Are you in dire need of more lw content? Fear not, for here is assembled: A masterlist of all of the series with the "living weapon whumpee" trope as a main part of it that I could find! Feel free to submit any, be it yours or someone else's. Last updated: June 14, 2026.
Split into: Ongoing, finished, on hiatus, discontinued and "honorable mentions".
note to self: in blue - to check in with the author about release status
ongoing (23)
Espada by @cepheusgalaxy
The Chrysalis by @chrysalis-thestateofchange
Codename K: Kev by @chiswhumpcorner
Walenty writings by @floral-comet-whump
Forsaken by @inhurtandincomfort
Curse of Withering by @sirnef-fenris
Weapon's Wounds by @violets-whumperflies
Project Werewolf by @paintcrab
Anihilation by @just-horrible-things
Beneath Gunmetal Skies by @whump-tr0pes
Freelancers by @whumpacabra
Storm Front by @southstardrabbles
Living Weapon Aquarius by @snakebites-and-ink
MD-264N by @pigeonwhumps
Buried Dephts by @faultsandfractures
Weapons Don't Weep by @wolfeyedwitch
Solis by @redwingedwhump
Ghost of Memories by @mirrormurmur
The Red String by @whump-since-2010
Wrought Iron by @yonbwekh
Fog and Furrow by @wildfaewhump ?
Healer and Handler by @just-horrible-things ?
Chewtoy AU by @just-horrible-things ?
Liam by @just-horrible-things ?
finished (6)
Living Weapon Whumpee by @jumpywhumpywriter
The Ghost of Seattle by @defire
Destroyer* by @paingoes
Et Nos Cedamus Amori* by @whumpawaydarling
Kai & Kyriel* by @there-will-always-be-blood
Project Genesis* by @bamber344
*might have extra parts/chapters in the future but is finished as is
on hiatus (2)
Starcross by @i-eat-worlds
TJ and Danny by @tendertenebrosity
discontinued (1)
The Paladin Series by @livingforthewhump
honorable mentions (3)
For featured living weapon whumpee characters who aren't a main focus of the story!
Amor Vincit Omnia by @whumpawaydarling with Clem
Aros Against Fate by @aromanticsky, with Guodei, Kaelía, and a couple others
The Static Age by @tired-of-being-nice, with Coren
the other day i started reminiscing about the stories that got me into whumpblr circa 2018, when i first began lurking, through 2020 when i finally made a blog and got involved. soooo: appreciation post time! here's a list of some stories i read way back when and still think of fondly. i'm also gonna make a project out of rereading and reblogging at least parts of these.
without further ado:
@wildfaewhump's talvos and iesin (fae lab whump!), and also their pathverse (institutionalized superpower whump) (zipper lore: pathverse is what finally convinced me to make a blog!)
@friendlylocalwhumper's lux and the hunter (captivity & magic whump) and marlow (honestly i remember less plot and more aesthetics from that one but it was such a vibe)
@whump-sprite's anders stuff (absolutely brutal, very whumperflies-inducing)
@robins-whump's finn saga (captivity whump) (i have a really vivid memory of reading this between classes in high school and then having to go into class all dazed with whumpy thoughts lol)
@crash-bump-bring-the-whump's a gentle death (grim reaper lab whump) (you KNOW i was there for that sweet lab whump)
@tendertenebrosity's Ruler and Empress (royal forced marriage) (damn i'd forgotten about that one!), Illiam and Helis (fantasy political whump), and TJ and Danny (pathverse whump)
@whatiswhump's Alfie and Dr. Harris (psychiatric whump)
@clockworknightmares' laurent series (useful whumpee/captivity whump)
@knivestothroats' in the woods somewhere (captivity - get this - in the woods) (also i totally forgot this started all the way back when but i guess it did!)
the great thing about tumblr is that you can (and should!) keep giving love to your favorite writing even years after it was posted. so go give these blogs some appreciation! they deserve it. and if you've ever felt like making a shoutout post for your own foundational whump stories, please do!
It's funny you ask that because I'm working on a rec list of whump characters and fanfics on AO3 right now :]]
While this post will (hopefully) finish in a few days, here is the list of my favourite Tumblr whump fics ✨✨ All of this is Villain whump, 'cause you know me ;)
• "Hazeshift" by @whumpwillow: superhero/supervillain universe, aftermath of torture, whumper-to-whumpee
The author's writing in this specific work is stunningly beautiful, and I just haven't able to find anything like this.
