Superhero Genre Enjoyer

side blog for whump. I like and follow from somewhere else. she/her | adult

[faultsandfractures]

🏜️🌅🏜️🏔️ Hello! 🏔️⛰️🌄⛰️

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Welcome to the blog. she/her, adult. This is a whump sideblog, and the geology aesthetic is largely for show, though I do like geology. I’ll be in your notifications as @winterpinetrees. I’m here to have fun and show off my ocs like a kid bringing the same rock to show-and-tell multiple times.

Heed all content warnings. My ocs all come from the same interconnected story, so bear with me if someone has three names or I explain a bit of lore. I am always happy to talk about them.

Topics you are likely to find here: Superpowers and magic, lab whump, living weapons, the evil organizations responsible for the above, and complicated recoveries.

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Writings

Buried Depths [completed]

Zach’s magic is turning him into something inhuman. He isn’t the only dangerous superhuman to be imprisoned underground and trained as a weapon, but he might be the most afraid to resist.

The Horizon Guard

The scattered recovery period after Buried Depths. Containing superhero training, grappling with a screwed up system, and (eventually) a found family.

One For Sorrow

A proud young living weapon is rescued by his sworn enemy. The encounter goes so much worse than either of them imagined.

Whumptober 2025

assorted writings from the same world as Buried Depths, but at different times. Largely non-canon.

[commanderofcrows]

Top 5 popular powers based on how much I would HATE for my nemesis to have them

Mind control: Literally how do you win against this? Not only do you basically lose the minute they get their grubby hands inside your mind, they'd probably turn you into a puppet for their evil schemes! Even if you're capable of training yourself to fight it, they could just use it to control your loved ones instead. Genuinely terrifying.

Illusions: Sorta similar to mind control in the way they turn your own mind against itself. They could make you think you're attacking an enemy when its really an ally. Even outside of a battlefield, you'd constantly be worrying whether or not something is real or not. Way too much psychological warfare.

Time manipulation/rewind: Near impossible to beat. If they do something wrong, they can just rewind again and again until they get it right. Think Sayeon Lee from Hand Jumper (peak btw, go read it). Extremely dangerous if put in the hands of someone really smart and patient.

Gravity manipulation: This is just way too overpowered. What do you mean they can just send me flying into the atmosphere? That's not fair. It's also pretty versatile and can be used to counter so many things.

Teleportation: Not as terrifying as others, but really annoying. Really hard to beat considering it'd be difficult to get a hit on them. They could pop up at any time, so you'd be stuck being paranoid.

Honorable mentions

Perfect luck: Annoying because there's no way to counter it. No matter how powerful you are, things just go their way. It'd be infuriating to deal with.

Ability/magic theft: Really only super concerning if it could take away powers forever. Imagine working your entire life to get powerful only for it to be taken from you. That'd be devastating.

[whumpshaped]

watching this video by molly burke (everyone go follow her) and she just quoted someone saying "the person i was wouldn't hang out with the person i've become" and. waugh. how many of your whumpees can relate pre- and post-incident. because i know my whumpees would feel that statement big time

[frostwing213]

I love me a Whumpee who has responsibilities

After the whump, they can't just recover, no, they have things to do. People who need them. Duties that no one else will do.

There's no time for recovery. They need to lead. They need to keep going.

They can't let everyone down, can they?

[faultsandfractures]

Nocturnal whumpee locked in a room where the lights never shut off.

[theherosvillain]

thinking about hierarchical whump in a superhero setting. like, all superheroes are government property, they all go through the same grueling training, and they can expect to have very little autonomy for their entire lives. and obviously beating down on a civilian would get them arrested (or worse), and fighting villains just gets so monotonous sometimes...

so much abuse that could happen behind closed doors. the world is your oyster.

[headspace-hotel]

Bucky oughta have more fucked up scars that tantalizingly hint at the fucked up shit that happened to him

[headspace-hotel]

surgical scars obviously, but?? scars on his ankles/wrist where he was restrained with something that cut into him. scars from being whipped with a metal cable, something that did a lot of damage. burn scars in interesting shapes, maybe he was branded

[peppermintperoxide]

Love a fairy with antennae. There’s so much you can do with that. Do they help them detect magic, danger, other fairies? Do they glow, do they move independently, do they droop when the fairy is sad?

