Alien whump? Both on the human and alien side?
Well, like, the classic thing is alien abduction, right? Aliens come along and snatch up your whumpee–it’s like a kidnapping, but scarier because the kidnapper isn’t even human. And then the whumpee is taken away not just from their home, but their home planet.
And along with abduction comes experimentation–there’s some pretty whumped up “abductee reports” that involve quasi-medical situations and needles and drawing blood and electrodes or sensors stuck on an abductee’s head or chest. Hit up Wikipedia for some details. But it’s not a known kind of medical procedure–so, more fear!
Aliens testing the limits of human endurance: heat, cold, the limits of bones and limbs, sleep deprivation, sensory deprivation, starvation, &c.
And of course being held captive by the aliens. If they’re the sleek-and-sophisticated type of aliens, this could involve being kept in a glass box or cell, or energy-based restraints, or psychic restraints.
Beyond all this, there’s the whumpee being unable to understand or communicate with the aliens–maybe they don’t even speak, they’re all just telepathic. So the whumpee is helpless in trying to negotiate or explain anything to them.
Related to this, if you have psychic aliens, they can invade your human whumpee’s mind and see their most private thoughts and memories, or maybe they can plant thoughts or memories, or maybe they can cause physical pain through these kinds of invasions. Why use a whip when you can just cause the pain?
Like, seriously: psychic aliens could fuck someone up.
Human slaves. I mean, why not? Catch humans, make them do hard work or maybe use them for entertainment, punish them when they are bad.
Human zoos. Catch some humans, put them on display–like zoo animals. (Yes, this is a bit Planet of the Apes, but I’m not going to apologize.)
Judgmental aliens. This sounds a bit weird, but it’s more mental/emotional whump. The aliens consider themselves so vastly superior that they just constantly put down and insult and berate their human captives. “You’re just meat. How did you launch one of your kind into space?”
Humans caught in the middle of an alien vs. alien war. That’s a rock and a hard place, wow. And the humans keep getting captured and tortured and used as pawns, one side against the other.
Aftermath! The abducted human whumpee is dumped back on earth and no one believes what happened to them. But they’re traumatized and have bad dreams and flashbacks. They’re afraid of being alone, afraid of the dark, &c.
And they could have injuries left over from their captivity that might need treating–maybe even weird injuries (burns in geometric patterns, for instance).
Maybe the process of traveling with the aliens was really painful (for whatever reason–maybe something to do with dimensions or time-travel).
Maybe they don’t remember what happened to them while abducted until they start getting flashbacks. Maybe their memories were even altered.
Maybe way, way more time has passed on earth than they thought and everything has changed, but they haven’t. (See: Flight of the Navigator.)
Maybe they have alien technology inserted into their bodies–whether it’s for tracking or monitoring or some other kind of experiment. But there’s something in them and that’s fucking terrifying. Hell, maybe they’re actually partially robotic or cyborg and don’t even know it at first. And then they realize it…
Living human brains in robot bodies, or maybe just trapped in jars. I’m just edging up to I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, really. (Recommended reading!)
But also! Caretaker aliens, like Aunt Beast in A Wrinkle in Time. I love Aunt Beast.
So, now, on the alien side: “Alien Autopsy” sure was a thing back in the 90s–so why not “Alien Vivisection”?
Aliens crash (or land) their spacecraft and are captured by the military/scientists/&c and (naturally) get experimented upon. This can be very traumatic for aliens sent on a mission of peace.
Just flip any experiments aliens would conduct on humans and apply them to the aliens: blood draws, dissection, surgery, testing their limits, &c.
Aliens in captivity where the humans have no idea how to take care of them, leaving them dangerously close to death (not enough oxygen, or water, or they need a certain kind of food, or sunlight, &c).
Monstrous-looking aliens who are immediately regarded as dangerous and are hunted down. (Again, while they’re on a mission of peace.)
Monstrous-looking aliens who are fully capable of sophisticated culture and communication but who are still captured and kept like animals in cages, referred to as “it,” and treated like beasts.
Psychic aliens being forced to use their abilities–possibly even being used as weapons. Maybe they’re being forced through threats, or maybe they’ve been broken with punishments to do as they’re told.
Aliens being used as weapons that are then forced to harm others of their kind or other extraterrestrials–something totally abhorrent to them.
Aliens being forced to give up certain technological knowledge to the demanding and violent humans who have captured them. Good opportunities for torture.
Humans as the dangerous invaders of a peaceful planet, taking the aliens captive or torturing them in the name of “science.” Small bands of survivors hold out hope that they’ll just go away, but it’s not looking likely.
An alien ambassador held hostage by the violent humans in an attempt to force their planet to give in to the earthlings demands. Maybe this alien even gets roughed up or tortured a bit.
Human illnesses wiping out vast swaths of the population of another planet–it’s just a cold to humans, it’s death to the local ETs.
On that note: a human and an alien with an intense telepathic bond where when one hurts, the other hurts, and there are subsequent attempts to separate them (and it’s awful).
Cute aliens kept as pets by humans despite these aliens being at least as intelligent as humans.
Humans as “space orcs”: warlike, violent creatures who (unlike most intelligent life) will actually kill each other. No one wants to visit earth. There are lots of stories about what happens there (and some might be true).
I hope that gives you some inspiration, Nonny!
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