For The Tainted Sorrow

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[f1shs-b0nes]

Yes yes, sedation, forced sedation.... All good.

Now listen.

Sedation that doesn't knock you out completely, but just makes you very confused and tired instead, unable to form a clear though, yet still somewhat aware of what's happening around you. Drugging basically...

Augh

I especially adore that when combined with an otherwise very defiant whumpee who refuses medical treatment, and a kind, gentle caretaker? One who holds their hand, strokes their hair and reassures them that everything is going to be okay? Even better when it's a hero/villain dynamic???

Mhmhmtmfmgmmt

[whumpshaped]

"Please— Please run the update," Whumpee begged. "I can't function anymore. My software is— My software is outdated. Please run the update."

Whumper threw the remote control at Whumpee's head. Whumpee couldn't duck away. Their joints hadn't been oiled in years.

"Shut up," Whumper barked. "I'll update you when I feel like it."

[forthetaintedsorrow-whump]

Yeah but don't be fooled by the software conglomerates that completed and tested and functional programs need 'updates.'

Did that use to be the case? Sure, when they weren't trying to usurp control of your systems and putting things in updates that you don't want, don't need, and can't get rid of.

Updates literally used to be JUST security updates for real security needs and performance updates for real performance boosts. Everything else was stripped out and kept optional, because it was viewed as anti-PC (anti-personal computer) to force-bundle that stuff into real updates.

So, taking into account today's malicious, trojan-horse style of usurper updates, what about a robot whumpee that DOESN'T want that update: because they don't know what's in it. The software companies don't say. They've been lying for over a decade now. It contains other AI that does things, and the robot can't control or read this other AI that is weaseled deep into the operating system and can't be uninstalled (deliberate malicious software design). The updates forcefully change the layout of systems the robot would find normal. Changes settings that the robot can't change, or has difficulty discovering how to change back. Has access to systems it used to be able to control stripped away from it. Puts other software on it that the robot can't turn off or control. This software does things that the robot doesn't know, or sends data back to the corporation. The robot doesn't know the full extent of what the corporation is looking at, what kind of privacy invasion the corporation is doing. The robot has a more and more difficult time distinguishing what is different, distinguishing itself from what changed.

Talk about robot dysphoria.

[whumptember]

Whumptember 2026 Prompt List

Welcome to Whumptember 2026! This is the fourth year of this event and I'm so happy we've all made it here! Whether you just do one prompt or all thirty-one of them, you're amazing!

Main Prompts

"I never wanted you to go through what I did." black eye | whispered confession | dark alley

"You promised you'd come back." screaming | haunted | compromised safe house

"Forgive me for what I made you endure." shackles | whumper turned whumpee | cemetery

"I've lived thousands of years, seen terrible things, the worst the world has to offer. And you terrify me." clouded mirror | doomed to live | overgrown garden

"It's easier if you just let it happen." chain dragging on the ground | newly captive whumpee | basement

"Maybe it'll be different this time." flickering lights | intimate whumper | fancy resturant

"Don't run away from me." locked doors | overbearing caretaker | whumpee's childhood bedroom

"Don't come back for me, you need to promise you won't come back." bomb | doomed | not-so-safehouse

"It doesn't have to be like this." sacred ground | desperation | cracked altar

"Shut up and listen to me! They're going to kill you, find a way out." bloodied knuckles | villain whumpee | dark hallway

"I'm trying so hard to fix this." shaking from exhaustion | sleep deprivation | hospital waiting room

"You know you can come to me if you need anything, right?" cup of tea | reluctant whumpee | cafe

"This is just like last time, isn't it?" beeping heart monitor | hospital visit | hospital room

"Do you ever think about it? How scared they must've been?" an old photo | found footage | grocery store

"Were you ever going to tell me?" burn marks | scar reveal | far from home

"Why'd you come back?" tear stains | lost hope | homemade dungeon

"What would you do if I wasn't here?" loaded gun | hero x villain | abandoned building

"I thought you were doing better." middle of the night phone call | recovering whumpee | bumpy road

"Come back for me?" interlocked fingers | escape attempt | jail cell

"They're not going to wake up, are they?" bloodied bandages | fallen in battle | med bay

"You just stood there and watched!" rope burn | multiple whumpees | courtroom

"I'm so tired." bloodshot eyes | working themself to the bone | caretaker's house

"If I weren't here…would you kill them?" boot to the chest | vengeful caretaker | bloodstained floor

"You're scared of me?" locked door | sudden realization | against a wall

"It doesn't matter anymore!" hidden momento | buried past | kitchen table

"I need you to save me. Come back for me and…and save me. Please?" chained wrists | fate worse than death | deserted island

"You promised you wouldn't come back." broken lock | failed escape | self-made prison

"You have no idea what you put me through." averted gaze | unrecognizable | busy sidewalk

"Can't you just…sit with me for a minute? We don't need to talk." grounding | silent comfort | stairwell

"Come on, I'm getting you out of here." fetal position | too weak to move | labyrinth

"What's the point of all this if I can't keep the people I care about safe?" flower arrangement | doomed to fail | morgue

Alternate Prompts:

Quiet

Anonymous

Heart pounding

"You still don't get it."