"All is Fair in Love and War" by @onlyinmyshadow: arrogant prince whumpee, fantasy setting
Classic enemy/rival-to-lover fic. The painful wound cleaning whump is just 🤌✨✨
"Darkness at Bay" by @yougivemewhumperflies: traitor whumpee, Fantasy (DnD-like) setting, team as family
ReleaseTheWhumperflies is my favorite Tumblr whump writer ever, so when I saw her story about an evil wizard whumpee and his old bestrayed friends as caretakers, I ate the whole thing up (no, srs. Just read it. It's so good ><💕)
"Darkness Falls" by @turn-the-tables-on-them: whumper-turn-whumpee, aftermath of torture, mentor caretaker + rival caretaker
Yes, another bring-home-your-tortured-enemy-and-nurse-them-back-to-health fic. Someday I will get sick of this trope. SOMEDAY
“A Trade” by @purple-heart-x: supervillain whumpee, cave-in whump
I appreciate when people write whump outside general torture, and GOD this one reminds me how interesting cave-in whump is.
"Penumbra" by " @whumpflash: Royal whump, "How the Mighty Have Fallen" trope, discussion about war
A little less comfort than I normally read, but still overall a very well-written fic. The post-war vibe is PEAK.
P.s. I love to read and reply on you guy's question alot :]]🫰💞 So feel free to leave me questions in the inbox.
I figure it's time for an update on this, since my last one was compiled in 2023 :D
If some didn't cross over to this new list, it's not bc I no longer rec them. I'm just attempting to consolidate/make room for some new stuff (and some links no longer work). This list is not exhaustive and updates may occur down the road.
Most are whumpy, but some are whump adjacent, and some are published books even!
Cut placed due to length. I can get a bit wordy, sorry lol.
Completed stories
The Queen of Lies by @little-peril-stories
Masterlist | Ao3
Historical whump story with a side of angsty romance. Bree is unhappily married to the constable, until one day she comes across a captured thief from a notorious Robinhood-esque styled thieving gang in her husband's prison, and everything changes.
Technically an AU but can be read without prior knowledge of the formative story, which is now published! (And I will eternally remain so so proud of you for that, Kate!)
The first two books of the trilogy are out and available and absolutely chock full of delicious angst :D Links are from amazon.
The Mark of Thieves & The Patron Saint of Scoundrels
Blurb: Formerly The Prince of Thieves — guy and gal get arrested and tormented by super cool, totally normal constable while pals on the outside freak out and make bad decisions; fun 1880s prison vibes with a side helping of angst and chosen family.
The Curiosity Collector also by little-peril-stories
Masterlist
A short whumpy fantasy story written for an event.
Blurb: Sweet non-confrontational magic boy gets kidnapped and needs rescuing by bf and sis; witchy, autumnal vibes with a side helping of angst and falling in love
Beneath Gunmetal Skies by @whump-tr0pes
Sci-fi / Living weapon whump story. Both things I don't usually read (my autistic special interest is fantasy and I rarely stray from it lol) but I would die for Marcus and Jake, I'm just saying. Book 1 is complete, Book 2 is in progress, but I'm not separating them. Noncon warning.
Blurb: Marcus knows his role on his team: he’s the one who carries the gun, makes the hard calls - and takes the hits. He has no time or patience for anyone or anything else. But when Jake - a brand-new recruit Marcus has been tasked with training - messes up on his first mission and gets them both captured, nothing could prepare Marcus for the way his world quickly spirals out of control.
Masterlist
Book 1 - Chapter 1 | Ao3
Book 2 - Chapter 1 | Ao3
June 31st by @deerslayer14
Part 1
6 part short story featuring the stoic-ist of stoic whumpees. Sci-fi fantasy. Horrifically brutal in the most glorious of whumpy ways. Brutal as in the warnings on this puppy hit half my dislikes and most of my (short list of) squicks. I read it anyway and I regret nothing. You should too.
SWAT operative Domenic, or 31st, is captured and tortured for access to the very powerful high-tech suit he wears. He holds out against the worst this gang leader has to offer (and it is BAD), using a combination of wit, trickery, and fucked-up humor to cope until either he dies or his team shows up.
Weapons Don't Weep by @wolfeyedwitch
Masterlist
Living weapon whump. This was another unusual read for me, as Weapon is about as conditioned as one can get, and there's a lot of dehumanization, which isn't something I usually go for. But I really like this one all the same. I need to go back and finish it, too - I haven't forgotten! :D
Blurb: In a dystopian society controlled by an authoritarian government, a rebel group intercepts a convoy carrying The Weapon: an unknown device capable of destroying entire cities. When they investigate, they find not a machine, but a person: a living weapon.
