Any prompts for whumpee calling their dad figure "dad" or something for the first time due to fear/injury?
WOULD LOVE TO, HAPPILY. this is my absolute jam, as my url may indicate. some concepts for this (which is one of my FAVE things generally - using Family Words, especially for the first time)
sudden realization that something terrible is about to happen - spotting a bomb or a pressure plate, seeing someone pull a gun, any kind of immediate and shocking danger, calling out in warning or in fear
nearly delirious with pain, being beaten or tortured, screaming for help - a little extra fun because there’s some potential here for like. does the father figure in question even know it happened? were they present or not even there? does the person hurting them use this to taunt father figure later - “they were calling for you, you know” etc.
slight variation if you’ve got a sinister/abusive father figure, can be begging the person hurting them to stop, calling them dad for the first time as they’re being hurt
another slight variation - painful wound care or medical treatment. it has to happen because they Need it but it hurts and they beg for it to stop or for help or just. saying ‘dad’ and ‘please’ without purpose, just saying it because they’re hurt and the pain won’t stop.
nightmares are SO good for this. in their sleep, just coming out of one, panicked and afraid and confused.
drug or fever or exhaustion induced disorientation and lowered inhibitions!!! yes!!! then you also get to play with whether they remember saying it later.
whumper forces them to make a ransom call or just a call to taunt the father figure, and either makes them say it - “go ahead, call your dad and beg to be saved” - or just makes them make the call and it slips out - “tell them how much it hurts, tell them what’s happened to you”
it always adds a little special something to Any situation like this for me when the whumpee has a bad relationship with their father/family and that’s like. in the background colouring this moment and impacting how it feels to say that name and for the father figure to hear it. chef kiss, yes please.
A magical spell that means their temperature rises in proximity to their teammate. They’re fine to keep their distance—until teammate breaks an ankle and they have to support them. Now they’re racing against the clock trying to break the curse, knowing that even the journey could kill them.
That little moment when Whumpee is very ill, lying in their bed at home, half-conscious, limp, and burning with fever. Caretaker is incredibly worried and mentioning taking Whumpee to a hospital. Suddenly Whumpee grabs Caretaker's hand with strength Caretaker didn't know they had, squeezing it as they gaze at Caretaker with more focus than they've seen all day.
"D-don't go."
The words are slurred and shaky, but paired with Whumpee's tears, the Caretaker can't even say no.
What kind of whump is your least favorite to write (although you still do write it)?
What kind of whump do you absolutely refuse to write?
Is there a kind of whump you wish you could write better?
What character or characters are your favorite to do whumpy things to in your writing?
What character or characters are your favorite to turn into caretakers in your writing?
Have you ever written whump inspired by personal experiences?
How many whumpy stories do you currently have published online?
Which of your stories has the most whump in it?
What is your favorite whumpy story you have written?
Share one of your favorite whumpy scenes that you have written.
What is one of the strangest things you have had to research for your whumpy writing?
What is the most recent thing you have researched for use in your whumpy writing?
Has any of your whump research ever come in handy in real life?
Are you ever hampered by your lack of medical knowledge when writing whump?
Has anyone ever called you out on an incorrectly written medical or whumpy scene (such as telling you that the character would have bled out long before help arrived)?
Do you consider character death (that is not reversed) to be whump?
Do ever rely on magical cures or deus ex machina to resolve whumpy situations?
How long have you been writing whump?
What was the first fandom you wrote whump for?
What fandom would you like to write whump for, but haven't done so yet (due to not knowing it well enough, etc.)?
Do you have any particular songs or playlists that help you get in the mood to write whump?
Do you write whump for OCs or just canon characters?
Do you have any whump pet peeves? Meaning things that just bug you when you see them in a fanfic.
What advice or wisdom would you like to share with other whump writers?
A whumpee who has been hit and tortured so much they actually become masochistic. They start enjoying the pain so much they laugh out loud during the cruelest punishments Whumper can give. Their new punishment is....no punishment. After riding that slightly unhinged, masochistic high, they feel the full extent of their injuries...
Sleep deprivation. Whumper is something of a 'scientist' and wants to see the effect on a human body.
24 hours. Whumpee's sleepy and somewhat more irritable, but puts up weak defense when Whumper hurts them. They're forced to write a paragraph about themselves, and Whumpee's handwriting is a messy scrawl littered with cross-outs.
36 hours. Whumpee is lying weak on the wall of their cell, trembling a little, bruise-like circles under the eyes. Everytime Whumper says something Whumpee takes a moment to respond, as though they don't understand it at first. They've been defiant, but are now quiet and obedient. They want to sleep so, so badly, but Whumper won't let them. Whumpee falls unconscious for ten minutes, and nothing will wake them. They're severely punished after.
48 hours. Whumpee has been silent but all of a sudden screams, thrashing and clawing at something that isn't there. They start panicking, crushing themselves in the corner of the cell, shivering and ice-cold hands over red-rimmed eyes. When Whumpee is finished with that hallucination, they have to write the same paragraph, but Whumpee can't seem to write a thing. They can't even remember who they are. The periods of unconsciousness happen thrice more, and are seemingly inevitable.
72 hours. Whumpee is much more rejuvenated the next day, holding animated conversations with the person they can't see. Their shaking is uncontrollable and they take no notice of the Whumper, not even when hit. There's periods where Whumpee is stone silent and staring at a point in the distance, but quickly picks up the conversation, laughing in a cracking voice.
96 hours. Whumpee is slightly more aware and begging, pleading for rest, but is denied...
Give me characters collapsing from hypothermia in the middle of nowhere, despite their best efforts to fight the unconsciousness knowing that they're miles away from any help that may come
Give me characters who are severely/fatally wounded but don't even notice it/succumb to their injuries until someone else notices due to pure adrenaline
Give me characters who need someone to save them but there's no one else around and no way to call for help
Give me characters who can tolerate the injuries they receive from the other party, but eventually collapse and pass out from exhaustion and weakness
Give me characters who, even after passing out, continue to be hurt until someone else rescues them from their situation, limp, unresponsive, and on the brink of death
Give me characters who have severe head trauma and are delirious and making no sense before passing out
Give me characters who are drowning
Give me characters who are already vulnerable getting put into a position of further vulnerability
Give me characters who are trapped
Give me characters who are choking
Give me characters who are slowly bleeding out
Give me characters going unconscious/dying in their best friend's/loved one's arms
GIVE ME CHARACTERS
Ok but actually I wanna see this please give me some 🥺🙏
The Caretaker brushes a sleeping Whumpee's hair back lovingly. The heat they feel when touching Whumpee's forehead is concerning, but is it more worrying than the blood that is on Caretaker's palm when they remove their hand to get a thermometer?
the classic "are you hurt?" but the whumpee is the one saying it. slurring the words through a hoarse throat and numbed lips, their eyes are glazed and their hands are shaking, frantic at the blood soaking the caretaker's shirt and too delirious to realize it's all their own.