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this might just be cause im a journaler but im very enchanted by the idea of a super closed off secretive former whumpee having years and years of diaries. theres just something very delicious about a character who never shares any information about themselves having a box shoved in a closet somewhere and inside that box is a bunch of journals that hold everything anyone could ever wish to know about them.

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big fan of rescued/recovered whumpee having their past revealed to their team by someone other than them </3

just imagine...... knowing the team is the first time whumpee has been able to bond with people without the knowledge of their past interfering at all........ and now that's been taken away........

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i kind of love when whumpee has no physical indicators of what they went through but i also do love a whumpee whose appearance is drastically different before vs after whump. maybe its not by choice, like scarring or other visible indicators that theyve been hurt, or maybe it is by choice, like cutting/dyeing their hair or completely changing their style. like just imagine someone who whumpee knew pre-whump running into them and hardly recognizing them because they look like a completely different person.

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something funny ive recently enjoyed thinking about with whump is what shows are airing when whumpee escapes. like whats gonna be the first show your whumpee sees post rescue???

i have a character who never ever watched TV until her escape which was in 2017 so theres a non zero chance that the first TV show she ever saw was like riverdale or one of the shittier seasons of supernatural 💀

also a possibility for any whumpee who escapes post-2000 is survivor which i feel like might be really weird to see for a whumpee who just escaped?? or big brother which would be similarly confusing 😭

anyway if this is a situation that applies to your whumpee i highly encourage thinking about what shows would've been on immediately post-escape/rescue for them and how they react to those shows. do they form an extreme attachment to the show that lasts for years to come? or does the show bring them back to the difficult and overwhelming recovery period and make it so they cant stand seeing the show ever again?

this can also be done with music 😈

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big fan of a whumpee who pushes everyone away without meaning to. their trauma has made vulnerability feel unsafe, so they never form connections with the people they meet and they never communicate clearly for fear of punishment.

in a perfect world, whumpee ends up with just the right group of people who are able to see past this and not give up on them. for maximum angst, everybody leaves whumpee and they end up alone.

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big fan of rescued whumpees who dont feel safe fully showing their emotions in front of other people so they only allow themselves to do it in private so everyone kind of sees them as emotionless when really the emotions are there but not public.

also a big fan of seeing what it takes to make them finally show strong emotions in front of other people.....

what makes them happy enough that they just beam and laugh without caring how loud it is?

what makes them upset enough that they break down sobbing in front of other people?

what makes them angry enough that they cant stop themselves from having an outburst no matter who's around?

what makes them scared enough that they cant control how they startle or scream even though they dont want other people to see that?

etc etc

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been really getting into the idea of whumpee and caretaker both being completely closed off. i dont even know how that would work but undeniably it would be fun 😈

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musician whumpee tries to protect their hands throughout their whumping until whumper notices and starts to specifically target their hands.....

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as a whump enjoyer obviously i like seeing my favorite characters get hurt but sometimes there genuinely is a point where i stop being happy about it and instead im sitting there like wait no ease up on them give them a break 😭 especially when theyre not receiving the caretaking i want for them 💔

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i feel like in popular media time loops are not utilized enough and when they are the character who was stuck in/aware of the loop is normally way too chill once they realized theyve finally escaped......

like why arent we heaving sobbing sagging against our companions in a mix of relief and residual distress......

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lately I've loved the idea of a character who has a complicated (or just straight up bad) relationship with one of their parents only to end up following in their footsteps in some way. Like their parent was always absent because they were a workaholic and the character vowed to never be like that but by some turn of events they do. Maybe they even end up in the same/similar job as their parent and they hate how naturally good they seem to be at it because it's one more way they're similar to their parent.

bonus points if they have a sibling whose life turned out exactly how the character wanted theirs to be.....,,,,, so they just have to watch their sibling live the life they always envisioned for themselves while theyre stuck constantly being compared to a parent they don't wanna be like

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ok ok imagine whumper is just done with whumpee. for whatever reason, they just dont want them anymore. but rather than giving them the easy way out by killing them, whumper takes whumpee to a remote location and just leaves them there.

its so far from any civilization that their chances of finding help are already slim, but combining that with how weak they are makes it virtually impossible for whumpee to find help.

there are a few ways this could go with a whumpee who DOES try to find help:

1. whumpee is determined to take this opportunity, no matter how terrible it is, but they die quickly in the wilderness, their second chance over before it really ever started.

