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Caretaker falling apart over what might’ve happened to Whumpee, but deciding to respect Whumpee’s privacy. They have to stop themselves from prying or asking certain questions, knowing full well that there’s a darker, painful, intimate story behind Whumpee’s condition.

Alternatively, Whumpee’s history is eating away at them, and they’re dying to tell Caretaker everything. They decide to repress themselves for one reason or another. Maybe they’re afraid of disturbing Caretaker. Maybe they’re doubting their own recollection of what happened. Maybe they’ve been conditioned to view vulnerability as weakness.

Either way, there’s something preventing these two people from sharing the whole truth about a painful situation.

#YEAH…….. YEAH #figuring out how to work through this #especially for whumpees who desperately WANT to talk about it #AUGH that’s everything to me #hidden trauma

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Performance whump…

Shaking pirouettes and strained poses, dancing despite aching limbs and a growing fatigue

One simple command. “Play.”

The spotlights beating down on Whumpee, making them sweat

Delicate, lithe movements created by strength and relentless training, hours and hours spent practicing into the night

The tense, silent moment before an audience erupts into applause.

Whumpee loses themself in the characters they play, not knowing who they truly are anymore

Singing until the vocal cords give out, being forced to hit notes that are too high and too low

Stepping onstage, forcing themself to forget what just happened a moment before

A contortionist who bends but never breaks

Being unable to sing or play their instrument, feeling a blockage in their throat and their limbs locking up in fear

Whumpees who are only given attention when they are needed to entertain

A whumpee who never lets the mask slip, always perfect and poised

A whumpee inconsistent in their presentation of themself

#BANGS ON MY DESK ONCE AGAIN I AM PROMOTING SPORTS WHUMP #WHICH IS ABSOLUTELY IN THIS CATEGORY ALSO #tropes

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Caretaker seeing a normally stoic and confident whumpee, now cowering, shaking and terrified because of whatever the the Whumper has done to them.

Drugs, shock treatment, mental torture - anything.

The harsh contrast gives me chillssss

#THE CONTRAST MY BELOVED #uncharacteristic behaviour #trauma #drugged #torture

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i love when a rescued whumpee slowly drops details about their life to their new friends and the friends try to mentally catalog everything because they know so little about whumpee and they share so infrequently

#oh this is fun #and when they notice their friends have been paying attention…. ough #and care #UGH #character dynamics

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A character, usually very reserved and self-contained, has their filter/self-control eroded by fever or illness or bloodloss or exposure and starts pleading and clinging to their companions for the comfort and contact they've craved all along but never before dared to openly express- which shocks their friends who had never realised cuddles and caresses were something the incapacitated character wanted and are heartbroken to think they've been depriving them of them; they hesitantly but wholeheartedly oblige with all the warm contact they can provide.

#LITERALLY THIS IS EVERYTHING TO ME #IT'S MY FAVOURIE THING!!!!! #uncharacteristic behaviour #comfort #touch starved #FAVE FAVE FAVE

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…that said i promise you the one thing it’s really extremely not necessary to do is reblog this to talk about how you write/read romance in whump all the time and love it, aro or not. if that’s the case, this post is simply not about you <3

being aromantic and into whump is like. shoutout to whump for being a great opportunity to engage with stories about intimacy and vulnerability and powerful emotion and physical interactions with other people and intense relationships that are not presumptively based in romance. what would i do without you.

#Gav gab #it’s funny tho it’s like clockwork lmao #I make a post about not liking romance or valuing things other than romance/shipping #in fandom/creative works #and people come out of the woodwork to reblog it and make it about how much they love those things #if this post makes you feel weird about enjoying romance #even if you are aro #please know that is extremely a you problem #please don’t make t MY problem #thanks!

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I love it when whumpee shows up at caretakers doorstep so exhausted they pass out as soon as they know they're safe. Now caretaker sits by their bedside trying to guess all the worst case things that could have happened until whumpee wakes up and explains themselves.

