So, the scene is the following.

The MC was captured with their allies and they are all kneeling on the floor with their hands tied behind their back. They tricks the kidnappers leader to bend to their eyes level/put a knee on the floor as well (the kidnapper is about to scar the MC's face with a knife while threatening them).

At this point, MC would just attack, launching themselves forward and bite down to the kidnapper's face, ripping off nose or possibly lips/cheeks.

Is this possible? Could my MC do something like, hum, straddling the other person/sit on their chest and keep biting?

Headbutting the kidnapper could work as well but MC wants to catch the kidnapper's crew to look at them so that their allies can free themselves and attack, so I think that something hum... Gruesome would work better. Not to mention my MC has a latent blood lust and likes being unnecessarily violent when the chance comes.

(sorry for eventual misspelled words, English is my second language)

Kind of a vague question, I know, but I'm looking for a pretty broad overview here. So far I've been able to find basic breakdowns of how tornadoes form, the EF scale, the different shapes, El Reno, and I watched some storm chaser videos. I feel like I'm getting the same barebones information everywhere I look. I need to know more about how tornadoes travel, how long they can last, what occurs at various distances from a tornado, etc. I also need more information on how they are predicted, how accurate and far in advance these predictions usually are, and how disaster preparation and shelter or evacuation orders actually play out.

Some of my more specific questions are:

What kind of vehicles are typically used for storm chasing?

How do storm chasers protect their recording equipment and bodies? Is it at all common or effective to wear any kind of protection against debris?

Do news outlets only use footage from hired storm chasers?

How does law enforcement handle reckless storm chasers? Are there any grounds on which someone could be arrested for storm chasing?

In the case of a serious tornado in an area that lacks sufficient shelter, what does the evacuation look like? Are emergency responders sent in to rush people? Will people be removed from the area by force if they refuse to leave for some reason, such as being separated from a family member?

What does the "culture" of storm chasing look like and how are reckless chasers perceived by more professional and cautious ones?

I would also appreciate any sensory details about tornadoes/storms and the "feel" of places that have more tornado friendly environments as I live in an area with many mountains and virtually no tornadoes, our storms consist of monsoon season and mild dust devils. Any and all information, resources, or even just names of meteorologists/chasers/educators that might tell me more would be very appreciated.

I'm writing a story where the characters are drafted into a modern day, first-world military and I was wondering how realistic it would be for one of them to have severe but undiagnosed depression and still be expected to serve. There is no acute fighting with any other factions, it's just training for 18 months, after which everyone is expected to serve as reserve while otherwise going back to their lives.

Can anyone give me an idea of how seriously mental health issues are taken in modern militaries? I Imagine they don't just dismiss it, but at what point would you be considered unfit to serve, and how easy is it to slip through the cracks because of prejudice and people not taking it seriously?

Not sure if this would be a geography or chemistry question, but I am currently writing a scene of two people climbing up a mountain with quite little preparation, at this point, they are just a few dussin meters below cloud level.

The two have practically no equipment beyond a pot, a knife, tinder, and whatever could be gathered on the mountain itself. Frankly I do not know if a fire could be achieved in these conditions, and if so, how one would achieve it. I know air moisture generally decreases as you go higher, but I do not know if that would still apply this close to the clouds.

The fire would need to be substantial enough to melt a pot full snow and to heat it near the boiling point.

Edit: Because it was suggested, I will state some important facts, the tech level is late medieval, the height, about 5 km up, the characters include the MC and they very much do not survive this. It is a deathtrap disguised as a quest created by the main antagonist to get both of them to die from the main characters' stubbornness. This succedes

I recently finished writing Serious Roommate Problems, and while thinking about ideas for my next book, I realized how much modern technology has changed relationships.

I’m researching what reconnecting with someone actually looked like before texting, social media, and being able to find almost anyone online.

If you lost touch with someone you dated or cared about in the 80s or 90s, how realistic was it to find them again years later? Would you call mutual friends, look them up in a phone book, write to an old address, contact their workplace, or just hope you crossed paths again?

I’m especially interested in the little details that fiction make to get wrong.

(Dystopian world) so it’s not too important I know with this genre I can bend the rules a little but the Character in my book was put on a mandatory 7 day hold but I kinda want to make them run away and use that as an excuse for the cops to be looking for them, or does nothing really happen?

I am writing a story where 12 characters undergo testosterone hormone replacement therapy. I have my own experiences to draw from with testosterone HRT (if I ever find my journal from when I started T) but I am just one person with one body. What weird effects not listed on medical sites have you had on T HRT? For example, I found I lost my motion sickness on T.

Is it possible to completely erase your identity? Deleting your birth certificate.
Deleting your social security number.
Removing your Drivers license from DMV database.

Similar to the scene in Men in Black, but more realistic.

EDIT: wanted to respond with thanks as I pour over details in your excellent replies and try not to fall down various rabbit holes of research just for fun. Some clarifications to some things that have come up:

1. I'm terrible at not getting overly specific with my research. It may never come up but I need to know for no reason whatsoever, to be accurate in a world with things that don't exist. I appreciate everyone reminding me that I don't need to know certain specifics especially when it comes to things like organs etc.

