out during winter. Stress or using his weak Coalescence can worsen his condition. If Shuichi gets sick, Labkoto tries to help—even if he messes up, like making terrible soup (he and his original can’t cook). Shuichi wasn’t meant to be the focus, but since he's my favorite, and you're used to seeing him suffer... you could replace him with an OC or new Rain Code character. Still, I think Mentor Yuma deserves exploration—it’s an interesting concept.

Boss Yuma is so badness. ☔

I should draw him more. You can still imagine cute scenes between two short kings who clearly hate/dislike each other here. And also, Number One's coldness and irritation is just a mask.

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Cozy sick things

● When you curl up under your partner's arm and use their head as a pillow and let the rhythm of their breathing soothe you to sleep

● Wearing a thick, slightly too large sweater so you can keep snug and sneeze into the extra cuff length

● Having a soft blanket wrapped around your shoulders

● Kisses to a miserable pink nose

● Being bundled up in bed with a book in your lap and a steaming mug of tea beside you

● The aroma of your favorite tea tickling your nostrils and the steam helping you breathe

● A much needed tissue/hanky to caress your running, itchy nose

● A lover's hand rubbing soothing circles on your back during a bad coughing spell

● A "bless you, honey/baby/sweetie" and tissue/hanky offering after a sneeze (or three)

● A lover's homemade specialty soup that they insisted on making you to "fix you right up"

● Being spooned by your lover, enveloped in their warmth as you suffer the chills

● Being met with sympathy if you accidentally sneeze on your lover from your itchy cold

● Hearing your lover's adorably stuffy voice (especially if they flirt with you or baby talk a pet of yours "comeb to papa/mbamba")

● A lover gingerly touching their forehead to yours to check for a fever or their hand carefully feeling your forehead

● Soft lips kissing a feverish forehead/cheek

● Your lover sitting by your side as you struggle from a fever and bathing your forehead diligently with a cool cloth

● Drifting off to sleep when you feel awful to a comfort video/movie/show

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Are you going to make a Hundred Line x Pokémon AU like you did with Rain Code

Hmm I’m not sure given the circumstances.

Glad you enjoyed my Raincode AU (I abandoned it so fast tho so idk if I can commit to another one ^^;

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i just really really love physical sickness as a result of mental sickness.

something so beautiful about characters having panic attacks and immediately throwing up afterwards. or when depression manifests along with a cold.

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Reasons why getting sick in the middle of the night is the superior trope

Like, seriously, I love it sm. It's gotta be one of my favorite scenarios

They're getting sick at a time in which they're normally sleeping, so they're gonna be even more tired and weak than normal

They might not want to get up just yet, especially if the weather is cold. Just peeking from under the blankets has them shivering, so they try to postpone it as long as possible

Which may lead to them throwing up all over the bed, and they can't go back to sleep till they clean it (it would be a shame of cleaning makes them feel worse 👀)

They might feel too nauseous, or they stomach might hurt too much for them to go back to sleep. And if they have to work the next day or just do something they can't avoid they're just gonna be staring miserably at the clock knowing they're gonna get little to no sleep

Or maybe they do manage to fall asleep, only to wake up again mid heave

If there's something they need to buy like medicine or food they're gonna have a harder time finding it since most stores are closed

Maybe there's someone sleeping next to them, and they really don't want to wake them up. So they're just trying to stay as still and quiet as possible despite the fact that they feel absolutely horrible

Also, not wanting to wake someone up might push them to not call for help even if they really need it

Characters writhing I'm bed cause their stomach hurts, causing them to get tangled between the bedsheets, so they're not able to get up on time to throw up

Drooling over their pillow. They hate the feeling of saliva sticking to their cheek, but they feel too sick to try to swallow it

Leaning over the edge of the bed to throw up 🤤

Pain usually gets worse at night

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You all know I *love* big time sickfic with raging fevers and super worried caretakers and they're snowed in and it's Very Dramatic... but more gentle sickfic is iconic in its own way.

Because honestly t's great when a whumpee is sick enough to want to stay in bed but not *super* sick, just tired and achy and a little dazed, and they just look so pitifully confused and sad that the caretaker can't help but dote on them.

And maybe later their fever spikes making them considerably more miserable, they can't do much more than lie there breathing hard with their eyes half open. But Caretaker for once isn't too concerned, knowing their temperature isn't actually that dangerous and as long as they're kept hydrated they'll be fine. So they sit with Whumpee talking steadily and gently to them while holding a cold compress to their forehead in the hopes that it'll make them feel a little better.

But eventually their fever goes down and they finally roll over and go back to sleep, Caretaker staying by their side with one hand softly stroking their hair. And Whumpee sleeps through most of the rest of the day, only waking up halfway to drink when Caretaker gets them to. They don't need excessive treatment, just a lot of rest.

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Sickness Dialogue Prompts

“You’re burning up.”

“I know you hate being sick, but you need to let me care for you.”

“Nothing some love and care and a good soup can’t fix.”

