#aevius asks

[liminaltrolls]

Hey Aevius! How have things beeen on your end? It's been a minute! Just a quick question if that's okay? How old were you when you discovered you could use your abilities to heal? Was it a quick process or something you had to hone over time? Thanks so much - Penumbra

"Oh, you know."

"Sleeping in a cold bunk in a freezing room with the dulcet tones of at least 7 people snoring with the percussion of a leaky faucet, eating slop only marginally better than what we feed to prisoners, cutting and fixing the same handful of lab rats."

"I figure it's only fair I smuggle them in scraps of any of the real fruit and veg our overlords deign to bequeath onto us boots. As a treat. Honestly, with their formulated diets, individual hides, and enrichment they might be living better than us."

"Sorry, getting off topic."

"What was it you asked again...? Right, the timeline of my redeeming quality."

"I'd say I was four... four and a half? Five? Somewhere in there."

"A tragic event in my truly harrowing backstory helped me come to grips with the fact that my stupid powers weren't just destruction and rot, but instead the much more complex and aggravating chronal manipulation bullshit that they are."

"Well, I was starting to question things leading up to then, but stupidly using your own out of control psi while you bawl like a grub and miraculously not zombifying your own leg will really click some shit into place."

"Of course all that did was set me down the path to a new obsession with biology and the healing process."

"Hours, nights, and sweeps of amateur research, relearning my already bad grasp on how my own psionics worked from the ground up, grunt work to borrow old text books and notes, doing trolls' homework for palmhusk recordings of lectures."

"All while practicing on myself, the wrigglers in my hivebatch, and all of our lusii."

"If I had found a way to save up some cash, maybe dodged ascension for a few sweeps, maybe I could have gotten some fancy official medical schoolfeeding."

"But then I guess I wouldn't have the monotonous hum of these fluorescent lights, vivid daymares, and you lot barging in to bug me whenever you want, eh?"

[liminaltrolls]

🎮 Blessed be the Aevius

Braixen! A fox with a fiery personality and sooo much potential, but stopped at a mid point (so possibly holding an everstone?)

Another without their associated pokemon on the team. We've got: healer and tank, helper and status, funny little juice boy, offence and transport, funny little guy who holds my keys and sometimes robs my coworkers as a treat, and more offensive tank.

This dude mostly wants protection and practicality

[liminaltrolls]

No I like it, you are a pretty good bullshitter

"Thanks, I have a lifetime of experience."

[liminaltrolls]

oh its mostly informational plaques for plants and blog posts for the botanical gardens website about events

"Got it. Ok, how's this-"

"What a hidden gem! I'm always looking for new activities to do with my moirail and stumbled across an event post for this wonderful garden! While outside of my normal interests, I can't deny how serene and beautiful is was to be surrounded by all of the different plants! So many I've never seen before, or at least never paid attention to, I never really stopped to think that things other than flowers could be so pretty. The plaques were so informative, and an interesting read even to a layman like me! At one point while taking my time with one, I almost lost her among the leaves all bundled up in olive LOL. Whoever writes the event pages has my gratitude, I never would have made the leap and found my new favorite date night location with my rail without them!"

"Good? Overly corny? How obvious is it I've never been to a botanical garden?"

[liminaltrolls]

I have an unpaid writing internship at the botanic gardens and I’m happy 2 give you my bosses address

"Consider it done. Well, after you tell me what exactly exemplary work as a writer at a botanical garden looks like."

"'Great prose, the plants love it", might set off some alarm bells upon any form of scrutiny."

[liminaltrolls]

I will give the higher ups a wonderful review of you, anonymously by letter

"Smart, and appreciated."

"Both the glowing review, and the lack of mutually assured destruction."

"Happy to return the favor if we successfully duck the firing squad. Send me an employer and I'll leave an equally shining and fraudulent Screech! review."

[liminaltrolls]

Dang they both survived? you must be good at your job

"Well, they were certainly still breathing when I last saw them, can't speak to long-term outcomes."

"I'm sure the living skewer is fine, barring other unrelated incidents, but I'd like to think my work held for Officer Pincushion."

"Honestly, through and through punctures of even horn diameter can be a pretty simple fix for me. Complicated by any serration, or barbing, rupturing a spleen or major blood vessel..."

"Immediate bleed out situations and head trauma are my weaknesses, I'd say, but something has to keep me humble."

"I'd ask you to forward your praise to my superiors, but I don't think some random civilian should be telling any Officers that they snuck onto a base."

"...And I shouldn't be recommending for that random civilian I let sneak in to do that."

[liminaltrolls]

Hi there Aevius, it's nice to meet you! Being a combat medic I'm sure you've #SeenSomeShit and obviously I don't want to bring up any bad memories. But I would however be interested in the funniest injury that you've personally treated. Doctor/Patient Anonymity withstanding of course. Thank you!

"Funniest?"

"Easy, some absolute scrawny ass yellow who was either cursed, or blessed, with no useable psionics, so they managed to slip past helmsman screening."

"Instead they got sent to regular combat training with the rest of the new meat, and thought they'd show off by trying out a much higher caliber at the range than they were cleared for in front of all their little friends."

"Broke their nose and popped their shoulder out of its socket in one fell swoop from the recoil."

"The nose was an easy enough fix, but I needed some extra hands for that shoulder. There's a reason, well several, that I'm not in ortho."