#oddswell

[incorrect-inkymystery]

Oddswell: *going out the door* I'll be at the scientist convention. Hopefully I'll find some people to share studies on Ink illness with.

Red: *lowers newspaper* You have a life? And were invited somewhere?

Oddswell: I know it's unusual. I was surprised too.

[theinkymystery]

So when I'm bored I sometimes reread previous chapters. And something caught my attention in chapter 67 from inky extras. When Bendy had an attack Oddswell hung close by with a needle, and I know the same was when Blue Fairy died. What's in that needle? A rune or something that'll help them ? I 'unno, I don't think it's that important to know but im a curious hazard sometimes.

Oh boy. Never thought I’d be answering this one since it’s such a small detail, but one my background wouldn’t allow me to skip over. Whelp...

If it were something that could help the attack the doc would give it at the first signs of someone having one.

As it turns out it’s something he keeps on him when he has stage three subjects. It’s, well, his way of being merciful. It’s a type of anesthesia to help the person relax if he thinks they aren’t going to make it. They’re already in so much pain and now their own body is melting away in a horrifying fashion. It’s not a pretty way to go.

I don’t say it outright but the doc’s house isn’t just the questor’s homebase or the doctor’s research station. It’s a hospice home for the worst cases that are willing to make the move. He’s working his tail off trying to change that, to save them, but right now that’s what Oddswell and Red Hood have been doing. Making the pills, spreading information, and trying to find anything and everything that helps...and caring for the dying. Not everyone with ink illness lives with the doctor after all. There are even some with later stages of the illness that don’t want to leave family and friends. So Oddswell will go visit them often as long as they live close enough, but we’ve all seen how fast an ink attack is.

Sorry. That’s really depressing. It’s just one of those little things I have there that makes sense to me. I guess it’s a bit of a look into Oddswell’s head too. He may act like a distant professional but he cares. That stuff isn’t cheap after all. It’s little things like this that have kept Red around despite his quirks and stubborn nature. It’s that kindness that had Wilson come to him about the illness in the first place, that convinced Wilson to send the boys his way. He knew Oddswell would look at everything logically and with sympathy. He doesn’t care who or what comes through his door, if he can help he will.

He’s just terrible at showing it.