Recovering whumpee keeps having dreams about whumper. When caretaker asks, whumpee calls them nightmares. But is it true? Does it count as a nightmare when all they're doing is talking?
It makes whumpee wonder-- what kind of broken person would miss someone who treated them the way whumper did?
whumpees who, despite their torture, agony, the scars and bruises covering their skin, the grime and blood caked on their face, hold themselves aloof and with an air of grace
no one knows how much they’re struggling, the true amount of pain they’ve gone through, the agony they still experience every day, lingering from the injuries. no one knows the mental anguish, the fear and despair they feel when someone unknowingly does something whumper did, that triggers them, because it’s all behind their mask.
until, one day, they melt into a weeping, shaking, cowering mess that can’t even speak
a character who didn't call a friend for help because their phone is charging in their bedroom and by the time they realized they need help, they were too sick or weak to go get it. the friend comes to the rescue and uses their spare key when they miss something important (work, a party, a team assembly, etc without calling) and it's unlike them. friend comes in and is and hurt by the fact that character didn't call them, but the anger dissipates when they realize that it was something so simple.
Weapon whumpees in their last moments of sanity asking, begging, to be killed so that they can’t do anymore damage, so that they can’t hurt anyone else, so that they can’t be used anymore.
Better yet if there’s something stopping them from doing it themselves and they have to plead with caretaker to kill them.
Does caretaker do it? Does it hurt worse for whumpee to be dead or to see the wreckage they cause, the pain in their eyes? Does caretaker forsaken them too?
whumper scratching the knife or blunt weapon against the floor or wall so it makes a screeching, unpleasant sound as a prelude for all the suffering and just to mess w whumpee lol
I’ve decided that grammar is real, but anyway, here’s a scenario:
Whumpee didn’t realize what they were doing when they picked up the cursed object. They thought it was just a story going around, and it wouldn’t actually curse the person who used it. Now, though, they lie curled up in pain from the malevolent curse placed upon them, regretting their curiosity. “What have I done?” Caretaker, meanwhile, searches through old books and ancient texts, desperately trying to find a cure or a solution of some kind. There had to be something they could do.
team is captured. whumper understands that torturing leader won’t be effective if they want information, so they take whumpee, the weakest member of the team, while forcing team to watch.
any team member is free to speak at any time. if their information is verified, they’re free to go. how long until they start to consider betraying their friends? how long until a teammate has to be forcibly restrained by their companions to be prevented from telling whumper everything? the info is important, sure, but how much does that matter in the face of whumpee’s misery?
A helpless caretaker who knows so well what kind of hell Whumpee is going through right now, and can't ever seem to fall asleep.
A helpless caretaker who can reach Whumpee whenever they want to, can hold them and comfort them and say sorry all they want, but know that even trying to actually pull Whumpee out of the torture would result worse off for the both of them.
A helpless caretaker who can't let Whumpee know that they're on their side.
A helpless caretaker who doesn't know what's the right thing to do.
A helpless caretaker who's on the brink of becoming the reluctant whumper.
A helpless caretaker who has to run off mid-sentence and cry in a bathroom stall.