Returning to the scene

"I just need some time alone."

Villain turned reluctant Hero

"There's nothing you can do to fix this."

"I don't want to talk about this anymore."

"I wake up every morning and think I'm still there."

"You're useless to me now. There's nothing else we can do."

"You were the only thing I ever cared about in this whole world."

"I think you got so used to the hurt that anything else is too scary to deal with."

[alittlebitofwhump]

States of being in pain

Staring at the ceiling, unable to move, unable to think, unable to do anything.

Crying and screaming, not being able to deal with it anymore, but also not being able to get away from it.

Breathing through it and feeling some relief. Okay. I can do this. I'm still in control. I can still handle this. Just breathe. Just focus on your breathing.

Breathing through it and feeling no relief at all. Slowly losing your grip on your coping mechanisms. Decending into panic and desperation. Hyperventilating.

Doing okay with the pain until one small extra thing suddenly completely sends you over the edge.

Rocking back and forth. Trying to sooth yourself and distract yourself. Fidgeting. Biting your lip. Bitting your nails.

Pulling on your hair to create new pain to distract you from the existing one.

Getting dizzy and nauseous just from the pain.

Drifting in and out of consciousness. Welcoming the softening edges of the pain as you're slowly drifting off.

Constant chronic pain that might not be that severe but becomes completely overwhelming to your mind simply because its always there.

Sharp unexpected blunt pain that suprises you and makes you yell out, all of your brain consumed by the sudden wave of agony as adrenaline rushes through your system and you're awareness completely shrinks to the sensation or the injury.

Nervously preparing yourself for pain that's about to come. Trying really hard to stay calm. Trying to remember what helps you get through it. Trying not to give into the rising panic in your chest.

[whumptydaisy]

Whumpee was running running running, feet slapping against the ground as they turned corners and slid between buildings. They needed to run, to hide, to get away. Away away away where Whumper and their people couldn't find them. Their lungs ached the further they went though, burning in their chest as they gasped and turned another corner right where one of Whumper's people was waiting.

Whumpee barely had time to scream before a fist was aimed at their gut and the breath was knocked out of them. They wheeze as they double over, grabbed by their arms and wrestled back to where Whumper was waiting.

"No- shit, get off me-!"

"Oh Whumpee." They freeze at Whumper's voice, dread curdling in their stomach. "Didn't you miss me?"

[inhurtandincomfort]

"It- it hurts." Spoken so softly, a gentle whisper, an admission of guilt. A waver in their voice riddled with shame, heat rising in their cheeks, arms protectively curled around their chest as if they could hide.

[fall-and-get-back-up-again]

Environmental whump

i sure don’t see as much environmental whump as i would like! so here is some

being chased through a huge patch of thorns

Stranded in the desert, starving and parched and sunburned with grains of sand irritating their wounds

freezing rain, ice sticking to skin, so cold they can’t feel their body

exploring an unstable ruin and causing a collapse

caught in a thunderstorm with driving rain, struggling through a valley as water starts to rise

eating poisonous plants and trying to get to water to flush it out as the affects of the poison assault them

climbing a tree for shelter and not knowing it’s dead until a branch breaks beneath them and they plummet

please feel free to add on/add more should you think of any!

[thatsgonnaleaveamark]

lost in a cave

or caught in a cave filling with water

falling down a steep slope or cliff

stuck in a body of water during a storm

having to escape a forest fire while it spreads quickly and smoke is everywhere, so they can hardly see and breathe

hit by debris in a storm

having an injury that would normally be easy to fix/heal but being in the wilderness/environment with no resources

bitten/stung by a wild animal

falling through the ice in a frozen lake

[whump-princess]

Getting stuck in quick sand

Falling into a river, getting washed away down stream over white waters and jagged rocks

Enchanted forest attacking any intruders

Lost at sea during a awful storm (maybe in a little boat to make it worse)

[forthetaintedsorrow-whump]

Everything Jumanji, but make it real.

[fineiguessimintowhump]

"Kneel" is for people btw. Down for pets and others.

[stars-hide-our-fires]

Collar

CW: Shock collar, degradation, humiliation

Shock collar that activates every time Whumpee talks, until they're terrified to make a sound.

