Hi! Can you recommend me some good Hotch whump fics?Its hard for me to find fics where Hotch’s whump is the primary focus and not the secondary. (Also Hotch’s whump is underrated)
SFinally, someone is asking for recommendations that I do know something about. I also agree 1,000%. I love Aaron Hotchner with all my heart but I love to see that man bloodied and bruised.
The Flight Home by myownmind: Hotch and Reid’s commercial flight crashes into the Rocky Mountains. This has some A+ writing and goes beyond just tasteful plotless whump. If I am committing myself to reading whump I want it and this more and than deliveries. If you’re a fan of Reid whump, there is plenty but it doesn't come close to touching the Hotch whump (30 chapters of delightful Hotch whump)
Hotch Down by Ice Prince1: Morgan takes care of a hurt Hotch. This one gives me whumperflies every time I read it. Bonus for a very, very afraid Jack.
Not a Blinker by Lexikal: Hotch has a panic attack
32 Fahrenheit by Cosmic Castaway: Hotch gets hypothermia
Heavy Is The Head That Wears the Crown by overthinkingrambler: overtime whump that leads to Hotch finally loosing it with the bonus of Papa Rossi calling Hotch ‘kiddo’
The Right Thing by hotch_fan: Hotch gets a much deserved peptalk (go to the author’s link for more bc this author write a lot of hotch whump)
Adrenaline by montez: After the New York bombing Hotch isn’t as okay as he pretends to be
Slowly into the light is the sequal
There’s one on a03 I read years ago but it’s called spotted somethings like a leopard maybe. After Haley’s death Hotch gets super sick and Dave has to take care of him. The title comes from Jack noticing that the rash hotch has makes him look like a an animal
Not to self-promote but I write mostly Hotch whump so... WhumpTown for my ff.net account and a03 WhumpTown
I know I am missing so many good ones and that breaks my heart because literally all I do is read Hotchwhump so I will probably come back and add to this list as I go on the hunt for more
Also, don’t be afraid to add to this list because I will go read them and I am always looking for more hotch whump
No, the writers just liked the actor and wanted to reuse him but couldn’t be bothered to sufficiently map out a redemption story that allowed Tony’s childhood trauma to be acknowledged by Senior as it would require deep character writing during a time where the shows writing was very spotty and it’s character moments tended to be surface level and run of the mil.