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Prompt #2476

“I’m a good weapon,” they promised, fervent and almost pleading. “I’m powerful, and easily controlled, a-and I’ll do anything you ask, anything at all!”

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like imagine a whumpee who was accused of being a traitor. they might be completely innocent, or were manipulated into doing all these things, but all it matters is that everyone absolutely loathes them now. treated with no respect, do they experience some kind of extra punishment, like torture? or is there someone who decides to make their life a living hell, as a personal vendetta? does the guilt consume them? the possibilities are endless

Anon, I like the way you think! Whumpees who are shunned and hated (whether justified or not) for past choices are a personal favorite of mine. When you add people actively harming them for it?? *chef kiss*

And you know what’s especially great? The whumpee starting to become consumed by the guilt. They internalize the idea that they are a bad person. That they deserve this mistreatment.

And then! Perhaps, in the future, the whumpee is rescued. They find themself with people who treat them with decency and gentleness. They have to go down a long road of learning to forgive themself for their past actions; learning that they deserve respect and care and love.

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You know what's better than the "drunkenly confessing your love to your crush" trope?

The "drunkenly confessing your sad past and insecurities to someone who cares about you" trope.

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In order to finish finalizing a treaty between two groups with long history of bloodshed and violence, hostages are exchanged.

Unfortunately, there are people on both sides that do not want the treaty completed, and now they have two easy targets to attack.

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I love the scenario of a super frail, weak whumpee kept as a punching bag by a group of huge, physically strong whumpers. 

Like… the hopelessness? They couldn’t fight back even if they dared to, the whumpers enjoy knowing that their little stress ball is an easy target, and they’re intentionally kept hungry and tired just to make it worse. In a scenario like that, all the whumpee can do is try to please the whumpers in the hopes they’ll go easy on them, because they know it’d only take a particularly savage punch to kill them.

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who has thoughts? I have thoughts!

preliminary side note: autocorrect HATES ME, please excuse typos and also strange misspellings of your OCs names

chapter 1

riva i love you so much my sweet child

oh Frederik you’re trying so hard

but sweetheart maybe you should have TOLD Riva this?? I’m just in love with the idea that Frederik is over here going “yes yes it’s very sweet of you to pretend but we both know you’re not going to come back” and Riva just going “?????”

WOW THAT’S MEAN like DAMN (is that the convo Riva referred to as her worst memory?)

“He had to trust her. And that was a frightening thing.” okay I know you’re in pain but WOW

“The fire was crackling, and it sounded like a countdown.” this is your semi regular reminder that I love your writing style <3

chapter 2

i really liked Frederick’s growing dread here

and also that last line is hilarious

chapter 3

their approaches and clear differences in experiences are so cool to read! frederik’s being very practical and knowing food and water wouldn’t make a difference while riva’s terrified and knows the medkit wouldn’t be of much use but she’s clinging to it like a safety blanket

it’s so sweet and a wonderful way to highlight her inexperience (and also i love the idea of fredrik sighing and letting her keep the kit so she feels better, very big-brother-esque)

she’s so determined and he’s practical and we already know he’s terrified of dying alone (from the earlier chapter) even if he knows taking him isn’t really the best plan so i love the idea of his mental debate with himself (simultaneously furious and grateful riva won’t just be. logical.)

my lord they’re hysterical

i love the humor! despite having never been stranded on a mountain with an injured friend desperately fighting to survive, i feel the ‘making the best of it’/‘laughing in the face of danger’ is very realistic here

also i love riva

you already know this

but i bet she’s SO PRETTY covered in snow

chapter 4

self-recrimination == good whump!!!

I WAS TERRIFIED THEY WERE GONNA BE BAD GUYS

THEY WERE GOOD GUYS THOUGH

chapter 5

is she frostbitten? are their faces frostbitten???

help i see snow once every couple of years, why are red hands bad??? (although tbh it looks like riva is equally confused, so fair)  

OH NO ARE THEY BAD GUYS???

the doctor seems nice though!

and i sympathize with her exasperation

doctors may be the worst patients but so is EVERYBODY

‘“Landon,” Riva breathed out in a rush, some part of her uncoiling at the sound of his voice.  He was there, she’d reached him, she’d found help.’ SWEETIE!! you are already wrapped in warm blankets but now you should have kittens and someone to tell you you did a good job!!!

i love her!!

