#prompt: faint

[hpsnooze]

💤 [FIC] Got lost in it, feels impossible 💤

Author: @laserswordtraining

Prompt: Monsters, Inc. (2001) & Faint

Characters/Ship: Harry Potter/Tom Riddle

Rating: T

Words: 19.2k

Tags/Warnings: ScarCrux, Good Tom Riddle, Hogwarts Third Year, Fluff

Summary:

Revived Harry’s horcrux, Tom is part-dementor with powers over emotions and memories. Especially Harry’s.

Read on AO3!

[spinzolliii]

DISCLAIMER: I HAVE NO CLUE IF THIS IS MEDICALLY ACCURATE

Something that whump writers don’t consider:

IVs feel cold. Can you imagine a room temperature liquid going directly into the bloodstream of someone who’s 97-104 degrees? It’s hellish. You can’t get warm no matter how much external heat you receive.

Imagine a delirious whumpee whimpering and clawing at an IV while being restrained and reassured by Caretaker.

“No no no, that stays in”

“Hey, hey. I know it hurts, but it’ll help you feel better”

Maybe the whumpee’s hallucinating, thinking that they’re being tortured. When Caretaker’s words fail to get through, they have to use gentle touches and singing. Or, if you want to be mean, you can have the Caretaker being forced to restrain Whumpee to prevent them from hurting themselves until they run out of energy and pass out.

[mischievous-thunder]

Who's the prettiest princess of them all?

[whump-in-the-closet]

love love love when already injured characters are caught by their teammates as they slump forward. When their words blur together into an incompressible mess. When they press a hand against their injury to no avail. The blood is seeping through, weaving down their wrist. "Let...go." Suddenly going pale, falling in and out of consciousness. "I'm-- I'm fine."

They're not.

[sonofwhales]

ok but an interesting detail I've noticed in fiction after experiencing this myself.

Usually when fainting, a character's vision goes black and they might be out for hours. Now I'm not an expert as I have only fainted once, very recently. It was due to stress+food poisoning and I was trying to throw up when I heard my dad calling for me and like, I was in a state of confusion and one moment I was haunched over the sink and the next I was on the floor with him calling out for me (can cross that one out from the whumpy bucket list LMAO)

but like, I was out for literal seconds and there was no vision going black, didn't even feel the fall. I just feelt extremely weak and disoriented and had a very skewed passage of time. While I looove a good ol dramatic faint, I want to see more of that in fiction.

Just imagine, whumpee is injured and bleeding out, focused on standing up and determined to find their team but they feel as if the ground is moving under their feet.

When they see their group relief of being "safe" overtakes the adrenaline and one moment they see the group running towards them and the next they're laying in the arms of the leader, who is crying and calling out their name.

Whumpee can't understand why leader's expression seems so anguished.

[digital-nova]

Fainting whump prompts

Whumpee barely making it through their performance and collapsing on stage when it’s over. (Bonus points if the audience thinks it’s part of the act)

Sick/injured Caretaker forcing themself to stay awake until they’ve brought Whumpee to safety, passing out the moment they know everything is alright.

Whumpee fainting due to sickness and injuring themself in the process — they later wake up in hospital, still unwell but now also suffering with a broken arm or concussion.

Non-human Caretaker panicking when Whumpee faints in their arms, believing that they’re dead.

Caretaker only realising that Whumpee is sick/injured when they find them passed out in their room.

Whumpee who collapses after escaping Whumper and wakes up back in captivity. (Bonus points for a: “See? You’re too weak to survive by yourself.”)

Whumpee fading in and out of consciousness during The Whump™️, fainting every time they’re awake long enough the understand what’s happening.

Servant Whumpee fainting while completing their daily tasks, only to wake up much later when Whumper comes home — will they believe Whumpee’s excuse for the unfinished chores?

Whumper who ramps up the brutality of their torturing when Whumpee passes out from the pain, giving them a long-lasting fear of fainting around others.

Incredibly squeamish Caretaker who can’t keep themself from fainting long enough to tend to Whumpee’s wounds.

