Whumptober 2021 | No. 13: THAT’S GONNA LEAVE A MARK
“This is gonna suck” | burns | cauterization
Fortitude s01e11-e12: Vincent and Natalie visit Dr. Allerdyce in the hospital to investigate the cause of her “illness”. (For context: There are these killer parasitic wasps that sting animals and humans in Fortitude and their mode of reproduction is to inject an unwilling host with their larvae, which then ingest the host from within). Vincent finds Dr. Allerdyce body riddled with sores from which parasitic wasps emerge, and then a swarm of wasps come out of her mouth and attack Vincent. He traps himself in the room and the only way to kill these killer parasitic wasps is to explode the whole room with them in it. Miraculously, Vincent comes out of the explosion alive - badly burned and stung upwards of 200 hundred stings and goes into anaphylaxis. Natalie saves his life by performing emergency tracheotomy. Later in the hospital, Natalie informs a badly-burned Vincent that he’s unlikely to be carrying the larvae.