A Whumper at Heart

I want Whumpee to finally be understood and listened to. I want them to receive a warm hug, true words of encouragement and love. I want them to open up with Caretaker after years of silence. I want Whumpee to be able to cry without feeling embarrassed or stupid. I want Caretaker to take care of them when they are sick, even tho, at first, Whumpee refuses but then let them check their fever, spoon feed them if their hands are too weak, stay by their bed at night in case they need help. I want Whumpee to feel brave enough to wake Caretaker up after a really bad nightmare, just to find out that Caretaker doesn't mind being woken up in the middle of the night because they actually cares so much about them.

I want-

sick!fics ◕ ‿ ◕

soothing a character’s high fever ◕ ‿ ◕

fever nightmares ◕ ‿ ◕

sickie insisting that they can still go to school/work ◕ ‿ ◕

caretaker gently forcing them back to bed ◕ ‿ ◕

normally stoic characters being the whiniest sickies ever ◕ ‿ ◕

normally cold caretakers having a heart of gold and being all gentle ◕ ‿ ◕

sick!fics ◕ ‿ ◕

Listen, I understand the appeal of “strong character forced to get medical care” and “hiding injuries from teammates” and such, but I really love a particularly under-utilized trope, “I trust you enough that I am asking for care and no one’s going to make a big deal out of it”. There’s something about calmly recognizing your part in this narrative, knowing that this has happened before, that you might as well not make it worse. That someone will help you. Think:

Heroes shrugging off a jacket to let the medic stitch them up without pausing their conversation.

“I think I broke a rib but you can look at it later. You know me, I don’t lie if I’m not OK.“

Gesturing for a friend to help them walk.

Waving the medic over right before they lose consciousness.

Undressing or moving their hair or laying down on the exam table without being asked.

whump, whump trope, this is so good actually cause it really works when the team is like, strong, and they have that built trust and everyone knows if they make a big deal the whumpee might not accept help next time

Give me more "strong" or stoic characters who are rarely phased by anything who have very bad fears. Bonus points if they're the leader of a group/organisation/friendgroup/etc.

Give me characters who everyone relies on to help them breaking down and having panic attacks because they just can't handle this specific thing. And give me the guilt and shock the other character feels when they realise what's going on.

Stoic and strong characters facing their fears or breaking down in general never fails to interest me.

6 hearts

[12.11.2021] Control unit

A knight who went through hell and back flinched when they heard the sounds of metal clashing. Flashbacks of them fighting in wars, battles, and witnessing deaths flooded their mind.

They were so close to having a mental breakdown... but they held on. No. Not now.

it is the way hen is just softly crying and quiet. 

it is the way bobby is trying so damn hard to stay strong and composed.

it is the way eddie is beyond scared, broken and unable to control his emotions.

it is the way chim is just dissociating, because the devastation is too much.

Actually, one of my theories about why whumpers like whump is based on the fact that we tend to be extremely empathetic people. We’re the folks who used to form emotional attachments to straw wrappers and cry when it was time to throw them out (true tiny KW story).

If you consider one’s capacity for empathy like a muscle… We have very, very well-honed empathy muscles, but nowhere near enough opportunities in day-to-day life to appropriately exercise them. True, the world around us is going to shit and there are ample opportunities for us to empathize with our fellow humans in a distant and collective sort of way, but we crave direct hands-on exercise. We want to physically smoosh a specific someone to our bosom and caretake the ever-loving shit out of them. And we want someone to want that - no, to need that - kind of love from us.

But not really. We don’t really want to see anyone we care about in pain or going through any kind of hardship, so we turn to fictional sources to satisfy those urges and needs. We can vicariously live through the plights and the caretaking of fictional characters without anyone actually being harmed.

And we want someone to love and care for us in the same intense way. Hence the odd dichotomy of us imagining others suffering all day, then suddenly imagining ourselves as the whumpee at bedtime - the time when we most want to be the recipients of that kind of caretaking, ourselves.

Just some of my whump thoughts.

okay so which one of you do I have to beg, bribe, or blackmail into giving me some enemy general vs captured soldier (or captured prince…or captured soldier prince) content 👀

it’s about the power dynamic. it’s about being roughed up by enemy soldiers and dragged, bruised and bleeding, to the feet of his greatest enemy. it’s about being forced to kneel. it’s about the sword under his chin, the armoured/gloved hand in his hair, the confiscation of his crown and the replacement with a collar/cuffs. it’s about the defiance, it’s about the banter, it’s about the gloating. it’s about the general being better (or so much worse) than expected. it’s about the antici-

-pation. it’s about the bitterness of defeat and the heady rush of victory colliding in the same moment. it’s about the long term captivity, the escape attempts, the small blinding moment of kindness. it’s about the mind games. it’s about the bonding and the taut relationship and dare I say the slivers of trust? and above all it’s about the  t e n s i o n

T.K. is in serious condition. What can you say about that and how that’s going to affect him and those closest to him especially Owen and Carlos (Rafael Silva)?