Synopsis: In a fictional kingdom haunted by strange and terrifying events, the king secretly summons Gu Cheon, a proud and powerful ghost-slayer who can transform into a spirit and traverse the spectral realm, and Saeng Gang, a court lady cursed with the ability to hear and communicate with the dead. Tasked with investigating a sinister force lurking within the Crown Prince's East Palace, the unlikely pair uncover long-buried secrets hidden behind the royal walls. As they venture deeper into a world where the living and the dead intertwine, they must confront vengeful spirits, dark conspiracies, and an unimaginable evil that threatens the palace from within.
✨A compelling supernatural (slight) horror drama that didn't quite live up to its potential, but did live up to serving a hell of a lot of yummy whump ✨
⚠️Trigger Content: Usual historical CWs. Graphic violence, self harm, suicide, mild gore.
⚠️⚠️Some SPOILERS will be found, proceed with caution
Whumpee: Gu Cheon portrayed by Nam Joo Hyuk
Ep 1 | Ambushed in the night, hit in the back of the head, restrained, head covered with a bag, kidnapped | Hands bound behind his back, blindfolded, and gagged in a sedan chair carried away, rope burn visible on his wrists and hands, groaning, whimpering | Shoved onto his knees, bag roughly removed from head, grabbed by the back of the neck and forced to bow, in shock | Recaptured while trying to escape, hit in the head with the back of a sword | Forced onto his knees, hands bound behind his back, panting, wound visible on his forehead from previous injury, sword slowly dragged over his body, threatened into complying (held captive in the palace for the rest of the drama) | Cuts own hand. Drowns himself in a lake to travel to the alternate spirit dimension, flailing in the water, muffled groaning, clutching neck | (in spirit dimension) Uses his body to protect someone, nearly crushed by tree roots.
Ep 2 | (still in spirit dimension) Attacked, knocked into wall and crashed through it, groaning, panting. On the ground clutching arm. Caught by a root tentacle and knocked onto the ground, holding onto ledge while being pulled by monster, groaning, leg bitten, struggling as his Yang energy is being sucked out, gasping, being dragged by monster only to be pulled out by ally through the rope wrapped around his neck, dragged by the neck screaming through spirit dimension (semi-comedic), (in real world) rises from the water gasping for air, clutching rope tied around his neck, pale, weak, collapses onto the ground, groaning, picks himself up only to collapse once again, trembling | Hand visibly bandaged | Scared from a spirit chasing him (slightly comedic) | Leg bitten by Yang-sucking spirit, screaming, scared (slightly comedic) | (in spirit dimension) burned repeatedly in the arms and chest while fighting spirits, groaning, swarmed and overwhelmed by various spirits x2, aided by ally, panting. Kneeling on the ground breathing heavily.
Ep 3 | (in real world) Floating face-down in the water unresponsive, pulled to shore by the rope tied around his neck, dragged onto the ground, internally fighting off demon possession, collapses onto back on the ground and passes out | Recovering in bed, coughing, pale, weak | Pulled into well by a spirit | Passed out disheveled and bloody in his room, wakes up startled, disoriented, labored breathing, scared | Begging to please be set free before he is killed, grabbed by the jaw, threatened, head pushed to the side | Cuts his palm, rubs the wound with a cloth, ties his own writs, drowns himself in a pot full of water (off-screen) | (in spirit dimension) Fought, knocked against wall x3, overpowered while in a blade lock, groaning, collapses weakened onto the ground, fought again, collapses onto his knees, shoulders slump, labored breathing | (in real world) Unresponsive after being broken out of jar, pale, unable to return his soul to his body. Kept by a fire, shaken | (in spirit dimension) Lying unconscious face-down on the ground. Seeing illusion of deceased loved one, crying. Grabbed by the neck and held up in the air, being corrupted/turned into a spirit, choked, saved.
