There was the sound of shuffling and the click-click of a walking stick, and a bent, elderly figure appeared in the gray, dead, dusty air.
"Groat, sir," it wheezed. "Junior Postman Groat, sir. At your service, sir. One word from you, sir, and I will leap, sir, leap into action, sir." The figure stopped to cough long and hard, making a noise like a wall being hit repeatedly with a bag of rocks. Moist saw that it had a beard of the short, bristled type, which suggested that its owner had been interrupted halfway through eating a hedgehog.
Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
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Thinking ab tiny, comforting, caretaking gestures
Caretaker gently touching whumpees thigh under the table, letting them know that their discomfort isn’t being ignored
Caretaker holding onto whumpees bicep, keeping them steady under the guise of a meaningless touch
Caretaker rubbing small circles on whumpees back as they cough or get sick, giving them a bit of comfort through the violence of their illness
Caretaker playing with whumpees sweaty hair, feeling their fever-warm skin and holding them close
Caretaker whispering small words of encouragement, little “shh”s and “it’s okay, it’s okay”s under their breath as whumpee cries, because they just don’t feel well
Whumpee collapsing into caretakers arms as they sob, because they’ve never felt this loved through such small actions
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Caretaker helping Whumpee sit up during an intense coughing fit and thumping them on the back to make things easier on their aching diaphragm and raw throat.
Bonus points if the coughing fit exacerbates Whumpee’s headache and leaves them too exhausted to move. Caretaker would have to slowly ease them back down and tuck them in again.
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I ate a box full of colored pencils, then started coughing up woodchips.
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Whump Prompts 80: Gothic Illness Aesthetic
Feel free to reblog and add on if you think of something :)
FAINTING
Whumpee examined by the doctor, listening to their lungs and checking their temperature
Whumpee stripped down so others can help them change their clothes, leaving whumpee bare and vulnerable and unable to sit up by themselves
Loose white nightgowns and white shirts
Pale, ashen skin, eyes ringed with dark circles, sunken cheeks
Long, damp hair plastered to a feverish forehead
A dim bedroom, curtains closed, a single candle or lamp burning
Whumpee lying on their back in a large, ornate bed, surrounded by white sheets
Feverish mumbling in their sleep, head jerking from side to side with delirium
BLOODLETTING
Being spoon-fed broth or gruel that they’re barely able to eat
Whumpee being bathed because they’re too weak to do it themselves
Various medicines perched on the sidetable
Hushed voices in the sickie’s bedroom, trying not to disturb them
Coughing fits, muffled by a white handkerchief
COUGHING UP BLOOD
Fevered nightmares
Whumpee lying silent and still under the bedclothes, while others keep vigil
Whumpee venturing out of their room for the first time, leaning on the banister as they try to get down the long staircase
Whumpee unable to sleep because they’re uncomfortable, wandering through the big house and empty rooms, slightly delirious
Slow meandering walks through the garden as they convalesce
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Caretaker catching the bug that the contagious whumpee's got and feeling guilty for disturbing them with badly suppressed coughs and sneezes when they're supposed to be resting
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When a sick character already knows that their night is going to be terrible, and they dread going to bed.
When they lie down their symptoms just seem to amplify. At night, their stuffy nose becomes a wall of concrete, their fever gets even more uncomfortable, and the annoying tickle in their throat turns into a cough that is impossible to suppress, and leaves them sweaty from the effort.
Bonus points if another character acknowledges their symptoms.
"Good luck trying to sleep with that cough tonight!"
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Contains: exhausted sneezes, sniffling, nose blowing (warning: the first one is audibly messy), pained whimpering, "ow!" is said many times, coughing, a nose rub, and my bed creaking as I toss & turn
I’m still in a lot of pain and sneezing a lot…
I just wanna sleep but my body won’t let me :(
Looks like I’m gonna have to break into my emergency NyQuil supply… I only use it for emergencies; like only when I’m really sick. Sadly, I’d say this probably counts.
(I’m gonna keep trying to sleep, but you may still see me active for a bit until the meds kick in)
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Found s01e09: “Oh, you're burning up, damn it.”
+bonus:
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