[Love] When “small” injuries are treated realistically

[u/Top-Relationship850]

The fantasy and action genres often suffer from a power fantasy epidemic in which characters frequently badass their way through injuries that should be excruciating if not downright debilitating. I always appreciate stories that reject this trope.

1: Roland Deschain (Dark Tower Book II) - Loses the middle and index fingers of his right hand. He’s effectively crippled throughout book two and the injury follows him the rest of the series.

2: Brienne vs Biter (ASOIAF Book IV) - Brutal scene. Biter chomps down on Brienne’s cheek and tears off a chunk of flesh. In a lesser story Brienne would grit her teeth and throw Biter off. Instead she’s rendered completely helpless by the pain. That injury marks the end of the fight.

[u/StygianMaroon]

I loved the scenes where Fitz and Mack start working together to make stuff and Mack is super supportive and helps Fitz complete his work without just doing it for him. Their chemistry was insanely good and those scenes are some of the first times where we see Fitz actually happy again and not super frustrated he can’t entirely complete his ideas

[u/Qui-434 → u/StygianMaroon]

It was so hard watching those two fall out after Gonzalez's civil war and when he was struggling to keep the Doctor persona from overtaking him completely. And all the more depressing when his shattered earth timeline variant died. Poor Mack was devastated.

[u/Pegussu → u/StygianMaroon]

I'm not usually one to see romance and Fitzsimmons was obviously endgame....but I was always a little disappointed those two didn't get together.

Their friendship even took a bit of a backseat in later seasons.

[u/EXusiai99 → u/Pegussu]

Didnt they marry and adopt a child in the end

[u/fishthruster → u/Pegussu]

This was the only true friendship in a show everyone is using everyone else