#compression fracture

[gay-victorian-astronomer]

Ooh I'll be interested to see Kim go from thinking about shooting Harry to defending him and the Hardies in the tribunal. Really looking forward to this fic

thank you!! I am very glad to hear that you’re excited for it (you gave me the idea so I want to do it justice)

I’m definitely treating the tribunal as a turning point in how Kim sees Harry, for a variety of reasons— most of which he doesn’t figure out until after the fact, because the man is being held up by the sheer force of his emotional repression at this point and processing any of the stuff that has happened to him within the last couple hours is Not Happening until he gets the chance to sit down for a sec

[gay-victorian-astronomer]

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OBSERVER (Sight) — Your reflection matches your internal state better now, at least. Cracked, distorted. A large piece of it is missing entirely.

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[gay-victorian-astronomer]

Compression Fracture for WIP Wednesday!

VOLTA DO MAR [Medium: Success] — It’s almost exactly average for someone who’s been on the force as long as you have. You are more measured in your use of lethal force than many of your colleagues. 

COMPASSION — Even so. Each of these lives is in some way a failure on your part, or on the part of the RCM as a whole. 

HAIR TRIGGER — Nonsense. Sometimes lethal force is necessary— you owe your continued existence to it. The tribunal would have been a bloodbath otherwise. 

[gay-victorian-astronomer]

Compression Fracture for WIP Wednesday please

MACHINIST [Medium: Success] — 102 tally marks. This must be how many cases you’ve solved. Odd— given your current clear rate, I would have expected more. 

COMMAND — Maybe you were slacking off.

RULEBOOK — Or you transferred from a department with a less intense workload— here’s no way to tell from just the number. 

[gay-victorian-astronomer]

Happy WIP Wednesday! Which of the Skills have you found to be most revealing/relevant/interesting to write in Compression Fracture? Get a few words in that document, I believe in you! <3

that is a very good question with several different possible answers!

Volta Do Mar (emotional control and resilience) is the obvious choice because it's the most directly relevant to the arc I have planned out. It's Kim's highest-leveled skill (arguably over-leveled!) so it speaks up a lot. It's also loosely tied to memories, specifically stuff he was already repressing hard pre-amnesia.

There's several skills I want to do more with but I haven't been quite able to figure out how to do it— Navigateur (connection to the city, but not para-natural like Shivers) is one that I have a bit more of a plan for. I really, really want to do more with Speedfreak (the best summary I have is "adrenaline junkie" but there's more to it than that) but it's one of Kim's weaker skills and I have a hard time finding good opportunities for it to talk— I think it could be a really good foil to Volta if I play it the right way though. That one also gets into similar territory as Outsider (navigating societal groups & discrimination) in that it deals with stuff I don't personally experience, so I'll need to pay careful attention to both of those when I'm writing and revising.

Anyways, here's a snippet, as promised! Volta & Speedfreak having a moment:

MNEMOTECHNIQUE A6 — Grocery and to-do lists, the occasional amusing or aggravating interaction noted down. You make a short summary of what happened at the end of every day, but even on the weekends it looks like you don’t get out very much— most of those notes reference books you’re reading or sewing projects.  SPEEDFREAK [Trivial: Success] — What a small, lonely life. Do you have any friends who aren’t from work? VOLTA DO MAR — It’s a necessary evil. Your workload doesn’t allow you to do any more, and besides— it’s safer for everyone this way. The less you care about, the harder it is to hurt you.  SPEEDFREAK — But the way it is, you’re starving yourself.

[gay-victorian-astronomer]

Compression Fracture for the WIP Game if you're still accepting them?

I mean, I'm not going to turn down an excuse to write so...

here's a snippet:

MNEMOTECHNIQUE A6 — Most of it is case notes— interviews with witnesses, summarized autopsy reports, and the like. 

MACHINIST [Easy: Success] — It seems like you were tasked with taking on roughly one case a week— there are notes on eleven cases, including this one. Only two of them have been solved. 

RULEBOOK — That’s actually not unusual for a homicide detective in this city. At this rate you’d solve around 8 cases a year, which is pretty good. Ten cases a year is considered exceptional.

[gay-victorian-astronomer]

Compression Fracture for WIP Wednesday please

YOU — “What was he like, before all of this?”

GARTE, THE CAFETERIA MANAGER — “Well, to be quite honest, I didn’t really like him all that much. He made Sylvie quit, you know. And then caused over a hundred reál in damages. I think all that was before he decided to drink himself into oblivion.”