ALSO SIDE NOTE bc I keep forgetting to tell you about this, I saw a meme that said something like “all your ships are just character you identify with X character you want to rail you” and IT IS TRUE, this is how all my (favorite) ships for all your characters in your stories works

okay back to story

“The van Vorsens happened” POSSIBLY NOT THE BEST THING TO SAY AROUND SOMEONE WITH QUESTIONABLE INTENTIONS RIVA

I LOVE HER SO MUCH BUT (because) SHE IS SOMETIMES A DUMBASS

chapter 6

HUG HER YOU MONSTERS

Landon has grown on me but RIVA NEEDS A HUG

:-C she needs heeelp

(she needs to ask for help)

and to eat

Yay! Hug!

I love Riva’s exhausted low-blood sugar fueled confusion here

and her team being comforting

i love the emotional whump here very very much

it’s so angsty in a soft way it’s great

overall A++++ i love this story!!!! Riva is so pure! and it’s soft (in a whumpy way of course)

Mountain (Part 6)

Masterlist.  Riva.

Part 5.

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They arrived almost as soon as the snows cleared.  One moment Riva was blinking her eyes as a gray whirlwind brightened to glimmering, shining white, and the next she was watching the plane touch down somewhere outside the town’s borders.

“Your friends are here,” the doctor said, sticking her head through the door, and Riva nodded. Frederick was still asleep as she uncurled from the chair and left the blanket on the bed to hobble to the door.

She waited in the corridor – she didn’t want to leave Frederick, not now, not after she spent the last several hours imagining all the ways their trip could’ve ended badly.

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Calling All Lady!Whumpers

If you post primarily/exclusively lady whump would you be willing to interact with this post? I’m looking for some new people to follow!

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Hello Masked Lady!!! I have seen you around and have now been visited!!!! Hello!!

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A whumpee who was for a long time forced to serve some evil organization. Then they end up with a new team, who are much better people. The whumpee's a good enough teammate, great help on the missions and do their duties around the base too. But show them any friendliness, anything even resembling affection, and they flinch away from it, assuming the other is trying to get some advantage from them by giving them more than what is absolutely necessary, and so leaving them in the other's debt.

Oh I love things like this SO much-

The team has learned to leave the whumpee alone, they seem to do fine without any kind of interaction other than work related talk. Of course the new teammate doesn’t know this and immediately tried to be as friendly as they could- didn’t turn out too well.

The whumpee had trusted someone before, someone they thought could get them out of that awful place, but the only thing that happened is that they were hurt because they were too desperate.

The whumpee can snap at someone if theyre shown affection, but they can’t allow themselves to make the same mistake they did last time.

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How about a little extra angst👀👀👀 wherein the Whumpee gets kidnapped,,,,, and the team Doesn't Fucking Notice. Maybe the Whumpee has been a flake before, or maybe they were meant to be away for some time, or maybe the team is actually glad to get rid of them. Any which way, they're busy getting tortured by our dear Whumper while the team relaxes without a single care..... maybe they find out later and stage a guilty rescue, or maybe the Whumpee does all the work.

I’m all about more angst :)

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I have a prompt for your empty ask box!! Any chance you’d write a trope post for truth serum?

See also: Accidental Confessions.

Trope: Truth Serum

Truth serum isn’t real.  But when have we ever let that stop us?

Drugged up to the gills, inhibitions gone, babbling everything that comes into their head - and there’s a lot, fleeting thoughts and deep confessions and sobbing insecurities and all their darkest secrets.  Everything except what the interrogators want to hear.

Forced commands, searing pain, truths spilling from their lips as they struggle to lie, to stay silent - tears well up in their eyes as secrets spill dispassionately from their mouth and their lips drip red as they bite to keep them locked.

