You'd also need to know what caliber the weapon was, how far away the shooter was from the target (the longer the distance the slower the bullet, and therefore it does marginally less damage), what kind of bullet it was (soft lead, soft lead with crosscut nose - illegal and very destructive - solid metal ball, full metal jacket), whether the impact was direct or glancing, what bones it hit, if any - there are a lot of variables.
Let's see . . . one of my questions what what sort of gun was used. There's a couple glimpses of it in the video clip, but since I know nothing about weaponry, I didn't have a clue. You say it looks like a .32 semi-automatic? I'll take your word for it. *g* Someone on LJ said something about it looking like a SIG Sauer (I don't know what that means, really). You can see their comment
here .
How far away was the shooter from the victim--you can kind of get a guess at it from the video, if you can judge distances. I can't. I'm horrible at it. Anyone good enough to give me an estimate?
What kind of bullet is entirely up to me, since I don't think we have any idea. I like your possibility of how it could go, though.
That's perfect for this case--I'd like Jack to be less injured than Sue, in the sense of how quickly he could recover. She's going to have it definitely worse, because of where she gets hit. Someone on LJ was really helpful giving me an idea of what would happen there, so I *think* I have a general outline of what would happen.
Direct impact or glancing? Does that mean did it hit it straight on or sideways? Looks like it would have hit Jack somewhat sideways; Sue's wound, on the other hand, straight on.
As for whether it hit bones . . . well, they don't show enough to be sure, which means I get to choose. I don't want either one permanently incapacitated or disabled (Jack has to be able to go back out in the field, for instance), but he's not going to be feeling right as rain the next week either.
We also joined a fan forum that was split between the hearing and deaf community. Let me tell you, it is interesting reading fanfic that is written by someone that doesn't know how the language is spoken, only signed...
Oh wow, I bet that IS interesting . . . Is it mostly quality issues you're referring to, or just plain misunderstandings on what would happen? The one STFBE forum I've joined has a lot of fanfic that I took one quick glance at and moved on because of the rampant misspellings. No clue whether the writers were hearing or deaf there; I've spotted at least one poster I've figured out is Deaf but beyond that I don't really know. It's mostly dead these days, it seems, but I found five or six really decent authors (including the ones also on ff.n). The better forum for fanfic for that show is definitely RomanceFanfiction.net, though there doesn't seem to be much overlap of writers so far.
Yeah, aubreysmom wrote some AMAZING stuff. I've given her some very positive fdk and begged for her to finish the WNE series; hopefully we'll get to see the third story in that trilogy. It is intensely emotional, way darker than Becky Bain's In a Dark Time even and more triggery in terms of the content, I would suspect, but it's incredible. I have read the two fics through multiple times already. And I found a new fic by a writer new to STFBE fic-writing that I've just GOT to rec in my post, so I'll be adding it soon.
As for the fic I'm working on, I can friend you on LJ and add you to the custom friends group for fanfic readers, if you'd like--PM me if you'd like that. Anyone else who would like to see the fic too, feel free to friend me there and PM me why so I'll know who you are.
I don't post my fics publicly till they're all finished and edited, so you'll be getting the BR view of it, basically.
