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Walking whump ideas:

Caretaker is forced to walk for hours and hours (no shoes, no food, no water) to 'rescue' Whumpee, but when they reach the destination they realise it was just another one of Whumper's traps and now they're too weak to run away.

Whumper forces Whumpee to walk on an injured leg (maybe it's broken, maybe Whumper cut their feet, who knows?).

Just walking for a long time on a hot day. Very uncomfortable. No one is having a good time doing that.

Stoic whumpee tries to walk normally alongside the team, but half way through the hike they keel over and collapse.

Whumpee with chronic pain forgets their mobility aid because they're in a rush and "the pain is not that bad today". Twenty minutes later they realise that maybe the pain is that bad, and now they're stranded in the middle of town and need to call Caretaker for a lift home.

Whumpee walks for miles and miles to get as far as possible from Whumper, then collapses on Caretaker's doorstep from total exhaustion.

Mundane things like flat feet, blisters, and shin splints can be caused/exacerbated by too much walking. Have fun with it.

Whumpee massively misjudged the weather and ends up boiling because they put too many layers on (or too little and ends up freezing) but can't do anything about it because they've walked to the middle of nowhere.

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stoic whumpee scrubbing the blood off of their hands in the bathroom behind a locked door while caretaker frantically pounds on the door, begging them to let them in and help

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I give my OCs tics to help me feel better about my own, which unfortunately just makes my tics worse because now I'm thinking about them all the time and oh boy is my neck stiff

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oh hell yes

Whump question : how about a Caretaker cleaning a badly injured whumpees wounds gently

Or a whumper doing it harshly srubbing and digging into Open bleeding flesh?

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Gentle Caretaker 100%, especially if there was an angsty injury reveal involved beforehand.

I'm all for hurting a whumpee, but I feel like the pain doesn't have quite the same power if there's no gentle care to provide contrast. However, harsh cleaning from Whumper if Whumpee's wounds are self-inflicted is a god-tier scenario. Whumper/whumpee relationships are largely about control and power, so how dare Whumpee try to take some of that back by causing their own pain? If the pain doesn't belong to Whumper, then Whumpee is not allowed to feel it.

But as I said before, gentle caretakers for the win. I love when whumpees get to be vulnerable, and Caretaker cleaning them up is the perfect scenario.

Hurt your whumpees, but give them some love occasionally. Hell knows they've earned it.

(I raise you the following question: Whumper cleaning Whumpee's wounds with care or a harsh/reluctant Caretaker that just wants to get dealing with Whumpee over with?)

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Whump question : how about a Caretaker cleaning a badly injured whumpees wounds gently

Or a whumper doing it harshly srubbing and digging into Open bleeding flesh?

tw: sh mention

Gentle Caretaker 100%, especially if there was an angsty injury reveal involved beforehand.

I'm all for hurting a whumpee, but I feel like the pain doesn't have quite the same power if there's no gentle care to provide contrast. However, harsh cleaning from Whumper if Whumpee's wounds are self-inflicted is a god-tier scenario. Whumper/whumpee relationships are largely about control and power, so how dare Whumpee try to take some of that back by causing their own pain? If the pain doesn't belong to Whumper, then Whumpee is not allowed to feel it.

But as I said before, gentle caretakers for the win. I love when whumpees get to be vulnerable, and Caretaker cleaning them up is the perfect scenario.

Hurt your whumpees, but give them some love occasionally. Hell knows they've earned it.

(I raise you the following question: Whumper cleaning Whumpee's wounds with care or a harsh/reluctant Caretaker that just wants to get dealing with Whumpee over with?)

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This!!!! I'd love to see more whumpees with pre-existing neurodivergence adapting and reacting to the during and after of the whump.

Give me whumpees with tourette syndrome accidentally re-opening wounds with their tics.

Whumpees with dissociative disorders and amnesia struggling to piece together what Whumper did to them, or accidentally overdosing on medication in recovery because they forgot they already took it.

Whumpees with OCD spiralling because Whumper won't let them do their compulsions.

Whumpees with ADHD that want to follow Whumper's instructions, but are frozen by executive dysfunction and/or demand avoidance.

Neurodivergence caused by the whump is fun, but neurodivergence before the whump is even better.

I wish I could read more stories with neurodivergent whumpees like. their adhd is pre established. Their anxiety, depression, autism, etc I want it to effect how they react to the character fracturing conditions of whatever they’re put through

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Love love love whump that comes from a misunderstanding of Whumpee’s capabilities/powers.

Whumpee is believed to be invincible. Their powers make them invulnerable to anything, they can’t be killed, so the team’s plans usually just involve chucking Whumpee at any and every threat whilst everyone else works on stuff behind the scenes.

It usually works like a charm, and Whumpee never protests or complains, insisting that it doesn’t hurt them at all.

Except, their powers don’t work like that. Not technically. Sure, Whumpee is immune to physical damage, which greatly reduces risk of death or infection. But they still feel it, quite possibly more sensitively.