Ep 4 | (still in spirit dimension) Teary eyed, saved | (in real world) Wakes up with a gasp, lips tinted blue, hand visibly bandaged, blood staining white bandage. Concerned for loved one, groaning, labored breathing | (in spirit dimension) Grabbed by the neck, choked, pushed and dragged underwater, (in real world) resurfaces, panting | Getting beat up, kicked against wall, collapses onto the floor, bleeding from either side of his face and nose, busted lip, hit in the back of the head, unable to move from the pain, dumped into (small) chest and nailed shut | Rescued from chest, labored breathing | Cuts and bruises visible on his face.
Ep 5 | (in real world) Left locked up in a box(?) under an altar for days without food or water (by his own choice), pale, weak, labored breathing. Lips dry and broken, slipping in and out of consciousness | Found barely conscious kneeling inside box, snaps out of 'trance' with a gasp, being pulled out but resisting, dragged outside, mumbling weakly, repeatedly hit in the head, collapses onto the ground, groaning, bleeding from the forehead, pulled onto his feet, stabbed in the stomach, collapses onto his knees when the dagger is removed, bleeding from the mouth, shaky breathing | Seated against a wall tied up, concern for him, stab wound covered with a cloth, shallow breathing | (in spirit dimension) Stabbed in the chest and pinned against wall, clutching the blade that stabbed him, fought. Narrowly dodges blade thrown his way, cut in the arm, slammed against wall, fought, grabbed by the head and thrown into the ground, fought more, grabbed by the neck and thrown back onto the floor, (through some sort of voodoo) throat slit, bleeding excessively, clutching neck, blood slipping through fingers, stumbles back and falls onto his knees, bleeding from the mouth. Kicked out of the door and rolls down the steps, choking and struggling to breathe, screaming out in pain from more voodoo injuries, leaning against pillar for support, bleeding from the mouth and eyes.
Ep 6 | (in real world) Climbing out of the pond, collapses onto his knees then onto his back, groaning, labored breathing, vision corrupted (blurred and smokey) from supernatural injury to his eyes, panting | Concerned for loved one | Collapses onto the floor screaming in pain from voodoo attack, groaning, screaming, wheezing, covering his eyes with his hands, panting, vision blurring more, dragging himself across the floor, loses eyesight entirely | Curled up in the dark, trembling, shaky breathing, concern for him | (in spirit dimension) Inserting demon/monster eyes into himself, screaming.
Ep 7 | (in real world) Carving protective spell(?) onto his wrist with a knife, carved character visible on the side of his neck, panting | (in spirit dimension) Swarmed by spirits grabbing onto him.
Ep 8 | (in real world) Climbing out of the pond, labored breathing, collapses onto his knees, concern for him | Given a drug concealed as medicine by ally to protect him from putting himself in danger, vision blurring, collapses onto the ground, growing weak, trembling, passes out | Vision blurry as he stirs awake. Slits the side of his neck | (in spirit dimension) Fought, swarmed and overwhelmed by monstrous spirits pinning him down and holding him down. Fought again. Grabs blade with his hand | (in real world) Found unconscious leaning against a furniture bleeding excessively onto his clothes, bleeding from the mouth, wound on his neck covered with a cloth, concern for him, held | Presumed dead but kept in bed and watched over by loved one, pale | Bruise reveal on his wrist from supernatural shackle, cut visible on his neck.
like most of the Whump I see has whumpees who remember everything clearly and are always crying and shi.
but what abt whumpees who dissociate heavily? Whenever they were tortured or whatever they mentally checked out of the situation, their mind somewhere far away from the pain.
and this carries over to when they’ve been rescued. Say Caretaker accidentally triggers them and instead of crying their eyes glaze over, mind already somewhere far away where they can’t be hurt
Post whump Whumpee runs a whump blog. They use their experiences as prompts and use their feelings for description. Due to that incredibly detailed and accurate writing, their blog is very well known. If anyone ever asks them how they’re so good at writing whump they just say they study things related to it.
