Fainting - (also called syncope) a transient loss of consciousness and muscle control brought about by an inadequate amount of oxygen reaching the brain.
In all cases, the individual:
feels lightheaded and
briefly loses consciousness.
A person who faints temporarily loses consciousness and muscle control.
The period of unconsciousness may last a few seconds to a few minutes.
Recovery is spontaneous.
Fainting normally causes no permanent damage to the brain, although the individual may be injured by falling when losing muscle control.
Physicians distinguish several categories of fainting:
Cardiac fainting - (cardiac syncope) occurs because heart disease prevents the heart from pumping enough blood to the brain. A person with cardiac syncope tends to faint more than once. Cardiac syncope is a sign of a serious health problem.
Reflex fainting - occurs in response to events such as emotional stress, fear, or physical pain.
Situational fainting - occurs reproducibly when the individual assumes a certain posture or performs a specific act. [NOTE: Reflex and situational fainting are not life-threatening and rarely indicate the presence of serious disease.]
Orthostatic hypotension - occurs when a person rises from lying or sitting to standing. Changing position causes blood pressure to drop suddenly in some people, resulting in a feeling of lightheadedness or a brief faint. It can be caused by certain drugs (both prescription and illicit), heavy alcohol consumption, some diseases (e.g., Parkinson’s disease, dementia) and decreased blood volume (e.g., dehydration, severe blood loss).
Fainting is caused by inadequate amounts of oxygen reaching the brain.
Cardiac syncope can be brought on by:
vascular disease,
congestive heart failure,
irregular heart rhythms (cardiac arrhythmia),
heart valve disease, or
disease of the heart muscle (cardiomyopathy).
The causes of less serious types of fainting are based on:
emotional responses,
changes in blood pressure,
decreased blood volume, etc.
Treatment depends on the underlying cause of the fainting.
In cases of reflex and situational fainting, no treatment may be needed.
People experiencing orthostatic hypotension are counseled on how to move safely from lying or standing to prevent injury from fainting.
People with cardiac fainting continue medical care, most likely supervised by a cardiologist.
Also, if you’d like to add more angst to your story, give one of your characters hemophobia. I have it, and instead of just feeling scared of blood, I faint/throw up. So, if another character in the story is bleeding out, you could have the character w/hemophobia to frantically try to save the other character, but ends up fainting instead.
Fainting also leaves someone feeling exhausted and shaky after they wake up, and they generally feel pretty cold and clammy. They’ll recover after like, an hour or so, but it definitely shakes someone up. If you’d like to add more angst, make them throw up and have a mental breakdown after as well :3
debating on whether i should write a one shot or two of my cuckoo oc and könig to get the creative juices flowing or just lock the fuck in and work on my fic 💀💀💀 school’s been kicking my ass
would y’all like some cuckoo oc/könig one shot content?
Okay for all intents and purposes this is the finale of the story, there is one more chapter but it is straight up porn with no plot and can be skipped if you’re not into that. That one will hopefully be up tomorrow. Thanks to anyone who made it this far for reading!
This was the first time you’d been to König’s home but you weren’t paying attention to anything around you, your focus was on him as he locked the door behind you and shouted something in German over his shoulder.
A bald man with a mustache and an average build came around a corner to meet you at the door. He wore military garb and held a machine gun. This should have scared the shit out of you, but you were strangely calm. Crises had always brought on a sense of clarity you rarely had otherwise. Once the danger or stressor had passed you broke completely, but you were great in a tight spot and kept calm easily during.
You knew that König employed private security at his home as well as the hotel, but you’d never seen any of them decked out like this. This man was a professional who knew how to handle his weapon. The rest had been off-duty cops who you frankly wouldn’t have trusted to guard your lunch from your coworkers, but they made the guests feel safe.
The man stationed himself in front of the locked door as König led you further into the house. He brought you to a living room with a large fireplace along the wall to your left. The front and right-hand walls were crystal clear glass, looking out over a meadow lined with thick forest. You could see the lights mounted about the house that must have allowed König to light the meadow very well at night, though they were off now. It was still mid-afternoon so the light was just starting to fade a bit.
He led you to a large white couch facing the fireplace and sat next to you, taking your hands in his.
“I am sorry if I have scared you, but something has happened,“ he told you. "The breeding specimen I introduced you to, I made a mistake. I am so sorry, my love.”
“What do you mean a mistake? I don’t understand,” you answered.
“I didn’t recognize her changes in behavior lately, and I should have. She shouldn’t have been brought near you at all with the state she’s in,” he tried to explain.
“What changes, please, I have no idea what you’re talking about. Slow down.”
“My researchers and I met today to discuss her progress, and pointed out some things that confused them, but alarmed me. We track all of our specimens in the wild, of course, and she had changed her normal hunting routes overnight, traveling much farther from the Resort than she normally does.”
“Okay, and what does that have to do with me?” you asked.
“She seems to be…” he swallowed audibly. “It seems as if she’s grown unhealthily attached to me as a caregiver, and has been… hunting you since last night, she’s not been out of earshot of you since you met her.”
Your stomach dropped. You were being… hunted? What? How did a job at the front desk of a hotel turn into this? Was it worth it? Was he worth it? You knew the answer to the question before you asked it. Of course he was. He would always be worth it to you.
“Okay, so what do we do?” you asked.
He pulled you closer to him with one arm and kissed your temple.
“We keep you safe, just like I promised.”
That dark weight on his hip had suddenly become too heavy to bear, and he was glad he was sitting down. He held you tight, unsure if he would be able to do what needed to be done if the time came.
“I have my men searching the woods to drive her out, she won’t be far now that you’re here. I cannot get her to respond to my calls anymore. She is completely out of my control.” He ran his hand through his hair anxiously. “But if we can bring her here we can capture and subdue her.” He hoped he was right.
“I want you to stay with me at all times, alright?” he asked, though it barely sounded like a question.
“Okay,” you chewed the inside of your lip nervously. He sensed how nervous you were, though you were doing a great job of not showing it.
“Come here.” He turned and pulled your head to his chest, running his fingers through your hair. You sniffed once, deeply, to keep yourself from crying. You resumed your abnormally calm demeanor but stayed with your face buried in his chest, breathing in the scent of him as he rubbed your back, shushing you and muttering reassurances.
You stayed like that for a while, until you were interrupted by the sound of the crackle of the radio on the front door guard’s hip. He answered in German and quickly left the house through the front door at König’s nod, locking the two of you in again once he was on the other side.
“They’ll find her soon.” he whispered in your ear, your face still pressed into the front of his shirt. You sat up at his words, and that’s when you heard it, that strange screeching you now knew belonged to a creature bent on your death. It was a strange feeling saying that so nonchalantly, even if only to yourself. This animal wanted you dead for competing for the attention of the man you loved.
“What the fuck…” you whispered through an exhaled breath.
“What was that?” König asked you.
“Nothing.” You pulled his arms back around you and settled in to wait as he held you warmly, his chin resting on the top of your head. You could call it cozy if it weren’t for the bloodthirsty animal coming after you.
hi tumblr peeps! 10 years ago today (or maybe it was yesterday, close enough heh) i started the hexeosis animated hexagon art blog here on tumblr, the first place hexeosis ever existed. i posed a few gifs that first week and really got going in August of 2013. I was super fortunate to have my gifs go viral almost right away and its been honor and a privilege to share my artworks with you all. thanks everyone for all the reblogs, comments, likes, shares, purchases, feedback, angry emails, it’s all good and am forever grateful that you took to the time to look at my silly brightly colored shaped polygons. here’s to 10 more years! (provided we survive the robot apocalypse)
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