#he'd probably take efnisien to the hospital

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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

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I’m really curious about how Efs poetry/choir friends would react if they knew he’s in hospital or almost jumped, particular Nate /janusz- if it’s not too spoilory could you let us know your thoughts? I want to imagine Nate being soft about it but I wonder if he’d actually find it triggery. I know he’s just a side character but honestly he has such a hold on me, my thoughts always go back to him and janus. and the last line of the chap was so beautiful, Ef finally gets a bit of care/peace

Ooo, well it's maybe a little spoilery, but also not specifically spoilery because I haven't really thought about how these characters are going to come back into the story yet. Let's talk about it!

Firstly, I think of Han Yuen and Leo found out, they'd be very worried. Leo would absolutely want to visit Efnisien in the hospital. Leo takes everyone under his wing, and I think he's very soft towards Efnisien. I don't know if they will find out while Efnisien is in hospital. They may not find out at all.

As for Nate and Janusz, /thinks/ Janusz will be upset, but I don't think he'll take it personally. Like, I don't think he'll take it further than 'oh no that's a shame' vs. actually doing something about it. He might ask Efnisien how he's feeling or if he's okay. He'd be an appropriate amount of 'infrequent friend' concerned, I think?

Nate's response is complicated. I think Nate would be concerned, but on another level, he'd worry that it was a fake attempt to make Arden panic, or to manipulate Arden. Nate has been through a really complex relationship outside of the story, where he was abused by someone with PTSD, and as a result a lot of the legitimate symptoms of PTSD, he experienced in a weaponised and cruel fashion, and now they're all triggers and he just worries about Arden?

But Nate also knows that he has this trauma, so he's got enough dissonance / nuance capacity to both be concerned and worried that it's manipulation but ALSO be concerned and worried about Efnisien in general. I don't really think he'd know how to deal with it.

Janusz will probably give him a really big hug about it.

(I think a lot about writing a side story re: Nate and Janusz tbh, because I find them both really compelling characters in a really interesting relationship. But Nate has no reason to explain that part of his life to Efnisien, so we never get to see it! *cries into hands*)

#asks and answers #falling falling stars #fae tales #fae tales au #nate and janusz #han yuen and leo #efnisien ap wledig #i don't know what efnisien will share with people yet #i have to wait until he recovers a bit more because he's not #telling me and he's not thinking that far ahead #administrator Gwyn wants this in the queue