#(pained noises)

[comfortingcatharsis]

big fan of when a character usually doesn't make a peep when they're hurt... but then there comes a point when they're so seriously injured to the point that the first sign they're even still alive when their allies find them is them letting out a drawn-out groan or (my favorite) whimper of pain

Ohhh yes! I love out-of-character reactions signifying something's badly wrong and characters in such extremis they're incapable of concealing their distress and in so much pain/so weak that their pained noises are reduced to mere moaning and whimpers.

[katoeyourcultleader]

*distressed noises*

[comfortingcatharsis]

Choked-off sounds of pain, cries that start out in the register of "Aa-" and peter out as a muffled "-Nn", startled out of a character before being brought back under control.

[comfortingcatharsis]

The weakest of pained noises made by a character without even the strength to moan, let alone scream or yell, that are little more than exhalations of pain- the faintest of mewls, with no more force behind it than a newborn kitten, audible only to a companion mere feet or inches away from them.