It’s time to whump your favourite blorbos – Welcome to the Mercyfic Bingo Prompt Event of 2025!
What is Mercyfic?
At its core, the term ‘mercyfic’ denotes the trope where one character (The Wretched/ Sufferer/Whumpee) does not expect to receive a kindness from / expects to be hurt by another character(s) (The Mercyful/Caretaker) who has no intention of doing so. This expectation by the Sufferer may manifest due to a variety of reasons, including societal norms, past experience or an actual personal vendetta.
How the Mercyful chooses to extend that kindness will also affect the flavour of your mercyfic. For instance, a Mercyful who is appalled by whatever tragedy that has befallen the Sufferer and does their best to alleviate their stress will differ greatly from one who is apprehensive of the Sufferer due to past animosity but still has enough honour not to want Sufferer go through inhumane treatment or one who is completely ignorant to the stress that the Sufferer is sustaining until too late.
Simple TLDR: Character A expects Character B to do something bad to them, but Character B does not intend to do that to Character A.
Here are some examples of Mercyfics on a03:
Seeking Shelter by sphagnum
Wipe the ash from my eyes (so much more away) by PotatoLady
Leash by envysparkler
The Cold of Snow Refreshes the Soul by yelp
Jason Todd and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Decision by gunpowder_and_pearls
Rules for this Event
When: Now till the end of 2025
What: Any medium (art, fic, podfic etc) from any fandom with any rating is welcome! I only ask that you be sure to rate your works appropriately, and if you happen to be a minor, please be careful by selecting only the prompts that are suitable for your maturity levels.
Where to post: You may post your works here on tumblr, tagging this account at @mercyfic-prompt-event so that your works may be reblogged. You may also post to this collection on AO3.
There is no obligation to finish all of the prompts. The bingo square is really just there for aesthetic purposes - pick and choose the prompts that you vibe with the most and have fun from there. But if you do feel like completing the squares, then by all means, have all the fun you want!
If there are any questions, feel free to send in an ask or dm this account. Happy writing!
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