Hands
- Grasping for balance at the restraints that hold them upright as they're beaten or whipped
- Buried in the whumpees hair, giving them a good tug, drawing an involuntary gasp from their lips
- Grasping the whumpers clothes, pleading
- Holding a swab of disinfectant to the wound and stilling the whumpees flinches gently but resolutely
- Bloody and chafed from struggling against the rope
- Cupping the whumpees face as they lean into the first friendly touch they've experienced in weeks
- Twirling a knife, both threatening and graceful at the same time
- Lifting the whumpees chin with a single finger, because they're so scared now they will follow the smallest suggestion, eyes bright with fear
- Twitching and splaying out in their restraints as the whumpee is hurt again and again, but can't otherwise move
- Bruised and bloody, broken fingers struggling to hold the lock they need to pick in order to free their friend
- Panicked and hitting at the sudden fire, trying to smother the flames
- Suppressing a barely noticeable flinch as the knife bites into their palm, drawing blood for a spell
I love all of these, and if I may also add:
- Nails digging into their palm as they clench their fists against the pain
- Twitching helplessly as a needle is slowly pushed under the nail
- Desperately scrambling to hold onto a ledge, knowing that letting go would lead to certain death
- Squeezing the hand of a loved one as their wound is stitched in the field
- A caretaker's hand over the whumpee's mouth, stopping any pained sounds from escaping because they're hiding and they can't afford to make any noise
- Fumbling to do up a coat button in the bitter cold
- Bruised knuckles from a fight, or maybe from hitting the door of their cell in frustration
- Shaking fingers trying to apply pressure to a bleeding wound, grip weakening by the minute
- Fingers bruised and broken from being crushed under a heavy boot
- gripping their weapon, shaking slightly in pain or fear
- lingering on a familiar touch, unwilling to part
- just, shaky hands, give me shaky hands for whatever reason
- pressed to their own wound, bloody and slippery
- (Or a caretaker trying to put pressure on the whumpee’s wound but also scared to press too hard and hurt them)
- stubbornly wrapped around something precious that they will not let the whumper take
- the whumper’s hands, gripping tightly around the whumpee’s throat
- the whumpee’s hands around the whumper’s wrists trying to pull away
- or, alternatively, the whumpee’s hands clawing at their own throat
- fingers bloody from digging at the rubble that their team is buried under after an explosion
- pinned against a wall with a knife through the palm
- wrapped around the bars of their cell door
- involuntary clenching when shocked with electricity
- (Or, how about, clenching around the source of electricity so they can’t make it stop?)
- (ooh and I know you like this @straight-to-the-pain ) barbed wire restraints around the wrists
- and I always love combining my torture methods. Imagine how spectacularly the whumpee’s fingers would dance if they were shocked through the barbed wire around their hands?