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Hey, are you awake? Good! No, don't scream, I'm not going to hurt you. It's just I've got this convoluted story, setting, and cast of OC's in my head and I needed to talk to someone about it. I'll let you go when I'm done.

What? NO I can't just tell my friends. What if they think I'm annoying or my OCs are cringe? That's what you're here for.

Now, here are the picrews I have saved so you can get an idea of what my OC's look like. I have at least 57 of the same character, for each of the 23 in my story's main cast. So this whole thing started when I was in 6th grade-

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god, i had a really similar idea a while ago! except, instead of heir whumpee, there was MONARCH whumpee with several royal advisor whumpers. and whumpee is either super conditioned or maybe drugged to keep them compliant, made only to preform public stuff like ceremonies or announcements. basically a puppet.

they are also abused, beaten maybe even by their own guards, denied food or water or sleep when their performance wasn’t "agreeable" enough for the whumpers. and the staff in the palace either are forbidden to help whumpee or participate in abusing them because the council (whumpers) hold all the power!

and here’s a bit of uhh, plot? basically, the whumpers are terrible rulers, who are siphoning away money from the treasury to fuel their own extravagant lifestyles. and whumpee is just. so out of it. they can’t rule either! so the kingdom is basically going to shit.

unsurprisingly, a revolution sparks and because of plot reasons, it’s successful. now imagine a justly vengeful mob storming the palace, searching every nook and cranny for the person they believe to be responsible for all the suffering in the land — whumpee.

Abused royal Whumpee? Whumpee who is heir to the throne, but his parent passed away and kingdom is under a rule of regent until Whumpee is of age. But regent does not want to give away power and abuse Whumpee so he won't dare to go against them in the future. And fun part would be if Whumpee for example was starved and forced to sleep on the floor and beaten, but then all of the signs of abuse got covered up with pretty clothes and no one knows what Prince is going through. Bonus points if Whumpee is seen as spoiled. Whumpee is exhausted from spending night in cold cell and is taking breaks often and people see him as lazy. Or people see pretty clothes and say "you live in such luxury I bet you eat meat every day" and Whumpee does not even eat every day

op i want you to know that you are SO valid for this, this is delicious. I love it and I want it in everything

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Photo ID: [A white long legged bird that is wide stepped with the caption "whumpee" on the bird itself and "That" where the bird is reaching out with its foot while the caption on the very top says "Whumper: Don't do that."]

I found this on pinterest and made some small edits and now I'm cackling like a crazy person in my bedroom.

Now I'm just thinking of OCs that will 100% do something just to spite whumper like "fuck you, i am doing this". Tag your OCs if you have them!

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hes ur “emotional support blorbo”??? girl he cant even emotionally support Himself

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Whumper landed on the floor with an audible thump. Disoriented and hurt, they barely had the time to scramble away before their back hit a wall. Dread, cold sticky dread pooled in their stomach as they weakly lifted their head towards their tormentor.

"What a pathetic display," Caretaker sighed, languidly striding forwards. Their face, half obscured by shadows was carved into a smile and Whumper, in their terrified stupor, barely noticed the fangs peeking out of it. Barely.

Their heartbeat sped up — what are they, what are they, what is that — before slowing, abruptly. They–they couldn’t move. There was a growing pressure behind their eyes and Whumper couldn’t move.

They honestly thought it was panic, their body giving out from the terror. That was before Whumper felt a tug on — everywhere, everywhere, an invisible force gripping every part of their body from inside and pulling.

"Doesn’t feel so good, hm?" Caretaker was now standing over them, cold, predatory eyes fixed on Whumper's thrashing. "Being stripped of your autonomy? Feeling as if your body is not your own?"

They were almost nonchalant with that damned smile, talking to Whumper as if they were just exchanging pleasantries with a colleague over lunch break, as if whatever nightmare that was going on right now was fucking normal.

Well, it was. But not with Whumper on the receiving end.

Anger flared within them, only to be washed away by pain, in every blood vessel, vein and artery, as Caretaker forced their limp body upwards.

"You see, I don’t quite believe in justice," their tormentor purred, calm demeanor oddly juxtaposed with barely restrained anger seething from every syllable.

"But I do believe in revenge." The last thing Whumper saw was Caretaker’s smile turning feral, fangs flashing in the dimly lit basement.

