Lil bit of sharing, but I always imagine that magical healing HURTS, especially when you heal like, very deep gashes or severe injuries in just a matter of minutes. The pain has to be excruciating, and as such most my characters only heal minor stuff.
Oh always send me stuff like this, I love hearing about character nuances and ideas! I just got home and am a touch tipsy so forgive my rambling, but a lot of my characters have weird relationships with magical healing as well. Granted very few can actually heal, whoops.
Adrian refuses to heal herself more than what will keep her alive, mainly because she wants to save her magic for someone else if they need it. She’s covered in scars because of this, though thankfully they’re mostly minimal.
Teyuu, a Mists healer, prefers to heal with nature magic, which to her interpretation is simply speeding up the natural healing process. So it leaves scars, leaves those ghost pains too. She studied/still stidues druidic magic extensively and she thinks it’s the safest route both mentally and physically. Of course this means there’s a higher chance of things healing incorrectly, if the bones are set weird.
Meanwhile Kid, the one I mentioned in the tags of that post, dislikes healing up injuries to the point it leaves no mark. She’s lived a long life and has the tattoos to prove it, but not a single scar. Only recently that’s been a thing, and whenever she gets healed she tells them to heal it “only a little bit”.
Meanwhile if the character can’t heal, they’ll have some pretty obvious injuries, like Valence, Ekwefi, Sawyer or Benem– all have various scars that never got magical healing (or very minimal healing) so they’re more obvious. OK RAMBLING DONE