[jesuistrestriste]

Art casually sucking on your tits in the morning or something or before be sorry is that weird I don’t know lactation kink okay bye I’m leaving this here ignore it or don’t or do sorry bye

not weird ! ! hot actually !

why do i feel like he would do this in his sleep too..

like you’re waking up slowly in bed beside him, and he’s still sleeping peacefully, when suddenly he’s mumbling and whining softly. you look to him, trying to rub his back and wake him up, but he just shifts in bed until his head is resting against your chest. you don’t really think anything of it ! he’s just trying to cuddle !

until he’s turning his face down and attaching his soft pink lips to one of your nipples over your tee shirt; suckling it through the fabric and soaking it with his spit while his hips roll to push his bulge into the side of your thigh. he’s still totally out, but he’s relentlessly fluttering his tongue over your sensitive bud, and his brow is furrowing like his sleeping mind is fully aware that there’s a barrier remaining between your supple skin and his tongue :/ you have to pull up your shirt and cradle his head so that he can properly mouth at you. def only wakes up after he’s made a sticky mess in his boxers ..

[whumpetywhumpwhump]

Sick characters fainting at work will always get me- the way they brush everyone else off who tries to get them to sit down, only for their knees to buckle, eyes rolling back as everyone rushes to their side.

"Whoa, Whumpee? Easy, easy..."

Limbs growing heavy, head lolling. Other characters trying to wake them up by lightly tapping their cheek, only to be met with nothing, Whumpee's face slack in unconsciousness.

[lawrencespen1777]

Caretaker Words

“Stop pushing this off. Something’s really wrong. Trust me.”

“Don’t look at it. What did I just say?”

“You have a fever so I’m going to pretend you did not just say that to me.”

“I need you to stop moving. I know. I’m sorry. But I can’t stitch this up if you keep pulling away.”

“Can you walk?”

“That was a really hard hit. Maybe you should just lay there for a while.”

“You look terrible. How terrible? Terrible enough for them to call me.”

“I’ve got you. You’re okay. It was just a fever dream.”

“It’s not that deep. I’m wrapping it up…ohhh my God…yeah, no, it’s fine. Not that bad.”

“Oh you’re fine? Then why are you slowly tilting.”

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Writing Notes: Fainting

Fainting - (also called syncope) a transient loss of consciousness and muscle control brought about by an inadequate amount of oxygen reaching the brain.

In all cases, the individual:

feels lightheaded and

briefly loses consciousness.

A person who faints temporarily loses consciousness and muscle control.

The period of unconsciousness may last a few seconds to a few minutes.

Recovery is spontaneous.

Fainting normally causes no permanent damage to the brain, although the individual may be injured by falling when losing muscle control.

Physicians distinguish several categories of fainting:

Cardiac fainting - (cardiac syncope) occurs because heart disease prevents the heart from pumping enough blood to the brain. A person with cardiac syncope tends to faint more than once. Cardiac syncope is a sign of a serious health problem.

Reflex fainting - occurs in response to events such as emotional stress, fear, or physical pain.

Situational fainting - occurs reproducibly when the individual assumes a certain posture or performs a specific act. [NOTE: Reflex and situational fainting are not life-threatening and rarely indicate the presence of serious disease.]

Orthostatic hypotension - occurs when a person rises from lying or sitting to standing. Changing position causes blood pressure to drop suddenly in some people, resulting in a feeling of lightheadedness or a brief faint. It can be caused by certain drugs (both prescription and illicit), heavy alcohol consumption, some diseases (e.g., Parkinson’s disease, dementia) and decreased blood volume (e.g., dehydration, severe blood loss).

Fainting is caused by inadequate amounts of oxygen reaching the brain.

Cardiac syncope can be brought on by:

vascular disease,

congestive heart failure,

irregular heart rhythms (cardiac arrhythmia),

heart valve disease, or

disease of the heart muscle (cardiomyopathy).

The causes of less serious types of fainting are based on:

emotional responses,

changes in blood pressure,

decreased blood volume, etc.

