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Prodigal Son’s whumps’ list
(referred to main character Malcolm Bright / Whitly, portrayed by Tom Payne)
Season 1
.01: attacked with tazer and fallen to the ground, gasping and fallen unconscious, regaining consciousness, under gunpoint, panting, upset and fired, nightmares and restrained (himself) to bed, psychogenic tremors, under gunfire and fallen to the ground, hissing ear and groaning, blood on his shirt (not his) and unsteady on his feet, psychogenic tremors, pavor nocturnus (terror during sleep) and heavily panting, under gunpoint, under emotional distress, under gunpoint, threatened himself with a syringe, collapsed on his knees and heavily panting.
.02: nightmares and rough awakening, psychogenic tremors, snake thrown towards him and fallen on crates grunting, bitten by the snake, collapsed and seizure, nightmares and rough awakening into an hospital bed with an attached IV, panicked and screaming, discharging himself from hospital, angry, swaying and unstable on his legs, restrained to his bed and fallen asleep.
.03: nightmares and writhing in bed, sleep so agitated he smashed through the window and dangled off the building, psychogenic tremors, grabbed and sharp shrapnel pointed at his throat, roughly slammed against a wall and fought, hit at his head and collapsed to the ground, almost stabbed and rescued at the last moment, at gunpoint, bloody cut on his forehead and heavily panting.
.04: psychogenic tremor, tormented and obsessed, crashing a glass in his hand and bleeding cuts, grunting, dressed hand, argued with his mother and slapped in the face, upset and shaky hands, under gunpoint, emotional pain and crying.
.05: sleepless and agitated, exhausted, tremoring hands, daylighlt hallucinations, under gunfire, on the floor coughing and inhaling drugs on the air, drugged and emotional, vivid hallucinations and heavily panting, stabbed in his hallucinations and screaming for panic attack, punched and knocked out.
.06: daytime hallucinations, hand placed on candle and sleeve on fire, rough fight, psychogenic tremor.
.08: psychogenic tremors and upset, punched kicked and entrapped, screaming in pain and short of breath, pressed between bars and screaming in pain, bloody nose and gasping for air, collapsed and heavily panting, treated on the field and dressed ribs, holding his sore torso, bruises all over his torso and ice packs.
.09: skewered with a sword in his nightmare, slapped in the face, hallucination and gasping, psychogenic tremor, under gunfire and fallen to the ground, hallucination and strangled, upset.
.10: psychogenic tremor, pointed a loaded gun at his own head by mistake (!), under gunpoint, psychogenic tremor, tormented, pensive and gasping in surprise, hit at his back and fallen to the ground, punched in the face and passed out, dragged unconscious and fate unknown.
.11: kidnapped in the previous episode, unconscious and shackled to the floor, blood on his forehead from the hit in the previous episode, psychogenic tremor, stabbed and knife turned inside, gasping in pain and surprise and collapsed to the floor, hallucinations, fresh blood on his hand and holding his flank, lying on his side weak and panting, upsetting news, screaming in fear and desperate, heavely panting to muster the strenght to broke his own thumb with an hammer, loudly screamed in pain and gasping for air, freed himself from cuffs and dressed his hand, unsteady walking and shaken.
.12: fast forward: argued with Gil and upset, under psychiatric evaluation and talking about the wounds he sustained during captivity; back from hospital with a cast on his hand, hallucinations, restrained and electroshocked, grunting and passed out, regaining consciousness with burns on his temples, upset, painful flashbacks, badly argued with Gil and upset, multiple hallucinations and heavily panting, broken voice and emotional pain remembering, under gunpoint, admitted to feeling vulnerable and hurt.
.13: flashbacks and lost balance falling to the floor, hands on an instable triggered land mine, heavily panting, jumped outside the building and landed on a car, groaning, attacked and pushed, fallen to the floor, confronted his father and upset, thrown in the line of fire to protect a man and fallen to the floor.
.14: worried, upset, psychogenic tremor.
.15: conflicted, painful flashbacks and grumpy, agitated and heavily panting, acustic allucinations and pensive, startled, under gunpoint.
.16: blackmailed, nervous, painful memories and psychogenic tremor, undercover, searched and hooded and taken away, hardly slapped in the face and fallen off the chair, exposed and threatened, pushed and hit his head on the floor, passed out, hallucinations, groaning, under gunpoint and almost shot, rescued.
.17: suspicious, tackled down, emotionally hurt and upset, fought and pushed, attacked with cutter and almost strangled.
.18: almost hit by stage lights and tackled down, heartbroken.
.19: still sad for the break up, receiving upsetting news and grieving, shocked assisting his father being strangled, psychogenic tremor, grieving and upset, police busted in and arrested him for murder (framed).
.20: pavor nocturnus and heavily panting while in jail, witnessed a murder, arrested and handcuffed, emotional chat, worried for Gil, threatened and psychogenic tremor, shocked (plus Gil’s whump). Shortened of two episodes because of the pandemia in 2020.
Season 2
.01: on the ledge of a building, attacked with a knife, almost fallen off the building but anchored with a tether, panting, psychogenic tremor, nightmares and rough awakening, argued and tense, hit with a shoe at his head, scared and fallen to the floor, psychogenic tremor and hallucinations, heavily breathing, ambushed in his own appartment and threatened, attacked with an axe and sword fight, upset and stressful conversation (plus JT’s whump).
.02: conflicted, pavor nocturnus and heavily panting after waking up.
.03: psychogenic tremor and painful memories in loop, stressful memories of the past (bullied, locked into a closet, developing claustrophobia and psychogenic tremors), breathing heavily and seeking support against a wall, receiving upsetting news, argued, almost died of asphyxiation in a airtight vault, argued.