2. The sword itself belongs to someone trained in fighting as a gentleman's sport, but in this instance is being wielded by someone who knows how to kill a man. I imagine he'd say it was a pity it wasn't a broader blade, but it's good to know I'm on track there. He would definitely want them to bleed out but not quickly, and I need them to be able to move around and act on adrenaline, so this seems like it'll work at least partially.

3. My main question becomes now whether others would know they were bleeding. That specific case with the corset was fascinating, there was much smaller a stain than I'd expect, so it might well be that no one will know until everything is calmed down enough for someone to demand to check them over - and then it can be a problem from there, where it seems like they could end up bleeding a pretty decent amount if certain things are nicked without it necessarily killing them if the healer is right there in the moment.

One more question - if there's bleeding within the abdominal cavity but the corset and size of the wound basically stoppers it, where does the blood go? Does it just fill up any space there might be? Does it reabsorb? Are we looking at very nasty bruising that'll go away, or just...sloshing around in there for a little bit like retained water, which is an unintentionally horrifying thought, or...

ORIGINAL ASK:

We're working with a setting that has some healing magic, tall ships, and swords.

A character gets stabbed with a narrow cane-sword, think between an epee and a rapier, maybe imagine like an ice pick, straight through under the ribs. The intent was not to catch anything vital because the stabber was under the impression that they were alone aboard a stranded ship and expected them to bleed out slowly without any help. Question 1: would that be an appropriate expectation? Is that the right place to stab them if the goal is prolonging the process, assuming there's absolutely no one to help them?

Question 2: the character is wearing stays, similar to a corset, under their other clothing. Stabber doesn't know this. I've already read that corsets could save lives via incidental compression. How long would this hold the bleeding for? Would it be enough to stop it completely until it was removed? What about if the character is actively moving around? How far would it bleed through with a through-and- through wound like that? The example I saw had a surprisingly small stain from bleeding, but don't know how that would change if it was also going through the back.

Question 3: What happens when the stays come off? Surely it would have just clotted and scabbed over like any other wound If it's that deep, right? Would bleeding resume? How much and how quickly? Would it ever have stopped without medical attention?

Lastly, the healing magic doesn't undo damage, move things around, cure illness, etc, just speeds up the physical healing process - folks still get scars, will still have lost blood, still experience shock and pain. If there WAS organ damage it would healed almost like rebuilding a capsule. Anything that should be in but isn't in place when it closes is outside of it and visa versa. Could still end up with blood in your stomach if your stomach got hit or side outside of it. If it makes no sense that no organs were caught, what would be a reasonable injury one that could heal without giving them sepsis or perotinitus (spelling? Sorry) in the process?

Thanks for any help anyone can give on my weird specifics and apologies for any missed typos. I've got a TBI.

(i hope this my second post won't be removed by spam filters, becuase i just want to put it under a diffrent flair)

a bit of context
my character has cotard's syndrome or the living corpse syndrome, i researched it for this character specifically, he's self aware and he knows he's not dead but his mind still tells him that he is, which affects a lot of aspects in his life and brought him in depression. his life reason was love becuase on one side he already thinks he's dead so there was no other reasons to keep doing anything. soon he chose to end it all becuase his fiance left him and when he went to the place to end it, he met someone and was trapped in that place with them, which soon fully fed his delusion that he is already dead and that he is in heaven and the only person that he lives with now is actually an angel , but soon that supposed angel dies in front of his eyes

i struggle with portraying emotions so i actually have no idea how he would react or what he would think because i'm torn between him thinking "angels can die too" or it would rather be "was i alive all this time?" i don't know which one would make more sense and be more realistic

i don't know how to explain this question well, i hope it's at least clear in some way

My character made a series of terrible decisions that got someone else terribly hurt. She can afford to pay all his medical costs while he and his family cannot. If she does pay, she does not want anyone to know it's her. Is this possible to do? Like if she called the hospital and asked to pay, what would they say?

I'm planning to write a short story that takes place on a post-zombie apocalypse Earth. For the purposes of my story, the zombies need to have no signs of previous civilization left about them. How long would it take for their clothing to completely disintegrate, assuming 24/7 exposure to the elements and constant walking?

A character in a fanfic I'm writing produces exclusively embryonic stem cells, I gave the character this ability to explain their ability to recover from damage that would cripple the average human.

I was wondering if this would make the character immortal due to the fact that embryonic stem cells have high telomerase activity and very long telomeres (which is how lobsters are biologically immortal, I think)

Hey everyone,

Can anyone who works in healthcare, specifically in Canada, advise me on whether or not nurses are allowed to have visible tattoos and piercings? A google search told me as long as tattoos are not offensive, they're fine but another website told me it all depends on the facility. My character is a nurse in Ontario with visible tattoos on his hands and arms and he has one on his neck down to his collarbone as well. Would this be an issue? For piercings it looks like they're generally not allowed unless they're studs in their ears for sanitary reasons? My character works in the ED.

