RagingStillness

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[ragingstillness]

I’m only now really realizing how utterly insane the end of RE7 must have been for Chris Redfield.

I mean, he’s an experienced BSAA agent. He’s survived the worst bioweapon disasters his world has known. He’s lost friends and whole squads to monsters straight out of people’s nightmares.

Then one afternoon he gets a report, detailing a horrific outbreak where Tyrant-Class Bioweapons have been making people disappear in the Louisiana swamps. There are reports of explosions, fire, gunshots, screams.

Chris hops into a helicopter, mentally preparing for hell on earth. The helicopter reaches the site, Chris looks down, and sees what looks like a giant petrified tree sprouting out of the ruins of a house, destruction in every direction and there, standing in a little clearing near the collapsed tree, holding a rifle, is a Olive Garden breadstick of a man, his hands cupped around his mouth, shouting up to them “hey my wife and I could use some help!”

He’s wearing fucking jeans and a fucking white button down shirt. He looks like a suburban dad coming off of work. He looks like he drives a minivan. He looks like the most excitement he sees is the office Christmas party when his boss hands out free champagne.

He’s blue-eyed and has blonde hair, light skin, he looks like a Sim come to life. Like a mannequin from The Gap.

Chris, still floored, rappels down to the man. He asks his name.

“Ethan,” the guy says with the faintest California accent. He’s smiling exhaustedly.

Chris scans the scene for any monsters. There are none. This fluffy Texas Toast white bread man took out all the monsters? By himself? With a flimsy rifle? That was several years old? While protecting his wife?!

Chris wouldn’t have entered the house without at least three squads. He’s learned his lesson from the mansion outside Raccoon City.

One man. One, regular man. It’s beyond impossible, it’s unbelievable, it can’t be true.

Chris pinches himself to make sure. Yup, not dreaming. “Ethan, are you human?”

Ethan frowns at him like a confused puppy. Chris is reminded of a beagle retriever mix. “I’m pretty sure I am.”

“I’ll check you just to make sure.” Chris runs a scanner up and down Ethan’s body. He looks at the results. “Are you *sure* you’re human?”

Ethan laughs self-deprecatingly. “I did get a lot of that goo on myself but I didn’t eat any of it, pretty sure I’m fine.”

Chris looks back down at the scanner. Incredibly high concentrations of the virus. By all accounts, Ethan should be a morphed bloody mess right now, extra eyes and hands mutating out of his torso, half his face melted. Chris looks back up at Ethan. He’s smiling nervously, happy in his delusion. He reaches up to scratch some dirt out of his hair then winces as he realizes he’s tried to use the arm that appears to have the hand stapled back onto it. Chris googles at it. Regardless of mutations the pain and blood loss from that alone should render Ethan dead. “Why are you here Ethan?”

“I got a cryptic message from my wife who’d been missing for three years. I figured she was in trouble so I went to find her.”

“And when you found her?”

“She’d been infected and cut my hand off with a chainsaw.”

“What did you do then?”

Chris expects Ethan to spin some tale about blundering through the forest and killing an infected tree. Instead, this man looks right at Chris with the eyes of a madman and says “I went and found a cure to save her.”

“You…what?!”

“Well admittedly Zoe did help me out with that. I hope she was out of the house when it collapsed, she was a great friend.”

“The fuck?” Chris muttered under his breath. Most of the people he knew, including his BSAA teammates, would run for backup upon finding someone they cared for had been infected.

Chris himself had made a promise with Claire that if either of them got infected they’d do each other the honor of a mercy killing.

Cures for any virus outbreak were one in a billion. But Ethan had been totally confident in his ability to rescue his wife and cure her of the infection that caused her to cut his hand off with a chainsaw! “Who the hell are you?”

“Well I’m a systems engineer by trade, originally from LA. God the drive down here was so long.”

Chris blinked. Then again. Then again. Still didn’t seem like he was losing his mind and hallucinating. “I have to make a call, I’ll be right back.”

