writings.

choking the squirming whumpee + “Come on, you liked it when __ did this to you.”

giving the whumpee and the caretaker matching scars

pinning the whumpee to the ground with a boot on their back/chest + “Right where you belong.”

torturing the caretaker to make the whumpee talk + “Your watchdog is getting tired.”

(The following quotes are from thread and rp’s I’ve done in the past with people.)

Go crazy.

(Potentially NSFW prompts are marked in bold at the end of each section). (No these are not spectacularly original. Leave me alone)

Demands:

1. "Smile for the camera."

2. "Give me one good reason to let you live."

3. "Watch your mouth."

4. "Look at me when I'm speaking to you."

5. "Stop crying. Stand up."

6. "Beg me to hurt you."

7. "Hit me again and see where it gets you."

8. "Say goodbye."

9. "Don't look at me like that."

10. "Fight back. I want you to know how futile it is. Fight back!"

11. "Go ahead. Yell for help."

12. "Beg me to stop."

13. "Turn around."

14. "Strip."

15. "Don't pretend you don't like it."

16. "Open your mouth."

17. "All of it."

18. "Let me hear you sing."

19. "Kneel."

Questions:

1. "Giving up already?"

2. "Gonna cry for your little friends, hm?"

3. "Do you really think they care that you're gone?"

4. "You didn't go and forget everything I've taught you, now, did you?"

5. "Where are your manners?"

6. "Is that all you've got?"

7. "After that stunt you pulled?"

8. "What makes you think you get to talk to me like that?"

9. "What would your friends say if they saw you like this?"

10. "How would you rate your pain?"

11. "Everything feeling okay? No? Good."

12. "Did you think we were done?"

13. "What are you willing to do to make it stop?"

14. "Is that tight enough?"

15. "How could I resist when you make such pretty sounds for me?"

16. "Isn't this what you wanted?"

17. "Do they know the kinds of things you've done?"

18. "You gonna try to stop me?"

General:

1. "You can scream better than that!"

2. "If you get blood on my floor, I swear to god..."

3. "Pray all you want. I'm the only one who can hear it."

4. "You're prettiest when you're bleeding."

5. "You're prettiest when you're crying."

6. "I want you to choose your punishment."

7. "You're going to regret that."

8. "I'll make sure you remember every second of this."

9. "We're just getting started."

10. "You and me are gonna have a lot of fun."

11. "You look a little uncomfortable."

12. "No, you've lost that privilege."

13. "You don't get to eat/sleep/breathe without my permission."

14. "I can't hear you through that gag."

15. "You know I can't stand it when you mumble!"

16. "You won't be the same after I'm through with you."

17. "This may sting a little."

18. "Remember, we have an audience."

19. "These people paid for a show."

20. "I'm all you need."

21. "Which hand do you write with?"

22. "You're not getting off that easy."

23. "This is what you deserve."

24. "I like it when you struggle."

25. "If you make it good, you can sleep after this."

26. "Things like this always happen to pretty little creatures like you."

27. "You won't remember this."

28. "Really, you were asking for it."

29. "You were born for this."

So, pretty frequently writers screw up when they write about injuries. People are clonked over the head, pass out for hours, and wake up with just a headache… Eragon breaks his wrist and it’s just fine within days… Wounds heal with nary a scar, ever…

I’m aiming to fix that.

Here are over 100 links covering just about every facet of traumatic injuries (physical, psychological, long-term), focusing mainly on burns, concussions, fractures, and lacerations. Now you can beat up your characters properly!

General resources

WebMD

Mayo Clinic first aid

Mayo Clinic diseases

First Aid

PubMed: The source for biomedical literature

Diagrams: Veins (towards heart), arteries (away from heart) bones, nervous system, brain

Burns

General overview: Includes degrees

Burn severity: Including how to estimate body area affected

Burn treatment: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd degrees

Smoke inhalation

Smoke inhalation treatment

Chemical burns

Hot tar burns

Sunburns

Incisions and Lacerations

Essentials of skin laceration repair (including stitching techniques)

When to stitch (Journal article—Doctors apparently usually go by experience on this)

More about when to stitch (Simple guide for moms)

Basic wound treatment

Incision vs. laceration: Most of the time (including in medical literature) they’re used synonymously, but eh.

Types of lacerations: Page has links to some particularly graphic images—beware!

How to stop bleeding: 1, 2, 3

Puncture wounds: Including a bit about what sort of wounds are most likely to become infected

More about puncture wounds

Wound assessment: A huge amount of information, including what the color of the flesh indicates, different kinds of things that ooze from a wound, and so much more.

