#storm mention

[starstruckxstray]

Ooc: Okay, just got home, now to--

"Two tornado warnings are heading towards you, take cover now!"

*Also our NOAA system is down because of course it is*

[actress4him]

Whumptober 2024 - Day 5

Sunburn

Contains: generic whumpee, mer whumpee, environmental whump, storm mention, burns

The first thing Whumpee became aware of was heat. With a groan, they stirred, but their discomfort only increased as they moved, pain flaring up along their arms and spine.

They’d never felt like this before. Everything was so…dry. They scrunched their webbed fingers and felt sand underneath, but it wasn’t the soft, squishy texture they were used to on the sea bed. It was scratchy. It coated their skin, rubbing at places that somehow already felt raw, and even their gills felt like they were full of grit.

Whumpee blinked their eyes open, immediately regretting it and squeezing them shut again. Why was everything so bright? Beyond their eyelids was a blinding wash of white. They tried again to look around, to figure out where they were, but they could barely manage a squint.

Suddenly it all came back to them. The storm that had caught them off guard far too close to the surface, the waves that tossed them around mercilessly. They must have been washed ashore. No wonder everything was dry, they could hear water somewhere behind them but none of it was actually touching them.

They needed to get back to the water. Whumpee shoved themself up off the sand, not expecting the rush of pain that came over them. A cry escaped their throat. Their back and arms burned, like the time they’d tried to climb onto a black rock out in the sun but so much worse. This felt like the rock had been pressed into their skin for hours…or perhaps the sun itself. A glance at the backs of their arms showed skin that had somehow turned bright pink while they were unconscious.

Their tail, too, ached from a lack of water. Whumpee tried to lift it, and it seemed to weigh a hundred pounds. If they didn’t get back in the ocean soon…

Craning their neck, they spotted the brilliant blue of their home, not too awfully far behind them but far enough that they weren’t sure how they would ever make it there. They had to start trying, though. Each movement was agony, every inch they dragged their tail through the sand felt as if it was ripping off all their scales and the burning was eating up their shoulders as their muscles strained.

But finally, finally, the waves lapped up over their hands. Just a few pulls more, and they collapsed in the shallow surf, gills opening to gulp in water greedily as their hair swirled around them.

The relief was instantaneous. The water was so cold and good against their inflamed skin. Whumpee stayed in that spot, uncaring of the wet sand that was embedding itself in their hair, soaking it all in and trying to let the trauma of the morning wash away.

In a little while, they’d work up the energy to swim home. For now, though, this was enough.

[wanderxdusk]

Ooc: I know I've been super quiet here but it looks like we may get especially bad storms tonight and tomorrow.

If I post nothing for over a week, please know I'm okay, I just may not have internet access if we get hit (I hope we won't but it's looking serious).

[foulcloudwhispers]

I'm so sorry to be doing this but this storm is something else. It's raining like crazy and most of the streets are flooded. Just bear with me.

[sitabethel]

I don't think I'll be able to update my fic for awhile orz

[bookof-xreaders]

Anon Asked:

Can i have a Spooky/Snatcher like reader with the lightner gang (Kris, Susie, Noelle). Maybe the are trying to find theories for why the reader looks like that or maybe try and help the reader with headaches from going into the darkworld too much, with the reader looking more and more like their darkner self from constantly leaving and entering the darkworld? Sorry if asked for too much you can always decline this request.

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Oh oops i forgot to meantion glowing eyes for the snatcher reader

This post is for Kris! If you're looking for another member of the Lightner Protag Gang, please go to this post!

Kris & Reader who has Snatcher (A Hat in Time)-esque Dark World appearance and abilities: Finding Answers in the Dark

After your first few adventures in the Dark Worlds, Kris began to notice little changes in your behavior. They weren't too bad, you were just asking for more blankets or for the lights to be turned down.

They noticed the bigger changes after a storm came by.

You had winced through the majority of the thundering, muttering about your head pounding. It was good that you stayed at their house, because Toriel immediately had you take some medicine for it. * The medicine worked for a few storms, before it stopped working to ease the pain. Kris had half a mind to let you take more, being aware of the effects medicine could have.

