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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2018-11-10 04:03 pm

[ SECRET POST #4329 ]


⌈ Secret Post #4329 ⌋

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Re: burn to order--need help to torture a character, please

[personal profile] soldatsasha 2018-11-10 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
In general burns are surface-level injuries. They affect the skin, but they have to be extremely severe to cause any kind of serious damage to the underlying tissue. People touch red-hot stoves and barbecues all the time and wind up with only first- or second-degree burns. We naturally react and can move our hands away fast enough that the heat only cooks the very outer layer of skin.

That can still be a bad injury and cause some scarring! But barring some serious underlying medical issue, no one is loosing fingers or getting serious long-term nerve damage from sticking their hand on a stove.

In general with that kind of injury you're looking at extreme but localized pain (burns tend to be more painful than most other injuries ime) and possibly blistering. Some people might wind up with scars from this kind of small burn, but not everyone. The longer your character can make contact with the hot thing, the worse the burn will be. Ex: if they trip and fall on the stove/bbq that's a lot longer and harder contact with the surface, which means worse burns.

If you want a significant scar on their hand, you'd have to look at boiling oil, boiling water, having them catch on fire and struggle to pt it out for some reason, etc.