Hum, Eldritch Wild and Sky :D :D
[ HUM ]: as they embrace, the sender begins to gently hum under their breath to soothe and relax the receiver.
Sky leans against Wild’s shoulder, eyes closed. The dizzying sickness the champion inspires is indistinguishable from the rest of the pain.
“How much longer?” he rasps.
“Soon,” Wild promises, just as he has for hours. “Soon.”
Sky shifts and moans slightly as pain flares.
“Hold on,” Wild says, and wraps an arm around him. Gently, he pulls Sky to his chest to relax against. Then he starts humming, the sound reverberating through his chest.
Sky closes his eyes and does his best to hold on.
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Literally had to call the cops on our neighbors bc they've been firing commercial grade fireworks since 8 o clock in our residential neighborhood with a lot of greenery (it also hasn't been raining a lot) to the point that the sulfur covered our entire street and the street above and behind us. We could hear our neighbors up the street yelling at them to shut up. This whole thing was fucking ridiculous and unnecessary don't fucking set off commercial grade fireworks in a residential area
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EDIT: if this post has made you think about whether or not you are autistic, im really glad! i hope you get some better understanding of yourself and are able to find community and support
however before you go and tell a therapist and seek an official diagnosis please read this thread and consider the points made therein:
autism is highly stigmatized. be fully informed about what you gain and what you lose from having an official diagnosis before seeking one.
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people do correctly identify that laios is autistic fairly often but a lot of the reasoning begins and ends with his special interest and social difficulties, but honestly it goes far deeper into the build of his character than just those two things
his pain tolerance is wildly inconsistent, unable to tolerate a drop of hot oil (or any heat) but able to shrug off both his leg being bitten off and it being reattached
hes sensory seeking in the extreme. he rubs the bat bones against his face, pets and fluffs the shapeshifter tail.
his desire to eat monsters comes from three very autistic places. 1) the rules for why monsters are not okay to eat but animals are are arbitrary to him so he cannot follow them easily: he cannot understand the 'feelings' argument others make. 2) this too is a sensory seeking behavior. he wants to experience these new things, new flavors and new textures. 3) it completes his knowledge of the monster in question to also have data on its edibility. because he cannot draw that arbitrary line around all monsters, he wants to evaluate them case-by-case and see if real patterns emerge. butchering and eating the monsters improves his knowledge of them greatly and highlights their importance in their ecosystem, as well as making him a part of that same ecosystem
he cannot emote the way others expect him to. he compartmentalizes his feelings (to an unhealthy degree) because he needs a pragmatic solution. so as long as there is a problem to solve, that matters far more than evaluating his emotions and allowing himself to experience them. while this is also a coping mechanism for ptsd, it is a trait found in many autistic people regardless of trauma, as we have trouble sorting the feelings we have and often need time to think about what we feel, so it becomes easier to simply not do it and pretend we dont need to. laios emotions certainly affect him, with or without his processing them, but others do not see what they expect to see and thus dismiss that he is feeling what they would feel
he is incredibly gifted with pattern recognition, observation, and analysis within realms he understands. to understand subjects that dont come easily to him, he must filter them through his established schema (his special interest--this is why they are so special! they help us sort the world). when he isnt sure about the social cues and details hes observed in the shapeshifter arc, he filters it through the lens he understands best: monsters. he was making correct observations about his friends all along, but he could not be confident in that the way he was about their behavior when it came to his interest (chilchucks caution, senshis passions, and marcilles carelessness)
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