...'re not afraid get people killed." He thinks that over. "What did your grandparents say about the fight?" she asks finally, unable to resist her curiosity. "Grandma Anne said I had the self-preservational instincts of a suicidal lemming and Grandma Martha said I was just like my father." She blinks. "Your grandparents were lesbians ?" she asks, for a moment forgetting he's nine years old. She...

OOC Commentary - InCI Recruitment

... ways to blunt that particular threat, so stick with a method – carrot or stick—and be done with it. Oh, wait. Distraction. Wary caution surges forward, stomping over curiosity in self-preservational recoil. Bahir's hands turn, fingers curling to grasp the opposite elbow where his arms are folded over his chest. His gaze transfers to the newest arrival, expression on the /unfriendly/ side of ...

Accidental Video

[Light's lost exploring the ship, having left the prow. If he's moving a bit faster than he usually would...well, it may be a delayed sense of self-preservational instincts kicking in.]

iiii/ iiii/ iii kid!Ladd

... to be in my gang! Yeah! Under eighteens only! Adults cause problems, and we don't need problems! Whoever signs up, you're gonna be a lifetime friend of the Russo Family! It's great, right!? It's a self-preservational group and we all have to pull our weight! We ain't gonna stand for anybody but ourselves! Who's with me!? And we need a name! I propose we meet up in the library in an hour!

Shiver

..., cold.. thing .. writhing where his heart and everything else should have been. The altered swordsman -- the Demon Hunter -- just to his side should have worried him. Frightened him, if any sort of self-preservational instinct had mustered the grace to show itself and help out. This wasn't the case. His mind was in the same state of numb remove in which he could have stuck his hand in pure ...

Fic: Practical Volitation

... this -type thoughts, of a kind that seemed to be dying. He thought Gaius would be a simpler choice. Gaius approved, very thoroughly, of the spell. Self-concealment had obvious, life-preservational uses, and no obvious dangers, either splatter- or detection-related. Merlin then explained that his particular use would be to conceal himself while flying: and Gaius was then far less approving. He ...

There were a lot of current-events references in this ep. Unfortunately.

... as messy and gross. *Given that Dean is such a staunch humanist, there's definitely an argument to be made that Dean getting off the rack in Hell wasn't as much a self-preservational choice as a self- negating choice. Which ties into the show's mythology about humans becoming demons by forgetting or abandoning everything that made them human in the first place. Unfortunately, in his current ...

... holding the bus for me across the street. As I went jetting for it, suddenly I was force fed a body check full of cement.  The only thing that saved me from a face plant was my innate self-preservational instincts which means that my left arm caught the 230 pounds of life who's inept being threatened itself.  I'm pretty sure I sprained my wrist but I didn't go to the doctor because I don't have ...