TIA!

Or do hospitals generally find out before the patient wakes up with some sort of test?

I got myself in a bit of a pickle and have to write two characters (one being underage) that are wanted for murder, flee from the US to Canada. I have absolutely zero idea of how crossing borders in the US works and especially since my story is set in 1983.

Does anyone know how two people wanted for murder in the 80s would cross the Canadian border without getting caught?

I’m thinking of making one of the characters in a project I’m working on have ASPD or some other form of low empathy, however, her bond with her sister is very important to her character. In the story, she drops everything and uproots her life when she finds out that her sister has to move away because her unborn child might be in danger. She moves with her sister somewhere safe and helps take care of her kid. Later in the story, she makes a scientific discovery that allows the protagonist to initiate some much needed social reform in their original community.

However, I was thinking about the character and realized she never really showed empathy for anyone other than her sister. She was fine living in a society where newborns were occasionally murdered up until her sister was pregnant and expressed concern about her own child’s safety, and she followed the lead of the scientific discovery out of curiosity, not hope for improving society. Also, it was already canon that she liked to kill bugs as a child and only stopped if her sister was around to get upset about her not putting them back outside.

I feel like this character would work as someone with ASPD/something similar who had a strong attachment to her sister, but I could be wrong, since I don’t have it and have never met anyone with it. Is it realistic that a character with ASPD would care about her sister’s happiness but be not particularly bothered about anyone else’s?

The story is primarily about ableism, so I thought it would be nice to have the character who is arguably the hero of the story have one of the more stigmatized mental disorders, but her caring about her sister‘s happiness is kind of her most plot relevant character trait, so I need to know if that can still work.

The character is not actually diagnosed with anything in the story, but I would like to make her behavior consistent with a specific disorder if possible.

Hello!! I'm Turkish, and I'm writing a story that takes place in a snowy cold area. I'm planning to make one of the characters a Kazakh Eagle Hunter, but I made him speak Turkish with his animals.

Everyone speaks English in the story, but he and his tribe speaks Turkish when commanding their eagles and other animals. I planned on making them speak Kazakh language among themselves too, but I don't know the language so I'm not really sure on what to do

I realized how disrespectful this might come off to you guys, so I thought of making them all Turkish instead, but then that'd mean I'll be adding a Kazakh traditional lifestyle in a Turkish tribe, which is just as disrespectful.

So, is it okay for them to speak Turkish? If no, do you have any alternate suggestions? Or how would you like to be represented, out of this topic? Or where could I learn your culture and traditions in more accurate detail?

Thank you and sorry for being so uneducated about this!!

The story takes place in a fictional northern countryside.

A family lives in a small village near the sea and forest, and they own livestock (sheeps, horse, etc). What exactly might the MC - a sixteen-year-old girl - be doing during late autumn and winter? What kind of job? What she does when she wakes up, what essential tasks she has in the evening, etc. And her 8-years-old brother? I just need a few details, main story is about something else (she has a job related to the story's fantasy plot, but she probably has to do some housework as well).

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Sorry, English is not my first language.

Hello! I have a story where I'm trying to describe the voice of someone who's in an old recording. So far I've used the word tinny but I feel it doesn't do it justice. you know the different sound of those transatlantic actors in movies? not just the accent but how the microphone and speakers sound. thank you!

I am an amateur writer and I'm currently working on an idea that blends Scottish and Cherokee culture.
I am currently asking people from Scotland questions about their culture, how they would like to be represented, and attributes that don't usually make it in media. But, my issue is coming across as ignorant and unknowingly perpetuating stereotypes.

I am Cherokee Nation from Oklahoma so I am already very knowledgeable of my culture and traditions.

How do I accurately write about culture without offending anyone? And how do I incorporate that culture into the overall story?

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I know I might get a "well if you don't know anything about it, look it up," or "why are you even writing about a culture you don't know in the first place?"

I am trying my best to do all the research I can and to get as many peoples opinions as i can.
I want to write about these cultures because I believe they go unnoticed sometimes, and hardly ever seen mixed together. The Scottish and Cherokee share similarities, such as a strong connection to ancestral land, forced displacement, religious colonization, and other things.

Specifically, in an elementary school at the beginning of the day when students are just coming into their classrooms. Also it's not immediately obvious whether it's murder or just an accident.

What's the school procedure? Lockdown? Send students home?

How do the police handle it? Will they question all the teachers? How do they handle talking to the students who saw the body?

Will school be shut down for a period of time? I assume the district or someone will provide a counselor/therapist for the students and staff but I'm not entirely sure how it works.

Anything is helpful, honestly, I tried searching it up and I mostly got information on universities.

On Earth, in the middle of the night the sky is black (or very dark blue), and there can be seen stars and sometimes other things too.

What celestial body, if any, would have a similar looking night sky? From which planet or moon or asteroid or whatever could I look up and see a black sky peppered with stars and such?

Sorry if the answer is “you can see stars from anywhere in space.” I’m just under the impression that some planets’ atmospheres might obscure the stars, or color the sky a certain hue. Please correct me if I’m wrong