Hi hi! I love your blog it’s brilliant~ I had two questions, whenever you get a minute. I was wondering if there was a place 1-2″ below the collar bone that one could be stabbed with a thin, rapier-style sword and recover without noticable impairments. For the other question, and I’m not sure if this is even something you would know, but would an electrically charged large needle propelled with significant force into an eye cause it to burst? Would the damage spread farther into the head? I’m wondering how likely death would be (I’m assuming blinding is a given?)
Hey there, and thanks for your question!
First: the area under the collarbone is an extremely dangerous place to be stabbed with a sword, knife, or any implement. Even if the sword doesn’tpenetrate the ribcage – which it will – and puncture the lung – which it will – there’s still the anatomy of the collarbone itself to take into account.
The collarbone protects two very important body parts: the subclavian blood vessels (artery and vein), and the brachial plexus, the nerve branch which innervates the arm.
An injury just under the collarbone is thus a great risk to the health of the character: lungs, arteries, and major nerves are all in terrible danger.
For a wound that can be survivable, I would suggest a sword injury on the lateral abdomen, where it will look dangerous but doesn’t actually go into the abdomen itself; basically I’m talking about a stab into the “love handles” on the side of the belly.
For the second question: I have absolutely no idea what the electric charge would do. What’s interesting about this is that “electrically charged” implies something in addition to a pin; electricity makes a circuit from someplace, to someplace. Unless we’re talking about a static charge discharging into the eye?
If the needle is fairly small, I can only imagine that it can’t carry an enormous electric charge, so I’d say we’re looking at something fairly minor when it comes to impact and effects.
I would say that the eyeball rupturing is a perfectly reasonable outcome, especially if there’s force involved, though of course needles to the eye, when applied with care, don’t cause this. The words “significant force” and, to a lesser extent, “electrically charged” make me think this is likely. Cue eyeball goo (vitreous humour) running down the character’s face.
However, I don’t think death is as likely as you think it is. I think this is survivable.
Here’s why. The back of the eye socket is mostly bone. Take a look at this image of a skull, which I believe is a replica but enough to make my point:
It takes a very exact angle to penetrate through the orbital fissure into the brain cavity, through the meninges, and into the brain. As you can see, that opening is tiny. Even a needle with significant force isn’t necessarily going to be accurate enough to get into the brain – that’s just not feasible. Audiences would believe it, mind you, because Hollywood has taught them that eyes are just a gooey front of your brain, but it’s not so.
[ID: Image one is Robin Lennox from MAG 100. He is a slender pale-skinned person with dark brown, straight hair, wearing a turtleneck long sleeved shirt tucked in to jeans with dark boots. He is standing balanced on one foot with his stretched and distorted hands held aloft, one by his face and the other by his torso. There is a vacant smile on his face and there are chromatic-aberration echoes of him on either side with over-saturated colours and distorted facial features. Beside him is his dog Jackie, a Jack Russell Terrier, who looks up at him with great concern. The background is stylised after a garishly patterned cinema carpet with purple, orange, and green in swirls, stars, and circles.
Image two is Jack Barnabas from MAG 67. He is a slightly muscular pale skinned person with light warm brown hair and blue eyes. He wears a jumper, collared shirt, trousers, and boots, all in various flame tones. There are burn scars across his face and he holds his left hand up to his face, which is melting and distorting like candle wax. A suspicious fluid leaks out from behind where his hand sits. His facial expression is smug. The background is a brown stylised representation of paper burning. End ID.]
yo so my very good friend @horseboneologist and i did a collab based on avatarifying some one-off statement givers !!! i did the base sketch for jack and coloured robin, and they sketched robin and (beautifully) coloured jack <3 this was so fun and i love how they both came out <3
Summary: When Loki gets injured in the field, you discover that there’s more to him than the laughing, mischievous facade he wears. And he lets you care for him.
Warnings/Notes: There’s slight damage to one of Loki’s eyes in this one. If that freaks you out too much to be able to read it, I understand, but I promise I don’t focus on the trauma or the damage itself. I just wanted an excuse for Loki to need to apply eye drops. (Also! Tomorrow’s lullaby will be the last one for a few weeks but don’t forget that I would love to receive SO MANY requests for headcanons so I can stay in the habit of writing at least a little bit every day!)
Steadier Hands
For as strong as he was, and as brave, and as doggedly determined to do whatever he set his mind to, you were starting to realize that Loki was also kind of a baby. Oh, he hid it well. Normally he went through the day, through whole missions, never once allowing even a fraction of weakness to show through. He was stoic. Fierce. Incredibly capable and even admirable.
And then he took some shrapnel to the eye in the field and a doctor gave him some eye-drops to help things heal.
