I Found You Like This

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You're minding your own business, when all of the sudden you are attacked by a group of bandits or perhaps soldiers of an opposing country. You are battered, bruised and cut to the point where there is next to no hope for you to survive. The wounds have been cut deep, you feel yourself inching closer and closer towards the afterlife. Your vision blurs and everything goes black. Suddenly a stranger happens by (generally a female) and discovers that you still have a pulse. So, being the good Samaritan they are, they bring you back to their own personal cabin and begin nursing you back to health.

You awake, distraught and confused at your new surroundings, when your savior walks in pleasantly surprised that you are awake and asks how you are feeling and will explain what they were doing before happening across your limp body, essentially saying: "I found you like this." Assuming your caretaker is not a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, they will help you get back on your feet and in working order, if they are then they will just tell you to leave whenever possible.

The circumstance in which the character is injured does not always have to be related directly to a battle. Anything that causes enough physical or (in some cases both) mental damage to put the character in serious danger without medical help can qualify. If the character however collapses from harsh environmental conditions alone and is found by some friendly wandering natives, their situation might be more related to the Bedouin Rescue Service.

Waking from a wound-induced sleep can spark a romance between the wounded and the caretaker, and it can cause you to Restart At Level One or forget everything about yourself. Or all three at once.

Examples of I Found You Like This include:

Anime and Manga

  • Happens in Samurai Champloo when Jin is found by a recluse after a battle on a Rope Bridge that doesn't go well.

Film

Literature

  • The Bourne Identity also starts out with Jason Bourne being rescued while adrift at sea after being shot.
  • In The Valley of Horses Ayla finds Jondolar near death from a Cave Lion attack, and brings him back to her cave to nurse him back to health.
  • Percy Jackson collapses from fighting a Minotaur outside of Camp Half-Blood in the first book. He awakens inside the camp being tended to by Annabeth Chase.
  • In the Discworld novel Night Watch, when Sam Vimes is unexpectedly thrown backwards in time, Rosie Palm finds him unconscious in the street and rescues him.
  • In The Seventh Tower, Tal and Milla pass out from heat fumes while sneaking into the Castle through the heating system. They're rescued by a group of rogue Underfolk.

Tabletop Games

  • Dungeons and Dragons. This scenario occurs in the beginning of the Dragon magazine article "Wounds and Weeds". Delrael the fighter is stumbling through the forest heavily wounded. He falls unconscious near a hut, and when he wakes up his wounds have been tended to and his life saved by the herbalist who lives in it.
  • Occurs in General Mayhem's origin story in the Champions supplement Red Doom. While escaping a German patrol during World War 2, he traveled north through the snow until he succumbed to the cold. He was rescued by an old woman who warmed him with the fire in her hut and fed him hot soup until he recovered.

Video Games

  • Fallout: New Vegas: The Courier gets capped by Benny and buried, Victor digs you up and delivers you to a doctor in Good Springs to patch you up. He proceeds to run some tests on you to ensure that you are working properly.
  • Red Dead Redemption: John Marston makes a rather stupid move against Bill Williamson at the beginning of the game and gets shot before Bonnie MacFarlane somehow finds John lying outside Fort Mercer and brings him back to the ranch to save his life.
  • At the beginning of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, Marin nurses Link back to health after he washes up on the beach.
  • In Mass Effect 1, Commander Shepard passes out after an overwhelming amount of visions are given to him/her via a Prothean Artifact. He/She awakens in the Normandy's Medical Bay.
  • Mass Effect 2 kicks off with an Up To Eleven example - Commander Shepard is thrown into the vacuum of space in a punctured suit and begins to burn in a nearby planet's atmosphere before being picked up by the Shadow Broker's agents. They then raise Shepard from the dead with experimental reconstructive surgery.
    • Actually Shepard's body is recovered by Shadow Broker's agents, is saved from them by Liara, delivered to Cerberus and only then reconstructed with experimental surgery.
  • Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood does this after the fight in Monteriggioni as Ezio is riding to Rome he passes out from his injuries and wakes up in a house with a woman tending to his wounds on the outskirts of Rome.
  • XIII starts out like this, both in the comics (rescued by elderly couple) and video game (random lifeguard).
  • In the opening of Overlord II the "Overlad" is frozen after the tutorial, then found by his father's former minions who cheerfully note he just needs the right (evil) upbringing....
  • In Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, Ike and company finds Princess Elincia while out on patrol after she was ambushed by a group of Daein soldiers.
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