[Video] Calling all medics (TW: Medical content)

[strawberryprotector]

Hey, everyone. I have a question for the medically skilled and the healers on the train. During the question thing that Enna-san did, it came to my attention that there's a passenger who has an implant of nefarious origins that they would like removed. I'd like to see if we can all meet up and see if it would be feasible to work as a team to remove it. We can meet up wherever you like, though you all know I'm usually in the med car anyway. Thanks!


[ooc: Ichigo is proposing the idea of neurosurgery on Rich to remove his Squip. If your healer character doesn't want to be involved, that's totally fine! As far as Ichigo is concerned, if they can do a full eye transplant on Xiao Xingchen and have the eyes work, there's no medical procedure that teamwork can't manage.]

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[strawberryprotector]

And dislocated shoulders hurt like a bitch. I mean, not the worst I've ever had, but not something I'm ever in a hurry to repeat.

[firewalled]

Yeah, I can guess that means I don't want to experience it at all, then.

[strawberryprotector]

Dude, I could make a list of things you don't want to know the feel of that I have felt.

[firewalled]

I'm not surprised. I'll try to use your experience to make sure I don't end up in a bad position.

[strawberryprotector]

I don't see the worst one happening to you, so you should be safe there.

[no way is he going to let Grimmjow cero people]

[firewalled]

Well, now you've just made me curious what the worst one is.

[You can't just say something like that without extra context, Ichigo!]

[strawberryprotector]

Uh...basically a high powered energy blast point blank to my chest that atomized my heart.

[firewalled]

That's... okay, I don't even know how anyone would survive that, and I'm going to bet it's probably best not to ask.

[strawberryprotector]

I wasn't in my body when it happened, and I only survived because of the least human part of me taking control.

[firewalled]

...The least human part? What's that?

[strawberryprotector]

...In my world, people who die who don't move onto the afterlife corrupt and become creatures called hollows. They can be considered monsters by most, as they don't really have a lot of executive functioning until they get strong enough to evolve a few times. I have one that's part of me, and when I got the hole blown through my chest, he took over and kept me alive because he has high speed regeneration as an ability.

[firewalled]

...Damn. I don't really get most of the other worlds outside of mine. I'm glad that one sort of protected you, I guess? It sounds like most of the time, they'd be really dangerous to deal with...

[strawberryprotector]

Oh, he's one hundred percent a bastard. But he's my sword, if I die, so does he. Gives him a good reason to keep me alive.

[firewalled]

Still not the best truce to have with something like that...

[He's pretty sure his SQUIP wants to keep him alive, but that certainly isn't for good reasons.]

[strawberryprotector]

Mm, maybe not. But I learned to appreciate him when I had no powers. Found myself missing his snark.

[firewalled]

Heh, you deal with a voice in your head a lot better than I do, then.

[strawberryprotector]

That's because King knows how t' come kick my ass directly.

[On the screen there is now a completely white version of Ichigo with eyes that have black sclera and gold irises.]

[firewalled]

Um!

[That is... extremely eloquent, but it's about all Rich can say when he sees Ichigo suddenly doing a palatte swap. He gapes at the screen for a few moments before hesitantly offering.]

Uh. Did Ichigo agree for you to swap with him?

[strawberryprotector]

[A hand with normal skin tone to it appeared, pushing on Zangetsu's cheek.]

No, I did not. You obnoxious brat.

[Zangetsu just cackled.]

[firewalled]

...This is creepy.

[Like, naturally it is to someone like Rich, but there's also the whole fact that Ichigo is talking to himself and poking his own face, with two different skin tones.]

Also, just saying you should probably ask before flat out taking someone over. Consent is fucking important.

[strawberryprotector]

He's a lot better than he used to be. He's just bored because there's no safe place for me to spar with him, or let him spar with Grimmjow.

[firewalled]

If you say so... I don't know man. I'm not really the kind of person who's all for sharing a body. Obviously.

[strawberryprotector]

I didn't even know he was there until I was fifteen. And then he was just such a constant that I got used to him really quickly. The worst was when I was without him and the old man for a year and a half.

[firewalled]

I don't know if getting used to him is such a good thing... I mean, I got used to the SQUIP.

[Rich shrugs.]

But I guess if you already tried being alone and didn't like it, I shouldn't complain.

[strawberryprotector]

I've been able to see spirits for as long as I can remember. Except for a period of about two years from sixteen to eighteen. So in addition to losing the powers I'd gained to protect my friends as a result of fighting a war I shouldn't have been part of, the world was half as full as it should have been and my dad forbade any of my friends from talking about spirits, so they just stopped talking to me completely.