#shapeshifter whumper

[tracingthetapestry]

shapeshifter whumper who tortures whumpee while wearing the faces of their loved ones. they come to fear those they used to love. whumper is a good actor. they know how to act just right, chip away at whumpee's sanity and esteem until all that's left of them is terror and pleas for mercy.

when they are rescued, they can't bear to look at anyone. "GO AWAY!" they end up yelling at some point. they can't look in the mirror. their own face terrifies them to no end. they want to wipe their mind clean. they want to change themselves so intrinsically that only a phantom would remain behind.

caretaker is someone new, though. it is the one silver lining of the entire fiasco. they like to look at this new face, a novelty after the years of staring at the same roster of people. it is good, almost. they get better, and on good days, they can bear to glimpse at themselves in the mirror.

and then, they get recaptured. whumper couldn't pass up the golden opportunity— a new face! they learn all they can about caretaker, and then saunter in their living space, all relaxed edges and suggest an outing. whumpee goes along easily.

until they fall asleep in the cab, and wake up to find themselves strapped down on the rack they've dearly hated all these years. they want it to be a dream. they desperately want this to be a dream— like countless they've had before, but whumper keeps going and going and going and there's no one coming for them. no one at all. they pass out and they wake up in the same hellish place. no amount of pain breaks their reality.

this isn't a dream, they think numbly, there is no waking up.

[loreleiloon]

"Don't look at me," Whumper says, "I'll scare you." Whumpee shifts in place, debating whether they should obey, "You say this every night..." "And every night, it's true. Look away." Whumpee picks at their clothes, "Will it hurt again?" "I hope not. But I can't promise." Whumper spins their already crusting finger, "Do it. Now." With a sigh, Whumpee turns towards the wall. It's going to be a long night.

[whump-softie]

Whumper that’s a shapeshifter and constantly shifts between forms to become Whumper and “Caretaker” to confuse Whumpee.

Whumpee having no clue, oblivious and too in pain to care who helps. But they can’t help but form an attachment to Caretaker, and a hatred towards Whumper.

And Whumper, happy as a clam, gets to witness both sides.

[egg-writes-whump]

Shapeshifter Whumper who pretends to be Whumpee and threatens Whumpee's team members, enough that they're wary around Whumpee but never speak up about the threats. Whumpee wondering why everyone looks so nervous around them.

[martyr-inthedark]

Shape Shifter Whumper

Whumpee had no idea that the enemy they and their team have been fighting for so long had such a talent as to walk into the cell wearing a new face every time. They thought that the frail-framed villain was all talk, someone who never gets their hands dirty in their own curated madness.

Of course, Whumpee had grown up with the local legends of a species of man with many faces. The whole team had. None of these stories could be proven, always told from the perspective of someone's third-great-grandfather-six-times-removed and his dog. Whumpee's own sibling figured that if such a thing ever existed, it's kind had died off, been killed off, or chased off thousands of years prior. "Until I see 'Shapeshifter Rights' on an election ballot, I won't believe it," the sibling had claimed, ever the skeptic.

If only Whumpee could see their family again. If only they could show them their scars and cry about how they had thought they had been saved every time their Not Quite Teammates had "broke" into their cell, claiming to be undercover. And Whumper would laugh, practically licking their lips at Whumpee's suffering. Whumpee stopped believing this lie after the fifth time. Now, after months of torment, Whumpee wasn't even sure they remembered what their team looked like. Did Leader have a mole under their left or right eye? Did Caretaker have some kind of deformity or scar on the tip of their nose? Did Teammate typically bite their nails? Would they even recognize their own rescue team?

As it turns out, they wouldn't. Instead, Whumpee kicked and screamed and tearfully begged not to be hurt, that they would behave. No amount of "Whumpee, it's me," or "You're safe now" could convince them. Whumpee had heard those words so many times only to be led to that wretched room. Those promises were empty. They had to be sedated to be successfully rescued. They panicked when they woke up, and refused to even ponder that any of the doctors or nurses weren't Whumper playing a trick or spying on them. They glared with wild eyes, looking for signs it was Whumper, with their crooked grin and soulless eyes. Whumpee flinched when touched. They jerked their head away from medication and needles. They spat insults and gargled apologies in the same breath. They cried until they passed out.

It was years before they trusted their team again. It was years before their body understood that Whumpee was safe now and could eat without shaking hands. They still woke up in a panic. They still couldn't talk about what happened. Even when they wanted to, the metallic taste of blood slipped over their tongue and slid into their throat, choking them into silence. It wasn't until they got news of Whumper's sudden death that they could finally breathe freely.

[whump-queen]

A shapeshifter whumpee transforming into the image of someone their whumper has lost—a deceased family member, a long-lost lover, a dear friend they haven’t seen in years—in hopes it might get them an ounce of mercy

A shapeshifter whumper turning into whumpee’s lost loved one before hurting them, just to make everything hurt that much worse

[the-three-whumpeteers]

Torturing the whumpee while wearing the face of their friends was the whumper’s favorite past time- they have to change it up sometimes, just to get a different reaction. A fun side effect of this was that the whumpee was slowly losing trust of everyone they used to care about.

[seetheothersideofparadise]

Hmmm Shapeshifter Whumper who makes themselves look exactly like Caretaker when they hurt Whumpee, meaning when Caretaker does come to the rescue, Whumpee is terrified of them and begging them not to come closer or hurt them…

Bonus Points of Whumper uses their own face when being nice and comforting the Whumpee in order to make the Whumpee prefer them and huddling closer to Whumper when Caretaker shows their face.

Extra Bonus Points if Whumper uses this to get Caretaker in trouble, either arrested or on the run because Whumper has Whumpee tell everyone it was them.