Mmmm, Armin whump with platonic yan Bertl and Annie. 🤤
Content Warning
Severe Burns
Lil Notes
Not canon compliant/Parasites AU
Bertholdt let out a hiss, frantically pulling himself out of his titan as it dissolved. All he could think of was Armin. How stupid that stunt he pulled was. He could've died.
He could be dead-
He flew down, catching the blackened shape as it fell to the ground. He wrapped his arms carefully around Armin's horribly burnt body, using the strange explosives the barbarian's had as a cover while he got away. He flung himself through the ruined streets, nearly flinching when Annie joined him. Her eyes were wide, tears flowing freely down her face.
The two silently flew low to the ground until there were enough trees for cover. Then, Bertholdt nodded to Annie and she flew up higher, scanning the landscape for water. Bertholdt waited anxious seconds before she reappeared and nodded at him. Then, he followed her to a small stream.
It wasn't much, but it would have to do.
He laid Armin down in the stream, careful not to submerge his head. He and Annie worked to clear as much dirt and loose, dead skin as they could. Then, Bertholdt pulled out of one his teeth and worked it into Armin's mouth. Annie gave him a look, but said nothing.
The reaction was immediate, Armin's eyes shot open and he began to scream.
"Shit!" Annie hissed. "They'll hear him!"
"I know, I know!" Bertholdt shoved his arm into Armin's mouth, muffling his cries. Terrified, he scanned the horizon, looking for the scouts.
Thankfully, Pieck found them first.
She leapt down from the trees, and Annie took the emergency supplies from her back. Bertholdt kept his arm in Armin's mouth as she wrapped up his body. Then, she wadded up some cotton and stuffed it into his mouth.
"He'll pass out from the pain eventually." She said. "But we need to get out of here, now."
Bertholdt nodded and loaded Armin onto Pieck's back.
Mikasa stirred, she sat up, rubbing her eyes. Armin was clinging onto her, his face flushed with fever. She frowned.
"Armin, what are you doing? You need to be in bed." The memories of cutting him open to stem the bleeding were still fresh in her mind.
Armin didn't speak, he only whimpered, clinging to her tighter.
Mikasa's brows knit together. "I see…" She sighed. "Alright, I'll go to the infirmary with you, okay?"
"Okay…" Armin wheezed painfully.
She hoisted him up into her arms, and he curled against her chest, still whimpering. She could only imagine the sort of pain he must've been in, to be so openly accepting her help.
"It's okay, Armin. I've got you." She said softly.
The trip to the infirmary was blissfully brief. She carefully laid him back in bed, safely where there were medics and instruments if he were to start bleeding again. He'd be okay here. And she'd stay with him, keeping him comfortable and safe.
Armin weakly tugged on her, and Mikasa climbed into the bed with him, letting him lay against her as he slowly fell asleep. She ran her hand through his hair, humming softly. The steady thrum of his heart comforted her. The only thing that would make the whole thing better is if Eren was there, too.
But Eren was much too stubborn to accept a kind hand from anyone. Let alone Mikasa. Honestly, she kind of hated that about him. He just wouldn't let her help him, just let her protect him. He kept insisting that he didn't need it when he clearly did!
Of course, she wasn't going to let Armin out of her sight from now on. She could only imagine if that happened and she wasn't around to do anything-
Mikasa clutched Armin closer, shutting her eyes tightly.
Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Panic attack / Overstimulated / "Get me out of here."
@whumperless-whump-event
Erwin is not having a good time. Luckily, Levi is there to cuss people out. lol
Content Warning
Panic Attack
Lil Notes
Parasites AU/Not canon compliant
Levi looked over, Erwin was stiff, his eyes fixed on the person trying to talk to him. Well, people. A crowd had built around his horse, and they were all demanding answers about the titan attack. Well, most were just hurling accusations at him. He was trying to defend himself, but he was quickly being drowned out by the quickly building crowd.
His pupils were dilated, and he was sweating more than usual. That's when Levi noticed his hands were shaking. Erwin was so good at hiding his emotions, he could even hide them from himself. But Levi could always tell.
"That's enough!" Levi shouted at the crowd, grabbing their attention. It seems his angry face was enough to get most of the shit-heels to back off, but a few still seemed to have the balls to continue.
"Why can't Erwin-"
Levi cut the man off, not willing to hear another word of this worm's opinion. "Go try fighting the titans yourself, and see how tough shit you are then. You know, when your organs are all over the grass, and no one has the balls to save you." He hissed. "We can't rely on the walls to protect us forever! And if you don't like that, you can take it up with me."
That seemed to do the trick. Now, he just needed Erwin to hold on long enough for them to get someplace private. Levi could tell, just by the way his parasite was wriggling under his eyes that he was probably going to have a meltdown.
x~x
The group huddled around Erwin as they made their way to his quarters. Their numbers made it a bit easier to hide his trembling frame as he held onto them for dear life. Once they were inside, he stumbled towards his bed and hung his head in his hands.
Hange frowned. It always hurt them to see him like this. They pulled up his blankets and gently molded them around him, forming a sort of protective fort. They and the others sat by while he began to purr from distress, listening to his occasional sniffle or sob.
It would take time for him to calm down, but they were there for him. Anything he needed, they were there for him.
