(Untitled)

[rockpet]

I have to be up in five hours or so which means I can't sleep

Comments

[gallitrap]

Ruka1 has nightmares pretty regularly, and it's ... pretty visibly obvious when she has them. When she can't sleep, she usually lies in bed and hopes for sleep; sorts through her deck of cards if she's feeling particularly morose; hang out in the kitchen and make tea. (Sometimes Edgeworth would be awake, sometimes not.)

Ruka2 ... also likely has chronic nightmares, relating to the night her father was assassinated before her very eyes, so she usually cuts. Or, she did, until cutting had a risk of turning her arm into a shuriken dispenser. She's had to get creative with the self-harm, but... yeah.

[rockpet]

:< Poor Rukas! So... Do I wanna know how Numbah 2 got creative or should I just assume she started drinking as the alternative method to self harm?

[gallitrap]

They've both seen a lot of people die; it happens. Uh, Ruka2 isn't too heavy of a drinker, but she canonically, like, tries ripping her goddamn arm open with a razor? She's got a really high tolerance for pain, so she basically just tries to beat the shit out of herself until she passes out without actually breaking the skin. As you can imagine, this is pretty tough; she's contemplated jumping out a window, but isn't sure what would happen if she broke a bone but didn't break the skin.

[rockpet]

That will do it.

Yikes, I'm stuck between that's kind of badass and oh dear god, seek help for Ruka2... oo

[gallitrap]

I don't think there's any amount of therapy in the world that can help her now.

[rockpet]

What about a teddy bear?

[gallitrap]

... Ruka2 wouldn't buy it for herself, and people who give her anything have a tendency to die shortly thereafter.

[rockpet]

Mmm... I'd say Marv could give it to her (he's sturdy, he'd be fiiine), but I dunno if anything like that would occur to him... :lb

[gallitrap]

And Ruka doesn't like to talk much about her personal life, so the subject wouldn't ever come up in the first place.