s o l i t u d e {OPEN} coma plot

I'M TIRED.

Username: Cassss

Character's name: Paint Chu

FC: Son Ga In

Age: 18

Gender: Female

How were they comatized?: Paint has diabetes, and when your blood sugar levels get too low/high your body can't cope with it and when you fall asleep you simply don't wake up. You fall into a coma.

For Paint she was painting. She was in her room when it happened. The headaches come on, the world began to spin and she knew that her sugar levels were getting to low. She knew that she needed to eat something to give her that burst of sugar to keep her body working. She ignored it, however, her stubborn personality forcing her to continue on with the brush in her hands. She had always been this way, determined to weave her mind into the perfect image, then careful to always reflect her minds image into her paintings. When an idea stuck it clung to her, and she would not halt until she had it down. It was an obsession.

So she refused to place the paint brush down when her mind began to spin. She refused to take a step towards the locked door to give herself something. She believed nothing would come from it, she had always done this before. It always passed -- but then that was when she ate something or drank something. This time however when her head began to pound she found the energy she needed to move fleeing her. So she lay down. She did not wake up.

What was their coma "world"?: Darkness. A painter needs life and colour for inspiration. And her obsession could not be for-filled as she tumbled through a world of complete darkness. In this world she only glimpsed light here and there, but always at the corner of her eyes so that when she tried to catch it, it would run away. And in the same way diabetes affects a person when they do not have the proper treatment her body was sluggish and slow, it was uncoordinated and didn't react properly. So when she ran it was as though time had slowed. And in the end she spent a year and a half fumbling through darkness, desperately trying to fight down the oncoming tide of panic that grasped her. Because in this world she could see nothing, she had no memory of her life, she had no memory of colour, sound, noise an touch. All there was was darkness and she had to find her way out.

How long were they in a coma for?: 18 months.

How are they coping?: Alright. She can't remember what life was like before the coma, and all she can remember is endless darkness and feeling, touching, smelling and breathing for the first time in her memories, as though it had never happened before. I'm kind of just picturing this girl moving around smelling, touching and doing the oddest things, trying to accustom herself with the 'world'. And finding her love for painting, colour and life once more through simple things like the sound of a birds call, or the clothes she wears.

She doesn't understand what is wrong with her. Why she is sick. But she unlike the others getting out of her coma was almost a gift. In that world she was forbidden from doing everything she loved and even though she can't't remember what it was like before she can sense it. It is just a matter of testing and trialing if what she is doing is the right thing. She is scared, though. She doesn't sleep often, she wakes at night screaming and she is oh so very scared of the dark. Darkness is her enemy, and she fears the shadows that creep across the floor.

Character ideas: She'll be confused, uncoordinated, but relieved. She'll be fighting with tooth and nail to never see her coma world again. Hell she'll fight physics and everything in the hopes of never having to sleep again, because of the prospect of not waking up. I can just see her becoming this haunted little thing, dark pools under her eyes, growing thinner and thinner as she forces herself with pills and drugs to not fall asleep. Every time she falls asleep it is only for the smallest amounts of times. It is slowly eating away at her and yet when she is in the light she can smile and drink in the sights and feelings of life around her. There will be those moments of pure perfect clarity when the beauty of the world swallows her and she;ll be happy. But as time passes they'll become fewer and far between.

Why do you want to be in the plot?: Because it is freaking awesomeeeeee