Just saw you take requests, and no pressure, but I am a whump fan who’d like to see how these sad saps spend sick days.
I do take requests! They just take a minute for me to answer sometimes!
Jon Sims - Jon spends his sick days coughing because he's just the type of guy who old man hacks no matter what type of illness he ends up with. He has to carry around a handkerchief whenever he's not feeling great, which just makes the old man allegations worse.
Martin Blackwood - Much like Jon, Martin is the type of person who gets specific symptoms no matter what sickness he gets. So he spends his sick days sneezing like someone just dipped him into a vat of pollen. He also has to carry around a handkerchief whenever he's not feeling great, but he can pull it off with it making him look ten years older.
Tim Stoker - Tim is the sentimental and whiny type when he's sick. He's very much the type to text, "Sasha, I was just thinking how much your friendship means to me. You're one of the best things in my life. If you wanted to drop some soup off at my door, I will die for you if it comes up." And meanwhile all these theatrics are for a mild cold.
Sasha James - Sasha spends her sick days being a real jokester because being sick makes her find everything hilarious for some reason. She acts borderline tipsy while drunk, and actually the first time Jon saw her drunk he judged her a bit because he thought she came into work drunk. (She didn't.) She's a very pleasant sick person to be around all things considering.
Melanie King - Despite being sick, she keeps working on whatever project she has going on until she makes herself worse. She's the type of person who starts a sickness with a tiny cold, then over does it so much that she ends up being able to do nothing but lay in bed with her flu like symptoms.
Georgie Barker - Georgie can spend her sick days being very existential. Every since the dead women walking incident, not feeling good can sink into feelings of "Maybe I'll feel this bad in the end, or even worse, and it will be just as real as I feel now." She needs a therapist whenever she gets a cold.
Basira Hussain - Basira is so stocked up on the counter cold medication and easy to make meals for when she's not feeling like cooking. She spends her sick days breaking into her over the counter emergency medicine stock to see what will help her, and microwaving some soup to sip on while she recovers. She doesn't get sick often, but she hates it when she does because she always feels like she's not being busy enough.
Daisy Tonner - Daisy spends her sick days feeling very hot. She always knows she's sick when she's burning up and can't cool down no matter how many fans she has on or how much ice she's dumped down her clothes. She HATES being mad so she spends most sick days being mad about how her body is betraying her in a way that seems very personally targeted.
Peter Lukas - Peter Lukas always feels cold when he's sick. It settles deep in his bones and is hard to get rid of, even when he starts to feel a little better in other ways. Blankets don't help, jackets don't help, and neither does sitting by the fire. When he's sick They Lonely's fog takes him over even more, which is why it feels like there's ice in his veins.
Elias Bouchard - Elias spends sick days vaguely annoyed. He tries so hard to body snatch a good body that will prevent him from being sick all that much, but here he is, sick anyways. He spends a lot of sick days, just, pondering.
Gertrude Robinson - Gertrude spends her sick days at the office. She brings herself a little bag full of tissues, over the counter cold medicine, and a few extra layers of cardigan in case she gets cold. She smuggles it in like it's a drug. She doesn't want anyone to get the impression that she might be vulnerable and take advantage of that. So she is very quiet about her illness. She just locks herself in the office and says she has "important work to do," and hopes no will question that. They don't because she's terrifying.
Gerry Keay - Gerry spends his sick days under blankets because he's FREEZING when he's sick. He always feels like someone has forced him to take an ice bath, so he tries to fix that problems with sweaters and jackets over sweaters and a blanket over the jacket and sweater, but he still feels cold and clammy. Emotionally it disturbs him a bit to feel so much like a corpse.
Hezekiah Wakely - It doesn't matter if he only has a small cold, he is writing letters like he's on his death bed. "Dear Nathaniel, I am not doing well, but don't worry about me, tell me about your day to raise my spirts." He is worrying everyone and this is before cell phones where you can check in and call. So extra worry.
Jane Prentiss - Jane spends her sick days going out anyways, and she tries to do the right thing and wear a mask and keep her hands washed and such, but at her job at least she still gets scolded with the mindset "If you KNOW you're sick I would still prefer you stay in until you're 100% sure you're better." She thinks this is annoying and has had quite a few arguments about whether or not you should leave the house while sick, even if you're taking precautions.
Agnes Montague - Agnes getting sick is a double-edged sword. On one hand the members of her cult will tend to her when she'd down, so she does have a good system for that. However, because of her status in life she doesn't feel like she can sick. Even at her worst she feels obligated to put a brave face on and play her role, even if she has to run out of the room to vomit occasion, or pretend she's "meditating" to lay down for awhile. So she hypothetically has care, but she knows she can't let the mask down long enough to truly receive it.
Jude Perry - Jude spends sick days doing a ritual to try and have the fire cleanse her illness, even if that ritual might bring more pain than the illness itself. Agnes does not do this because a part of her craves to feel something that reminds her that she's...real. Jude doesn't have these same feelings.
Oliver Banks - Oliver spends sick days avoiding sleep because his fever dreams get even crazier. Tendrils mix with nonsense like people he knows turning a piece of cheese into an elephant with magic. He's always had weird sick dream, but they weren't nearly horrifying before there were death tendrils.
Jared Hopworth - Jared is the type of guy who will just walk around with a serious, transmittable, illness. He'll go to the store, and to the gym, and use stairwells and put his sick hands all over the railing. His mindset is that he needs to be stronger than the sick so he decides just to ignore it, which of course just spreads the illness everywhere.
Distortion Michael - Michael getting sick is agonizing, because he should not feel sick. Things should not be sick, but he is a thing, and also Michael. Being sick pulls at the fabrics of his existence and makes him think of them. So not only his he sick, but he's painfully aware of his existence. He spends his sick days being very "glitchy" and unstable. Holding himself together takes all his energy.
Distortion Helen - Helen is the opposite of Michael. She can not get sick, because she is everything and nothing at all, and everything and nothing at all can not get sick. Since she's better suited to The Spiral and her emotions are pulling out of her less, The Distortion is able to fend off the illness. Unlike Michael who is holding onto the human parts, even the bad parts that cause him to get sick.
Nikola Orsinov - If they have a part that makes them sick, they just change it out. You can avoid ever being sick that way.
Michael Crew - Mike spends his sick days sleeping. The second he gets ill he is exhausted and feels like he could sleep for weeks straight, and he's not one to defy his instincts. Instead he just accepts his fate and settles into bed and assumes he'll get back up sometime.
Simon Fairchild - Simon spends sick days ignoring that he is sick, but unlike Melanie he doesn't get worse. That's because he's God's (Or in this case, The Vast's) favorite.
Anabelle Cane - Anabelle is kind of like how when cat's get hurt they'll isolate themselves to hid from predators. She spends her sick days moving into the shadows and taking shelter from the world to lick her wounds in peace. She's not going to let anyone or anything take advantage of her while she's unwell. So what does she do on sick days? Nobody knows.