Never by @whumpflash
Masterlist | Now published! (book2read link)
Pirate whump. Some seriously creative knife use. Some seriously sadistic Peter Pan. Some seriously good fucking story :D
In progress stories
Sin of purity/Purity of Sin by @pleasestaywithmedarling
Masterlist | Part 1
Fantasy religious whump with a side of captivity. For a year, Kiri and Anden serve as sacrificial representations of Purity and Sin, going through various tortures on the behalf of the kingdom's people to offer to their god at the next summer's solstice.
Features a developing QPR relationship. There's one chapter left before this one's completed, with a sequel planned to follow. If you don't read this you are missing the fuck out. I would also die for Kiri and Anden. I would beg at Hannah's feet for the scraps of her writing (thankfully she indulges me, but I would do it! lol).
Signal War Universe by @suchprettypieces
Masterlist
Sci-fi whumpy goodness. Our boy Riko has a really bad time in a lot of different ways. I am living for the developing QPR dynamics in the Hollowroot arc. Riko and Mish are my special special babies.
I'm not entirely certain this belongs in the in progress section. I guess take notice that there's a complete arc and some in progress arcs and AUs and... this masterlist is a goody bag, okay? A goody bag with some really yummy treats inside :)
Something More than Honor by @ransom-or-rescue
Masterlist | Ao3
Medieval, low fantasy. M/M/F poly romance. Mostly a recovery story, with vivid flashbacks to past captivity/abuse. Technically, this is finished, and I know that because I beta read it :D But it's in the process of being posted. So. Here it be, in the in progress section.
After two years as a prisoner of war, Konstantin's shit-head of a father ransoms him. Dishonored from an escape attempt during the course of his captivity, he returns home as a shadow of himself to a wife he barely knows and a family who doesn't know what to do with him.
For His Kingdom by @hot-rangers-in-chains
Masterlist
Fantasy whump. Royal whump. Accompanied by Art 😍
I'm only six chapters in, I think, but I would absolutely recommend it for the medieval torture lovers among us :)
Oh, and I hear there's a romance brewing later on, which I'm looking forward to getting to!
Blurb: The king of a small but stubborn kingdom faces an invading empire. To save his country, he surrenders himself only to face torture, humiliation, and enslavement. Yet he remains defiant, his spirit strong.
Penumbra also by whumpflash
Masterlist
I mean, technically, it's mostly finished. The last chapter indicates some epilogues could/should follow, but it ends the story in a satisfying way. Alas, it is marked as incomplete, so I will abide by that lol.
Fantasy whump. Royal/villain whump, although the story starts after any villainizing has taken place, and you soon feel too sorry for this guy to ever care that he was the "bad guy" :(
One stop shop
@i-can-even-burn-salad has so many stories she needs her own section lol. For brevity's sake, I'll let you follow the links for story descriptions.
Elli's pinned post contains links for everything. All are complete unless marked otherwise. I cannot recommend these highly enough. Yes, all of them.
All these stories are fantasy, and for the most part, interconnected. Most feature brutal physical torture w/ long-term consequences and all have a happy end.
Additional frequent features of note are: Ace and aro rep, disability rep, QPRs or found family. All have happy ends.
Tumblr stories include:
Nuisance - Masterlist
Second Chances (formerly Heal My Wounds) - Masterlist | Ebook
Undeserved - Masterlist | Ebook
Glass Shards - Masterlist
Fancy Boots - Masterlist
Ebooks are free to download from her website and include:
Sweet Little Lies - Release Post | Ebook
Till Death - Release Post | Ebook
All of our Lives - Release Post | Ebook
After the Storm (coming soon!)
My stories
I'd definitely rec my own stuff so I might as well include it, right? lol
I have two fantasy oc fics, both of which deal in torture/captivity and the subsequent (rough) recovery. Two and a half, if you count the AU, lol.
Hidden Depths - complete
Masterlist | Arc 1 Ao3 | Arc 2 Ao3
Fantasy whump with a developing QPR relationship bw m/f ocs.
Resh tries to escape his indentured contract assisting the prince at the prison and becomes a prisoner instead, now at the mercy of the prince's sadistic tendencies. During the course of his imprisonment, Resh gets paired up with a street rat thief who is more than they seem.