Chris passed the oblivious Ethan off to one of his lieutenants, instructing him to get Ethan some medical attention.

Jill picked up on the first ring. “Valentine.”

“Jill it’s Chris.”

“What’s up? I heard you were sent out to Louisiana. Rough stuff, I hope you’re alright.”

“Yeah…about that. I need to bring a bioweapon into the BSAA as an agent.”

“Are you out of your mind?! They’ll never go for it!”

Chris looked over at Ethan, now waving a tiny green bottle at one of the medics, demonstrating pouring it onto his injured arm. “I think they’ll make an exception.”

[basilhallwardmybeloved]

When I go to the med drama hospital with a simple sprain but it turns out I’m holding up a symbolic mirror to my doctor’s most repressed fears and weaknesses so I’m gonna be stuck here all episode :/

[thomtrebond]

you've got a fucking hospital of people begging to swaddle you, man. you just gotta ask.

[whitsantos-twinism-truther]

[ragingstillness]

Could somebody help me out with the true definition of “senior resident”?

Because google says it’s anyone from a 4th year resident to a 7th year resident and I’m getting a little confused.

Let’s use Frank as an example, one because I like him, and two because he’s one of the characters we have a confirmed age for: 33

So let’s say high school graduation at 18, undergrad at 22, med student until 26, 4th year resident at 30, so does that mean he technically is a 7th year resident? Is Collins?

Someone in the medical field, does year of residency matter at that point? Because I have always thought Collins had more experience than him (maybe she was just more mature) but does that mean she’s an 8th year or 9th year resident? Are they still just called a senior resident then? I get everything up through third year and then I get confused.

And I know part of the PHP involved him repeating his residency year so does that mean repeating the fourth year? When does residency end? And if Frank was only on his fourth year in season one then what happened in that three year gap somewhere in his timeline?

[ragingstillness]

Saw your post about seeking Pitt moots to chat about your fic.

DM ok?

Totally!

[ragingstillness]

SEEKING: a Pitt moot to chat about my fic with.

Context: this is a crazy crack-y fake dating au for Frank and Trinity. It includes lots of hijinks and shenanigans. However, there is not one iota of romance between them. Trinity is a lesbian and Frank is not interested in her. While they may become sort of friends by the end there will not be a single line of romance or attraction between them. Endgame pairings are Kingdon and Garsantos maybe with a few others sprinkled in, but mostly focused on Frank and Trin pretending to date while also strongly disliking each other and the situation.

[womanguy]

you should get a second evening for reading fan fiction. And you should get an extra day in the week to do arts and crafts.

[grimmscythe]

Reblog to cast heal on prev

[chewedcorn]

Every company from June 1st to June 30th

[ororium-z]

Happy Pride!

[ragingstillness]

Have got to get this out because I’m genuinely curious what people think.

In a physical fight, who would win: Robby or Frank?

(Time context: let’s say post season 2 but not day of, just like some random time after season 2)

(If I thought anyone would care other than me I’d make this a whole Pitt bracket but this is the first one that came to mind)

IMO, it’s difficult to say, because while Robby is likely around 20 years older than Frank (I think someone confirmed Frank was 33 and Robby was 53) Robby does have a few inches on him. And while they both have bad backs, Frank’s injury seems significantly worse and more of a sharp immediate onset of pain than the general ache Robby gets from overwork. They are also generally of a similar build but while Frank has larger arms, Robby has larger hands and a larger torso.

We know Frank was a runner so he likely has strong legs but if we stick to this timeline he is also likely post-rehab and could have some muscle loss. Robby has a bit of a tummy but that will also make it harder to land catastrophic blows to his torso because the fat will protect his organs.

We have also not seen a lot of evidence that either of them has fighting skill. Robby shoved Frank away and hit that locker pretty hard but it didn’t seem like he dented it and Frank just kind of stepped back a few times, he didn’t end up on the floor and some of that may have been shock.

