Hugh has A Lot Going On. Specific triggers/squicks include:
▶ general squicky physical trauma including eyes, teeth, fingers, etc ▶ amputation (self-performed) ▶ suicidal ideation ▶ parasites/infection ▶ chronic illness themes ▶ mind control/loss of agency ▶ mental instability/weird alien psychosis ▶ drug abuse (past)/alcohol abuse (present) ▶ previous unhealthy, sometimes abusive relationships and dynamics ▶ body horror ( a WIDE ass variety, but specifically body parts warping/changing in ways they shouldn't - my main inspirations were The Fly and Dead Space's necromorphs ) ▶ the Venus, which he never, ever talks about but will sometimes be very obliquely referenced in "that place was fucked" terms - ie slavery, human trafficking, cannibalism, extreme violence, rape, torture, forced breeding. hmu on a plotting post if you want to dig into that but otherwise I just won't lmao
I won't spring these on anybody in detail without talking with you personally, but still! The only bits that are genuinely kind of unavoidable are the body horror ones, and even those I try to keep to sanitized, self-contained references rather than graphic detail unless we've spoken and I know what you're okay with. If you'd like CR but want me to leave out a certain topic or play it down, that's also totally okay!
Feel free to opt out of any specific topic, or interaction in general, on this post! Totally understandable, no hard feelings, he's a mess. Comments are screened for privacy.
WRITING STYLE: pref for brackets, but I'll match prose.
BACKTAGGING: feel free! assuming IRL isn't being Itself tm, I'm a pretty quick tagger, but I never expect anyone else to match my speed.
THREADHOPPING: if the other party is down, go for it!
FOURTHWALLING: literally how would you (maybe, if we rocktalk it first)
SENSITIVE TOPICS: incredibly detailed animal cruelty, but that's about it.
SMUT: for sure, as long as it makes sense. threading and fade to black/closed door are both a-ok. no underage characters please!
WARNINGS: Hugh was a self-destructive, addiction-prone, generally emotionally unstable mess long before the alien shit happened, and it's only gotten worse since then. he's very much aware that the person that he currently is will die at some point and be entirely replaced by something else, probably slowly and painfully, and that plus the actual physical and mental toll of his condition mean that he ultimately puts very little value in his own safety or life at this point. it's a real big mishap.
general warnings for depression, suicidal ideation, self-harm, drug/alcohol use and abuse (past and present, he's a drinker), past physical/emotional abuse, loss of identity/self, loss of humanity, body horror, hivemind bullshit, previous forcible scientific experimentation, and the Big Sad. we're not talking about the Venus again I've mentioned it sixteen times.
IC SENSITIVE TOPICS/TRIGGERS: class differences (mostly just a really specific, shameless, in-your-face type of wealth inequality tbh), slavery, cannibalism, medical settings, medical type restraints, body shaming, being held by the nape, certain smells and sounds. he's the type to remove himself from a situation if it pops up rather than talk about it.
PERMISSIONS . ic
PHYSICAL CONTACT: sure! how he responds to it depends on the person, their relationship, his mood, the weather, the barometric pressure outside, and the alignment of the planets probably, but for the most part it should be fine.
VIOLENCE: go for it! be warned that he's a dirty fighter at best and armed with weird alien bioweaponry at worst, in the form of rib-based stabbers that will stab you. Hugh won't reach for serious injury or killing unless he feels it's necessary, but he isn't afraid to, either. he won't hesitate, bitch.
PSYCHIC SHIZ: anyone trying to look into his mind will not only find that his brain is structurally alien and processes sensory information in a similarly unnatural way (the changes are incomplete, which is painful in itself, but he's clearly being wired to be able to handle a lot more than one set of incoming sensory data from one set of eyes/ears/etc) - they're also going to get flashbanged by the seven hundred or so people and animals he's already getting feedback from, assuming someone or something hasn't severed that connection. all of them are living regular lives unaware of this, and Hugh gets to enjoy little snippets of everything they see or hear or taste literally all the time, every minute of the day. life is suffering. he's either learned or physically adapted to be able to tune this out for the most part, but it's very much still there in the bg.
they can also enjoy the constant background hiss of random thoughts and emotions, particularly ones tied to strong feelings. hope you enjoy listening to people fuck and grieve and kill each other, Hugh doesn't.