But also the whump potential is undeniable. What happens when someone yanks at the antennae? When they get crushed? When they’re sliced, torn, or ripped off their head? Do they become disoriented and a confused like a cat without whiskers? Do they stumble around, looking in every direction trying to keep their bearings? Does it affect how they fly? Does it damage their magic? How bad does it hurt?

[acta-est-fabula-plaudite]

Whumpee kneeling down and putting their face into Whumper's lap, exhausted and bloody from whatever battle.

Whumper mindlessly petting their soiled hair as Whumper's friends try not to stare.

[ransom-or-rescue]

Whumpee who was a warrior, before, and throws themself back into weapons training as soon as they're free and recovered enough. Or before they're recovered enough.

They want to feel able to fight back. They want to regain their strength. They want to think of their body as a weapon, something that can hurt and destroy others rather than hurting and be destroyed.

[once-ina-blue-moon]

attack on quarrel for @winterpinetrees (same user on AF)

[faultsandfractures]

Artfight attack of my wonderful Quarrel that I felt belonged better on this sideblog than on my main one. Thanks again! The shading is just delightful.

[echo-of-umbra]

If some monster transformations heal you as you are transformed, (ex some vampires) then what if a whumper (knowing this) first injures the whumper to a point where normally couldn’t heal then transforming them to “heal” them. So not only does the whumpee have to deal with the trauma of the pain but also now come to terms with the utter change in what they now are.

Imagine having almost all your bones broken then being bitten so not only do you have the potential pain of the transformation but you also have the pain of all of your bones snapping back and refusing/ healing all at once.

Just a thought

[kira-the-whump-enthusiast]

I think one of the reasons I love institutional whump so much is that it necessitates a large number of people who are involved with and actively complicit with the institution in some way. There’s a very potent horror in the idea that everyone involved knows what’s happening and no one is trying to help.

[aphel1on]

i have such a love for characters who descend into madness or villainy out of deep, deep empathy. characters who fundamentally cannot cope with the cruel realities they find themselves in and blow up about it in spectacular fashion. fallen angel type characters with tears of outrage in their eyes. characters who break before they bend, and break so badly they splatter blood all over their noble ideals. every variation on it gets me so good

[innerchildabortionclinic]

Just once I want to be asked to participate in such a study

[mintbecrazy]

that's like. Biblically Accurate Drug. You are just stimulating the fucking nerves. You are playing with The Pleasure Root. You try it once and you crave this shit your whole life after. There is no return. This is a one way ticket. You can do this just once for one second to a person and get them into depression for life. All in all dont. You Dont want it. Dont do Ultimate Perfect Drug kids.

[snakebites-and-ink]

Use this against your whumpee character—

[faultsandfractures]

The ‘human subjects’ part is uncited on the Wikipedia page so I am admittedly suspicious of whether these effects happened to real people in real life. That being said, 10/10 fictional trope, I think they do this in Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler.

[ransom-or-rescue]

Whump reveal, given in the tones of an apology.

For letting it happen. For what the survivor feels they did or chose. For the inconvenience they've become. For overreacting when other people have been through worse. For keeping it a secret so long and being "dishonest." Out of shame. Because they're afraid whoever they're revealing it to is going to hurt them more.

[headspace-hotel]

Bucky as the Winter Soldier being trained to ignore pain to the point that it becomes a Problem. he throws himself through glass doors and windows, tears through thorns and razor wire, hurls his body down onto vehicles and from windows and down steep slopes leaving himself bruised and with cracked ribs, forces broken bones to carry his weight. He tanks bullets and heavy blows and keeps going, relentless. He keeps getting burns from recklessly setting off explosions and standing too close to burning debris

this is basically canon, in CA:TWS he flung his body around like he didn't care the damage he was going to do to it.

He knows his body can take basically anything and they'll fix him up, and he acts accordingly. Taking out his knife and digging out bullets and shrapnel when they hamper his movement, stuffing wounds with whatever filthy material he has on hand, whether that's cloth or just wads of grass and mud. Stitching himself back up, slicing wounds back open to drain the pus if they get infected and then back to the mission.

on one mission a soldier stabs him in the gut with a bayonet and he drives the barrel of the rifle through his body to grab the soldier by the throat and crush his neck. after that the Soviet officers call him "the wild boar"