it’s not Sunday and idc cause the world needs to understand that you HAVE to dominate her or she will edge you within an inch of your life and fucking laugh about it and talk shit in your face about it.
@medicbled - gloria de lima. combat medic, mercenary, occasional emergency medicine doctor verse pending. @docmohan - doctor samira mohan of max's the pitt. canon & hc driven. @sweets1n - roxana flores. stripper/burlesque dancer, rockabilly baby, religious trauma and heart of pure gold and peach cobbler. @enduredshe - emersyn thompson varela. trafficking survivor, social worker, vigilante and hacker.
making a new oc cause why wouldn’t I ?
she isn't someone who flusters easily. could withstand the force of a thousand storms and still hold her ground against the CARNAGE AND CHAOS. ❛ i've got a hundred thrown-out speeches i almost said to you. ❜ she's at a loss here, in over her head and overthinking because it's not as simple as locking into task or mission. her heart wears too close to her sleeve and clawing its way into his hands.
lyrical sc// @pittmade
Hello, consider this my dynamics, mains, affiliate and all that fun stuff call. there’s a couple shippy things I have brewing in my head but they’re not mandatory and she could use other dynamics as well.
please just let me help you. @pittmade
the adrenaline still pulses like mortar fire in her ears, the sheets had tangled tight around her waist, unravled in the abruptness when she lept from bed. her breath comes in short, calculated bursts, the kind meant to hide the panic, not soothe it. A SURVIVAL RHYTHMN, a trick she learned in tents and triage units under foreign skies. eversteady hands tremble and fumble with the script. that emergency bottle to sit beneath her tongue and chase away reflections of war. she hasn’t cried, she doesn’t, not even now, but her body feels like it wants to. not out of fear. not anymore. but exhaustion, a deep marrow-tiredness that never fades, just gets buried under scrubs and charts and too much coffee.
please just let me help you.
it’s the way he says it, like a quiet promise in the dark, like he’s offering her a place to land instead of a spotlight to stand under. guilt tears through sinew and soul. no one had ever seen her like this; the burden she'd refused to unleash upon the unknowing, the unwilling. she slept so well beside him, no issues arising until the inevitable push against her ribs to recall. her eyes meet his, not fully, not yet, but just the edge of him in the ambient light of her bathroom. honey eyes far away, attempting to find her HOME again. the bottle nearly crushed in her hand as she followed the sound of his voice. she caught the warmth of his scent and reached for him. something in the most broken parts of her being following his imprint of energy like a ship to harbour in a winter storm. ❛ jack. ❜ a voice so raw, so haunted, crawling back to life. gloria is pressed to him, instinct of spirit sought and driving action. ❛ i'm sorry, i'm sorry. ❜ muffled against his chest, but she breathes, finally.
nothing follows, not yet. the words don’t rise so much as settle as silt in water after the stirring’s stopped. HER EYES FOLLOW A CRACK ALONG THE BAR TOP. it's long and jagged and reminds her of scar tissue, the mangled and crooked stories on her body in phantom aches. a flicker of recognition sharpens the corner of her gaze. not pity. not camaraderie wrapped in cliché. but that rare kind of understanding that doesn’t announce itself; it just takes up space beside you and doesn’t flinch.
the glass in her hand sweats against her palm. she hasn’t taken a sip in minutes, just holds it like something steady, something to tether her. dinah's voice lingers in the air, heavier than the scent of stale beer and old smoke, heavier even than the history pressed into every inch of this place. she exhales slowly, controlled in how they taught her to when adrenaline starts to eat through clarity.
she shifts in her seat, the rare form of an evening off melting in small waves. not discomfort, just recalibration as though she’s letting herself settle differently now. not into the bar, or the chair, but into the truth between them. that unspoken place where blood isn’t a metaphor, and memory comes with texture. the quiet motion of someone who has bled and stitched and kept moving, who knows the cost of softness and still lets it in.
not everyone exists the same. some become the violence, some hide from it, some bury it so deep they mistake it for the wild of grief. no matter how anyone attempted to keep it, eventually it creeps up and reminds you it's always been in charge.
❛ sorry. ❜ gloria sets the glass down gently, a smile that isn't all there lifting the corner of her lips. ❛ i'm surprisingly shitty at small talk for it being a big part of my job. ❜ WAR WAS LESS COMPLICATED THAN MEDICINE; empathy had drained her then, and it drains her now. an empty tank that keeps running onwards. ❛ i also hate baseball. ❜
the place doesn’t announce itself. no sign worth reading. just the dry clink of glass against wood, the heavy drag of a barstool across concrete, the soft static of a baseball game playing overhead on a battered television. the walls carry nicotine stains and the bartop’s been wiped down so many times it shines in patches. most of the men here wear uniforms, or did once. one can tell by the way they sit: spines too straight, eyes that scan the room but never settle.
dinah does not blend. not really, and never by accident. black satin pants skim just above the ankle, the soft grey blouse tucked clean at the waist without a single crease, and red-bottom heels on her feet which she exchanges for an old-pair of sneakers after hours; still yet, elegant, unmistakably out of place. she looks like she arrived from a place built on marble and discretion, where voices are tempered by diplomacy and the real power circulates three doors behind the visible one. and maybe she did. but she was never designed to belong to those rooms. strategically placed in them.
‘ yeah, ’ she says, not just with agreement but with recognition as well, like the words been filed and revisited too many times to come out any other way. like she knows exactly what gloria means because she’s lived it more than once. violence, institutions that reward detachment and demand resilience just to survive, even as pamphlets in the therapist office announce that vulnerability is not a weakness.
‘ well. fuck it. ’ she remembers a man once—older, career army, the kind who spoke like authority was his by birthright. he told her women like her couldn’t possibly understand what it meant to be ankle-deep in blood with the comms down and someone dying under her hands. she said nothing then, nothing even as she cleaned the blood off her own hands later that same week.
she isn't good on the assurance that it all gets better, gets more manageable. IT DOESN'T, but your body adapts as it would in times of duress ( times of war ) ❛ in my mind, i can save the boy. ❜ an utterance between the rhythm of stabilized vitals, tedious beep taunting with a drop at any given second. she'd brutalize herself if she couldn't.
lyrical sc// @frthestars ( mel )
I'm sorry you got pulled back into this.
DAREDEVIL — 1.11 "The Path of the Righteous"
OH SHE ANGSTY TONIGHT. somebody fix it. help. HELLLLP.
"If I'm giving up everything...I want to win. We have to."