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Whumpee who doesn’t know who they are. Not in an amnesia sense or anything, but a “I don’t know what my favorite color is” kind of way.

Likes and dislikes, a personality of any kind wasn’t conducive to the life they had lived up until now, and it felt like they were starting from scratch.

Every decision takes seemingly forever as they searched through fragments of what little they knew about themselves. Did they want the blue toothbrush, or the green one? Did they prefer a hoodie or a sweater? Did they actually not care, or did they just not know?

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Caretaker who “takes the blame”.

Whumpee feeling overwhelmed in some social situation? Caretaker is willing to be the buzzkill, they’ll make up some excuse as to why they wanna leave, letting Whumpee gracefully duck out unquestioned.

Uncomfortable questions? Caretaker will play the controlling friend or partner, whatever’s required, be the bad guy, because they’d rather look like an ass than leave Whumpee to flounder while they’re still learning to set boundaries.

Caretaker will say all the annoying, no fun, boring things, “no thank you” “we’ve got plans” “we’re staying in” “it’s none of your business” etc. because they can. It’s not as scary for them, and Whumpees getting there but it’s taking them some time and that’s okay.

(Works well for team dynamics, royal court/political dynamics, or more contemporary things like celebs or similar imo)

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Whumpee, as they’ve slowly started to heal and get settled, finds themselves, inexplicably, trying to push all of Caretakers buttons.

Little pranks, pokes and annoyances, just generally being a nuisance. They don’t know why they’re doing it, they’re even annoying themselves, and every time Caretaker doesn’t immediately respond, they’re terrified they really did push them too far.

But Caretaker has done their research. It wasn’t Whumpee being mean, or even trying to get attention, it was what they’d started to think of as “testing the waters”. Seeing if Caretaker would snap, would lose their temper or push them away or whatever awful reaction they truly feared.

Every push was just the quiet question of “love me anyway?”

They knew it wouldn’t last forever, that once they felt safer, things would mellow out, but this was one of the things it would take for them to get there. And Caretaker would take all the salt in their tea it would take for Whumpee to be sure they were safe.

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Whumpee who honestly should be so much worse. They get better, grow stronger, but everyone who learns about what they’ve gone through comes to the same thought. They deserve to be so much crueler, so much more vengeful and hateful and destructive, but thank god they aren’t.

Because if they wanted revenge, who knows what would be left in the aftermath?

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Whumpee being genuinely confused that Caretaker wanted them to be happy. Their happiness had never mattered to anyone before ever, it hadn’t even been an afterthought.

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When the sarcastic, grumpy, walls up type of character lets something slip randomly that hits with the most devastating sincerity like dude- dude oh my god-