“You can call me a mom all you want, but I’ll will get you better soon.”

“Just get some sleep and it will all be alright.”

“I will still be here when you wake up.”

“You don’t like hospitals, I get it, but I think we can’t wait any longer.”

“This medicine tastes awful, but it will help, I promise.”

“Your temperature is not going down.”

“We need to get you into the shower. You will feel much better afterwards.”

“You don’t have to act so tough. It’s ok to let other people care for you sometimes.”

“I’m sorry I’m missing the nurse outfit.”

“Let me take care of you. Please.”

“Being sick, you’re almost more annoying than normally.”

“Come on, I’ll take a much-needed nap with you. Then we’ll both feel better.”

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that thing in fics where someone has a fever and their caretaker feels their forehead or cups their cheek and they just,, lean in and maybe make a lil noise,, yeahhh,,,,

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In honor of my not feeling good:

Some Signs of having a Fever (and you might not know it)

Feeling cold even when the temperature is warm or you are buried in blankets

Chills that come and go

Headache (very common, particularly behind the eyes)

Mild to moderate nausea

Feeling like your body is really hot and your extremities are cold

Racing or thudding heart

Changes in breathing, faster and shallower usually but sometimes the opposite

Cold sweating

Fatigue

Wandering or incoherent thoughts or severe brain fog

Achy joints

Weakness

Feeling sick when you drink something cold or if room temp water feels cold

Noticing your eyes water a lot

A hot, sticky feeling in the back of the throat

Getting dizzy all of a sudden or experiencing vertigo when moving

Your eyes physically hurt

extra crackly joints.

Restlessness

Just. Odd behavior in general. Maybe you got the sudden urge to call someone you haven’t talked to in years. Maybe you just feel like laying on the floor for no apparent reason. Maybe you get the idea that the wall might taste good. Goes along with wandering and incoherent thoughts.

Sudden anxiety that compels you to find other people. Anyone’s company is better than none and you can’t explain why. The idea of being by yourself is suddenly unpleasant. I refer to this as the Puppy Response.

Alternatively a compulsion to hide and bunker down away from everyone else. I call this the Cat Response.

What I call Panic or Manic Circling where you’re a specific kind of restless that’s compelling you to find somewhere to be but you don’t know where “it” wants you to go or why, so you just kinda go in circles hoping the answer jumps out at you.

Bizarre emotional states. Maybe you’re extra moody, or you’re ugly crying for no obvious reason. Maybe you’re unusually elated or happy, (that one’s always sus to me) or get upset over absolutely nothing. Maybe a depression spiral hits you out of nowhere and won’t quit.

Perhaps it’s because I have OCD too(brand spanking new diagnosis), but I find that compulsive comfort behaviors are suddenly much more frustrating or nitpicky when I have a fever or don’t feel good in general.

Now all of these can happen independently of a fever and for lots of other reasons, but I have found that if more than like three are happening all at the same time, I should check my temperature.

I have an unusual quirk (though it’s not really odd for ADHD or autistics, much less AuDHD) in that my body is absolutely terrible at telling me something is wrong and tends to find the weirdest ways of expressing that.

I have, for the record, checked my temperature when I had like 9 of these all coinciding and I actually really felt like I had a fever, and have a temp of a whole whopping 99.5. (Like now) I have also checked my temperature when I only had 3, all the emotional ones, and my temperature was 104.2. For some reason the higher my fever gets the less able to feel it I become, so I’ve learned to do a self check of these symptoms often.

I feel like these may be useful for anyone writing a sick character and wondering how they could possibly not know they’re feverish, especially very feverish. Plus it’s interesting to see if other people experience these odd things.

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Fevers

Whumpees with aching eyes, too tired to keep open yet too sore to close, even the lightest pressure of their eyelids too much

Whumpee who's too weak and dizzy to do anything at all but lie in bed completely still, sweating through their blankets only to immediately start shivering after clumsily throwing them off

Whumpees with dry mouths, dry lips

The corners of their room are more shadowy than they should be, and they're too exhausted to bother to get up and see what's in there. The Hat Man will have to just wait his turn.

Strong enough to get out of bed but being so, so out of it. Caretaker finding them standing swaying in a doorway, pale as death, clearly seeing something that isn't there

Everything seems to be flickering. The air buzzes. Their skin prickles.

Getting to sleep is hard, because their mind is restless and racing. Once they're asleep though, they're down for the count

Chattering teeth. Their bones must be rattling, for how much they ache

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The only thing better than reading about a frail, sobbing pathetic whumpee is writing about a frail, sobbing pathetic whumpee.

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Wow. Did I really get booted from the top Raincode blogs? All because I’ve posted about Hundred Line a few times?

That honestly makes me feel sad. I really thought I was a solidified part of the community… 💔

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Hell yeah 👌

I love a good "You're burning up", but you know what else Is underrated?

"A raging fever":

"*character* has a raging fever"

"*character* is battling a raging fever"

"Their raging fever refused to break"

"They've come down with a raging fever"

It just, it's so GOOD