Tim's doing his best to wash his arms in the sink with a cloth, but it's a losing battle between his height and the sheer extent of the cuts - which is a generous term at best. It's more like carvings, intricate designs that draw from fractals, or maybe spider webs, that start tight around his wrists and creep up to his palm, but spread out across his entire forearms, front and back, tapering out unevenly as they reach his elbows. At least they're only bleeding sluggishly, welling immediately once Tim stops washing them clear.
They're also gouged over thick scalpel lines: ones just barely healed so that they won't bleed, that go straight up his arms and join over his collarbone, where they proceed up his neck and circle his face in a thick, precise loop, and down his bare chest into his pants, lancing neatly through a fully healed mess of what would have been ugly gouge marks from blunt, dull claws. When he turns to look at Jacobi there's also a fierce bruise on his temple, but the scuffed skin there is clean and dry.
"Well, at least you're looking good," he comments dryly. At least he doesn't sound like he's suffering from the blood loss.
He shakes his head and goes for the first arm with the towel, wrapping it tightly around his arms so he can start bandaging over dry skin. "Whatever the fuck this flood is, it sucks." He might not have the open wounds, but he does have the scars. The weird mass of them.
Tim hisses sharply at the press of the rough fabric on open wounds, but he manages not to flinch too hard. "Can't say I'm a fan," comes through gritted teeth, but the towelling keeps the bleeding at bay for long enough to get a good start on the bandaging, and Tim reaches out with his free hand to turn the tap off. His sink is an absolute mess of blood, but he'll clean it up later.
"Don't you just love the bloody-- gratuitous injury floods?" he comments, actually taking the moment to look now that he's not so distracted by bleeding out. Because... well. Some of these are familiar, and he frowns as he uses the mirror to examine the old gouges down his chest.
"I mean, it looks like you already did," he comments idly, drumming the marks while his other arm gets sorted. "That's how that End-me got killed, remember?"
He glances down at his hands when they're both bandaged, and grimaces; there's already faint hints of spotting around his wrists where the lines are the most dense, and his eyes follow up the thick straight line still extending up over his front.
And his eyes widen a little, as something like realisation clicks.
"Oh, it's a fucking trauma flood, isn't it?" he grumbles, though his mood doesn't quite cover the sound of dawning realisation in his voice. "Look, this--"
He actively traces the scalpel lines now, tilting his face so he can see the full extent of it in the mirror.
"It's the lines I-- when we were in the Domains, these are the lines It followed to skin someone. I... think it's supposed to be about Danny."
He'd gotten his bicep band tattoos restored on the last port, so the line cuts straight through them. Something about that's probably supposed to be poetic.
He looks to his hands and then glances to the mirror, following the trail Tim's fingers take. He then unzips his hoodie and slides out of his shirt, revealing the scars upon scars along his torso. But there's that one he noticed, that one right along his chest that was more prominent. Fresher.
His gaze flicks across when Jacobi takes his shirt off, and while the lot of those scars are worrying just in general, his eyes immediately fall on that raw one over his heart. Healed, at least, but not much more than his own for Danny.
"Well, aren't you glad we graduated you when we did?" he comments wryly.
He tilts his head again, giving that one bruise on his temple an annoyed glare, now that he recognises it for what it is, and sighs briskly, before he picks up the towel to start cleaning his chest up where the spray covered him.
He pauses at the hand on his face, and something tenses a little. Nothing bad, he just... isn't sure how well Jacobi might take it, now, but he still tips his head on that silent request so Jacobi can see it properly.
"Connor," he says simply, continuing to dry his chest. "When you hacked him. Pistol-whipped me out cold and shoved me in a closet with Taylor's dead body."
Funny, how when he says that, the scuffed skin seems to clear a little.
"Yeah, well, what's my life if I'm not being caught up in someone's horrible plans?"
There's no venom to it, though, and he tips his head into Jacobi's touch a little. "It's fine, Jacobi. It doesn't actually bother me at this point, you know, it's just. Something shitty that happened." He puts on a cheeky smile for him. "Suppose this means I can't use it in my wedding speech, then?"
"It's still there," he reminds him. "Alongside all the other horrible shit that happened to you."
He drops his hand to put his shirt and hoodie back on. As much as he doesn't mind the scars, now that he knows what their purpose is, he's less inclined to show them.
"But no. I'm writing your speech for you so you don't go rogue."
"Just means I'll have to beta it before I get up to the mic," he replies easily. Easier than discussing the rest of the bloody flood.
Hah. Literally.
"Think you can grab me a singlet and shirt while I clean up a bit?" he asks, glancing back at Jacobi. "Short sleeves, if you can, I'd rather not have any more write-offs."
By the time Jacobi gets back, Tim's finished cleaning up most of the mess, though another towel has had to be sacrificed to the run-off, and the bandages are more distinctly spotting now, though by no means soaked through.
"In my defence, it's hard to process something when you literally don't have the memories for it," he counters, giving his hands one last quick wipe before he takes the shirts.
Tim actually pauses with his shirt bunched over one bicep at Jacobi's comment on Jon, and the way his jaw suddenly sets as he clenches it for a moment says...
