#doesn't mean arden or dr gary aren't taking them seriously

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Loved the new chapter! the bit where dr Gary turned into dr Henton for a second literally gave me chills (it looks like it’s been changed now but it was a pretty awesome reading experience when I read it!). I was wondering if Ef might ever get nonverbal around Arden, and how they might deal with that? Esp if Ef is tied and can’t hand signal at the time. love your work!

(Yeah no that was just a name substitution, I do them more since head/neck radiotherapy and I missed that one).

I was wondering if Ef might ever get nonverbal around Arden, and how they might deal with that? Esp if Ef is tied and can’t hand signal at the time. love your work! 

If Efnisien was ever in a situation where he literally couldn’t safeword because of being nonverbal and tied at the same time, Arden would end the scene, revise the contract, and probably put them on a BDSM break for a while.

Arden is just not the kind of person to ignore really serious things like that. If it happened in a scene, Efnisien would hate the outcome, and tbh so would most of the readers. It’d be game over on all scenes until Arden was fairly certain Efnisien can communicate with him again. And honestly, that’d put things in a really shaky position for Arden. He already fears that he’s pushing Efnisien too hard, so if Efnisien has like, catastrophic noncommunicative reactions in a scene it means Arden’s fucked up (in his mind). Part of his being a professional is recognising when he shouldn’t be doing BDSM with someone, he would absolutely lock that down.

If it happened in general, it really depends. Efnisien could still communicate with Dr Gary during the session, and if he was not that deep in it, he could communicate with Arden too and it wouldn’t be a problem. However, if Efnisien was as deep in it as he sometimes got in Hillview, where he also wouldn’t nod or shake his head, Arden would call Dr Gary.

He is just not going to fuck around with Efnisien’s mental health, tbh.

#asks and answers #falling falling stars #fae tales #fae tales AU #arden mercury #efnisien ap wledig #arden is the kind of person to recognise #when a professional needs to be contacted #if he couldn't get through to dr gary #he'd probably take efnisien to the hospital #like arden spooks re: efnisien's mental health in scenes *very* quickly #and he's not wrong to do that #just because efnisien is cavalier about his responses #doesn't mean arden or dr gary aren't taking them seriously #they are sometimes life or death situations #even if efnisien likes to pretend they're not #he's never that far away from thinking that he doesn't want to be alive anymore #and he wasn't supposed to be anyway #Anonymous