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[sodascribbles]

two weeks of whump: day four

(read on ao3 here!)

Definitely not late! For @.promptsforyourwhumpfic's Two Weeks of Whump Challenge!

Belt | Gas Mask | Cage

characters — murray, the contessa, misc. guards, sly mentioned

contains — cage <3, stress position i think??, again the furry equivalent of dehumanization

notes — some helpful inspo :] ok don’t question the logistics of non-sentient and sentient animals co-existing we KNOW that’s canonically how it works (see muggshot’s bulldogs, rajan’s elephants, various nonsentient rats) but. don’t. don’t think about it too hard okay

In a fucked up way, he's almost proud.

Sly’s learned how to keep his head down. Murray has not. He fights his way through a good half of the guards on-duty before they can pin him down, bruised and battered but smiling, shouting, “Is that all you’ve got?!”

He’s wrestled into a space much too small for him, kicking and screaming all the while. It’s a cage, a literal fucking— Murray doesn’t know a lot about the technicalities of things, but that can’t be legal, right? (Eventually, both him and Sly will figure out that it didn’t matter. In the prison, the Contessa was the law.)

He’s not even really able to stand, hunched in on himself in the tiny space. It’s like he’s a caged animal— well, okay, Murray supposes that technically he is a caged animal, but semantics really aren’t his concern right now. Small as it is, he’s curled in the corner.

It’s almost vulnerable. Murray’s kind of a big guy, and to be forced to feel so small…

Physically it sucks, too. He doesn’t really know how long he’s been sitting in here, but he’s started to ache; his back’s protesting, throbbing outward from where his shoulders are pressed to the wire. He thinks his knees are bruised, too, both from the cage itself and from sitting so long on the cold concrete below.

The blood on his snout has dried, crusted uncomfortably against his upper lip. He reaches up to rub it away— but there’s still not a lot of room to move here, and he elbows the wire and knocks himself in the jaw. He eventually just drops his hands back into his lap, sighing.

At some point, the skitter of too-many-fucking-legs lets Murray know that somebody’s finally come to visit him. (Not that he really wanted her of all people to visit. He would have much preferred Sly.)

The Contessa tilts her head at him, smiling. She did that a lot, he’d noticed, always sickeningly sweet. He can’t wait to whack the look right off of her. “That’s quite the predicament you’re in!” She steps forward, and Murray draws back, face twisting into a snarl. He must really look like a caged animal now, huh?

“Do you want out?” Her tone pitches up, light and mocking, and Murray realizes that’s exactly what she’s getting at. She’s talking to him like one might a particularly stupid (wild) animal. He winces at the thought and tries to straighten up, but the cage makes it impossible.

The Contessa laughs. “Oh, you must,” she says, watching him strain against the wire. She reaches up to reveal a ring of keys in her hand, taking one between her claws, and for a moment, Murray dares to hope.

“You’ve been causing quite a lot of trouble for my guards,” she says, her smile unfaltering but her jaw tight. “I think you should do something to make up for that, first.” His hope pops like a bubble on a blade.

She pretends to muse over this for a few moments, analyzing him. “Perhaps we’ll start with asking nicely.”

Murray narrows his eyes at her, internally weighing his options. The idea of it burns, red-hot and nauseous— he’d taken down a whole squad of wolves, and now he was considering playing nice because, what, she’d asked him to?

…but he aches. If he wants to fight his way out of here (and what else could he do?), he’s going to need to be in top shape. And this? This is not top shape.

Unsatisfied with his hesitation, the Contessa clicks her tongue. “So be it,” she sighs. She reaches forward, reaching a claw through the wire to tip his head up— Murray winces as his head’s pressed to the top of the cage. “I suppose this does take care of some things. You’re quite a bit more… tolerable, like this,” she coos, smiling once more.

Oh, I’ll show her tolerable, Murray thinks, and then he bites her hand.

[missazura]

GIRL SHE'S FLIRTING WITH YOU THROUGH FLOWER LANGUAGE

I KNOW ROSES MEAN ROMANCE AND LAVENDERS ARE LIKE. CALMNESS

[flamechasr]

18 Elysia, 24 aerith, and 31 ^_^

(18) — a memory of a time you felt loved

ELYSIA ; there's a lot leading up to my departure... i really wish i knew how to receive love better because i remember eden organizing a tea party all by herself for us. she was never overly romantic because that was my thing, but i felt her love as she poured tea for both of us, in a quiet garden. i remember kevin, with his ice cold heart, crying in the other room after having just told me how much it pained him for me to go, yet i didn't know how to comfort him so i just left him. that was really mean of me, yet still, he loved me too. and of course my dearest mei who looked for me when i disappeared. i thought it'd be easier for us to spare the goodbyes but she was so distraught and i couldn't bear it, because she loved me too. somehow it's memories of being loved that makes me sad the most.

(24) — who were your favorite people to be around

AERITH ; my canon is almost the same as source, so zack my love my everything, i could spend everyday with him and wouldn't miss a thing. he was always busy but he made time for me and that made me happy. i really thought he was the perfect guy. then there was cloud, he acted cold but he was so easy to melt, it was fun teasing him because he's a big softie deep down who couldn't take some playful flirting. him and his group were really fun, i was definitely closer with avalanche than in canon as i had many fond memories with them. for example tifa my bestie, she's so strong but also feminine in a lot of ways!! we went shopping every other week and gossiped about the boys <3 i also miss my mom a lot. and also since you asked, i do have memories with yuffie particularly her teaching me ninja moves because i wanted to learn hjfkdh. I think it went well though i never actually got to use them in battle

(31) — any current questioning kins and why haven't you kinfirmed them yet

already answered!!

[urfaveisdisneysfirstgaycharacter]

@ the two danganronpa messages: I am not posting these because of the content y’all have explained, but ye characters like that I would not post and thank you for giving us a heads up! I should have explained better, I do typically do a little google search before tossing a request on the google doc list we have, but there’s always the possibility I miss things or things aren’t included on the wiki pages I find.

[sweet-sapphics]

I'm 19, butch, short brown hair and hazel eyes, my favourite singer is marina and the diamonds, and I would take you on a date to the beach and we could have a picnic there and swim :)

love butches!!!!!! and i love the idea of a picnic but im ngl i am Not a Fan of the beach and the water but i’d love to go to a park for a picnic!!

10/10 would date even though beaches are bad because butches are Good

[toolpack]

Can you maybe link some of your sodapAck fics please

yes!

Lightning Scars, aka the one everyone loves!!!

Milk and Honey which is another well liked one! it's based off of my other fic, A Wish for Anything which is not sodapack but is me attempting to put together a happy ending for the finale of one HJFKDH

my most recent one!! which isnt explicitly sodapack but i still personally like a lot

there are others on my account that i either don't entirely enjoy anymore, or are kind of vent fics and i don't really feel like publicly sharing. but you can go seek them out if you want :D

[growing-hobbyist]

Drawn with love...! 🖤

Man, this page made me so happy hjfkdh

It's Yoon Bum from Killing Stalking

[love-live-imagines]

“Anyone in this thread smokes weed” I’ve been laughing for a solid five minutes I think

hjfkdhs im glad u like it

[missazura]