Despite all their popularity they never write anything about recovery or caretakers. They don’t know how to describe it because they never had a caretaker. They managed to make it out of whumper’s clutches but they never made it out of the clutches of loneliness.
whumpee is struggling to keep up with the others. even after being rescued, there's not a moment of rest. secretly, they sometimes wish to go back. back, back, back where they didn't have the time to feel so much. when they didn't have to think of a life outside those four mouldy walls, of nothing at all which wasn't survival.
they are falling behind. and no one cares. even sleep is illusive and faint, leaving them jittery and rattled.
they can't stop though. that is not an option, and it has never been. not before, and certainly not now.
child whumpee who desperately wants to be left alone when it comes to... what happens at home. last time a teacher had gotten a little too curious after they burst into tears during class, they were the one who had to pay for it.
so they try their best to put on a normal act. and it works. but all it takes for it to come crumbling down is when a well-intentioned tutor notices something amiss— and wants to clarify with the child's guardians.
but it sends whumpee spiralling, as they try to convince their teacher— it's okay, I'm okay with that, or they're fine with it, they know, or I deserved it— every new justification only serving to further cement the grim look on the other's face.
– Struck by a falling tree, cuts his face, clutching his arm in pain
02:
– Face still scraped from last episode, bleeding from a cut on his arm, has his wounds cleaned, flinching in pain
– Outnumbered in a knife fight, cuts on his face, slashed across the arm and back, shouting in pain
– Flashback: Bloodied after a fight
– Shot in the back, shouting in pain, on the run, bleeding out, passes out, collapses into his not-boyfriend’s arms
03:
– Still unconscious and bleeding after last episode, carried to safety, lying on a makeshift operating table, has the bullet removed and his wounds bandaged, recovering in bed, taken care of, treated with acupuncture needles
– Nightmare, calling out in his sleep, reopens the gunshot wound, bleeding through the bandages
– Discloses his childhood trauma, fighting tears, slamming his head into the wall
– Having the wounds on his back cleaned and re-bandaged, wincing in pain
– Jumps from a window, lands on his back, reopens the wound again, bleeding
04:
– Still cut, bruised and bandaged
– Kicked to his knees, restrained, lifted by the throat, choked, kicked in the gut
– Loses control and kills someone, exhausted, collapses into his friends’ arms, wakes up in hospital
– Still wincing when he moves, examined by a doctor, screaming in pain, diagnosed with torn tendons after last episode, limping
05:
– Clutching his side in pain after a fight
06:
– Drunk, stumbling, falls into his not-boyfriend’s arms, passes out, carried
– Receiving acupuncture treatment, wincing in pain
07:
– Admitted to hospital for an unspecified sickness, on an IV
08:
– Bleeding through his shirt after a fight, cuts and scrapes on his face, revealed to have three glass shards in his chest, has them removed and his wounds bandaged by his not-boyfriend, recovering in bed
– Revealed to have multiple scars on his back
09:
– Face still scratched and wounds still bandaged from last episode
– Cuts his face and back in a swordfight
He Chu San (Right)
01:
– Pinned to a wall, threatened with a knife, rescued
– Knocked out, kidnapped
– Kicked in the chest, hit in the face, winded, bruised forehead, clutching his ribs in pain
02:
– Forehead still bruised after last episode
03:
– Kidnapped, face bruised after being beaten
04:
– Still bruised and restrained after last episode, held at gunpoint
– Feverish, unconscious in bed, taken care of by his father
09:
– Tied to a chair, face bruised after being beaten, used as a hostage, has a wound on his thigh stepped on, screaming in pain, tortured via beating, bleeding from the head, suspended by the wrists, beaten again, rescued, recovering in hospital with his wounds bandaged
– Flashback: Tied up on the floor, strapped to a bomb
TW: Contains themes of child abuse, mental illness and suicide
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