Treatment depends on the underlying cause of the fainting.

In cases of reflex and situational fainting, no treatment may be needed.

People experiencing orthostatic hypotension are counseled on how to move safely from lying or standing to prevent injury from fainting.

People with cardiac fainting continue medical care, most likely supervised by a cardiologist.

Source ⚜ More: Notes & References ⚜ Writing Realistic Injuries

[esbee-daisy]

One of my fave sickfic scenarios:

✨Sickie fainting in the shower or bath✨🥰

Shower has been my lifetime favorite. Sickie with a ragingly high fever (that no one else knows about) wants to take a shower to warm up because they are freezing. They can barely make it from their room into the shower, stumbling and swaying the whole way, but they’re too delirious to be logical. Then unsurprisingly the heat of the shower combined with their body heat and lightheadedness results in them collapsing. (Likely hitting their head on the way down as a major bonus, or injuring something). But the best part is they’re unconscious and under the spray of the shower for so long it eventually turns ICE COLD. And that’s where Caretaker finds them…already terribly sick, now laying fully exposed under ice cold water for an undetermined amount of time.

And now lately I have this totally unrealistic dream scenario of Caretaker getting Sickie in the bath and while laying in the bath, Sickie faints…and in this unrealistic scenario Caretaker is distracted for a moment or goes to get something, and that’s all the time it takes for Sickie to slip below the water. They’re fully unconscious and they inhale water before Caretaker sees what’s happened and frantically has to get a completely limp and soaking wet Sickie out of the bath. Maybe the shock of being pulled out of the water starts to pull Sickie from unconsciousness, but their eyes are fluttering and rolling back and they are terrified and disoriented and suffocating and barely hanging on.

Just so many possibilities 😍🤤

[spinzolliii]

There’s something about a whumpee just sitting down. Not fainting, necessarily. Maybe they’re just about to faint, and they quietly just kneel on the ground at a time and place that doesn’t make sense. They don’t even have the capacity or willingness to articulate why they need to abruptly stop and sit. Maybe they’re catatonic while the others look at them.

Maybe a caretaker can see the dull, vacant look in their eyes and immediately senses that something is seriously wrong. Maybe the fainting comes just a few moments later.

[dclovesdanny]

Dead on Main x Supernatural

Listen, all Danny and Jason had wanted was to have a nice night in, binging Supernatural. (Jason had seen bits and pieces, but hadn’t seen the whole thing, while Danny used to watch it a lot back in middle school, but he stopped having time to watch during the beginning of Season 8.)

They didn’t mean to fall asleep watching it, nor did they plan to wake up as Dean and Castiel, with a mental connection to boot.

The mental connection was especially helpful since Jason as Dean had to figure out how to not seem suspicious, while Danny as Castiel had to figure out how likely changing the script would cause problems.

Sam and Bobby are just trying to figure out who brought Dean back from Hell and why Dean seems so confused and angry at times.

(In case this isn’t clear, they arrive in Season 4 Episode 1: Lazarus Rising)

[whumpster-dumpster]

Whumpee who's been barely hanging in there by a thread asking whoever's closest for permission to finally pass out now that it's over

[dedic4ted]

I will say it once and I will say it twice and a thousand more times:

✨️ Character losing consciousness in villains arms ✨️

will forever be one of my favorite whump scenarios 💖

[ghost-bxrd]

Prompt:

Damian isn’t happy about father’s rule not to hurt the gaggle of false kids he has acquired. How is he supposed to prove to him that he is the only one worthy of the title of heir now?

But fine. Most of them are stupid enough they’ll end up dead sooner or later. Damian just has to play the long game. Establish himself as the only constant.

But then father’s wayward son, Todd, comes home… and it’s so much worse than Damian expected.

He remembers this man. Remembers him from hushed whispers in the League, from mother’s creased eyebrow, and training halls drenched with blood.

And he’ll take one look at Damian and know. Know that he’s a threat to his position.

And the worst thing: Damian isn’t allowed to defend himself.