#like I’m not even going to write anything but I got attached to Doc Jimenez

[rhetoricalrogue]

I probably should have paid more attention to the militia hierarchy in the last half of Days Gone so I can properly daydream potential story scenarios instead of getting sad that they took what normally looks like a Bob Ross painting and burned 90% of the landscape, like yes, I know this is part of the theme of the story but there are no happy little trees anywhere. Just sad little burnt stumps that did very little to keep the infected hordes away.

The Crater Lake area made me miss Lost Lake and the Cascade maps so much.

#dr. elena martinez #like I’m not even going to write anything but I got attached to Doc Jimenez #and Elena’s going to come back from a run just in time to save her co-worker/crush from getting stabbed #but oh no there’s defensive wounds that need bandaging up #and maybe a non-life threatening wound that needs more attention #which leads to the ‘you saved my life’ conversion and subsequent confessions of mutual pining #and also jokes about waking her patient up in the middle of the night to take vitals and tell him to go back to sleep #Elena was going to specialize in emergency surgery before all this went down #so she tries to lighten the mood afterwards by telling him it reminded her of a regular Friday night in the ER #I have such a need to write conversations about ‘what if none of this happened and we met at a conference or while doing rounds’ #and ‘what are the weird mundane things you miss?’ type questions #which are mostly whispered at night from the shared living quarters behind the main infirmary tent #it makes sense for them to live close to where they work #both of them speak fluent Spanish and often have entire conversations in their shared language #she had a tiny studio apartment near the hospital she was going to do her residency in #they have plenty of ‘what if’ conversations that circle around domestic stuff because it’s a way to escape from their everyday #‘I had central air and heat’ ‘you had me at running water and hot showers.’