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Some comfort (whump??) dialogue prompts that are EXACTLY my cup of tea:

- "Shh... it's okay, just close your eyes. I'll be here when you wake up, I promise."

- "Hey, no- stop that...! You'll rip the stitches if you keep doing that!"

- "Focus on my voice... I'm here..."

- "No, let me do it. You're injured."

- "That's it, just feel me... Focus on the way my chest rises as I breathe... Try to follow my lead..."

- "It's safe to fall asleep. It's okay. You don't have to worry about anything, I'm here with you."

- "What you're feeling is a bottle of water that I'm holding to your mouth. Come on, drink some of it..."

- "My hands are here if you want to hold them, okay? You can tighten the grip as much as you want, don't worry about hurting me. You won't."

- "It's me... It's just me, it's okay...*

- "It's all over now, everything is okay..."

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I can't stop thinking about my favorite characters, and about all the atrocities that could happen to them. I'm going to explode into confetti.

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Random quotes from a still-in-progress The Legend Of Zelda angst/whump fanfic (yes, it's an OoT fanfic. Let me be, I'm insane-):

"I'm growing up. No matter what I do, even if I can go back in time, I'm still growing up. And it won't stop. Time doesn't stop inside my head."

"My brain is too big for what it feels like it should be."

"I wish someone would lie to me and tell me that it's okay, that I can rest. That I can refuse my duty, that someone else will do it for me, because I'm just a child. I wish I could let the world die and crumble without guilt. Without being aware that it would be my fault. Just like the child I once believed myself to be would've done."

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"Caretakers" who are just doing their job as medical professionals. They barely even talk to Whumpee, and yet, Whumpee finds themself craving their gentleness, their touch, their presence.

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incapacitation

content warning

drugs that make a character woozy and disoriented. slurring words and falling slack, everything too heavy and confusing and muffled

blown pupils, wandering eyes, breathing too much or too little. sweating, shaking, puking, so limp and pale it’s almost like they’re dead

fevers so high a character's mind just turns to mush. glossy eyes tracking the ceiling, listless and unaware until eventually there's sweat sticking all over the sheets and they start mumbling some vague responses to caretaker's questions

tranquilizer dart that brings a character down all at once. one sudden jerk or look of confusion, not enough time to glance at it much less pull it out before eyes are rolling back and they collapse into the dirt

tranquilizer dart that comes on slowly. pulling it out and running and running until each step becomes too uncoordinated, stumbling or getting dragged along by a teammate until even their begging to stay awake, let's go, becomes hazy and distant

struck so hard that everything rings in one ugly roar. staggering or falling, told to sit down, just stay down. so confused and lost, repeating the same questions and forgetting the answer over and over and over again

character so messed up they struggle to follow any part of the conversation. everything too heavy and confusing and muffled, just useless and incoherent and completely oblivious to the situation

nervous prodding or pleading by caretaker, begging them to just stay awake or focus

jostled around by captor, told to get the fuck up and follow orders, easily manhandled and restrained

mumbling nonsense and spilling secrets. stoic characters without any masks, so confused and broken and vulnerable, slipping and powerless in every sort of way

"you're okay, i promise you're okay"

“ah, shit. you’re a mess—”

“I guess you won’t remember this anyways…”

gaze drifting and blank, too faraway to track anything caretaker/captor is saying. nudged and prodded and pleaded at to no avail, just incoherent and out of it

too weak to move. beaten absolutely senseless or bleeding all over the place, a character just hurting and spent beyond means sprawled flat against the ground

getting dragged along or stepped on, pinned down as if they're in any state to go anywhere

hypnotized and stunned into mindlessness. repeated mantras and rewired thoughts, a character made pliable and blank and used like a puppet

paralyzed but fully aware, left slack and useless and desperate with limp muscles and depressed breathing. assumed dead and abandoned, grieved over or dumped aside like a corpse, forced to watch and unable to do anything

poisoned and just getting worse and worse. teammates desperately looking for a cure while character deteriorates, puking and passing out and getting high fevers, hallucinating and begging for relief

characters taken out of commission when they're otherwise the strongest one. exposed to a weakness, given magical restraints or cuffs with neural suppressors to keep them docile, targeted and taken out

vertigo taking a character side to side, brought down and useless

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TW: medical problems whump prompt

Today I searched, out of curiosity, if sadness could actually kill you.

