Using my HC about Edric's heart problems, here we go~!
~ He gets cold a lot, so sometimes he wears layers even if it's really warm on the Isles. He'll noticeably shiver, and for a second Hunter forgets how is his boyfriend so cold, but then he remembers and offers up all of the blankets and hugs Ed could ever want, just to help him get a little bit warm
~ Edric's had four open heart surgeries throughout his life; for the last two, he was dating Hunter and the Golden Guard was beside himself. He didn't know how to handle it, or what to DO, and hated waiting around wondering if Ed had made it out alive or not. He was very demanding in getting updates; Emira, Amity, and Dalia had to get him to sit down before he caused an uproar
~ Seeing Ed in the Healing Coven hospital looking so beat down and near death started the fuck out of Hunter. His usually boisterous, goofy, energetic boyfriend is reduced to exhaustion, a cracking voice, sunken eyes, and way too many bottles of elixir going into his arms. It takes him about a week to come home and takes time for him to get up and get moving, eating without getting nauseated and the works. Hunter never left his side, afraid he was going to lose Edric if he blinked.
~ Nobody told Hunter that Ed died on the table for a couple of seconds that very same surgery. It's something Ami and Em will take to their graves.
~ Hunter is shockingly able to split his time between his uncle and Edric once his boyfriend is back home. Of course, when he can't be there the Blight family is helping, but when he *can* be there, he's right beside Ed in his bedroom, getting him everything and anything he can. Helps him walk to the bathroom, etc. He's extremely on edge and hovery. Edric's too exhausted and in pain to argue about it being annoying, but in reality, he really likes how attentive, careful, worried, and loving Hunter is. He's cheated death four times and had many minor procedures for his heart with it being just his family; it's nice to have a boyfriend now who *wants* to help and loves him no matter how beat up he is.
~ Edric has a lot of painful nights adjusting to his new meds. Elixir's are tricky and sometimes it takes a little bit to find the right ones. Even months after his surgery(ies), Ed experiences pain from time to time. The Healing Coven assures his heart is doing well and it's not the usual chest pains they'd be worried about. He's just taken a nasty beating over the years between his heart and bile sac, so sometimes, things just chronically come up. Hunter does whatever he can to soothe Ed during those moments; he's found that having Edric lay on his side with a body pillow and several other support bed pillows helps as Hunter strokes his hair. They'll watch some of Hunter's favorite human shows as a distraction, and after some handfuls of hours, Ed can finally fall asleep comfortably.
~ Hunter has nightmares about Edric dying on him. He has to lay close enough to his boyfriend to not only feel his heart beating, but hear Ed breathing.
~ Edric is self conscious about his chest scar since it's been cut into four different times with some minor little incisions to the left and right of that (minus his top surgery scars, he's very proud of those); the scar for his heart surgeries is long (from in between his collarbones all the way down to just above his diaphragm), and dark from being slices into over and over again. He doesn't think it makes him look pretty anymore, and even though he's fought tooth and nail to stay alive and so has his heart, it makes him feel ugly. Hunter knows this feeling ALL too well and is quick to love on it and tell him how much *he* loves it, because if it weren't for those scars, Edric wouldn't be here with him now. It helps most days, and brings that smile Hunter loves so much to Ed's face.
THIS IS GETTING WILDLY LONG, BUT~ That's what I got for the time being! I'm.........very passionate about this heart HC; call it a little bit of a self project oop;
Hunter got ZERO sleep during Ed's surgeries, eyebags becoming so big that he looked like he was dying. Amity and Emira were always by Ed's side, however Hunter usually wasn't allowed to be near him. Which did Not sit well with him.
Small touches, traces of sort always are how the two comfort eachother I like to think. So when Hunter finds Ed grieving over his own scars, Hunter would sneak up behind him and hug him. Tracing around the area of where it was as that's what Edric would do for his.
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