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'I didn't tell you/I won't tell him/her/them for their own good/to protect you/him/her/them.' Not only wrong and stupid but usually deadly and/or backfires.

'It's complicated' instead of explaining, or 'Nothing' or 'I'm fine'. Use your words. A good author can make the plot interesting without leaving most of the people in the dark re: the other characters.

Characters that hide illness or injury until they pass out/nearly die. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Also, the people who know there's something wrong but 'don't want to say anything/don't want to butt in'. ARRGH.

Any story where any character that isn't Becky-the-fangirl using fandom language or things like 'gah'. Stoppit.

'I didn't tell you/I won't tell him/her/them for their own good/to protect you/him/her/them.'

There are very narrow circumstances under which I can accept this one - usually when it takes the form of things like, "I didn't want you to have to lie to the cops" or "If they found out you knew, they would come after you for the information." (But then, I've been watching a lot of shows of that genre lately.)

When it's more like, "I didn't want you to get caught up in my secret superhero life because it's dangerous," I mostly want to strangle the character with their own garish costume.

Yes, occasionally it's justifiable, but, say - Supernatural. 'I didn't tell you all the info i have on the demons who are hunting you down FOR YOUR OWN GOOD.'

Uh, no. Really, really no.

Yeah, that is just dumbshittery.

I've seen a grand total of one fic that pulled off a character hiding injuries to the point of self-endangerment in a good way - and in that story, the character was motivated by both the possibility of losing his job due to too many injuries and wanting to make other people feel better by being hurt/injured less, and even then it did not last long and the character had enough background experience to take care of many of these injuries by himself with no problem. And once those misunderstandings were cleared up, he went back to normal, reporting all his injuries as expected to given his dangerous job.

Sadly, I'm a Tony Stark fan, so I run into this kind of insanity a lot.

There are circumstances where I think the other Avengers would hide injuries and make for some really good fic, but a.) those are all specific situations that b.) most don't involve existential angst, so they never appear. :(

Being the daughter of two people who worked in the medical field, I just cannot *imagine*. Injured people are not 100 percent mentally or physically. If your job is important for saving the world, or battling evil aliens from space, or finding a cure for a plague, or whatever - you speak the hell up and *get better* so your injury-induced fuzziness/fever/inability to breathe/move/run is *not compromised*.

Arrgh. I just hate it. Being injured isn't a *weakness*, but hiding it sure can turn into one.

I think people underestimate how important the little details can be in espionage and combat. Yeah, sure, maybe your reflexes due to lack of sleep is only reduced by a speed of a few seconds, but that can be the difference between life and death in the battlefield.

Exactly. 'So and so had not slept for three days....' Well, so and so is starting to hallucinate and micro-sleep and will most likely die if forced to fight someone.

So frustrating.

I know, right? How fucking selfish could you be? People DEPEND on you and you are actually risking lives because of your ego? How fucking dare you.

And a lot of the time they collaspe or something during an important fight FOR THE DRAMA and yet, to my immense anger, they are never severely punished for this. I would kick the ass of any subordinate who risked lives like that, but apparently actual professionals do not share my opinion.

HA, yes! If i had a team of ne'er-do-well but ultimately good-hearted misfits who were tasked with Doing Good in a Worlde Gonne Madd, and they pulled that? Asses would be kicked.

Was that fic about Hawkeye, by any chance?

Yup. "The Damages We Keep".

I thought so. I read that. Haha, I was just like, "He I know what she's talking about!"

'I didn't tell you/I won't tell him/her/them for their own good/to protect you/him/her/them.' Not only wrong and stupid but usually deadly and/or backfires.

I do love it though when that person finds out and gets rightfully angry that they were not allowed to make this choice for themselves. It's also why Lois Lane is perfection in female form when she's written well because that is EXACTLY her reaction when Clark tells her.

Especially when she points out that not knowing has never saved her from being in danger and she could have distanced herself from that danger whenever she damn well wanted.

Yeah, the righteous smack-down is always good.

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