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Date: 2022-10-09 11:51 pm (UTC)They're also gouged over thick scalpel lines: ones just barely healed so that they won't bleed, that go straight up his arms and join over his collarbone, where they proceed up his neck and circle his face in a thick, precise loop, and down his bare chest into his pants, lancing neatly through a fully healed mess of what would have been ugly gouge marks from blunt, dull claws. When he turns to look at Jacobi there's also a fierce bruise on his temple, but the scuffed skin there is clean and dry.
"Well, at least you're looking good," he comments dryly. At least he doesn't sound like he's suffering from the blood loss.
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Date: 2022-10-09 11:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-10-10 12:22 am (UTC)"Don't you just love the bloody-- gratuitous injury floods?" he comments, actually taking the moment to look now that he's not so distracted by bleeding out. Because... well. Some of these are familiar, and he frowns as he uses the mirror to examine the old gouges down his chest.
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Date: 2022-10-10 01:27 am (UTC)"But what's the point of this? Every flood has a point. Something we're supposed to learn."
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Date: 2022-10-10 01:58 am (UTC)He glances down at his hands when they're both bandaged, and grimaces; there's already faint hints of spotting around his wrists where the lines are the most dense, and his eyes follow up the thick straight line still extending up over his front.
And his eyes widen a little, as something like realisation clicks.
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Date: 2022-10-10 02:05 am (UTC)And then he sees that look.
"What is it?" he asks, searching him for anything else that needs attention.
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Date: 2022-10-10 02:13 am (UTC)He actively traces the scalpel lines now, tilting his face so he can see the full extent of it in the mirror.
"It's the lines I-- when we were in the Domains, these are the lines It followed to skin someone. I... think it's supposed to be about Danny."
He'd gotten his bicep band tattoos restored on the last port, so the line cuts straight through them. Something about that's probably supposed to be poetic.
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Date: 2022-10-10 02:22 am (UTC)"Oh fuck this."
He turns his attention back to Tim.
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Date: 2022-10-10 02:26 am (UTC)"Well, aren't you glad we graduated you when we did?" he comments wryly.
He tilts his head again, giving that one bruise on his temple an annoyed glare, now that he recognises it for what it is, and sighs briskly, before he picks up the towel to start cleaning his chest up where the spray covered him.
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Date: 2022-10-10 02:29 am (UTC)So much that it actually scares him. "Well, knowing people on this ship, it's good to have someone who is mostly functional."
He gestures to Tim. "Because I guess everyone is going to just be bleeding constantly around here. Like you."
He reaches up to put his hand on Tim's face, just underneath that bruise. "What's this?"
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Date: 2022-10-10 02:38 am (UTC)"Connor," he says simply, continuing to dry his chest. "When you hacked him. Pistol-whipped me out cold and shoved me in a closet with Taylor's dead body."
Funny, how when he says that, the scuffed skin seems to clear a little.
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Date: 2022-10-10 02:50 am (UTC)"I remember when you came to yell at me about it."
He doesn't remove his hand. "I'm sorry, Tim. That was...easily the shittiest thing I've ever done, you know. To Connor, yeah, but to you."
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Date: 2022-10-10 03:04 am (UTC)There's no venom to it, though, and he tips his head into Jacobi's touch a little. "It's fine, Jacobi. It doesn't actually bother me at this point, you know, it's just. Something shitty that happened." He puts on a cheeky smile for him. "Suppose this means I can't use it in my wedding speech, then?"
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Date: 2022-10-10 10:32 am (UTC)He drops his hand to put his shirt and hoodie back on. As much as he doesn't mind the scars, now that he knows what their purpose is, he's less inclined to show them.
"But no. I'm writing your speech for you so you don't go rogue."
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Date: 2022-10-10 10:50 am (UTC)Hah. Literally.
"Think you can grab me a singlet and shirt while I clean up a bit?" he asks, glancing back at Jacobi. "Short sleeves, if you can, I'd rather not have any more write-offs."
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Date: 2022-10-10 10:55 am (UTC)He leaves Tim for a moment to rummage through his closet. Singlet is easy. The shirt takes some thought.
He returns triumphant, finding a teal number he drapes over his arm. "Alright. Let's get you dressed and ready for the day, Mr. Unprocessed Trauma."
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Date: 2022-10-10 11:01 am (UTC)"In my defence, it's hard to process something when you literally don't have the memories for it," he counters, giving his hands one last quick wipe before he takes the shirts.
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Date: 2022-10-10 11:08 am (UTC)He says it with a bit of a laugh, but there's obvious worry and panic in his tone.
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Date: 2022-10-10 11:30 am (UTC)"I'm still doing okay, Daniel. It's really not that bad, it just..." He glances down to his arms. "It looks worse than it is. That's all."
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Date: 2022-10-10 11:33 am (UTC)He helps him with the shirt. "Will you go find Jon? I'm sure he's a goddamn mess and refusing to admit it."
Not that Jacobi has any idea just how bad it is.
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Date: 2022-10-10 11:44 am (UTC)Well. A lot.
"Yeah. He is."
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Date: 2022-10-10 12:02 pm (UTC)He does help him with the rest of his shirt, though.