Whump One-Shot
Tw: Implied former child actor Whumpee, dehumanisation, BBU setting, pet Whumpee
There is a man on the TV that wears this pets face.
His owner loves him, every night when his owner comes home and she sits down on the couch and sweeps him into her loving arms the TV plays the same movie. This pet is always quiet and always nuzzles up to her, as he’s learnt she likes, and she giggles at him every time he glances up when the TV calls his name. He doesn’t understand why the stranger plays out his life, he doesn’t understand how he even knows it. Nonetheless, the pet is glad he does as his owner looks so happy whenever they watch it. He is only a silly, dumb pet and he knows he is happiest when his owner thinks for him.
He wonders if the man on TV has the same maintenance as him every morning, if he has to wake up hours before his owner to put the right makeup on and to apply the glitter to his face, or if the man on the TV is a better pet than him, and it comes naturally to him. Sometimes she watches a show with the same imposter that doesn’t take place on faraway plains framed by dragons, it takes place in a darker room where he’s questioned by various people and they call him by a different name. Whumpee doesn’t understand the appeal, the setting reminds him of the facility, the name makes his head hurt and afterwards his owner looks away from the round-cheeked stranger and looks disappointingly down at his own sharper features. He never would voice these feelings to his owner, he is a good pet and he knows how to behave.
Whumpee knows he is a very good pet because he was very expensive, his owner’s father tells him so whenever he visits. When the two are alone, he growls it at him and whenever he and his beloved owner attend parties it’s to show him off. Strangers often call him by the name his impersonator wears in that dark room but he knows that isn’t the right name. He knows he is Whumpee, and he came through a big white portal to come to their world. The WRU found him, saved him and told him and so he knows that it is true. He has said it to himself a thousand times, and the past they recounted to him is the only one he remembers.
He wouldn’t want to be his impersonator anyway. In that dark room they had asked him if he had ever wanted to be a pet after working with one on a ‘movie set’, and he had laughed and said no. His owner’s father always chuckled at that line, and Whumpee also knew it was silly and always laughed along with him. Who wouldn’t want to be a pet? He was happy and loved and he didn’t have to be anything he wasn’t.