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A Whumper who, in the eyes of a traumatized Whumpee, is a Caretaker compared to the absolutely horrendous treatment they had been subjected to prior to being kidnapped by them

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The phrase "he woke up in a nest of blankets" came to me last night and I'm still obsessed with it

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Whumpee who‘s named/nicknamed for a trait that, by now, has been conditioned or modified out of them. Whumpee called ‘Fangs’ who has perfectly flat and even teeth. Whumpee always referred to as ‘crybaby’ or ‘feral’ despite being perfectly docile and content. Maybe it’s been so long they can barely remember why they gave the nickname in the first place.

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Okay the dynamic that currently has me thinking-

Whumper turned Whumpee, and Whumpee turned Whumper, typical.

But the Whumpee is so much worse.

If Whumper had broken broken one of their fingers, they smash every bone in their hand as revenge. If Whumpee was burned with a lighter, Whumper had red hot coals placed all upon their restrained body. If Whumpee had a collar, you bet Whumper had one too, with sharp thorns all along the inside pulled tight enough to impede their breathing. God forbid Whumper had ever done anything truly bad.

Maybe Whumpee was given a bed in captivity, meals, any sort of comfort. Not Whumper though, nope. They’re lucky if their restraints aren’t pulled too tight at night, if they aren’t stood with a chain looped around their neck threatening to choke them if they tried to relax.

Maybe Caretaker is in on this, living peacefully in the house above, listening to every scream and sob that can be heard through the floorboards. They don’t care. After what Whumper had done to whumpee, they deserve it, right?

I also love the idea of Whumpee getting insanely protective over caretaker. Maybe Caretaker would accompany them down to the basement sometimes, just to watch as Whumper suffers. Sometimes they’d even contribute to the torture. But whumper, realizing that caretaker was their only chance, sobs and pleads, clutching at their ankles as they beg for forgiveness, for mercy.

On and this makes Whumpee’s blood boil. They kick Whumper away with a boot to the jaw, watching as the other sobs and curls on their side.

“Don’t you fucking touch them,” They would hiss, grabbing two fistfuls of Whumper’s tattered, stained shirt and dragging them up so they could see every blood splatter, every smear of tears or snot, their eyes swollen with bruises and filled with terror. “They are not going to help you. No one is.”

And all Whumper can do is sob because they know it’s true.

Bonus points if caretaker eventually starts to feel guilty and become a caretaker to Whumper.

Extra bonus points if Caretaker eventually acts on this, saving Whumper from Whumpee in the dead of night, fleeing the house with them, bringing them somewhere safe.

Even more bonus points if this extends into a very whumpy recovery/redemption arc.

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whumpers who need to be officially pardoned for their crimes or will suffer a much worse fate waiting for them as punishment…but the catch is the person who holds whumper’s life in their hands is none other than their former whumpee.

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happy halloween! here is a ghost duet

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THIS. THIS IS MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE CHARACTER DYNAMIC. it’s so wonderful in so many ways that i can’t even BEGIN to describe.

Caretaker who is a very significant, very powerful person in their world, and has befriended whumpee, who is not nearly as powerful or important. Who is actually a nobody. Whumpee gets kidnapped or captured and whumper mocks them as they torture them. "You think Caretaker has time for you? You think they actually care about you? They're the Most Important Person and you're a nobody. They're not coming for you."

Cure Caretaker crashing through the walls in a rampage screaming "WHERE THE FUCK ARE THEY?!"

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oh! what if whumper makes whumpee hallucinate their rescue, for it only to be snatched away once they start feeling safe? they do it over and over and over again, until when whumpee is actually rescued...they still think it’s an illusion.

Whumper with some kind of psychic or illusory powers, who traps their whumpee in visions or dreams. They make whumpee doubt the world around them, and torment them with false worlds

Or

Whumper with teleportation/portals/reality altering powers, who takes whumpee from place to place, always confronting them with a new kind of torment. Labyrinths, deserts, tundras, endless forests, deep under water.

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New post, (sorry I keep asking), but seriously, does anyone have advice for finding an audience for original writing? I thought people who liked my fanfics might read my stuff since it’s all pretty much fantasy whump, but I’m not finding that to really be the case. In fact, I’m feeling ignored by the whump community, if I’m being honest. I see so many other OC whump blogs take off and do so well. Why am I left in the dust? What am I doing wrong?

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haha, thanks and please don’t worry! i wasn’t injured back then, just scared shitless and it was like...10 years ago, so i’ve had time to come to terms with a lot of stuff.

Being bombed?! Holy fuck…!

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yep. it didn’t make much of an impact on my writing, but i DO hate any kind of sirens now, so there’s that