Kris had tried to do research about your condition: painful headaches during storms that medicine couldn't ease. The results were a mixed bag of explanations and remedies, to say the least.

Once they thought about it for a while, Kris remembered that the thunder and lightning following you in the Dark Worlds gave you headaches. This then caused a connection between your dark world "costume" and your current issues.

Upon asking Ralsei if he knew anything, Kris turned up with barely anything. Looking through some darkner books also brought up little answers, since any books about lightners in Castle Town were chewed up or charred.

Eventually, Kris had to admit defeat while searching for answers. They knew that this hadn't happened to them, Susie, Noelle, or Berdly; if it had, they would be blue, Susie and Berdly would be walking neon lights, and Noelle would look frosty. * Now they were wondering what made you different...

The combination of your glowing features and your warped voice threw them off. Kris hadn't even noticed how you changed until they watched an old video of you... This drives Kris to help you even more.

After thinking for a while, Kris decides to keep you away from dark areas. Maybe if you stayed in the light, you'd go back to normal?

[flamingredanon]

oo, do vision!! somethin for him :)

Triple Threat was finishing hunkering down their apartment, getting ready for this big hurricane to hit. Charles had bought plenty of soups and bottle water and Vision was sure Ellie bought every battery and flashlight she could grab. Soon everyone headed off to sleep, knowing that they might be needed when the storm passes.

The pounding of the wind and rain kept Vision up, with Charles fast asleep with his noise cancelling headphones and Ellie asleep as well, being able to sleep through almost anything. Vision didn't want to wake his friends, so he quietly walked to their living room and decided to watch TV.

Vision found an interesting space drama movie playing, starting to get sucked into the plot. The main hero was staring down the villain in an arena, with Vision finding it looking similar to the Toppat cafeteria...

"You should of stayed in your cell."

Vision gasped, he was suddenly facing down Right Hand Man, from that timeline Right just kidnapped his ass after everyone else had. Vision closed his eyes and had to think about the living room, the storm and Triple Threat being a thing.

Vision opened his eyes and just like that, he was back, the movie still at the same scene. Vision quickly changed channels, wanting to find something else on TV.

After a few minutes of not finding anything on, Vision tried to close his eyes again and see if he could get some sleep, the sound of the wind blowing picking up. Vision just kept listening to the wind and the rain, hoping to drift off to sleep...

"That was a close one Henry, but I'm not going to pull you up..."

Vision was now dangling off the Toppat Airship, that twink, Reginald Copperbottom, holding him over the railing. Vision didn't want to remember this, he didn't want be at this awful place. Vision felt himself falling as he thought again, wanting to be back home before he hit the icy cold water.

Vision found himself falling off the sofa onto the floor, laying face down for awhile. He still wasn't quite used to this whole thing going on with him now.

Vision picked himself up off the floor and headed back to his room. Taking out his cellphone and putting in his headphones, Vision just thinking that some music would help him get to sleep. So Vision loaded up a past livestream from his favorite piano player on Youtube and closed his eyes, finding himself starting to relax.

Vision started nodding off to sleep when an old fashioned Russian tune started to play. Vision didn't think nothing of it at first, until...

"Welcome to the Wall."

Vision quickly thought back to home, not wanting to be at one of the scariest places he had ever endured.

Vision found himself back at his room, plucking off the headphones and flopping back down on the bed. Vision took slow deep breaths, trying to calm back down.

After everything that happened in a span of a few hours, Vision found himself exhausted enough to fall into a dreamless sleep. Vision honestly preferred not having dreams, not wanting to wake up in a different timeline because he dreamt of the easter bunny hijacking Big Boy or something else.

Vision just wished there was an instruction manual for how he worked now.

[giranswife]

Sorry I’ve been mia for a bit. After the storm hit we lost power and then lost WiFi for about two and a half days. But I got everything back up and running finally and we were lucky that’s the worst we got. But I’m probably gonna be on a hiatus for a while bc my stress level is... not doing very well. Wishing you all the best 💜