"Oh yes, there are so many interesting plant species there that I've tested and sampled the fruits from. Only one of them that I tried to eat had a negative effect, and even then it was mostly relegated to swelling in the mouth and tongue. I imagine it would have been worse...if..." Oops, there's his brain catching up with the 'romantic' comment. He's a bit pink across the face and around the ears, even as he clears his throat and continues on, "anyway, if someone hands you a fruit with a thick green rind and says they're pretty certain that it's a sort of jackfruit, don't eat it. It'll taste okay, right up until it makes you unable to taste anything at all for about six hours."
Bart pauses to fiddle a moment, hooking a pair of insulated wires to one of the batteries that he and Tarantulas had previously been collaborating on, thumbing the button of a device meant to be a rudimentary soldering iron when the ends are secured. "Yes. Actually, even without the goal of going into Paradesium, I want to offer it as an option for him. His powers are incompatible with his body; it's why he's got such egregious scarring. I'm going to be attempting to treat him with extensive skin grafting over a long span of time, and that all by itself is going to be a difficult road all on its own, but adding to that that it could all be for naught if he overheats and hurts himself again...I could never in good conscience suggest another round of grafting. Especially when we don't actually have the appropriate donors lined up just yet and I am already unwilling to repeatedly strip layers of skin from the few uninjured places that he still has."
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cw: medical discussion, skin grafting
Date: 2024-08-18 05:40 pm (UTC)Bart pauses to fiddle a moment, hooking a pair of insulated wires to one of the batteries that he and Tarantulas had previously been collaborating on, thumbing the button of a device meant to be a rudimentary soldering iron when the ends are secured. "Yes. Actually, even without the goal of going into Paradesium, I want to offer it as an option for him. His powers are incompatible with his body; it's why he's got such egregious scarring. I'm going to be attempting to treat him with extensive skin grafting over a long span of time, and that all by itself is going to be a difficult road all on its own, but adding to that that it could all be for naught if he overheats and hurts himself again...I could never in good conscience suggest another round of grafting. Especially when we don't actually have the appropriate donors lined up just yet and I am already unwilling to repeatedly strip layers of skin from the few uninjured places that he still has."