#joking to cope

[promptsforyourwhumpfic]

Whump Prompt #1086

Anon asked:

Need me some prompts for a really happy-go-lucky character who hides their traumas behind a witty remark and a cocky smile

Happy go-lucky is a trope I’ve modelled an OC on so:

Nothing appears to phase the character at first: even when it really should. 

When the Worst Stuff is revealed about their past, everyone is sat in horrified shock except your character, who passes the whole thing off as a funny story. The character shrugs and says ‘and I’m still alive so... I’ll drink to that.’

The ‘it is what it is’ mentality. Someone is mean to them? They’ve heard worse. They’re injured? ‘Not as bad as the last time.’ They’ve just witnessed something horrific? ‘Eh, at least no-one died in my arms this time.’

They’ve learnt to craft their backstory into something more humorous to reduce the impact it has on other people. 

“Hahah, well actually I’ve dealt with this before. It’s a funny story really, I was nearly executed for...”

Maybe one day they can’t hold it in anymore. That One Thing is enough to push them over the edge. Maybe they drink, maybe they do something else self destructive and it all comes out. There’s no cocky smile, there’s no joke; your character is being 100% real and It’s jarring for the caretakers... but also a relief that the trauma is finally being addressed. 

[muxas-world]

Vale after the sepang mess, and the sete incident and casey at laguna seca and jorge spy and wall situation a true demon

[florshedworf]

i can’t believe the mandela catalogue was crested by ty osborne

[delta-deviant]

Child me: Wow im so glad my health is perfect!

Teen me: Wow im so glad my physical health is perfect!

Me now: Wow im alive!

[gale-in-space]

All of my friends are getting top surgery and going to grad school and my uneducated ass is just sitting here all boobily and useless

[hyunjining]

the man knows how to distract me i’ll give him that

[meowtally-ill]

my friends n i playing the fun game of how long can we ignore our mental illness lol

[alters-journal]

Crazy how trauma can make the preppiest girls into emos. I speak from experience.

-Sarah

[defectivegembrain]

Super spicy meltdown existential crisis flavour with extra tics

[lschmidtartblog]

Tears of the Kingdom: Wiggle to Detach (colorized)

[bluepuppethidinginafilingcabinet]

the watcher fandom rn

[dear-tumby]

mental illness, its a big f*cking joke.

being mentally ill is so funny because one minute im happy texting my boyfriend and the next im hearing voices and drinking pop to make it go away as i start to think how fucking crazy i am likeeee XP

[shadowbends]

Looking through your Ao3 bookmarks and seeing that little “This has been deleted, sorry!” is like finding a gravestone, but the writing’s too worn down to read what it was standing for anymore.

What were you, Bookmark #336... What stories did you tell? Which words were it that once left a mark on my soul?  *touches my laptop screen like it’s text from an ancient ruin*

Cowabummer. 

[thenightsystem]

Most people only get 4 stress responses: Fight, Flight, Fawn, and Freeze.

people with DID unlock the secret fifth one: Forget

-host

[abbeyofcyn]

Post krang infection doodles

[sunlit-mess]

im going insane