Sure we all love it when caretaker asks "are you okay" and stoic whumpee goes "I'm fine" when clearly not. But what if whumpee is so out of it that they just shake their head and lean on caretaker's chest.
Characters that are gravely and shamefully convinced that they are dangerous, able to kill, have no control of their power, that would rather die than injure someone close to them. Characters that yell and scream and scramble to back away, throwing their hands up and crying 'Please, stay back, I don't want to hurt you.' Characters that think they are nothing but a loose cannon, a loaded gun, a ticking time bomb.
when you're trying to write whump in a situation where the character should actually have really easy access to hardcore painkillers and qualified medical personnel but that would ruin the whumpiness of the whole scene
Character: Sherlock Holmes (left) (played by Hero Fiennes Tiffin)
Age Rating: TV-14
Show available on Amazon Prime
Genre: Mystery, Drama
Plot (via Google): A 19-year-old Sherlock Holmes finds himself entangled in a murder at Oxford that jeopardises his freedom. His first case, tackled recklessly, leads him to uncover a far-reaching conspiracy that alters his path forever.
Note: I went into this show expecting whump, and I definitely got it! It also was a lot better than I expected, the acting is pretty good (though Dónal Finn's Moriarty absolutely steals the show), and the cinematography is fun as well. Mycroft and Sherlock have a really great bond as well. Overall, I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it!
TW's: Genre-typical blood and violence, death, mental health issues, period-typical treatment of mental health patients, suicide, war
List Key:
bold = most whump/best whump/favorite whump scenes
1x01: prison fight, bruised face, punched in the face, bloody nose, rough fight, bloody face, caught in an explosion, head wound, out of it (drugged), bad memories, manhandled + arrested
1x02: punched several times, fought
1x03: fought
1x04: fought, pinned, distressed
1x05: hallucinations, distressed, bad memories, nightmares
1x06: distressed, sobbing, shot in the abdomen
1x07: nightmare/hallucinations while unconscious, concern for him, in pain, crying out, helped to walk, passed out, semi-conscious, in pain, going into surgery, knocked out, more nightmares, wakes up semi-conscious and weak, pale/sickly
1x08: very distressed, in an explosion, very distressed/in shock
Caretaker with a cool cloth on a sleeping feverish Whumpee, and Whumpee kinda half wakes up, Caretaker shushes them back to sleep “It’s okay, I’m just trying to get your fever down. You can go back to sleep”