Whumpee, whose job is to basically just be stabbed and shot on a near daily basis feels every single wound as painful as the last. They’ve just learnt to hide the pain is all, out of fear they’ll be taken out of their role, because if someone else on the team got hurt, they’d bleed. Not Whumpee.

Cut to the team realising this, perhaps when their powers are examined in an annual checkup by a doctor with much more knowledge on how these types of powers work.

Medic is worried sick, they’d never given Whumpee any pain relief at all, thinking they simply didn’t need it.

Caretaker’s more concerned that Whumpee never even mentioned it to them. Did they not trust the team? They could have made plans with this in mind, that kept Whumpee safe, right?

Leader, however, is torn. They like Whumpee, they’re part of the team. You don’t just leave one member of the team to be hurt relentlessly. But, Whumpee is their main line of defense, and they’re not sure if they can risk losing that.

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If you want to cause your whumpee constant discomfort, give them a tic disorder and a deadline at work!

They will be more ache than human by the end of the day and will strongly consider quitting their job.

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Can I hear it up for freed whumpee developing emotional issues as a result of their captivity? Being unable to form friendships and seriously hurting the people around them in ways they don't understand?

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Me and you both on boiling alive 🤝

Anyway... do you have some thoughts on *drumroll* used as bait? ;)

-- @whumperofworlds

I think it's a great trope, but it's not one that fits with any of my OC story lines so I don't explore it often. I find its predictability can be a little boring just because every time I see it, the story has the same format: Whumpee is being tortured, Whumper let's the Team know, the Team put themself in danger for Whumpee and inevitably get captured.

(Nothing wrong with that, keep writing it, it's not my go-to)

That being said, I love this trope if it plays out exactly like this:

The Team receive a series of messages from Whumpee. Maybe they're obvious, maybe they're subtle, but either way they're clearly in trouble and asking for help. Perhaps the Team even recieve some bone-chilling photographs of Whumpee covered in blood, tied up and beaten. (Bonus points if they get a phone/video call from Whumpee in distress too.)

The Team know what Whumper is capable of, so obviously they rush to Whumpee's aid... only for Whumpee to be absolutely fine.

The texts were scripted by Whumper. The photos were doctored and fake. The phone call was acted.

So when the Team arrive to 'save' Whumpee Whumpee has to look them in the eyes and see them all react to how Whumpee tricked them and led them into a trap. Whumpee wants to explain that they had no choice, that Whumper made them send everything and threatened their family, but there's no time.

The silence of betrayal and guilt is broken by Whumper's laugh as they take the Team hostage, then discard Whumpee to the cellar for the real fun to begin.

(Then, when the Team escape, do they take Whumpee with them? Or do they leave Whumpee behind because they think Whumpee is on Whumper's side now?)

tl;dr: I think this trope is best if you're nice and patient and only hurt your whumpees after they've served their purpose

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Chronic Pain

@medwhumpmay Day 13

Medwhump May Masterlist

content: torture, sadistic whumper, intimate/creepy whumper, unwanted touch, medical whump, drugging, immobilization

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Face-down on the cold, hard table, the cool metal pressed against their skin, Whumpee laid unable to even twitch. To so much as open their eyes. The paralytic made sure of that, though they could still feel every stitch and bruise Whumper had inflicted on them with no sedative to accompany it.

If they could have, they would have jumped when Whumper’s hand landed light-as-a-feather on their back, his touch sickeningly gentle. If it had been anyone else, the contact could almost have been described as affectionate.

But it wasn’t anyone else. Whumpee was here, on the operating table, with him.

“They’re going to catch me soon,” Whumper murmured, his voice just as light as the touch that snaked its way down their spine, the little involuntary shivers that followed the only movement Whumpee was capable of. “We don’t have much longer together. I bet you’re happy about that, huh? You get to go back to your life.”

It was too good to be true. Contrary to Whumper’s words, a pit of dread yawned open in their gut. What was Whumper going to do to them if he was losing his chance? Mutilate them? Kill them?

“I’ve been thinking very hard about what to give you as a parting gift. Something to make up for the time we’ll miss together. And I think I’ve settled on the perfect thing.”

Whumper hugged them from behind, and Whumpee wanted to scream. They couldn’t, their jaw, tongue, and vocal chords all lax and immovable. Get off me. Don’t fucking touch me. Stop. Stop!

“Have you ever heard of chronic pain?” Whumper asked. He thankfully backed off, but now he was absentmindedly playing with a lock of Whumpee’s hair. “Of course, you can’t answer. I bet your pain seems pretty ‘chronic’ right now,” he laughed, “but that’s only because I keep inflicting it, over and over. After we’re parted, you’ll heal, and you and your body will forget all about me. But with chronic pain, it doesn’t go away. It just keeps on hurting and hurting and hurting, even after the wound’s all healed. It’s a little trick on the nerves.”