Hanna breathed hard, her hands shook uncontrollably, her chest felt like it was caving in. She pressed her back against the wall, wishing she could will herself to pass through it entirely. In front of her, crawling slowly out from the dark was Franz.
Or rather, a horrid, half-formed doppelganger that looked like Franz. Or maybe even a revenant, considering how its eyes glistened in the dying light of her dropped lantern. It slowly dragged itself forwards, eyes sharply fixed onto her. It had no legs, just a fleshy lump where legs should have been.
She wanted to run, to flee, to be anywhere but right here in this moment. But it had her cornered. She had fled into a dead-end and now the only way out was past the monster that probably wanted to burrow into her flesh and become her. She couldn't stop shaking, her vision blurred from the tears pouring from her eyes.
"Please…" She sobbed. "Just go away!"
"Ha…na…" It rasped.
Why her? What in the world did she do to deserve this?
"D…t… cr…y… H…a…" It reached up and she panicked, kicking the thing in the face. It cried out and she ran.
Suddenly, she could hear a whole mob of footsteps following her. She no longer had the lantern, not that it would do much good burnt out. Hanna could only go by memory to try and find her way back to the training grounds. Even though he was absolutely going to yell at her, Siades wouldn't let a bunch of revenants eat her.
She could see the lights up ahead, but stopped, a figure blocking her path.
"Help…" The words died in her throat as she stared at Marco. His arm and shoulder were gone, and half of his face was just- missing. Something blue was crawling around in his empty eye empty socket.
"Hanna…" He wheezed.
She was going to be sick-
Thomas, Mina, Nack, Milius, Franz, and Marco surrounded her. They closed in slowly, and her mind blanked to save her from the terror.
Just AoT characters I think are particularly tasty to whump. >3
Armin- I want that blond twink obliterated. So smart, but physically weak, a perfect target for horrible nervous system eating parasites. Also, the potential of him trying to reason with delusions, or altered reality. Him being a pacifist and infected with the Colossal Titan, a weapon of mass destruction??? So good.
Jean- He's a much better person than he gives himself credit for, which makes it so GOOD when his mind starts eating itself!! <3 Jean trying hard to fight against the infection taking over, and the denial when it alters his mental state. Could also be a good candidate for being gaslit by delusional yanderes. 👀
Marco- *shoves parasitic worms down his throat and watches him squirm around on the ground with a smile*
Eren- A good candidate for mental illness and psychosis based whump, me thinks. But going that route, it'd be good to tune down the genuinely evil genocidal asshat bit, because it would feed into the idea that psychosis makes people evil/violent. 😥 Maybe make him think he's doing the rumbling while struggling heavily mentally with his actions, feeling helplessness and genuine remorse. Alternatively- Platonic. Yandere. Mikasa. Ackerman. Throw in Armin for double the fun!! :D
Gabi- I think psychological whump works best here, make her think reality is not reality. >3 Make her question what she's doing and why she's doing it. Twist everything around until she stops even trying to understand it!! >33
Falco- Lock that boy in the torment nexus.
Hannes- Surprisingly fun to whump! Pull his brain apart and drive him further into alcoholism. >3
Grisha- Platonic. Yandere. Eren. Kruger. (or visions/hallucinations of his family being brutally murdered, that works too!)
This is just what I could think of for now, feel free to add your own thoughts. 👀
Oh So Inconvenient: Trapped inside by weather / Worsening infection / "I didn't know where else to go."
@whumperless-whump-event
Hehehehehhehehehehe
Content Warning
Parasitic Infection, Kidnapping Mention
Lil Notes
Not canon compliant/Parasites AU
Jean took a deep breath, he stretched and sighed. The air was chilled, and his bed nice and warm. Marco and the others snored nearby, it was so peaceful. Suddenly he felt something strange, like a wriggling in his side. Suddenly, Jean realized how slick with sweat he was, he wasn't comfortably warm, he was hot. And the squirming, it hurt. It wouldn't stop!
Jean coughed, straining his eyes open. He attempted to move, but he was weak from the fever, and bound at his wrists and ankles. Marco slept next to him, curled up and purring like a cat. He chirped and rolled onto his back, whiskers twitching.
Jean looked around the cabin, Reiner and Bertholdt were up. They were talking while putting their clothes on.
"The storm hasn't let up." Reiner groused. He was using that unusual accent again, the same one Bertholdt had. Jean couldn't be sure if this was some sort of act, or Reiner really was just that fucked in his head. "If we tried to head out in this weather, we'd just get lost."
Bertholdt sighed and nodded. "No word from Annie or Marcel yet, anyway." He ran a hand through his hair. "We shouldn't leave without them anyway, Zeke and Magath would be pissed."
"Hopefully we'll hear back soon, I'm worried about Jean. His wound hasn't been healing." The two looked over at him, and Jean found himself flinching. He hissed, a searing pain shooting through his side, up his chest and into his neck and lungs. He coughed, freezing when he felt Reiner's hand on his forehead. "Fever hasn't let up even a little."
Jean glared at Reiner, but the brute didn't seem to care.
"Try ti get some rest, Jean." Bertholdt said, as though he weren't a literal monster who kidnapped two people and brainwashed one.
Reiner ran his hand through Jean's hair. He tried to pull away, but he didn't have the strength. Only able to sigh and close his eyes, and try to pretend he was somewhere else.