#the best shit

If you wanna make your characters suffer, couple pure exhaustion with an ailment of your choice. Nausea is my go to, but it works great with any sort of pain or discomfort, included but not limited to headaches, congestion, fever.

Just imagine, they’re dead tired. Almost to the point of tears. All they want is to fall asleep. They can barely keep their eyes open. Their body feels heavy. It’s hard to control their emotions. But because of how terrible they feel, they just can’t fall asleep. Time passes in a way that is painfully slow. This seems even more slow if they have a visible digital clock within their vicinity, shining those usually red letters through the darkness. Each glowing minute seems to sit frozen for an eternity before it switches over to the next one, and somehow with each of those minutes their nausea increases, but never enough to make them actually be sick. They’re just stuck in what seems like an eternal battle against their own stomach and their tiredness. If they could just fall asleep or throw up they’d probably feel better, but instead they’re stuck in this misery with no end in sight.