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whumpy side blog for @patisserieblu

[viscera-lab]

A whump focused side blog for Blu? More likely than you think.

Strictly for whump and writing stuff, so proceed with caution.

[fineiguessimintowhump]

enemy soldier who assumes the 'great' treatment they're receiving is because one of the officers has taken a 'liking' to them. 😇.

[angst-master]

memory loss used as whump reveal!!

whumpee who has adjusted since their whump and they aren't doing too bad, considering everything. they have friends who maybe don't even know about anything they've had to go through.

but then an accident causes them to lose their memory, regressing into the time when they were with whumper. they dont remember any of the "new" life they had built up. their old habits terrify their friends/caretaker.

"are you sure i can do this? you know what whumper will do if they find out.."

"are you friends with whumper? please, let me see him, I don't want him to get angry again."

(bonus points if they end up going into detail of what whumper had done, and the friends had no idea about it and are now horrified, on top of having to help whumpee realise that all of this is over now)

(or the good old trope of whumpee thinking caretaker is the new whumper)

[chainandfeather]

Whumper becoming so so nice to Whumpee once they’re broken in—apologizing for their previous behavior/actions, even. They really are so sorry for having been so rough on Whumpee at first. Isn’t it so much nicer when Whumpee is compliant? If they hadn’t been so oppositional, things could have been like this from the beginning!

[whumpup]

caretaker manhandling whumpee. having to get them into a certain position for a medical examination, pinning them down while trying to get them medicine/bandages without them squirming and protesting, picking them up when they're lethargic and carrying them in general, grabbing whumpee by the (metaphorical. but not really) scruff before they get themselves into danger...

[justbreakonme]

Living weapon/guard dog whumpee pledging their undying loyalty to Caretaker shortly after being rescued, and Caretaker thinking that once Whumpee worked through some things, that that would sort itself out and mellow with time, but it doesn’t.

If anything, their pledge gets stronger. To Whumpee, Caretaker didn’t just save their life, they loved them back to life, they saved their soul. Who or what else would ever compare?

[thestuffedalligator]

There’s a certain folkloric idea that if you die at sea, your soul is sort of. Inextricably stuck in the sea. Because your body is irretrievable, your soul is also irretrievable, down out of the reach of the gods who look at the surface of the world. In Norse mythology, they said that the souls of sailors who died at sea are caught in the sea-goddess Rán’s net and dragged into her domain, a distinct and separate afterlife alongside Hel and Valhalla. Davy Jones Locker. The funayūrei. A lot of cultures agree that once sea has a hold on you, even when your body has rotted and dwindled and been made food for crabs, it still won’t let you go.

Do you think we’re going to wind up saying the same thing about astronauts.

[aggrieved-devotion]

Handler caring for Living Weapon as if they were any other tool

Washing and braiding their hair. More intricate braids to show off how compliant LW is

Ending training early because Handler knows where LWs limits are better than LW does.

LW gets hurt, and Handler fights anyone trying to send them back out into the field before they're fully healed up

Manhandling LW, showing a colleague all their specialties, comparing it with someone elses LW

Finding a new bruise on LW that they didn't put there and demanding to know where it came from. Punishing LW for not taking better care of themselves, don't they know how valuable they are?

"My last one was bigger but this one is so much faster."

Buying new "accessories" to make LW more lethal, brass knuckles, new knives, etc

Some of those accessories are surgical enhancements.

Piercings as accessories or badges showing Handlers accomplishments

[fineiguessimintowhump]

whumper's rules being so insidious and that they conditioned whumpee to fear normality. 'Pet' all the time but Whumpee's name during punishment. Always on their knees unless they were being lead somewhere Bad. Allowed to eat at a table only when they were about to be lent. Given permission to speak only when they're made to beg for punishment. Taking care of their wounds only as a way to hurt them.

[bloodiedbriars]

Whumpee wearing a collar attached on two sides to the wall, giving them enough leverage to move around in a tiny radius, but never to sit down or escape.

Whumper restraining whumpee like this during an event, to show them off. The guests can come up to whumpee, talk, touch, do whatever with them. Whumpee can try to fight back with their hands all they want, but they can’t escape the attention. And that little bit of protection also ends once someone ties their hands with a tie or a pretty golden chain.

[jigglycrow]

When whumpees give that tiny, shaky, singular, little nod:

* Because they're scared to say yes

* Because they've desperately wanted to say yes and are finally able to

* Because they're ashamed of what they're agreeing to

* Because they're frightened of the reaction they're going to get

* Because they're too injured / out of it to do anything else.

* Because they don't really mean it but feel like they have to agree anyway

* Because that's all they can manage to do without breaking down completely.

* Because they can't communicate any other way

Anything else??

[for-the-ouchies]

Sometimes, whumpee secretly resents being rescued. They'd finally adapted, come to terms with everything and gotten good at living within the constraints whumper set. Now they have to do it all over again, with everyone insisting that this is better for them. And this time, they're expected to be grateful for it.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[mement0m0rbid2]

Whumpers who casually manhandle the whumpees, as if doing so is completely natural. They don't even think twice about it. Whumpee is trying to crawl away? Oh, just grab them by the ankle and pull them back. Whumpee's head is pointed in a suspicious direction, as if looking for an escape? Pull them by the hair so their eyes are forced away. Trying to yell for help? Put them in a chokehold, without so much as a change in expression.

Just little things that reinforce the power dynamics and show how helpless Whumpee truly is. For them, it's Hell on Earth. For Whumper, it's Tuesday.

[yellowcatwhumps]

Especially if there are other people in the room. Whumper's having a casual conversation while dragging whumpee around. Barely paying attention as they push whumpee down to their knees, which joking with friends.

[willa-whumps]

I have just discovered furniture styled pet crates.

[viscera-lab]

Stalker Whumper who orchestrates Whumpee's kidnapping so they can be the rescuer. Now it doesn't matter that Whumpee already shot them down; they owe a debt of gratitude to Whumper for saving them, after all.

[viscera-lab]

I think reincarnated characters shouldn't get their memories of their previous lives, even when they're reunited with immortal lovers or other reincarnations, but they should get so much deja vu that it breaks their brains a little.