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| - Jack suffered some minor injuries. All he needs is to have the scraps and cuts cleaned and bandaged -- maybe some antiseptic, or a few stitches, or a bandage. Fortunately, danger is no longer looming, and here comes Jill to do it; she is usually not The Medic, the injuries not being severe enough to require professional attention. Like Post Dramatic Stress Disorder, if The Cavalry Arrives Late, this can keep Jack out of the way while they clean up all the loose ends. Contrast Minor Injury Overreaction. Examples of After-Action Patchup include:
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| - Jack suffered some minor injuries. All he needs is to have the scraps and cuts cleaned and bandaged -- maybe some antiseptic, or a few stitches, or a bandage. Fortunately, danger is no longer looming, and here comes Jill to do it; she is usually not The Medic, the injuries not being severe enough to require professional attention. Like Post Dramatic Stress Disorder, if The Cavalry Arrives Late, this can keep Jack out of the way while they clean up all the loose ends. It is a quiet moment after the battle or the chase, or however he suffered the injuries. Therefore, even though he is not suffering Post Dramatic Stress Disorder, he will often react more strongly to the pain than during the thick of things -- with the humanizing effect of Afraid of Needles, in the antiseptic variation. Using iodine will get a particularly strong reaction. Jill often has to tell him to hold still when she treats the injuries -- often with a warning, in advance, that it will hurt. If she doesn't sympathize with him -- either in general or because she disapproves of how he got injured -- she may briskly inform him not to be a baby. She may try to soothe him if she does feel sympathetic, particularly if they are still in enemy terriority and he needs to keep quiet. Regardless of how she feels about him, she may inform him that it was really stupid to get into trouble in the first place, which may or may not be followed by an acknowledgement of his courage, or even the Smooch of Victory. This is less likely if it was on her behalf, where appropriate gratitude may be expressed. She may, however, deny that his intervention was needed; that sometimes is true. It also affords time for a tender moment after an action-packed scene (not to mention a Shirtless Scene), or merely for people to talk about discoveries made during the heat of battle. The first is usually a man getting patched up by a woman; it often advances the Florence Nightingale Effect, but seldom goes all the way from nothing to love because it's only one scene. If not, or if there is no UST, it's commonly the second, used for exposition, since they can talk. When there is no one around to help, Self-Stitching may come into play. It tends to be far less pleasant. If she doesn't have a bandage handy, the subtrope From Dress to Dressing applies. Contrast Minor Injury Overreaction. Examples of After-Action Patchup include:
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