hello my friend mutual. if it's alright, i have a question!! i was snooping in your headcanons masterlist as one does and in sh's section, you say he's low maintenance while sick "unless nausea is prolonged" which Very Much caught my eye
if you wouldn't mind. can you elaborate. i'm interested.
Hey pal! What a lovely question, thanks for asking! I do be world building in my brain a lot, so it’s great to get some of it actually written down & (head)canonized :)
As our Resident Foodie™, not being able to eat from the nausea is torture for him. It’s not even that he doesn’t want to for fear of throwing up again, like Yeosang, he just literally cannot do it. Like to the point that he can’t even be in the same room / smell food without starting to gag. The other members very much learned this the hard way (no spoilers, there maaaay be a ficlet based on this premise down the line bc this question sparked ✨ideas✨ for me), and it’s hard to avoid since they live in a shared space, so it can make things challenging for everyone if he has a stomach bug or something where the nausea lasts for several days.
Basically, the the actual throwing up part of being sick (while obviously unpleasant) isn’t that much of a problem for him, but all the time inbetween spent being nauseous & miserable is where he struggles, made worse by the fact that he can’t even partake in one of his favorite things for some comfort.
