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OOC Introduction Post #9
OOC INTRODUCTION
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As for Freddie:
NOTE: Please read content warnings and don't hesitate to opt out if you'd rather not engage with his character! CWs for this blurb include mentions of bulimia, internalized fatphobia and diabetes stigma, and participation in US action in the Middle East. Quick additional ooc notes below —
what to expect/notes on ic-ooc divide!
My CW page goes into depth on what each potential triggering topic might look like, but I’d like to make a quick accompanying note here that although this character has an ED at this point ingame, his mental illness very much is not the entirety of who he is and he’s not like, in every single tag harping on how much he hates himself or being graphically sick onscreen or something/I’m not just looking for threads “about” his ED in the absence of very, very close CR/ooc discussion. He's actually very secretive about it and very talented at concealing signs of purging/mental illness, so the warnings are mostly for things like passing dysfunctional thoughts or mentions of some of the physical effects it's had on him (ex: discomfort when drinking alcohol because of sore throat). It's unlikely to come up in-character unless he gets caught (with ooc discussion only) and would require close deeply trusting CR.OOC/IC divide is really important with this character given the themes that he touches on. Especially given that he’s an OC, which can cause some discomfort, I want to emphasize that I am not Freddie and he is not me; our opinions/beliefs/actions aren't equivalent and I’m not using him as a chance to write about any trauma/experiences I've personally had or anything like that. The listed CWs are things that can come up, but they’re not like, the summation of who the whole character is. I more warn very assertively and gratuitously because there’s the possibility that disordered thought patterns or some of the physical effects he’s currently dealing with may come up in passing if something a character does sends him on that train of thought and I want to be considerate of players who find even those passing mentions disturbing.
If that sounds like you but you’re not comfortable sending an opt out, rest assured, I don’t tag out with this character without privately asking first because of the subject matter and always warn even for minor mentions in the subject lines of his tags in case someone else is reading!
Freddie's a 33-year-old, lapsed Catholic commercial pilot in modern NYC who just got out of his ten years of service in the Air Force last year. Personality-wise, he's friendly, genuinely kind, witty, and can be fun to be around, but he has some serious commitment/intimacy issues stemming from the parental divorce that made him a devout atheist at age 7 and getting cheated on during his first deployment ten years ago which have left him chronically incapable of attaining the intimacy he craves. Instead he just chases it with a life full of hookups, which he consistently self-sabotages by ghosting or calling it off after two or three meetings before he actually gets the kind of affection he's seeking. Despite his poor body image and the repressed feelings of inadequacy further fueled by a childhood in which he knew he wasn't particularly wanted, he gives the impression of someone confident and in-control - when in reality he spends each day feeling like he's holding on by his fingernails.
This feeling is largely because he has spent the past 4 months skating under the radar with severe undiagnosed bulimia, which he developed within a week of being told at his biannual FAA medical examination that the recent weight gain that had come with landing the dream job at an international airport was "concerning" and that the gene-environment interaction of the dramatic dietary change had led to pronounced, symptomatic insulin resistance and prediabetes bordering on Type 2. A diabetic pilot who requires insulin loses their pilot's license—and with it Freddie's all-consuming purpose and greatest joy in life—so when the medical examiner adopted a scare tactic, faintly moralizing approach, Freddie panicked, attempted extremely restrictive dieting for a week, and fell into bulimia when that wasn't possible for him. The disorder took over his life like wildfire, becoming extremely unsustainable within weeks. Now, four months into it, he’s at a point of purging in secrecy about 3-4 times a day and has malnutrition, fatigue, some serious dental issues, and a slew of other uncomfortable physical symptoms coming from his body buckling under the strain he’s put it under.
Coming into Milton is going to be a turning point for him, and he's going to have to enter his slow recovery arc pretty soon into his time ingame. As it stands right now, he's dealing with a lot of fatigue, weakness, and shortness of breath because he's just not getting adequate nutrition. One of his orthorexic compulsions is checking his blood sugar numerous times a day to soothe his anxiety and to use as a meterstick for how harsh to be to himself, and he's arrived with a coin battery operated glucose meter - while he's smart enough to take it out when it's not in use, and batteries for these go a long way, what won't go a long way are the consumable strips needed to test one's blood glucose. Every time you test your blood sugar, you have to put a drop of blood into the channel on a paper/plastic strip and feed it into the meter. He's going to be able to scrounge and find a container or two based on the prevalence of diabetes in the general population, but he's going to have to start seriously tempering the compulsive behavior now or he will run out fast. His dental issues have stabilized because of the Aurora, and his insulin resistance isn't getting any worse - but he's still symptomatic, so he has fatigue, insatiable hunger, etc. Which, of course, is a problem, as is the bingeing/purging, because food is a finite resource here.
All of this said, Freddie hides his mental health issues very well, and is quite practiced at it. It's extremely unlikely that a character would be able to flag him as bulimic or even lacking in confidence (and would require OOC plotting). He's going to be on his usual flirty antics, because he's going to have to learn that there are consequences to sleeping around when there's no way for you to just vanish into the ether as soon as things start getting a little too close for comfort!!
He actually has a lot of survival training, and went through US Air Force SERE school on account of being a pilot, so he's going to be teaching SERE classes in the Milton Church with Irving's blessing pretty soon! I'm excited to get that off of the ground, so please let me know if that's something your character would be interested in attending/helping with the logistics of. It should be noted that becoming a SERE instructor is a whole separate professional thing, though, so this definitely won't be military-quality instruction, more just him passing on everything he knows!
Also: Freddie is hard-of-hearing—he's lost about 20% of his hearing across the board—and can't distinguish individual words when characters mumble/will need to ask characters with quiet/soft voices to speak up. Please lmk if your character is quieter/mumbles!
In summary, have this literal photo of him in his natural habitat with adequate enrichment:
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