The feeling when your brain latches on wanting whump of That One Specific Character to the point that you find yourself scrambling for paper-thin excuses for certain injuries that are either canon or that should logically be canon even if they're not actually said to be there, to stick around long enough to scar and/or to never heal quite right.... even though the setting is a commercial D&D campaign setting where clerics, and therefore nice and neat healing magic that should just get the job done without any risk of it going wrong or anything, are of course generally speaking pretty readily available...
literally i'm just over here putting clown make-up on going oh but what if he's being a stubborn asshole about it and not letting himself be healed to prove a point, hey what if once an injury is older than like 24 hours there's a chance that even with the help of magic it might steal heal a bit wrong? like literally not even slightly how it's supposed to work but i'm just scrambling and digging for whump where i know there isn't any anyway
not just in a D&D setting where any type of injuries or illness could canonically be healed by magic, this is one of the things that bother me when it comes to whump in media — because it also happens in a setting that is supposed to be realistic or, even if it’s not in a setting where everything is supposed to be realistic, it still does happen a lot in a movie / tv show in which healing magic is not available.
don’t get me wrong, I love my blorbo. but let’s be real, we all want to see that little guy suffer.
so it annoys me to see a character in a movie/tv show (or a book or literally any type of media) simply “walk it off” after an injury that is supposed to have them bedridden for at least a week or two. or to see them appear without a scar after sustaining an injury that would’ve left a nasty scar in real life.
I know it’s all fiction and most people probably don’t care about these “tiny details” but yeah, these “tiny details” are what make us members of the whump community foam at the mouths (in a good way), and there actually are still a lot of people who are into whump, even if they don’t openly talk or post about it online.
that’s why several of my fics are about these “missing scenes” where my blorbo actually goes through a long road towards recovery after their canonical injuries, or suffers from PTSD where they have a hard time looking at their scar, etc.
also shout out to all the fanfic writers out there who dedicate their time and energy into writing fics about these missing scenes. y’all are the backbones of your fandoms.