He leaned in close. “And every time you feel that pain, every hour of every day, that’ll be me, hurting you, even when we’re apart.”

Tears leaked out the corners of Whumpee’s eyes, the only outward sign they’d taken in Whumper’s words at all. No! You can’t do this to me! Stay away! Somebody help me!

“I’ll be very careful, Whumpee. I’ve done my research. Only the nerves, only that nice hurt, I won’t touch your functioning. You’ll walk away from this, but every step will hurt, and with every step, I’ll be there,” Whumper crooned. “That’s why I had to give you that paralytic, so you’d be nice and still for me. Though I do like you this way. Maybe I’ll keep feeding you those until they find us.”

The blade of a scalpel touched Whumpee at the spine.

“Now, let’s begin.”

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I know it feels so corny to write sometimes, but authors, I absolutely live for the scenes where a character's injuries are finally listed out loud, like a grocery list of physical damage. Whether it's a doctor at the hospital bedside, or an assessment in the field, the running list of injuries and ailments... mwah. Never tired of it. Tell me how fucked up they are! Tell me!

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consider a recovering whumpee who used Dissociation to cope during the whumpening (is this a word? this has to be word). Caretaker thought things were gonna be easier once whumpee starts snapping out of that perpetual daze.. Once whumpee actually starts responding to them.

but instead of things becoming easier, it becomes much much difficult. whumpee started to flinch and panic at everything and nothing. whumpee who slips in and out of a daze and gets panic attacks whenever they float back into their body and feel themselves existing. They feel the very fabric of their being come apart. And they don't like that! They don't know how to exist in their body. THEY JUST DON'T. All this time, they've survived the horrors by removing themselves from their body. Disconnecting. Dissociating. They've been a walking dead, a living doll. It wasn't that caretaker was failing at providing a sense of safety, no. They were succeeding and that's exactly why whumpee is slowly coming out of their shell. It's just that--- they're coming out reluctantly. Screaming and scratching and trying to go back in that familiar and comforting darkness. Healing hurts. That's what they don't tell you. It's not pretty. Maybe not in the way you'd expect it to be. It's ugly it's painful and it's terrifying. Whumpee does not want to heal.

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Amnesia trope but Caretaker was the one to wipe Whumpee's memory because they were forced to hurt Whumpee during captivity and they don't want Whumpee to remember.

They erased Whumpee's scars too to stop them asking questions, but kept some of Whumpee's pain. Now they're just sick, rather than tortured. Now they can let Caretaker look after them without crying in fear whenever Caretaker comes near.

Caretaker becomes controlling, micromanaging Whumpee's movements and restricting what they have access to under the guise of 'protecting them' because Whumpee is 'sick' and needs to rest, but they're just trying to avoid triggering Whumpee's memory.

Whumper finds out about what Caretaker is doing and decides to send over a little gift for Whumpee: a small box filled with photos and video tapes, all of Whumpee tortured and covered in blood. Whumpee doesn't understand at first. Are the photos fake? It's definitely Whumpee in them, but they should remember something like this, right?

Caretaker is out at the shops just for ten minutes, but when they come back, Whumpee is sat on the floor with the contents of the box spilled around them. They look up at Caretaker in confusion. Caretaker's heart stops.

"Caretaker, what is this?"

"I— um, I don't know, Whumpee."

Caretaker's eyes were wide with lies. Whumpee stared down at the photograph in their hands.

"It's me in the picture."

"It's not. It's probably just a fake. Technology can do that now."

"No," Whumpee said, pointing at a clear patch of skin beneath the rivers of blood. "That's my birthmark. I never show it, no one would know to add it to a fake."

Before Caretaker could form another argument, Whumpee peeled their shirt off and put a hand to the spot on their waist where the mark should be, but found nothing.

"What?" they muttered. "Where did it go?"

"Maybe it faded."

"It didn't. I would have noticed. I don't remember—" Whumpee broke off. "I don't remember..."

Realisation dawned. Caretaker took a step back.

"Caretaker, what did you do?"

"I didn't—"

"You erased my memories."

"Whumpee, I—"

"You promised you would never do that!"

"I know, I'm sorry. But you don't want to remember this."

"That's not your call to make!" Whumpee yelled.

"It will hurt you. You don't know how bad it was before."

"No, I don't. Because you took my memories! And I want them back." Whumpee picked up the tape. "Give them back or I'll watch it."

"Whumpee don't. Please," Caretaker begged. "It will hurt you. It will hurt me."

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Whumpee who save themselves instead of waiting for rescue. Whumpee who waits at home for caretaker to find because they didn't know where else to go or who to trust.

Caretaker, who just came home after a hopeless day of no leads for whumpee's disappearance to find them passed out on their couch.

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Whumpee who is in pain but also very snappy and defensive because of that. Caretaker wants to help them, they're also talking to them in an attempt to calm them down, but Whumpee just yells at them to shut up, that it hurts and to leave them alone. They're overwhelmed and in pain, everything feels too loud, too much.