Even rendered unable to cast by his broken fingers and the runes engraved on the chair, Cerus's psyche seemed intact. The elder priest was visibly struggling to breach his mind, the light emanating from her eyes flickering with the effort.

Nisha elected to help her.

Nothing dramatic. They simply took hold of Cerus's hand and began to squeeze. Bones shifted and clicked in their grip, and Cerus screamed. They kept going. Tighter and tighter, until Nisha's own hand hurt from the pressure, and the noises pouring from Cerus's throat no longer sounded human.

(from Unbelief)

Adoptable Comic!

A few years back I started a script for a whumpy superhero comic and forgot about it. While I still love the script and characters, I don't think it's something I'll ever be able to get around to finishing/drawing.

so, I'm taking a different approach, and essentially making what I wrote public domain. Anyone is welcome to complete the script and turn it into a comic of their own, use the characters or scenes as inspiration or framework for a story, or just take bits and pieces to draw or add to!

Summary: This unfinished script follows Jet, a young vigilante trying to save her partner, Ben, from a villain he has a dark history with.

Google docs link to the script and original sketches of the main characters will be under the cut!

As I said, anyone can use this for their creative projects. If you do, please tag me! I'd love to see what comes out of this :D

antagonistic characters who vanish only to reappear months later, a shadow of their former selves and carrying physical and emotional scars my beloved

*spoilers for Rings of Power*

man I get that Adar isn't a good guy but my villain whumpee senses are SCREAMING---

Galadriel outright says "ah I know who you are. You're one of those elves who was tortured to become something twisted and corrupted"

where do your villain/criminal whumpees fit post-whump?

Imagine a spoiled royal, heir to the throne, part of a powerful bloodline that gives them "divine right to rule". They're raised to be cruel, and told their heritage puts them above everyone else.

And then one day, it's revealed before the entire court that it's all a lie. The royal was switched at birth with the child of a servant. The real heir has been serving in the palace all this time, unaware of their birthright. Maybe they're even someone the faux-royal had been particularly cruel to all their lives.

The ruling family is quick to push out the false heir---blood is more important to them than any illusion of family---and welcome the servant with open arms.

Maybe the false heir is banished from the kingdom they were raised to rule. Maybe they're imprisoned so the truth can never come out. Maybe they're made a servant, now at the beck and call of someone they'd thought beneath them.

Does the true heir take pity on them, or do they seek vengeance from years of abuse? Does the royal family have any regrets, or have they always been cold, only concerned with holding power? What do the servants and commoners do, now that the arrogant "heir" has lost all power and protection?

alone at last // Wildefire Masterlist

I very much want to take a Company Golden Boy who's ultra-powerful, nigh-invincible, has never lost a fight, popular, and generally has everything going for him and just brutalize him

he loses his first fight and is captured and broken. If he has any powers, they're gone. Anything he's good at is corrupted forever.

And then! Put him back with his original team! Now that he's "damaged" and a "failure" and "useless"

What does he do?

What does his team do?

I need to see it

Okay, have some written Uriah whump at last, co-written by @turn-the-tables-on-them and featuring her whumper, Janice

cw: uhh whip. blood. associated misery

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"I have something fun planned for today," Janice sang as she entered the warehouse. "Well, not fun for you."

Uriah leaned heavily on the chains that held him up, trying not to let anticipative fear weigh too heavy on him at her words. It wouldn't save him. All he could do was... Was try not to make things worse.

"You're a pretty hated man, Fox," Janice continued. He could see in his peripheral that she was holding something, and he was sure he didn't want to know what that something was.

"No one is coming to save you." 

Looking up at her was a mistake; his eyes immediately went to the whip in her hand, giving him an idea of what was to come. Obviously he didn't know what it felt like to be whipped, but he knew it wouldn't be a vacation.

It has to be better than anything else so far, he told himself stubbornly, ducking his head and trying to breathe deeply as she moved into position behind him.

She gave a warmup crack, and Uriah tensed at the sound, his muscles clenching as a second crack cut the air, this one meeting his back with a force that stole his breath. The leather slashed across his back, right over his kidneys.

Again, and again, and again.

The impact left him unable to even scream for a moment, a line of fire crashing over his lower back. Another barrage followed the first, and a scream was ripped from him as the shock gave way to pain, the sound growing longer until he was completely breathless.

"Oh poor Fox."

The blows stopped, and Uriah slumped forward, panting. Was she done? She had to be done, right? This was so much worse than he'd pictured and---

"It only gets worse from here."

Meet Annie Rivera, CEO of Good Knight, Titanium's biggest rival in the Hero industry. She hates Uriah with a passion and would end him in a heartbeat if it were socially acceptable.

ehehehe

screaming only makes it worse, but sometimes you just can't help it

Vigilante is delighted to find their rival, a small-time villain, trapped somewhere: a pit, a well, an animal trap, whatever.

They should alert the authorities, but they don't, electing instead to taunt their prideful nemesis.

Of course, they bring blankets and food, and provide conversation. Every day, they find the rivalry, the animosity, a little shakier as the two begin to approach something almost like friendship.

One day, Vigilante finally decides to release Villain. Maybe let them crash at their place for a bit. But when they arrive, their former enemy is nowhere to be found.

And when they get home, the headline hits like a bullet:

Villain caught, in custody of Heroes.