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bunny300 · 1 year

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I want a villain or a bad guy or maybe a whumper (whatever you decide), I want that character to be well known by whatever group of people.

He’s a big name and everyone knows of him. I want this villain to be big and bad and menacing

And I just picture a scene where our big bad villain sits down at a bar and orders. What do you think he orders?

APPLE JUICE

“Do bars even have apple juice?”, you may ask and here I will tell you:

THESE ONES DO

They’d have to be dead not to have heard the rumors.

No one has ever seen him hold or drink an alcoholic beverage. In meetings or parties or any social event where alcohol is available he always only gets apple juice.

ALWAYS.

If a business wants to be a business, wants protection or maybe just less bad things happening to them, they’d have apple juice on hand. Better yet if it’s the specific brand of apple juice. Better better yet if its one of those well known brands and not some high end fancy apple juice.

I want stories where our villain, maybe when he was first rising to the top, would get harassed for ordering or drinking apple juice, and I just imagine him not being violent and since no one ever sees him retaliate, they all think him soft.

That is until they hear about people getting fired from jobs or going out of business or getting in a car accident. Really anything your mind can conjure. Maybe someone fell into debt or got super drunk and cheated on his partner and proof of doing so was swiftly shown to the partner. Maybe someone got their kids taken away.

I imagine that depending on the situation and how they treated and acted towards him determines the level of disparity he causes towards that person and their family. No one has physical proof that he caused it. Many have looked and found no connection linking him to the “bad luck” going around and some are skeptical that it’s all a coincidence, that is until the people investigating start having “bad luck” and maybe even the openly skeptical too.

It eventually get around that if villain shows up anywhere, a restaurant, meeting, bar, wherever, they must have apple juice for him. And they remember not to act any different, no one dares taunt him, throws alcohol on him, actually serves him alcohol or alcohol in the apple juice, or any other childish thing someone could do, not after they recall now the first few were treated.

Villain knew he had to send a message. He was new after all. Up and coming. Not known to many. Not feared. Not respected. He let himself be known. And responding with (more than slight) overkill the first few bad ones, people knew of him. He was feared. Some respected him.

No one would question his choices.

It’s also great that you could have scenes where people that look up to villain order apple juice when they are out and about.

There are so many things.

OMG

I would love for someone knew in town to come. I imagine this is our whumpee or love interest, (since the other one is villain in this post, this character will be civilian) and they don’t know this person and he overhears him ordering apple juice (let’s say at a bar) and civilian says, “really man, apple juice?”

And the bar becomes silent.

Civilian doesn’t quite notice it fall silent because he’s hyper focused and is already saying, “orange juice is way better! I LOVE ORANGE JUICE. Hey bar tender! Do you have orange juice!?”

I imagine a chaotic, neurodivergent, adhd riddled civilian getting SOOO bummed the bar doesn’t have orange juice and responds with something like, “FINE. I suppose the gods win this round! I’ll have some apple juice.”

And when he’s waiting for his apple juice he notices how loud the tapping of his fingers and his humming sounds, and that’s when he realized just how silent it was around him and he looked up.

This can happen two ways:

Either everyone is looking at him or looking away.

Everyone could be watching him, gawking at what in the heck just happened. Some are perhaps worried, unknowing if this will get the young man in trouble since what he said was so frantic and all over the place. Or they can be looking away. Sort of the ‘don’t make eye contact’ kind of mentality. Maybe afraid that if he sees them they’ll have “bad luck” despite having stayed out of it.

But oh man, just imagine all of this. And villains reaction! GAH it all makes me giddy

OH OH OH

I also want it where a lot of businesses, maybe at a dinner meeting or something, when dealing with villain, will only order apple juice and not alcohol as a sign of respect. Cracks me up really

#whumper #whumpee #whump #clueless civilian #villain #villain x civilian #civilian #writing #whumpblr #GAH

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lizzydizzyyo · 3 years

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Idk why but I actually hate whumper trope. There's something gratituously gory, evil, and violent with having a whumper in whump story. They take away the whumpiflies feeling in my gut from the whumpee's hurt, and instead redirect it into anger and unsettled feeling towards how increasingly far the whumper has to go to produce whumpee's pain.

I used one sometimes in my fic, when the long-overarching arc requires it and because it moves the overall plot, although even then, I only like it when it's shown in broken/memory-style bits by bits, and it's mostly for justice-seeking and therapy attempt where the focus is still on whumpee's emotion, healing, and the bigger story/plot, but not on whumper's 'badness'. Still, generally speaking, majority of the whump elements I have for my own story or for fic-reading enjoyment are always based on sickness/accident/natural disaster scenario.

Which the last one is HARD to find, but god, so good when you find the well-written ones. I mean, can you imagine going skiing and an avalanche happens, then caretaker/lover/family is fighting hard to find whumpee, going as far as personally joining helicopter search, then, after a long time of several back-and-forth scenes of caretaker trying to find whumpee while fighting the search team to not give up and whumpee struggling to stay alive in the element, and by absolute sheer luck, caretaker spots them and jumps down to start running before the helicopter fully lands? And then when caretaker reaches them, whumpee just collapses on them??? Can you imagine????

Not only that, but the absolute obsession with hero/fighter/super-magic-millitaristic team and whumpee? Where did that come from? Most people who get hurt aren't part of some vigilante groups, and they deserve caretaking too. There is an uncomfortable implication of how only people who fought/worked hard to get their pain or people with superhuman/above average ability should be rewarded with caretaking.

Sometimes there aren't any evil/vengeful/misguided people who need to be fought back. Sometimes bad luck just happens, like having an old car with faulty brake that gets whumpee in a horrible accident a week before their wedding and their lover/caretaker assumes bedside vigil while their friends try to convince them to take shifts in waiting because caretaker looks exhausted.

Where my non-whumper writers at? I know you guys are out there. Can we have some more non-violent, non-whumper story? I know taste varies and maybe whumper trope is popular because, well, it strokes the itch for more people. I just wishes it's acknowledged more that a good whump story doesn't always need an antagonist or over the top scene-setting background. Sometimes, the universe being a bitch to whumpee is enough.

#whump #whumper #hurt-comfort #sickfic #writing #me

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