✨An okay myster/thriller with an interesting hook, a compelling beginning but a rather boring ending. Pretty nice whump with a sensitive whumpee ✨
⚠️Trigger Content: Usual crime/thriller cdrama CWs.
⚠️⚠️Some SPOILERS will be found, proceed with caution
Whumpee: Kang I-An portrayed by Yoon Kye Sang
A/N: The story is focused on body-hopping so the physical whump doesn't actually happen to him but to the body he's inhabiting. It's 98% shown on the lead actor, though, so I counted it.
[01:25] Lying unconscious against a crashed car, cut and bleeding from either cheek, shallow breathing as he comes to, confused with amnesia, finds blood on his hand, tries to move but winces in pain x2, clutching wound on his upper chest | Taken to hospital (off-screen), wound on his chest bandaged, blood soaking white bandage.
[05:55] Sudden headache as he is moved onto a new body, panicked, terrified, distressed, panting | Distressed and lost.
[14:48] Sudden headache as he body hops again, grabbed by the neck and pinned down, saved, clutching neck, gasping, sweating | Distressed, tearing up.
[21:00] Kicked in the leg and falls against church pew, grabbed by the back of his jacket and pinned to the seat, gun held to his cheek, whimpers, panting, thrown to the ground, kicked in the head, held at gunpoint again, in panic. Hit in the neck, thrown against pews again, collapses onto the ground, wincing.
[25:15] In shock seeing someone hanged, winces, sudden headache as he body hops, moans. Comes to in a new body, panting, limping, clutching thigh.
[32:00] Thrown into furniture, picked up off the floor, repeatedly punched, kicked to the ground, punched in the stomach, thrown to the floor again, fought, thrown against furniture.
[47:15] Chased, jumps off railing, limping.
[50:44] Crashes car. Groaning, struggling to climb out of car, leaning against car, panting. Slapped.
[01:05:00] Finds his original body lying unconscious in a bed hooked to an IV and monitor.
[01:11:13] (in past) Concerned for loved one, restrained, shot in the leg, collapses onto the ground, fought, injected with a potent hallucinogenic drug that feigns a near-death in the neck, screams out, collapses, dragged through the ground, vision blurring as the drug takes effect, yelping, screaming, moaning, injected with another dose of the drug.
[01:15:50] (in past) Body-hopped for the first time, confused, shot in the shoulder, falls to the ground, trying to pick himself up, clutching shoulder, wincing.
[01:17:40] (in past) Weak, groaning, panting | Driving despite his injuries, sweating profusely, struggling to remain conscious, crashes car (in present) tearing up.
[01:22:08] Shot in the abdomen, falls to the floor, clutching wound. Dragged out by either arm, groaning, clutching wound, thrown onto the floor, kicked in the shoulder, falls back, grabbed by the hair, struggling to speak, eyes bloodshot, concerned for loved one, screaming out, punched to the ground.
[01:26:25] Wakes up in pain in a sinking car, bleeding from his forehead and abdomen, concerned for friend, in panic, trying to escape sinking car but cannot, drowning.
[01:34:00] Fought, shot at, bleeding from the head from previous injuries.
[01:35:37] Shot in the arm, falls to the ground, groaning. Shallow breathing. Tearing up, shot in the shoulder, fought, wound clutched by enemy, screaming, punched, thrown to the ground, punched repeatedly, moving sluggishly due to injuries, grabbed by the neck, choked, thrown against table, dragging himself onto a sitting position, bleeding from the mouth, blood on his face and hands, shallow raspy labored breathing, forcefully made to stab himself in the abdomen, squeaks, saved, trembling breathing, struggling to talk, crying, passes out.
I don't usually repost videos but this video, this video made me think of Toji Fushiguro.
Warnings: Dad!Toji, little Megumi, established relationship, Girlfriend!Reader.
Disclaimer: The video is from SpiritWalker on YouTube, their shorts are pretty awesome, go look at them! The rest is just my overactive imagination
The evidence:
The Ideas:
Dad!Toji would definitely be like that, he can't actually see curses so he's not pretending not to see them.
Dad!Toji who asks Megumi what he see, how it looks like because it made him laugh how softly Megumi speaks in his state.
Dad!Toji who finds funny how Megumi stops in his tracks and suddenly hide behind him when he sees a particularly ugly/disgusting curse.
Dad!Toji who kills curses with a cursed pocket knife (you made that pocket knife for him)
Dad!Toji who gets scolded by you, his girlfriend and a sorcerer, for scaring Megumi.
Dad!Toji who has to ask you to explain curses and sorcerers to little Megumi because he doesn't like the topic
Dad!Toji who likes to run away from curses with Megumi but they are running to you so you can kill the curse and be the heroine of the moment. Oh! Megumi looks you with such admiration.
Dad!Toji who gets called to the school because "Megumi is drawing very, um, Disturbing things"
Dad!Toji who tells Megumi she must not draw curses... At the school.
Dad!Toji who finds out about Megumi draw you fighting curses.
Dad!Toji who enjoys seeing you holding Megumi in a protective way when you three get attacked by a curse stronger than usual.
A good month for reading! Better in the front half than the back half, looking at my records. Of course, what they don't note is that the back half also involved getting caught up on the new wildbow serial Seek (I don't tend to note ongoing serializations in my reading tracker), so that would bolster the second half's quantity and quality.
16 books read this month, 50 in the year so far. Making good progress towards my goals I think, though I need to add more nonfiction into the mix, and get back to the physical books on my shelves.
Books of note:
Gilgamesh: yeah okay this is worth its reputation, the essays in the Sophus Helle translation helped with it a lot, and it's fun getting to feel a part of a millennia-old literary tradition. Read for ancient doomed yaoi, some beautiful language (dependent on translation), and a sense of connection to human history.
Spiritwalker Trilogy, by Kate Elliott: a reread but I had remembered very little. Elliott's books always grab me and stick around in my head for a while afterwards. Such fun worldbuilding, and she does a great job of writing characters who convincingly have an entirely different set of cultural programming than the author and reader do (see also Unconquered Sun). These books have so much in them: there's a very good arranged marriage/romance plot, then also a spirit world/wild hunt/dragons and fae plot, and then a napoleon/revolution/social reform plot all twisted around each other. Read if you like romance, fae, or revolution, or for the wildly creative setting.
Tipping the Velvet, by Sarah Waters: why had I not gotten around to this? A lesbian classic, much less depressing than some of her other books, a lot of really dramatic twists of life. I knew it involved an 1890s girl working as a male impersonator: did not know that was only the first third of the book, and that for the rest she was a) the butch boytoy sugar baby of a rich older woman and b) a socialist. Read for pulpy fun in a richly realized (though not historical accurate) setting and meditations on lesbian and butch identity.