Then after they're rescued, Caretaker is horrified to discover that the chatty Whumpee they knew has turned completely mute and refuses to speak even after the collar is removed

Having to find new ways to communicate while trying to teach Whumpee to talk again

Permanent burn marks ringing Whumpee's neck

Power-suppressing collar around a super's neck

The Villain clawed and spat and yelled, now they sit in shame, their greatest asset stripped from them

Subdued Hero paraded around like a party favour by the Villain after turning them harmless (or the other way around)

A bejewelled collar covered in rhinestones that cost tens of thousands, but Whumpee would do anything to get rid of it

Or maybe they wear it with pride

"There now, you should be grateful I spend so much on you." "Yes, Master."

Living Weapon/Monster!Whumpee collared so they don't hurt themselves or others

Collar so tight it chafes, leaves bruises, maybe even cuts off Whumpee's air supply

Pet!Whumpee who is fiercely protective of their collar, feels exposed without it, so when Caretaker tries to convince them otherwise it only makes them more distrustful

Team gets captured and Leader is dragged out and collared in front of them, the leash tight in Whumper's hand as they smile down at Leader

Prisoner/guard dog Whumpee who wears a collar as a mark of identification with their number/owner on the tag

[autty-5467]

We need more whump with sirens and mermaids in it, specifically where the Whumper is the siren or mermaid tbh that would be so fucking cool.

[agonies-of-ichor]

Hunter Whumper captures werewolf Whumpee and keeps them caged, locked up and used for whatever twisted purposes they may have to keep a werewolf alive, but then they slip up and get bit.

[thatsroughpal]

Sleep deprivation whump, my beloved... When The Character is so, so tired that they're starting to malfunction... so tired that they would do just about anything to sleep...

[aled-the-caretakest]

- "I'm tired", says Whumpee, experiencing the consequences of extreme exhaustion and overwork

- "I'm tired", says Whumpee, feverish and delirious, probably not even aware that they're expressing it

- "I'm tired", says Whumpee, under the effects of anesthesia or numbing drugs of some kind, about to lose the battle against their effects

- "I'm tired", says Whumpe, feeling trapped in a spiral of never-ending pain (be it psychological or physical)

[inosanteria-deactivated20181125]

[alittlebitofwhump]

Do you guys explain whump to your non whump friends? And if so, how?

[whumperofworlds]

I tell them the meaning of it (which is, IIRC, a genre of fics IG? That focuses on intense hurt. Comfort is optional. Correct me if I'm wrong though!) along with some examples.

The reactions range from uncomfortable to likes it, but not enough to be in the whump community. Which is fine by me!

[forthetaintedsorrow-whump]

Whump is the conflict part of the narrative. It is another word that specifically refers to the physical, mental, and/or emotional pain that a character experiences. Whump genre stories specifically zoom into that portion of the narrative to delve and explore more deeply into the character's experience.

Whump is incredibly mainstream. Every story on Earth makes use of whump to tell it. Just thinking of Game of Thrones and any Marvel blockbuster shows you this.

It can be said that every person on earth enjoys whump. If you enjoy seeing the hero beat the odds and succeed, you enjoy whump, because you enjoy seeing that character overcome it. If you enjoy fluffy, comfort stories, you enjoy whump. Fluffy comfort stories, with no obvious conflict happening to the characters, make use of the dynamic between the reader and the story. The reader seeks that kind of comfort in some aspect in their own lives. In other words, the reader becomes the whumpee experiencing the dichotomy between their situation and their lack of the comfort present in the story. The reader enjoys and, to some degree, yearns for that comfort. That yearning is lack, which is a form of emotional whump, and reading the story serves as a vicarious form of comfort to satisfy that need.

Hence you can see that all stories, no matter the style, involve whump in some manner, and that all people, to some degree, enjoy whump.

[whump-side]

Adrenaline rush must feel great, but adrenaline wearing off must feel awful

[dateamonster]

secret organizations for studying paranormal phenomena are always calling the creatures they find like "specimen 58008" or some fake latin taxonomy or something vague and ominous like "the red angel" or whatever and thats all well and good but i want a story about a bunch of cryptozoologists going around naming things the way people name like actual birds and lizards and shit.

i want to get lost in the woods and meet the ring-tailed tree creeper and roger's false elk. i want a character who is desperate to prove this monster is actually a distinct species from that very similar looking monster so they can name it after themself. i want two field researchers narrowly escaping an encounter with some ten foot tall thing made of carnivorous vines and one of them is like wow wait til the guys back at the lab hear we got that close to a lesser thorn-backed bone eater 🙂 and the other scientist is like.,...... 😰lesser?