word game: pain

[museaway]

This week's word is...
PAIN

How to play: Find the word in any WIP and comment with the sentence containing it. Just the one, ideally! The less context, the more hilarious & interesting it can be.

Rules:
- All fandoms, all ships, all writers welcome
- Give a head's up for disturbing/distressing content
- If you share a sentence, please read some left by other writers and drop at least one person a comment. (If you leave the first comment, thanks for starting us off, and we hope you'll pop back around later!)

A note about interacting: Writers supporting each other is important to me. If you object to leaving comments for another writer, then we are not for you. If you repeatedly ignore this rule, you will lose community membership.

Comments

[wandering_fox]

Sorry I'm late! I was at H-Mart.

"He's obviously in so much pain still, over Erwin. I want him free from that."

From my ongoing multiverse dumpster fire [affectionate].

[belovedstill]

That's such a sweet sentiment 🥺 So much care and determination in one single exchange. I really enjoy the speaking character's use of "free". The idea of pain, of heartbreak, I'm imagining, being likened to a trap, a prison, something that shackles and obstructs you, that your loved ones want to try and help you get out of... Because you *do* get out of it. That phrasing acknowledges the pain without belittling it, that says a lot about the character!

[bens_writingjournal]

The potential care and the comfort! Gimme that, gimme that!

[bluedreaming]

The way you have the “, over Erwin.” at a slight remove really catches my imagination; it’s so evocative! The pain is central, and then the second sentence of the narrator’s reaction to it. I love it.