A twisted spell, a magical restraint, every word careful and cautious because they cannot tell a lie - but caution does not last forever and the truth can’t hide for long.

And what do they reveal?

Their base, their plans, the culmination of years of work landing neatly in their captors’ laps?

Their secrets, their insecurities, the embarrassment and humiliation of looking into wide eyes and being unable to take it back?

Nothing - nothing at all but implications and words out of place and the growing feeling that putting all the pieces together will frame a puzzle that no one wants to see?

Because, you see, lies may wound but the truth destroys.

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Thanks to a past trauma, a member of the team hesitates/freezes up in the middle of a battle and ends up getting a teammate badly hurt. The others, who don’t know about the trauma, berate them for their hesitation, accusing them that it was cowardice. Whumpee takes it willingly, feeling like they deserve it.

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Prompt 1 (?)

"Have you been... taking food from the pantry?"

"I-" Whumpee freezes then drops to their knees. They bow their head low, trembling violently as they tried not to vomit. It had been a test. It had been a test and they failed it and now they were going to be punished and- "I'm sorry. I'm sorry, please..."

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You know what I love?

When biting, caustic humor goes too far. When it was meant as a joke, but it hits home. When the cumulative weight of so many comments finally overwhelms the joking tone and it changes from something lighthearted to heart breaking.

When the character has internalized the jokes. When they truly believe they are fat, stupid, ugly, kept around only because they are sometimes useful, and so on.

When they bend over backwards trying to please their friends but every bit of praise is jokingly dismissed. “You did okay this time!” “Congrats, you weren’t as much a screwup as you could have been.” “Let’s see how long this lasts.”

When someone makes a joke and this time they don’t laugh. When they bow their head and try not to cry because “it’s just a joke” and they shouldn’t be so sensitive.

When they do make a mistake or do or say something stupid or unthinking and immediately apologize profusely, excessively, disproportionately. Related: they make a mistake and go through extraordinary efforts to make sure no one finds out. Bonus points if it’s something out of their control and they run themselves into the ground fixing the mistake.

My absolute favorite for all of the above if it’s the “good guys” doing this to a member of their own team that they never accepted as one of them (sixth ranger, heel-face turn, token monster, etc) and it’s foreshadowing that the heroes are the real villains.

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Oh and then there is a point where the distrusted by team whumpee runs into another team who are actually nice to them. Whumpee was wounded and far away from others and next they wake up on another team's base and while the people there are somewhat distrustful and dislike, it does not give birth to casual cruelty. The team seems mostly just concerned with what whumpee was doing here, bleeding out and stuff.

Is this what group whump is?? Because I am living for it! This poor whumpee has been their team’s punching bag for so long, they can’t remember what anything else feels like. The people that took whumpee don’t lock them in their room; they are expected to eat regular meals, and the bigger/tougher members don’t push them around or force them to spar. Team Leader is stern but not cruel; they do make known whumpee’s limits while living in the team’s base, but they don’t use it to intimidate. Whumpee does eventually recover from their wound, but it’s a slow process; they’re already falling back into the habit of keeping quiet and small, and following orders as quickly as they can. They expect the same treatment from these people that whumpee’s last team gave them.

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Hey. Giant Caretaker getting angry at Whumpee. Maybe the CT was just in a bad mood. But either way, they forget how their actions are perceived to someone so small. So when they slam their fist down, they barely notice Whumpee falling down. When they start to yell, they don't see Whumpee covering their ears and curling up in a ball. It's not until they grab them in a fist, and they beg them "Please don't hurt me, Whumper!" With tiny, teary eyes, do they realize what they've done. -Tiny Nonnie

BABY NOOO!!!

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Whumpee is used to having to make themselves invisible. Being seen meant being beaten. Everything they do is quiet, to the point where oftentimes Caretaker can forget that Whumpee lives with them. Caretaker always apologizes profusely when they remember, saying that they won’t forget next time. It’s okay that they’re forgotten though, it’s exactly what Whumpee wants. This way, Whumpee won’t be a bother, and Caretaker won’t want to hit them.