Febuwhump Day 28: "Not like this,"
Content warning: drugging, spiked drink, kidnapping, discussion of noncon touch
Things were going smoothly. They usually did, in Caretaker’s experience.
It hadn’t been a hard job. Sneak into the party, get close to the target, bring them out. The fact that Whumpee was already a few drinks in only made it easier. It’d barely taken any effort to get their trust, and before long Caretaker had been left to watch over their drink as Whumpee stumbled to the bathroom.
It’d been easy to slip something into their drink. Easy to lead them out of the party the second they showed signs of feeling the effects. By the time Whumper had driven up with the car, Whumpee was too far gone to even complain when Caretaker manhandled them into the backseat. The whole process had taken no more than an hour.
Caretaker found that kidnappings were a lot more boring than television would make you think.
They were in the backseat with Whumpee now, just in case something went wrong. Not that they expected it to; Whumpee was quiet in their seat, half slumped and staring lazily out the window. They almost looked like they were there willingly, no restraints, no look of horror on their face.
Whatever mix of chemicals was in the powder— it wasn’t Caretaker’s job to know, just to get it into Whumpee— its effects were subtle. Whumpee had no trouble walking out of the party on their own two feet, movements more coordinated than most of the partygoers. The drug didn’t steal their motor control, didn’t force Caretaker to do more than guide them out by the hand. All it did was make sure they’d follow Caretaker along without any questions.
They were like a sleepwalker. Pupils blown wide and nothing going on behind them, but just present enough to seem normal from a distance.
It put Caretaker’s teeth on edge. They wished they could go back to just knocking the marks out, but they couldn’t deny this was more efficient.
“God, you can be such a fuckin’ prude,” Whumper called from the front, voice loud to be heard over the radio. They adjusted their rearview mirror to lock eyes with Caretaker, giving them a look of mock disappointment. “I thought you jumped back there to get a feel or something, but you’re just sitting there like you’re in church.”
Caretaker gave them a disgusted look, earning a laugh. They crossed their arms, turning their body away from Whumpee. “Don’t be a creep. Let’s just keep it professional.”
Whumper scoffed. “Sure, professional. Like you weren’t halfway in their pants back there anyway. They’re hot, we’ve got a long drive. Why not?”
Whumpee sat oblivious to all of this. They were simply gone, staring at nothing.
“I was just doing my job, Whumper. Why don’t you do your job and drive?”
“God you’re pissy tonight. Don’t gotta be an asshole about it,” Whumper grumbled, rolling their eyes. They turned their gaze back to the road. “You know they never remember anything, right? You can do literally whatever you want.”
As if them remembering was the problem. Caretaker would remember what they’d done, when someone was totally helpless in front of them. They’d decided long ago that they’d never do more than necessary, never put someone through more than what they had to. They wouldn’t touch Whumpee. Not like this, not when they weren’t capable of even beginning to defend themselves.
They had morals. Weak, barely there, but Caretaker had them. They needed to cling to that fact. They were just doing their job.
“I’m not a monster. I’m just doing what I have to.” Caretaker said, too quiet to be heard over the radio, just loud enough for Whumpee to hear.
Whumpee didn’t respond.
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literally the people in the BrBa fandom who like think its super important to focus somewhat on the bad things Jesse's done instead of just acknowledging those things tend to have misunderstandings on either how selling drugs increase harm (which while there's other complexities to parts of the drug trade, simply making and providing drugs alone does not increase the harm those drugs cause) or they have misremembered some of his actual actions as being more in his control than they actually were, and with some people it really feels like it comes from the stigma against addicts even if they think they're not falling into that
and like again this lack of understanding around everything relating to drugs and addiction especially, even from people that mean well, is the whole reason it's more important to focus on the good in Jesse and how he's the victim rather than acting like there's no one acknowledges his flaws and the bad things he's done, cause a huge fucking swath of people outside our little tumblr circles do and act like every single bad thing in his life as entirely his responsibility without aknowledging any way that the world worked against him or the abuse he faced and see him as less of a person because he's an addict
and like I do think if Jesse wasn't the type of person that sees his own flaws and ultimately tries to do his best to change and learn even in the terrible situation he's in that doesn't want that change to happen, and instead needed people to like... constantly tell him to be better, then yeah it'd definitely be much more important to focus on those flaws and the bad things he did... but that's not the case, even the one thing he plans to do that was awful AND fully his choice (trying to sell drugs to the rehab group) was something he snapped himself out of when he was able to concretely see a consequence he hadn't considered before, this doesn't negate that trying to sell drugs to the rehab group was wrong, but it does add complexity to how we judge that action playing into Jesse as a whole
like you can't just sit there and act like ur so smart for aknowledging a character written like a real person is complex without thinking about the greater social commentary you're getting across when you insist we can't simply aknowledge the bad things a character does and have to still really judge them on those things or say calling them a "good person" erases the bad they've done and not consider if what you're saying is like... useful on a wider scale in combating the stigmatization of characters like Jesse (especially surrounding drug selling/making/using drugs) or if you're just refering to "woobification" bullshit that isn't particularly prevalent in the wider world
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I’ve decided to do a Bad Things Happen Bingo!
My goal is to get at least one (1) bingo, but honestly I just want to write some suffering
How this is going to work:
Send me an ask with one (1) prompt + the character(s)/media.
I’ll mark that prompt as “claimed” on this post by editing (so check the original post before you ask).
When the writing is done (and published), I’ll shade the prompt in completely.
Prompts that are shaded in or claimed cannot be asked for! So if there’s something here you like, grab it quick!
Things I’m willing to write:
My original characters. See my #dear cassedy tag, but I also have some OCs who have yet to be formally introduced on this account (a vampire nurse with a werewolf bf and plural chemist who makes LSD - they're not from the same universe).
Drabbles of characters created solely for the situation/prompt. In this case, the asker has to propose the characters themselves. Please don't use this as a roundabout way to get writings of your OCs.
Psychonauts
Sky: Children Of The Light (Elders and Spirits, I’m not big on writing skykids)
(Maybe) Hazbin Hotel
Hollow Knight
[I can't think of much else right now, but if it comes to me I'll add it.]
Things might get a little homoerotic (especially with the cannibalism prompt), but I won't do straight-up NSFW, since I'm still 17. Gore though? That's fine.
As always, I retain the right to refuse a prompt if it squicks me or it's just not something I'm interested in writing, in which case I'll respond to the ask privately stating as much.
Prompts are listed in the alt text for those with screen-readers. Below divider by @/cafekitsune. I don't remember where I got the snake dividers, sorry :(
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