Apparently, severe stress and/or psychological trauma could cause a rare, temporary heart failure that mimics the symptoms of a heart attack. This heart failure usually heals on its own, but in extremely rare cases, it could suppose bigger complications that could be life-threatening.

It's called "broken heart syndrome", "takotsubo cardiomyopathy" or "stress cardiomyopathy".

So, yeah. It's very rare among the rare, but heartbreak can, in some circumstances, be fatal.

I thought that somebody could find this useful for writing, or just as a cool fact to have knowledge of!

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Share the goofy titles you write for your draft stories/fanfiction!!

I'll start-

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Caretaker treating Whumpee's injuries and finding a note placed inside one of their stab wounds.

It's a note from Whumper. Addressed to Caretaker.

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TOH Hunter headcanons (Golden Guard) (hurt/comfort and whump)

I made a list of my headcanons for Hunter in his Golden Guard era! I'm rather nervous about posting this-

I must warn, this account is focused on whump. Whump is a subgenre closely similar to hurt/comfort in which an author puts a fictional character through physical or psychological pain. Please, do not read if that could make you uncomfortable.

This list will contain mentions of:

Panic and anxiety attacks

Disordered eating

Physical injuries

Mild physical illness

Don't read under the cut if those matters are triggering to you.

- Hunter has nightmares about events he hasn't experienced per se, but that were experienced by previous grimwalkers in his position. Most of his nightmares involve Belos killing him, which amplifies his need to please the emperor in fear that his nightmares will become real.

- Hunter has some disordered thoughts when it comes to eating, since he's been taught that he needs to earn such a "luxury". He may have nutritional deficiencies due to this, such as anemia.

- On the same vein, it's likely that Hunter gets weird cravings often, both from anemia and from undereating. Occasionally he might even have binging episodes where he sneaks late at night into the kitchen and starts eating without others knowing, not even cooking the raw food.

- Flapjack acts like an emotional support animal to him. He follows Hunter everywhere and rests on his shoulder whenever he's tired, or if he needs comfort. Flapjack has also supported Hunter through panic and anxiety attacks, nuzzling into his chest.

- Wearing his Golden Guard armor aids him a lot when trying to show a calm facade, as he can hide his face, as well as limit the tremors when his body gets shaky. It gives him a sense of power and belonging as well. Therefore, he feels especially vulnerable when he's not in his armor.

- He suffers from Complex-PTSD. Sometimes, he gets emotional flashbacks that trigger anxiety and panic attacks. Hunter doesn't know what a panic attack is, but he's really ashamed of suffering from them. He just assumes it's a normal thing he has to learn to stop on command.

- Hunter is actually very emotionally sensitive. Since he was never allowed to show it, though, his body got subconsciously used to expressing his emotional stress through physical symptoms. Therefore, it's not unusual for him to feel "off" (with intense migraines, fatigue, stomachaches...) after an emotionally charged day.

- He snaps at people when they show concern for him, since he thinks he's being mocked or seen as incompetent. Other coven members never really showed concern, after all. The only person who has ever shown any sort of remote care for him before has been the emperor, and that kind of care was always conditional. Hunter feels like he has to prove his strength to everyone who tries to treat him like "someone" instead of "something".

- The Emperor's Coven had little-to-no actual medical assistance. The usual procedure for wounds was to bandage them without cleaning them beforehand. Hunter never questioned it. Most of his scars are from injuries that were never treated properly.

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Hey Tumblr! You can call me Naimo! This is my whump and hurt/comfort sideblog!

Whump is a huge coping mechanism for me. I get to project my struggles, fears, and feelings onto my favorite characters, and the comfort they receive from another character is very soothing to me too.

When my favorite characters get hurt, I get the urge to take care of them. When things get hard in my life, I imagine that I turn into that hurt character, and I pretend to be my own caretaker so that I can pull through.

With that said, in this blog I will post (with content warnings!):

Whump scenarios of my comfort characters

Whump headcanons of my comfort characters

Random whump or hurt/comfort prompts

Sickness whump

Whump in medical settings

Trauma whump

Injury whump

Things I don't think I will post (because I personally don't feel comfortable with them):

Pet whump

Torture whump

Sexual whump

Whump where the whumpee dies

Gore

Fandoms I'm in (that I enjoy the whump or hurt/comfort of):

The Owl House

The Legend of Zelda (any game, but mainly Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask)

Heartstopper

My OCs... I guess (not really a fandom)

Thank you for creating this space for us whump lovers! You're all super valid.