Mar 1
For my fellow hidden injury enthusiasts: Shout out to that trope where a character is already introduced as very strong and competent, and later is revealed to have had a hidden injury/illness holding them back all along. Cue "My God, how strong are you, really?"
And it's always fun when "My God, how strong are you, really?" turns into "My God, what did they do to you?"
#whumpblr#whump tropes#tropes#hidden injury#for the last one: obviously it can be from how accustomed they are to pushing through pain#but I'm also partial to when the strength itself was attained through horrible means/at a cost#lab experiment whump; living weapon whump; magic with a cost; superpowers activated by trauma/in times of need; etc#noncon body modification... painful cybernetics... devil's bargain...#secrets revealed#action