Want some whump/angst prompts?
Have you been trying to think of something horrible to do your favourite character, but can't think of an idea? Well here's a list of prompts/ideas for you!
SPOILERS for all Cosmere below!
Stormlight
Shallan or Jasnah die during the sinking of the Wind’s Pleasure
The ten days when Kaladin was recovering from being strung up, and Bridge Four didn’t know if he would survive…
Everything Szeth goes through during his time in slavery
Jasnah kills Renarin
KalMoash angst in Kholinar
Shakadolin love triangle angst in Kholinar
Spren torture Gavinor
Dalinar flashbacks
Formless becomes real
RoW era KalMoash whump
Adolin dies during the fight in Azimir, or write the battle from the POV of a regular Azish singer
Szeth’s arm stump becomes infected
Trying to survive during the Night of Sorrows - crop failure, starvation, gangs, loss of communication, sudden loss of Stormlight
Szeth watches the Misted Mountains crumble after Stormfall
Herald opportunities, either in flashbacks or in return
Kaladin failing at therapy
Mistborn era 1:
Ati/Leras
Spook/Beldre - they break up, a communication breakdown
Pewter drag sickfic
Ashfall sickfic
Elend/Vin divorce
Vin dies instead of Kelsier in TFE and no one can handle it
Mistborn era 2:
Wax/Lessie angst
Bleeder tortures Wax
Steris dies
Warbreaker
Drab whump/angst
Jewels/Clod angst
A Returned watches children die day after day, week after week
Shadows for Silence
There’s a lot of whump there already. William-Anne and Sebruki die?
Isles of the Emberdark
Write the battle that gave Dajer chronic lung problems
General prompts:
A betrayal ending in murder.
Ways that Radiants can use their powers to torture each other. Progression especially has a lot of applications, both in terms of the effects of constant torture and healing on a normal human but also the ability to withstand, say, chemical warfare in a way that regular humans or even Fused/Radiants can’t.
Give a Rosharan food poisoning
Give a character new onset chronic pain
Make a Rosharan character sick for the first time
Odium inflames passions - anger, jealousy, despair
Anti-Stormlight weapons
Your Most Beloved Character Dies (or lives to regret not dying)
A character watches helplessly from the Spiritual Realm as their loved ones grieve their death
A character’s mind gets sucked into a fabrial and is trapped
A Radiant giving birth has serious complications but quick healing is also complicating the birth
A Tineye has chronic pain
Hoid is a coatrack (horror edition)
A Slider slows down time even though it’s too late to stop whatever they saw, or it’s too far away. They watch helplessly in slow motion as a loved one dies
A Lightweaver creates a double of themself to trick someone into revealing information, but they deeply regret learning that information.
A Makay-im (Deepest One) flows through the stone of Urithiru when suddenly they lose access to Voidlight and they suffocate to death.
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Please feel free to use any of these ideas for the event - you don't have to give credit. And if you have any ideas you want to share, or if you want to expand on any of these ideas, send in an ask!