There’s also the aspect of assault on healthcare workers and how common it is. Robby seems to break a lot of bad news so surely he’s been at least charged once or twice. But Frank is confrontational. If he’d been the one outside rather than Dana I definitely think Driscoll would have tried to punch him too. So both of them have probably taken hits before but I have no idea how they would have handled them.

While this can be debated to me they both give off only child energy so neither would have grown up fighting siblings.

It’s very possible I’ve put too much thought into this.

Putting aside any emotional damage they could inflict on each other, purely in a fight to knockout, barehanded, who would win?

Put your thoughts in the comments or tags.

[ragingstillness]

Every once in a while I think about Liv and Amanda seducing that one guy in that bar and have to remind myself that actually happened. Because it feels like a fever dream.

We so rarely get to see Liv flirt at all in the show (excluding the earlier seasons and a few isolated moments undercover) so the sudden shift from “we think Liv is sexy but the show won’t acknowledge it” to “the show agrees” was like being smacked with a fish.

Like did we actually get to see Liv smirk at Amanda and tug on her tank top to show off her excellent tits? Did we really get to hear Liv’s soft little voice and head tilt over “settle a bet for me and my girlfriend?” And did we truly get blessed with a giggling Liv falling onto a bed and reaching over to fiddle with that guy’s belt while Amanda unbuttons her shirt???? Did that happen?!!!!

I know it was serious and meant to catch a predator but it was also so soft and sexy at the same time it made my brain explode.

In unrelated news after he was taken away Liv and Amanda should have fucked on that bed

[ragingstillness]

Pitt characters as mythical creatures:

(Help me, I cannot stop making posts like this)

Frank is an unquiet spirit, a ghost with unfinished business, a howl on the wind

Dana is a dragon curling herself around her hoard

Samira is a selkie who would sooner die than let someone touch her coat

Trinity is a siren with teeth as sharp as knives

Dennis is a nymph, connected to the earth, blending in and out of human form

Mel is a Will-o’-the-wisp, guiding children, dispensing justice

Robby is a golem without a master, smudging his own runes, growing ever closer to deactivating himself

Garcia is a fae, a trickster, a proud being with no rules beyond her own

Cassie is a Medusa, isolated but powerful, hard to look at but worth it, refusing to bow to the blame others lay at her feet

Shen is a sphinx, a silent watcher, a clever soul, full of mystery

Jack is a curse, a hex, a bane, a state of being that just keeps going and going and going

Heather is a mirage, always just out of reach, a figment of dreams

Parker is a hearth, the sensation of home, a welcome with fire in it

Baran is a hydra, unable to be killed, wearing many hats

[just-another-cat-blog]

pride month!!!

[lemonsharks]

Is that a miette?

[jeanjauthor]

Pride for you!  Pride for a thousand years!!

[lost-and-cursed]

you COME OUT to miette? you come out to her as queer? oh! oh! pride for mother! pride for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!

[the-semicolonoscopy]

It’s Pride Month Eve, so leave out some milk for Freddie Mercury and his cats.

[cipheramnesia]

They’re looking at each other, comparing cats:

[cipheramnesia]

And Vincent Price was also bi so, y'know, let’s hear it for the bi pride catboys.

[the-prairies-calling-out]

"Why do you buy books when the library is right there?"

Because publishing houses will not continue printing paper books if libraries are their only customers.

Also, I like being able to read at my leisure and generally have books at hand.

[its-the-blob]

#public libraries are good because they let people access books they might never otherwise read#private book ownership is good because it's Yours#physical books are good because they last a long time and again it's Yours#ebooks are good because you can fit a whole library into the physical space of a single book and they're cheaper to produce#audiobooks are good because they're accessible to people with eyesight or visual reading issues and leave your hands free#in conclusion: all books are good and people should enjoy them however and whenever they can#(lest it be misunderstood I agree with you completely OP I just also really like books in general and it got away from me)

YES. all books. every kind