(From a young age, he learned to only rely on himself. When the world is against you, you can't count on anyone else. Maybe if things had been different, he would have learned to trust others and that it was alright to lean on them from time to time... but he hasn't. He dislikes asking for help, even if it's something as harmless as asking a healer to do their job. It showed in the way he'd brushed Flayn off earlier and it shows now in the way he tries to detach himself from the situation, speaking lightly and not making eye contact as he starts to undo the front of his clothes which I've now decided is his Alliance outfit.
When he finally gets down to the last layer, he pulls back the blouse to reveal... a bandages wrapped around his chest and under that, a large, jagged wound. It's not nearly as bad as it was before-- he'd been tended to immediately and he's had practically a month to heal. It helps that his Crest of Riegan allows him to heal himself at times but it's mild and hardly has any control over it. The area around is darkly bruised, some places worse than others.
The Sword of the Creator had struck him across the front and the attack had been enough to bring him down from the air. He'd been healed immediately after but with how uneven the wound was and how rushed he'd been to make his escape, there's still some work to be desired. It doesn't help that it's a sensitive area, one that aches for a long time even after it's been healed. That's really the part that seems to be causing him the most discomfort. The injury is bad but nothing he can't handle on his own; it's the location that seems to be inconveniencing him the most. Sitting up, standing straight, moving his arms, turning... any movement is bound to ache. )
... How's it look?
(Nearby, the white wyvern returns from the water's edge and lingers nearby, head bowed down and wings tucked back. The battle had been difficult for her, too, and as surely as Claude feels responsible for what happened, so does she.)
I didn't really give Lysithea much of a chance...
(He'd sent her away almost as soon as she'd arrived. ... Something he regrets now that he thinks about it. Sure, she wasn't much of a healer to begin with but he'd almost immediately sent her off to meet with Edelgard and Byleth to start negotiations without him as planned. )
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which I've now decided is his Alliance outfit.When he finally gets down to the last layer, he pulls back the blouse to reveal... a bandages wrapped around his chest and under that, a large, jagged wound. It's not nearly as bad as it was before-- he'd been tended to immediately and he's had practically a month to heal. It helps that his Crest of Riegan allows him to heal himself at times but it's mild and hardly has any control over it. The area around is darkly bruised, some places worse than others.
The Sword of the Creator had struck him across the front and the attack had been enough to bring him down from the air. He'd been healed immediately after but with how uneven the wound was and how rushed he'd been to make his escape, there's still some work to be desired. It doesn't help that it's a sensitive area, one that aches for a long time even after it's been healed. That's really the part that seems to be causing him the most discomfort. The injury is bad but nothing he can't handle on his own; it's the location that seems to be inconveniencing him the most. Sitting up, standing straight, moving his arms, turning... any movement is bound to ache. )
... How's it look?
(Nearby, the white wyvern returns from the water's edge and lingers nearby, head bowed down and wings tucked back. The battle had been difficult for her, too, and as surely as Claude feels responsible for what happened, so does she.)
I didn't really give Lysithea much of a chance...
(He'd sent her away almost as soon as she'd arrived. ... Something he regrets now that he thinks about it. Sure, she wasn't much of a healer to begin with but he'd almost immediately sent her off to meet with Edelgard and Byleth to start negotiations without him as planned. )