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An odd question: the colour of bruising
I seek to learn: What colours do bruises go to and through for people with non-white skin?
See, I am thoroughly familiar with the way bruising works for white people, on account of I am white, and have, on occasion, acquired some spectacular bruises. (For the most recent example, see: "Breaking my leg in three places, then having orthopaedic surgery." This causes bruising for which the word spectacular is barely adequate.)
However, I have no idea how bruising affects skin less pale than mine. Are the colours different? Are they even visible? That stage where it's all just pale yellow, how does that look? I feel extrapolating from "how different it looks on me when I have a tan" is risky.
This is one of those topics I'm slightly afraid to google in case I find something I didn't actually want to.
But it's frustrating to me, because at the moment, I'm partly stuck on a couple of stories I want to write that have centrally-placed non-white characters because I have to write awkwardly around getting them even slightly hurt, where white characters can get as beaten up as the plot demands because I know what that looks like.
So... If you have any knowledge of any other skin type's bruising and are willing to share, please tell me?
See, I am thoroughly familiar with the way bruising works for white people, on account of I am white, and have, on occasion, acquired some spectacular bruises. (For the most recent example, see: "Breaking my leg in three places, then having orthopaedic surgery." This causes bruising for which the word spectacular is barely adequate.)
However, I have no idea how bruising affects skin less pale than mine. Are the colours different? Are they even visible? That stage where it's all just pale yellow, how does that look? I feel extrapolating from "how different it looks on me when I have a tan" is risky.
This is one of those topics I'm slightly afraid to google in case I find something I didn't actually want to.
But it's frustrating to me, because at the moment, I'm partly stuck on a couple of stories I want to write that have centrally-placed non-white characters because I have to write awkwardly around getting them even slightly hurt, where white characters can get as beaten up as the plot demands because I know what that looks like.
So... If you have any knowledge of any other skin type's bruising and are willing to share, please tell me?
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Imagining belt or paddle-given only helps so much, since I've never actually *seen* either of those things... although now that I think about it, it makes sense for something like getting hit by a cricket ball. (A real one, the leather-over-wood kind.) Also results in mottled, stipply bruising, and hurts quite amazingly lots.
And maybe the massive lump-that-became-spectacular-bruising on my wrist a few weeks ago, when I accidentally whacked it just over bone against the shower tap, and it swelled so much, so fast, and so hurtily that we actually went and got it checked for broken at the ED. Is that the kind of thing as well?
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But I bet your roommates have seen welts, or perhaps remember getting some welts depending on their parentage and corporal punishment in the home.
But bruising incident leading to a very fast tender swelling up, so that the area is slightly raised to the rest of the skin, and warmer and softer - yes.
Perhaps you've been skimming your eyes over other people's injuries? I'm very surprised you've never seen this.