.04: psychogenic tremor, badly argued twice, attacked and fallen to the floor, repeatedly tazed and groaning, helped getting up, breathing heavily, difficult confrontation with his mother.
.05: worried for his sister, under gunpoint.
.06: worried for his sister, hit and pushed down an elevator shaft, laying in a hospital bed with ice pack at his head, reported a mild concussion and bruise on his face, high-pinched earing and moaning, feeling confused and seeking support grabbing the table, confuse flashbacks and nightmares, still laying at the end of elevation shaft in and out consciousness, conflicted and stressed, heavily panting, bruised forehead and blood on his collar, difficult conversation with his sister, shocked and heavily breathing.
.07: bruised forehead and blood on his collar from previous episode, agitated and worried, heavily panting, adrenaline wore off and almost passed out, argued with his sister and on the edge of tears defeated.
.08: nightmares and rough awakening, agitated, clenching heands, nasty confrontation, under gunpoint, under gunfire twice, heavily panting, chased and shot at.
.09: painful memories, intense conversation, hit by a car and roughly fallen on the ground, ice pack for his head bump and hallucinating, under gunpoint, intense conversation twice and dubious, psychogenic tremor, hallucination and agitated.
.10: gun pointed at his face, chased by a murdered, under gunpoint and rescued at the last moment, shocked.
.11: upset, verbally attacked and frustrated, psychogenic tremor, worried and upset, faced a murderer and gun pointed at his head, almost killed, badly argued.
.12: frustrated and very upset, disheveled, badly argued and benched, frustrated and psychogenic tremor twice, surrender himself to his father’s kidnapper, regaining consciosness laying and tied to a table with IV into his arm, injected air into his vein and induced embolism, eyes widened and passed out, flatline, stabbed with a syring and blood drawn twice, gasping for air, groaning and unable to stand up, laying unconscious.
.13: regaining consciosness tied to a chair, frustrated, psychogenic tremor, he’s a wanted man by police, gun pointed at his face, into a cell, tied by his hands and bloody wound on his head, scuffle, asked his father to hurt a killer and conflicted, psychogenic tremor, attacked and stabbed his own father, shocked.
Curiosity Killed the Cat, by Iforgotmyformerusername aka @whumpalicious [ref. ep. 1.07 “Q&A”]; Aegis, by Zoejoy24 [original]; An Unexpected Visitor, by Twice_before_Friday [original]; Annihilator, by thisisle [ref. ep. 1.02 “Annihilator”]; Bright Ideas, by Annide [original]; Damn, We’re in a Tight Spot, by Zoejoy24 [original]; Hearing Voices, by Twice_before_Friday [original]; How Quiet a Blade Can Be, by ermIdunno [original]; Love G & J, by mab [original]; Need, by SomeRainMustFall [ref. ep. 1.08 “Family Friend”]; Past is Present, by mmorgan317 [ref. ep. 1.01 “Pilot”]; Smoke and Mirrors, by batonblue [original];
Just a note to let you know I’ve updated Prodigal Son‘s whumps’ list with the whole second season.
Unfortunately, it hadn’t been renewed. For now. I hope they will change their mind once they will run out of ideas, it happens periodically.
Enjoy.
“W... What did you give me? I need to be able to wake up!”
Malcolm Bright, Prodigal Son S01E02
X-Men | Self/Less (2015) | Supernatural 10x17 | Grimm 1x08 | Iron Man | Hannibal 1x13 | Broadchurch 2x04 | Prodigal Son 1x03 | Little Dorrit 1x14 | MacGyver 1x11
Whumptober 2021 | No. 24: ONE DOWN TWO TO GO
self-induced injuries to escape | flashback | revenge
Prodigal Son s01e11: Malcolm breaks his thumb to escape the shackles.
“You need to find a way out of those. It's a blunt procedure, but it's your only option. The diameter of the restraint is three inches. The width of your hand is five inches. So all you have to do is, make your hand three inches.”
I gotta get out of here… or I’m gonna die - Malcolm Bright
Get out of where? - Dream! Dani Powell
…I don’t know - Malcolm Bright
Whumptober 2021 Day 4 - Pushed
Prodigal Son 2x06
Whumptober 2021: No 1. ALL TRUSSED UP AND STILL NOWHERE TO GO- Bound
LOST / Prodigal Son, Malcolm Bright
Why does Tumblr love to steal my quality so much? My son doesn’t desrve this.
Oh well, enjoy this tied up baby.
Prodigal Son s01e01 - the night terror scene
“They’re called pavor nocturnus. Night terrors. And they’re not fun. But on the bright side, they’re ruining my life, so….”
Malcolm Bright, a criminal profiler, suffers from night terrors, a hand tremor, nightmares and several other psychological ailments tied to learning the truth about his father (notorious serial killer) at a young age.
***my favs: scene 1 🔝
Prodigal Son S02E12
very whumped and very dazed malcolm 🥰
+bonus babey smile 🥺💕
Prodigal Son s01e02 - Dani helping a woozy Malcolm get back home + getting him ready to sleep— scene
“Hey, what's that? One drink - and you're falling down?”
“I'm fine. It's fine. — They, uh, must have given me Ativan at the hospital. That or a antihistamine. Something's reacting with the alcohol. — But I'm fine.”
“No, no, no, no. No. Bright, you are not getting yourself home like this. — Powell. Little help here, please.”
the amount of whump in this show is *chef’s kiss* and it just the first two episodes. this tv show keeps on giving 😉👀
***my favs: scene 2 🔝— (GIFs: click here)