Hidden Depths AU - complete
Masterlist | Ao3
Picks up from chapter 8 of Hidden Depths Arc 1. Noncon what-if arc.
Not graphic noncon, Extremely graphic torture (of a woman). There is so much blood. It's great lol.
This AU is the reason Shattered is able to exist, bc I needed Nykim to have healing magic so she didn't die 🤐
Although I might mention that she does die in an alternate version of one of the chapters XD (which can be skipped, the AU ends happily at approximately the same point as Arc 1).
Shattered - in progress
Masterlist | Ao3
Fantasy romance whump. What began as an excuse to torture a guy with healing magic developed a plot. I'm 170k+ deep on this beast and still searching for the end.
Technically calling it two books at this point, with the first ending at chapter 21 (which is basically where the active torture ends and the... "recovery" begins). Currently editing chapter 39. Noncon warning.
Nykim wakes up chained in the dark, since he failed to die after being stabbed. He gets his knees shattered in the first chapter and things go downhill from there. Riah, his captor's personal whore, is forced to be his caretaker, and instead of using each other for personal gain, they develop feelings for each other instead.
Technically for whumpasinjuly but I've been meaning to do this anyway, so!
This list will be continuously updated as I read more, there are SO many things on my To Read list, I'm just slow!! But, here are my recommendations, in no particular order
Espada by @cepheusgalaxy. Follows Espa, a young person raised only as a living weapon. Genuinely, one of my favourite series, it's so well-written and I adore Espa and Ciça, and I'm so excited to see where they go. If you like living weapons and are okay with minor whumpees, you will LOVE this series, I promise
Codename K by @chiswhumpcorner. Follows a living weapon named Kev. Raised all his life to be a living weapon, Kev is determined to survive and escape, no matter how what it takes. Stoic and secretly defiant whumpees my beloved <3 Featuring Leska the meanest bitch on earth 😤
Daffodil Academy series/Walenty Writings by @floral-comet-whump. Walenty, my poor tortured manipulative child. Daffodil Academy is a boarding school training less fortunate children to be servants of the kingdom, torturing their students while manipulating them into thinking this is love and that they should be grateful. Walenty sees through the lies, but has to comply and play along in fear of the consequences.
Destroyer by @paingoes. Another living weapon! Are you sensing a theme? :P Follows Delta, a weapon of mass destruction inherited by Paris, a whumper I can't help but feel bad for. Amazing complex characters, all of them are enjoyable and I highly recommend.
Chimeras by @melpomenelamusa. During adolescence, some people randomly develop animal traits. These people are known as Chimera children. They are discriminated against and often hunted down, killed, kidnapped and enslaved. Chimeras follows several of these people, and I love them all of them so much. From sweet caretaking to different kinds of captivity, it's a series I love deer-ly ;D
A Curse in Two Bodies by @thewhumpcaretaker. I rarely read royal whump, but this AMAZING. I love Adelais and Ninlen so much, and it's such an intriguing concept! Prince Adelais is cursed by a God of Justice, and it's a huge coverup. To help him, Ninlen is hired to share in the curse and bear it with him. Incredible, unique, and intriguing. I still need to read Haunted Artifact but I am intrigued with the characters and concept so I'm recommending that too!
Curse of Withering by @sirnef-fenris. Another living weapon story, my beloved. There is so much worldbuilding to this, I adore seeing all the bonus content and Cyrus, despite his circumstances, is such a cutie, albeit a very scary one because. His power. Insane. Anyway it's really awesome, there's so much love but into it and I'm excited to see where it goes!
Unmade by @whumpologyy. 18+ blog and story, nsfwhump heavy. Unmade follows Vienna, a young woman kidnapped and held captive by a serial predator. It's SO well written, Vienna is such a lovable character, and you know one of my favourite things is a whumpee who has a life before the whump + seeing the perspective of the family and friends of a missing whumpee, and Unmade delivers!! Watching Vienna fight to cling on to who she is with the memories of her loved ones, seeing her loved ones back home grieve and keep fighting to find her, I love it all so much and it's so good
Fruit of the Wicked by @whumpyourdamnpears. Also 18+ and nsfwhump. When I tell you this one makes me feral. I love it so much. Following Dani, kidnapped by a serial killer, and it somehow gets EVEN WORSE THAN THAT. I adorrreee religious contexts in whump, Dani is so fun and god she really makes me worry for her, and Sarah my beloved, such a fascinating character, just a really fun and interesting cast and premise, and I'm eager to follow along to the end
I will keep updating this as I read more! As I say there are many on my to-read list