As a non-American fanfiction reader, it's always really frustrating when I'm reading a sickfic and a character has a temperature, and then I have to go and convert it to celsius in order to know just how bad their fever is
I have very little sympathy. This is exactly how I felt reading Harry Potter and Star Wars sickfics back in the day when I had to keep running to a converter to find out what Celsius meant in Farenheit. And that was before Google would just do it for you. I had to look up a “celsius to farenheit converter” page and go in and do it myself like an animal. Once I figured out 40 C was roughly equivalent to 104 F, it got easier
Just kidding, I do have some sympathy. Here’s a chart that may or may not be helpful.
98 degrees: Normal for most humans. Everything is fine, we’re all fine here. How are you?
99 degrees: Still pretty normal. Temperature can fluctuate if you’re doing something strenuous or if you’re out in the sun, and some people run a little warmer than others. This is probably Hunk’s normal.
100 degrees: Ooh, getting iffy. You might be coming down with something. Or maybe you just stayed up too late on your computer and you really need to go to sleep, Pidge.
101 degrees: Yeah, you definitely have a cold or something. You MIGHT not be contagious, but why risk it when you can spend the day curled up on the sofa watching daytime TV and eating popsicles? Yeah, you can get out of training for that, Lance. Just this once.
102 degrees: Bad. You are very sick. What are you doing up? STop, STOP that, go BACK to bed, SHIRO, WTF, you are SICK. Stay DOWN. We’ll bring you tea in a second, and yes, yes, we will definitely tell you if there’s an alarm and you need to pilot Black, trust us, no fooling.
103 degrees: EVEN WORSE. Tell Kolivan to give you some time off, Keith, for real, this is NOT healthy, even if you’re part Galra. There’s a bed in the infirmary with your name on it, and we will have Shiro sit on you if necessary. Yes, that’s Red growling in the background.
104 degrees: HOSPITAL. NOW. Or at least HEALING POD. NOW. Maybe it’s Allura’s normal, though, who knows.
105 degrees: This is crossing over from sickfic into major character injury or possibly major character DEATH. This is bad news bears, this is Defcon 1. This is Coran pinning your hallucinating butt to the floor and drugging you because you’re stark raving mad in the middle of the corridor yelling about how Slav is purple and made of spaghetti.
106 degrees: This is major brain damage or coma territory, at least in adults. Children can sometimes spike this high, scarily high, with no issues, but kids are resilient. You can’t even get higher than this without some sort of environmental cause, because the brain’s thermostat won’t let a fever climb above this.
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