hc_bingo, once again!

[arduinna]

If I sign up for hc_bingo enough, eventually I will actually manage to pull off a bingo, right?

This year's card:

therapy	whipping / flogging	broken bones	electrocution	cursed
plane crash	poltergeist	brainwashing	runaways	Stockholm syndrome
bruises	confession in desperate situation	WILD CARD	head trauma	unconsciousness
de-age	burns	poisoning	unrequited pining	interrogation
nervous breakdown	disappearing	taking care of somebody	telepathic trauma	grief

Most of this is stuff I haven't written, but hey, it's good to expand your comfort zones. And there are only a couple I'm eyeing particularly askance. Pretty good card, overall!

Comments

[arduinna]

There IS always Kelly. When in search of a canonical hurt, you should have him in your pocket just in case!

Seriously, he is so useful! *g* I was thinking about him for the flogging too, after I hit post on the comment. Because of course he's good for *everything*. Your center row basically shouts "oh look a giant angsty Kelly story!" at me, for instance. *g* (although equally almost anyone else, really -- like maybe Reese, with Finch in the background desperately searching for him...)

I'm pretty willing to just go flat-out cracky, but de-aging has never been my thing, so that one's harder. But not impossible, I think... (... I hope. *g*)

[dorinda]

Mmmmmmm, I like the way you think.

*hugs Kelly pre-emptively*

*...and Reese too*

But not impossible, I think...

Not impossible! And I mean, if you're using it for a realistic-universe fandom and don't want to go magical-realism or cracky, I was imagining possible interpretations like... Oh, let's take Kelly, just since he's already here and suffering so helpfully. *g* Maybe Kelly has to infiltrate/seduce/socialize his way into a particular expat group. But by this time in his career, the folks in the group are all a lot younger than he is. So he has to 1) pitch himself as a slightly younger guy, and 2) keep up with the energy levels and activities (and maturity levels) preferred by this younger set, to better be included by them instead of being seen as the Dad-Mascot. More of a personal/forcible/metaphorical "de-aging", that would surely bring on a lot of psychological distress for him (re: aging out of the job, falling down on the job, the Department grinding him into the dirt as their expendable tool...), not even to mention the physical toll.

That was just off the top of my head, though, as one angle on an "I am trapped as [in the role of] a younger person and I can't get out" sort of thing. I'm sure there are better ways to go at it, without having to do the "poof, someone is crackily turned into a little kid and their partner has to look after them oh jeez no thank you nooooo". *cough*

[arduinna]

"poof, someone is crackily turned into a little kid and their partner has to look after them oh jeez no thank you nooooo". *cough*

heeeeee

Yeah, it's good to have options -- and a square I can ignore unless push comes to shove!

(And a Kelly, as an owie of all trades...)

[klia]

"poof, someone is crackily turned into a little kid and their partner has to look after them oh jeez no thank you nooooo". *cough*

*makes warding sign*

I'm glad I'm not the only one who finds that not to their taste.