#REALLY GOOD #passing out #scenario

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i truly love seeing both aro and non-aro people reblogging and agreeing with this sentiment. join me, let's appreciate intimacy and vulnerability and powerful emotion and physical interactions with other people and intense relationships that are not presumptively based in romance. i love you whump genre.

being aromantic and into whump is like. shoutout to whump for being a great opportunity to engage with stories about intimacy and vulnerability and powerful emotion and physical interactions with other people and intense relationships that are not presumptively based in romance. what would i do without you.

#gav gab

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when whumpee goes from begging for it to stop to begging for a small break

#INDEED #begging

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Me constantly: “how can I turn this into a Whump scenario?”

#so true #whump laughs

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Addendum to the previous post: concerned companions not understanding and shushing the struggling-to-speak character, telling them to save their breath, don't try to talk, just breathe- and this having the opposite effect of calming them but rather they start fighting even harder to get the words out, words slurred and gasping and wetly gargled, wheezed and choked out between teeth and through uncooperative lips, stuttering and managed just a word at a time but they need to tell them- and their companions do realise and lean in close to hear, strain to piece together the fragments, coax and encourage their efforts, repeat back what they think they've heard for confirmation, cast worried looks at each other over their head but let them continue.

#OUUUUUUUGH REALLY GOOD #REALLY REALLY GOOD #struggling to speak

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A terrified whumpee whose body is exhausted from the intense trembling but they still can’t stop quivering. Warmth cocoons them as Caretaker wraps a blanket around them and pulls them down onto the couch before their shaky legs give out. Once seated, Caretaker curls up behind the whumpee and wraps their arms around their shaking form until they feel whumpee’s hands grab theirs and pull them close to their rapidly moving chest. Caretaker murmurs words of encouragement and keeps telling them that they’re ok and nothing is going to happen to them. Whumpee mumbles something about having a living weighted blanket and they feel Caretaker smile against the back of their clammy neck.

#this is everything 2 me #i fucking love Shaking From Fear And Trauma #aftermath #fear #trauma #held

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When the whumpee is badly hurt, and the caretaker has to carry them while trying to cause them as little pain as possible. The whumpee leaning into the caretaker as they’re picked up bridal style, and trying not to groan in pain when their injuries are jostled. The caretaker trying to walk as smoothly as possible, and as soon as they get the whumpee to a bed, trying to lay them down as gently as possible. The whumpee not being able to hide their hiss of pain when the caretaker lays them down, and the caretaker murmuring apologies as they rush to care for the whumpee and try to make them more comfortable.

#REALLY GOOD #carrying

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hand-shaped bruises. bracelets of finger imprints on wrists, branded on shoulders or throats or hips. the lack of plausible deniability. the way anyone seeing it can tell something Happened. someone who cares sees it and there’s no hiding the ongoing whump anymore. the photographs memorializing it. the moment a sleeve slips and a friend or coworker or roommate asks “whoa, what happened?”

just. the obviousness of it. the distinctness of it. hand-shaped bruises my beloved.

#gav gab #whump #whump trope #bruises

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Sure, torture as whump is all fine and good… But in my opinion, the aftermath is just so much better… the whumpee flinching if someone gets near them… barely able to breath without pain… having nightmares that they’re back with their torturer… and their friends watching them and trying to help, wondering if the whumpee has been permanently broken.

#the aftermath is everything to me that’s the real fun #recovery #aftermath #flinching #nightmares

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huge huge huge fan of "it sounds worse than it is" for sickfic and "it looks worse than it is" for injury whump. acknowledging that they're sick or hurt in a very obvious way, but failing to admit just how bad it is.

"That cough sounds terrible." "It sounds worse than it is." before ending up in the hospital with pneumonia.

"That wound is serious." "Looks worse than it is." is slowly bleeding out.

#REALLY GOOD #hidden injuries #hidden illness #for a given measure

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Cauterizing wounds. A fervent “bite this,” before a bit is shoved between Whumpee’s teeth; shallow breaths and white knuckles; tear tracks and sweat-soaked hair; red-hot metal and burning flesh, Whumpee’s body tensing as they scream.

#i know cauterization is not Medically Accurate most of the time or w/e but #i love it anyway so #cauterization #painful help #love it