In A World Of Pure Imagination || AsylumVerse || abitmorbid
Gravespoint Asylum was one of the top mental institutions in the country. With upwards of two hundred patients of varying levels of disorder, and fifty of the top psychologists in the area working with them, it was known for its ability to treat the most intense of disorders and rehabilitate the sufferers thereof back into normal society in record time and with minimal relapse worry. It was a model for other institutions to follow, both in its staffing and its organization, for many years now.
Hyacinthe Grantaire was one of the more difficult patients to come through Gravespoint's doors in the last year. With paranoid schizophrenia and an intense drug addiction problem, he was unresponsive to many medications and resistant to allow them to try shock therapy. Grantaire saw no point in attempting it. He wouldn't get better; while ECT may help the schizophrenia, it wouldn't stop his drug addiction.
The medications they fed him for his schizophrenia just furthered his drug addiction, and restricting his access to medication in hopes of treating the drug addiction would worsen his schizophrenia. It was a dangerous line to tread, one that they could not find a proper balance between yet. No matter what direction they took him in, he was not treated properly, and as such, Grantaire was fairly hopeless. He would be stuck at Gravespoint until he managed to overdose and die.
It was after another unsuccessful therapy session that he was escorted to the common room, an area that was meant to encourage socialization with other patients. Grantaire didn't see the point of it, personally. If he talked to other patients, they would just take advantage of that later. He knew it too well. Still, he took a seat on a couch next to a boy that appeared to be relatively new. Grantaire didn't recognize him, at least.
He was blond, much like a boy that Grantaire remembered from just a few weeks ago. A boy that looked like the sun. This one looked softer, though, kinder. Perhaps Grantaire was seeing him incorrectly. He couldn't be certain. He wasn't blurred, though, and that was encouraging. "Are you new?" he questioned after a minute of sitting there silently. "I don't know if I remember you."