2. whumpee spends a long time in the wilderness trying to find civilization. they hunt for food, brave the elements, try to avoid being mauled by animals (whether they fail at this or not is up to you), etc. theyre determined to find help but their time in the wilderness is so painful and exhausting that they almost give up.

-> 2a. whumpee's resilience pays off and theyre eventually rescued.

-> 2b. after everything whumpee endured both under whumper and in the wilderness, they eventually die.

3. OR, if you wanna be extra nice, whumpee, by some stroke of insane luck, is rescued relatively quickly.

but then of course there's the possibility that whumpee is found by someone who goes on to become their new whumper....,,,, if you wanted to be extra super duper cruel

and then there's ALSO the possibility that whumpee is already so broken down upon being left there by whumper that they don't even try to survive.

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imagine a rescued whumpee eventually getting back into the dating scene and entering a (for lack of a better word) situationship where the other party basically wants to do all the couple-y things without actually committing/entering an official relationship with whumpee while whumpee wants to make it official. like just imagine what that must do to whumpee.......

maybe they slip back into the behaviors they had when being whumped. if they were typically obedient to whumper maybe they try to do anything possible to get their "partner" to want to keep them around and commit, or maybe if they were defiant with whumper they also push back against their "partner" in hopes that they can provoke them into doing something besides dodging commitment, even if they run the risk of provoking them into breaking things off completely.

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thinking a lot about a whumpee who was rescued from a vampire whumper being taken in by a vampire caretaker.....

caretaker understands why whumpee is wary of vampires but they can't help but feel a sting of sadness every time whumpee flinches away from them or instinctively protects the areas that whumper used to feed from

if whumpee knew caretaker/other vampires before being whumped, they feel guilty at how terrified they've become of vampires

if whumpee didnt know any vampires before being whumped, they can't shake the fear that caretaker is eventually going to try to feed on them even though all logic is telling them that caretaker has been nothing but kind to them

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ok ok walk with me:

Whumpee is missing for so long that their team can't help but assume they're dead. When they finally escape Whumper, they call Team Leader and ask them to come get them. Upon receiving this call, Team Leader simply springs into action and leaves without telling the rest of the team where they're going or that Whumpee is the one who called them because they want to make sure that Whumpee really is alive and this isn't some kind of trick, because if it is a trick they don't want anyone but themselves to get their hopes up only for them to be crushed.

If Whumpee really is alive and free, imagine the team's surprise when Team Leader returns from their mysterious outing with Whumpee, whose death everyone has already been grieving for a long time.

If it was some kind of trick (or taunting) and Team Leader is unable to find Whumpee, imagine the team's confusion when Team Leader returns devastated and with crushed hopes, but refuses to tell anybody why they're so upset or where they rushed off to in such a hurry.

And of course the secret third option is that Whumpee's call was a trap that successfully lured Team Leader into Whumper's hands, and the rest of the team is left wondering why another one of their own has disappeared and what they could've possibly heard on the phone to make them leave in such a rush.

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thinking about a mortal character with immortal teammates and the existential crisis that comes with that.....

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"It's just weird. Like, someday I'm gonna die and you guys are just gonna keep going. And before you know it it'll have been decades since I died and you'll probably have forgotten all about me. You've probably had, like, ten other teammates like me and I'm just the most recent in a long line."

(disturbed stares from the rest of the team which go unnoticed by the mortal)

"It's kinda the worst FOMO ever, too. I'm gonna die and all the rest of you are gonna keep having fun without me for hundreds of years. You're gonna have so much more fun over the years that all the fun you had when I was still around is gonna get pushed to, like, the bottom of the pile of fun."

"Are you gonna blow out the candles or...?"

"Oh, yeah. Sorry, I got a little off track. This party has been great, I guess my birthday just gets me thinking!"

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rescued whumpee hates receiving physical comfort like hugs and back rubs and shoulder squeezes but they don't want to hurt caretaker's feelings so they just never tell them.