YEAHHHHHHH I Bought A WarGreymon Gaiter And It Arrived Today.

YEAHHHHHHH I bought a WarGreymon gaiter and it arrived today.

Yes I will be wearing it to work tomorrow.

No I do not give a damn.

OOOOOOOOOOOO

narnia has actually way too many completely devastating concepts in it that are not explored At All

*internal screaming*

I firmly believe that magically healing can and should be whumpy – Hollywood’s just a bit confused, that’s all. They’ll come around eventually.

There are two main ways to have your whump AND your magical healing: limiting the scope of your healer’s powers, and/or making the healing process itself whumpy. (As a bonus, you can also whump your healer!)

So! Here are a whole host of ways to approach magic healing that don’t take the fun out of the whump. Most are original or relatively generic. A handful of examples were cribbed from existing media, noted as relevant. Feel free to add your own ideas!

Limit the scope and/or availability of healing magic:

magical healing can only be used for magical injuries. (Got stabbed by a boring old knife? Sucks for you, magic can’t help you here.)

magical healing can’t be used for magical injuries.

healing magic, like any “normal” surgery, requires great skill.

certain characters are immune to magic – including healing magic.

healing magic can only be used on other magic-users

healing magic can only be used on non magic-users

healing magic requires other elements

only ceremonial magic can heal, and it requires time and preparation. (Gods forbid your poor whumpee bleed out on the table while your mage is scrambling to prepare…)

healing magic is witchcraft and requires certain ingredients

either healing potions must be prepared in advance and are therefore in limited supply, or take time and supplies to make and your whumpee, once again, must wait.

healing magic requires multiple people to be present

magic can only be used to aid natural healing – shorten recovery time, dampen pain, etc.

magic healing is temporary – after a given amount of time, the injury comes rushing back. (Ars Magica)

healing requires knowledge of the whumpee’s true name

Make the healing hurt

pain/injuries can only be transferred, not actually healed.

the healer must take on the hurt.a willing party must take on the hurt. (Is the strongest person in the party willing to take the injuries of the weakest?any living party can take on the hurt, whether or not they’re willing. Hard choices for your heroes.in addition to any of these, consider “splitting” the hurt. (One critically injured person can have some injuries off-loaded to someone else. I really like this one – you get a lot of angst from the initial injury, deflect a major character death, and end up with TWO injured parties for the price of one, with even more angst.)

pain concentration – all of the pain the whumpee would experience over the course of natural healing gets crammed into the time it takes to heal them. (Sounds traumatic for all parties involved, if you ask me.) (Smoke series.)

healer black-outs

make ‘em happen every time! your healer knows that if they heal someone, they’ll fall unconscious for an unknown amount of time. This limits healing to only critical situations and also keeps whump and angst (caring for the caretaker) in the equation.

healing requires blood magic. the more healing, the more blood.

healing requires the healer physically touching the part to be healed. massive internal injuries? you’re gonna have to cut that poor whumpee open.

if you’re going the “healing magic requires as much skill as surgery” route, consider the painful implications of healing magic attempted by an amateur.

make healing magic addictive, either for the whumpee (perhaps it heals everything, giving them a high? see Stargate SG-1 ep 2.05 ) or for the healer (perhaps they find the amount of power flowing through them during healing addictive).

make the healer your whumpee

healer and friend are captured. friend is brutally tortured, healer is forced by the whumper to bring them back from the brink of death again and again, just to be tortured again.

healer and friend are captured. friend is brought near the brink of death, and healer is only allowed to go to them if they give up critical information.

oh, healing magic requires the use of your hands? so your healer would be upset if, for instance, the whumper were to relieve them of their hands?

the team relies on the healer to keep them on their feet – too much, perhaps. The villain incapacitates the healer because of their skills.

healer is forced to transfer wounds from the villain to an innocent party/teammate/themselves.

It IS wholesome.

I just want to appreciate Takeru and Patamon's relationship for awhile because as far as I know, Seraphimon is the "closest being to God" and the thought was both hilarious and cute now that you consider the amount of possibilites of those two bonding

Like, this little hat-wearing child with abandonment issues, has digimon Jesus (who's also head over heels for him) as his best friend and I think that's very wholesome

OH MY GOD HOW COOL IS THIS AHHHHHHHHHH

A quick peek at the nearly finished mask piece for Agunimon! Just need to seal the paint job and attach the jaw with elastic. It’ll be ready to go on the hood at that point, along with the hair when I make that piece

*internal screaming*

“Kouichi!”