EMOTIONAL SHIZ: he's doing bad.
SHIPPING: Hugh is lowkey repulsed by his own body and will unconsciously try to create distance if someone approaches him that way from the get-go, but deep down he's desperately craving attention and reassurance that he is not, in fact, a disgusting unlovable crime against nature. oops. so basically yeah sure go for it, just mind the triggers and the fact that he's kind of dying and intensely aware of it. he doesn't even consider himself a long-term thing, much less any relationship.
tl;dr yeah but it's not my main focus and it probably won't be his either!
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WRITING STYLE: pref for brackets, but I'll match prose.
BACKTAGGING: feel free! assuming IRL isn't being Itself tm, I'm a pretty quick tagger, but I never expect anyone else to match my speed.
THREADHOPPING: if the other party is down, go for it!
FOURTHWALLING: literally how would you (maybe, if we rocktalk it first)
SENSITIVE TOPICS: incredibly detailed animal cruelty, but that's about it.
SMUT: for sure, as long as it makes sense. threading and fade to black/closed door are both a-ok. no underage characters please!
WARNINGS: Hugh was a self-destructive, addiction-prone, generally emotionally unstable mess long before the alien shit happened, and it's only gotten worse since then. he's very much aware that the person that he currently is will die at some point and be entirely replaced by something else, probably slowly and painfully, and that plus the actual physical and mental toll of his condition mean that he ultimately puts very little value in his own safety or life at this point. it's a real big mishap.
general warnings for depression, suicidal ideation, self-harm, drug/alcohol use and abuse (past and present, he's a drinker), past physical/emotional abuse, loss of identity/self, loss of humanity, body horror, hivemind bullshit, previous forcible scientific experimentation, and the Big Sad. we're not talking about the Venus again I've mentioned it sixteen times.
IC SENSITIVE TOPICS/TRIGGERS: class differences (mostly just a really specific, shameless, in-your-face type of wealth inequality tbh), slavery, cannibalism, medical settings, medical type restraints, body shaming, being held by the nape, certain smells and sounds. he's the type to remove himself from a situation if it pops up rather than talk about it.
VIOLENCE: go for it! be warned that he's a dirty fighter at best and armed with weird alien bioweaponry at worst, in the form of rib-based stabbers that will stab you. Hugh won't reach for serious injury or killing unless he feels it's necessary, but he isn't afraid to, either. he won't hesitate, bitch.
PSYCHIC SHIZ: anyone trying to look into his mind will not only find that his brain is structurally alien and processes sensory information in a similarly unnatural way (the changes are incomplete, which is painful in itself, but he's clearly being wired to be able to handle a lot more than one set of incoming sensory data from one set of eyes/ears/etc) - they're also going to get flashbanged by the seven hundred or so people and animals he's already getting feedback from, assuming someone or something hasn't severed that connection. all of them are living regular lives unaware of this, and Hugh gets to enjoy little snippets of everything they see or hear or taste literally all the time, every minute of the day. life is suffering. he's either learned or physically adapted to be able to tune this out for the most part, but it's very much still there in the bg.
they can also enjoy the constant background hiss of random thoughts and emotions, particularly ones tied to strong feelings. hope you enjoy listening to people fuck and grieve and kill each other, Hugh doesn't.
EMOTIONAL SHIZ: he's doing bad.
SHIPPING: Hugh is lowkey repulsed by his own body and will unconsciously try to create distance if someone approaches him that way from the get-go, but deep down he's desperately craving attention and reassurance that he is not, in fact, a disgusting unlovable crime against nature. oops. so basically yeah sure go for it, just mind the triggers and the fact that he's kind of dying and intensely aware of it. he doesn't even consider himself a long-term thing, much less any relationship.
tl;dr yeah but it's not my main focus and it probably won't be his either!