A place to hoard all my favorite angst, whump, and hurt/comfort stuff.
Because sometimes, in order to see what a fictional character is made of,
you need to see them broken.
Hello everyone! Call me Crystal (she/her or they/them, no huge preferences here). I've been a Whump and Hurt/Comfort enjoyer forever, but only recently discovered the whump community. Finally decided to throw my hat in the ring!
Made this little blog as a treasure trove to hoard all my favorite whump, angst, and hurt/comfort posts and art like a dragon. I plan to put my own whump thoughts/concepts up here as well (and maybe I'll be tempted into original writing if I see a really good prompt or something đ„°) because I love seeing my characters beat up until they crack open like geodes.
I am An Adult (TM) so there might be a couple NSFW things up here, but they will all be tagged appropriately.
Apologies in advance to all the whump blogs I'm about to spam reblog from lol
Likes/squicks under the cut, as well as the start of a masterlist!
Likes
Unbroken Vigil (my favorite trope ever)
Magic Whump
Sooo many other things related to Magic Whump
Nonhuman whumpee (merfolk, winged beings, any of the fun nonhuman beings you can play as in DnD...)
Bound and gagged
Kidnap and Rescue
Used as Bait (and Forced to Watch)
Caretaker x Whumpee (because I am a hopeless romantic)
Recovery Whump
Heroic Last Stand
Dislikes
Major Character Death (I need my happy endings)
Severe body modification (anything huge and unrecoverable)
Noncon
Masterlist!
Darius and Mianu stories
Used as Bait Part 1
Used as Bait Part 2
"Don't touch him" (ask response)
Control (song lyric prompt)
The Weight of the Crown (a response to a whump prompt)
Magic With a Price (for Magic Whump Week)
Cursed (for Magic Whump Week)
Collapse (for Magic Whump Week)
"Collapse" but from Darius' POV (ask response)
Random Darius and Mianu info stuff
Torture Ask Game response
Oc Ask Game 1
"Bold What Applies" tag game
Gail Carson Levine's Character Profile (tag game response)
"Find the Word" tag game
"Random Headcanon Generator" tag game
Darius and Mianu Picrew
Mianu Picrew
Two OC's in 15 (fun dialogue tag game, both bois)
OC Ask Game 2 (tag game, just Mianu this time)
Mianu's Scars (tag game response)
Characters and their room (tag game response)
Ask Game "for the cute boys"
More of that same ask game
And another one from that same ask game (you're all so nice!)
Caretaker who is so grateful Whumpee is home safe. Who would do absolutely anything for them now that theyâre back.
Caretaker who has to check on Whumpee every few minutes, even if theyâve been sleeping for days, just to make sure theyâre still okay.
Caretaker who tosses blankets in the dryer just so Whumpee can be extra warm.
Caretaker who finds just as much peace in holding Whumpeeâs hand as Whumpee does.
Caretaker who gives hugs that last longer than everyone elseâs. Who pulls away teary eyed, because they know just how much Whumpee is hurting.
Caretaker who cries themself after Whumpee falls asleep, exhausted from another breakdown.
Caretaker who combs and untangles Whumpeeâs hair so gingerly, careful not to tug too hard or rip out any strands by accident.
Caretaker who always leaves a light on at night for Whumpee so theyâre not lost in the dark, and who gladly stays all night when Whumpee is too afraid to be alone.
I love it when a character laughs uncarefully and their soft laugh turns into a groan, and then they still smile a little despite frowning in pain. I love this mixed expression of frowning and smiling for some reason. Especially when the character laughs because of something the caretaker said or did.
Your characters are allowed to be bad people. Your story is allowed to have no moral lesson.yyour ending is allowed to be sad. The villain can win. The good person can do something unforgivable. The lovers can destroy each other. You are allowed to write the thing that no one asked for and everything that everyone told you doesnât work and you are allowed to not explain yourself.
Two things absolutely changed my life as a writer. You ready?
One- as OP said, your characters can be bad people, they can do bad things. There doesn't have to be a reason or a moral. You can make them bad if you want to. No other reason needed.
Two- it doesn't have to be good, it just needs to be written. On my last book i literally wrote the words "dumbest version" on the top of the page because I had seen some advice to do that. It changed everything. I stopped trying to make it perfect, I just tried to make it. Period. Full stop.
And honestly? Defiance is the best writing I've ever done. All because I let my characters be bad and I gave myself the freedom to write it badly.
âOf all the seven seas, to think, you ended up right here.â The fisherman said to the creature caught in their net, âIâve been trying to catch one of you for so, so longâŠâ
Whumpee wasnât sure how to respond; they weren't sure if they could. Itâs not often they use their vocal cords to communicate. They felt a creeping dread crawl up their scales, the others were right. They didnât listen. They were too curious. They shouldâve stayed away from the walkers.
Did the fish catcher know they could understand them? Did they even care? They wanted desperately to ask what they were going to do with them, but they werenât sure how. They couldnât even beg, or inquire.
one thing i love in whump is... implications. when the damage isn't immediately obvious but it's easy to put the clues together if you're paying attention.
bruises in particular shapes. certain types of injuries. offhand comments that add up. odd periods of not being reachable, someone goes out of contact for a few days and comes back moving strangely, stiffly, like they're- like they're hurt. a new traumatic reaction, a new fear, a new trigger that came out of nowhere.
something happened. something has happened and anyone paying attention knows it. and anyone paying attention for longer than a moment, anyone who truly knows them, can probably figure out what.
I love the trope, just as much as anyone, of the Caretaker being shocked by Whumpee's ingrained behaviors. Saying something and realizing just how bad it was by Whumpee's reaction.
But what if Caretaker just gently corrects the behavior?
They don't even verbalize it.
Whumpee kneels in an argument- Caretaker gently pulls on their hands so they stand again.
The moment passes.
Whumpee cowers when they break a plate- Caretaker quietly gets them a new one and cleans up the shards.
Whumpee removes their shirt and their torso is hatched with scars-and Caretaker looks at them all the same.
And it's a relief. Everyone treats Whumpee like a fragile glass thing ever since they came back.
With Caretaker they can at least, sometimes, feel normal.
So much unexplored Whump potential in the classic âmerfolk trapped in the poolâ scenario.Â
The frantic claustrophobia of being trapped in a space far too small for them. All they can do is swim helplessly in circles, hoping that some kindhearted person is clever enough to get them out.Â
Or maybe there are too many people coming by. Maybe itâs the community pool, endlessly crowded every day, and mer-whumpee has no choice but to hide before theyâre found by someone who wants to hurt them.Â
And that doesnât even begin to cover the scratchy concrete floors, or the potential dangers of the filters, or the disgusting stuff left behind by careless swimmers.Â
And things are even worse if our mer-whumpee comes from the ocean. Â
A saltwater mer-whumpee growing more and more ill by the day, the lack of salt taking its toll, ruining their gills, weakening muscles and organs that they used to use without thinking.Â
Mer-whumpee being unable to open their eyes, unable to bear the sting of the chlorine and other chemicals. Or worse, the chemicals stinging their skin, burning their scales, causing horrible wounds that our whumpee has no idea how to treat.Â
Just. Mer-whumpee being stuck in a pool and itâs miserable.
The team doctor prescribes 'hugs' as a joke to try and lighten the mood of the intense recovery your whumpee has ahead of them... the team takes this very seriously.
you can pull recovery whump tropes/cliches from my cold dead hands. every time a caretaker waits at a distance for whumpee to touch them first, only to have that moment be when they fall asleep on their shoulder and they are DESPERATE to be chill and cool and not freaking out theyre so not brimming with excitement over this- an angel gets its wings