Home treatment of gunshot wound, also basics More about gunshot wounds, including medical procedures

Tourniquet use: Controversy around it, latest research

Location pain chart: Originally intended for tattoo pain, but pretty accurate for cuts

General note: Deeper=more serious. Elevate wounded limb so that gravity draws blood towards heart. Scalp wounds also bleed a lot but tend to be superficial. If it’s dirty, risk infection. If it hits the digestive system and you don’t die immediately, infection’ll probably kill you. Don’t forget the possibility of tetanus! If a wound is positioned such that movement would cause the wound to gape open (i.e. horizontally across the knee) it’s harder to keep it closed and may take longer for it to heal.

Broken bones

Types of fractures

Setting a broken bone when no doctor is available

Healing time of common fractures

Broken wrists

Broken ankles/feet

Fractured vertebrae: Neck (1, 2), back

Types of casts

Splints

Fracture complications

Broken noses

Broken digits: Fingers and toes

General notes: If it’s a compound fracture (bone poking through) good luck fixing it on your own. If the bone is in multiple pieces, surgery is necessary to fix it—probably can’t reduce (“set”) it from the outside. Older people heal more slowly. It’s possible for bones to “heal” crooked and cause long-term problems and joint pain. Consider damage to nearby nerves, muscle, and blood vessels.

Concussions

General overview

Types of concussions 1, 2

Concussion complications

Mild Brain Injuries: The next step up from most severe type of concussion, Grade 3

Post-concussion syndrome

Second impact syndrome: When a second blow delivered before recovering from the initial concussion has catastrophic effects. Apparently rare.

Recovering from a concussion

Symptoms: Scroll about halfway down the page for the most severe symptoms

Whiplash

General notes: If you pass out, even for a few seconds, it’s serious. If you have multiple concussions over a lifetime, they will be progressively more serious. Symptoms can linger for a long time.

Character reaction:

Shock (general)

Physical shock: 1, 2

Fight-or-flight response: 1, 2

Long-term emotional trauma: 1 (Includes symptoms), 2

First aid for emotional trauma

Treatment (drugs)

WebMD painkiller guide

Treatment (herbs)

1, 2, 3, 4

Miscellany

Snake bites: No, you don’t suck the venom out or apply tourniquettes

Frostbite

Frostbite treatment

Severe frostbite treatment

When frostbite sets in: A handy chart for how long your characters have outside at various temperatures and wind speeds before they get frostbitten

First aid myths: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Includes the ones about buttering burns and putting snow on frostbite.

Poisons: Why inducing vomiting is a bad idea

Poisonous plants

Dislocations: Symptoms 1, 2; treatment. General notes: Repeated dislocations of same joint may lead to permanent tissue damage and may cause or be symptomatic of weakened ligaments. Docs recommend against trying to reduce (put back) dislocated joint on your own, though information about how to do it is easily found online.

Muscular strains

Joint sprain

Resuscitation after near-drowning: 1, 2

Current CPR practices: We don’t do mouth-to-mouth anymore.

The DSM IV, for all your mental illness needs.

Electrical shock

Human response to electrical shock: Includes handy-dandy voltage chart

Length of contact needed at different voltages to cause injury

Evaluation protocol for electric shock injury

Neurological complications

Electrical and lightning injury

Cardiac complications

Delayed effects and a good general summary

Acquired savant syndrome: Brain injuries (including a lightning strike) triggering development of amazing artistic and other abilities

I know we all like to write young Tom Riddle as quietly scheming and broody and “too cool” to really associate with his followers (which is super fun & I will continue to do so), but since he is canonically a dramatic-ass monologuer–both in Chamber of Secrets and again after his resurrection in Goblet of Fire–consider:

Tom literally scripting what he’s going to say to his knights like a week in advance and getting pissy whenever someone takes the conversation in a direction that he didn’t plan for

Answering fake interview questions in the shower as if he’s being interviewed by the Daily Prophet (for when he becomes the supreme leader of Britain, obvs)

Being so bored in History of Magic that he mentally acts out both sides of imaginary arguments (with Dumbledore or whichever of his followers is annoying him most this week) for an hour straight and feels refreshed afterwards

All of his “friends” internally groaning when one of them accidentally says something factually incorrect during a study session because Tom doesn’t just correct them, he gives a fucking lecture

They cuddle them, stroke their hair, listen to their heartbeat, generally use them to calm down and feel better before going forth to do evil or whatever.

And then the emptiness creeps in. They distract themselves by plotting escape plans and trying to keep track of the days, but apart from a servant delivering food and clean water there isn’t much to focus on.

A spider has built a web in one of the corners.  Sometimes there’s faint voices outside.

But that is it.  And Whumpee’s sanity begins to crack. Just a little. It isn’t enough to worry anyone yet.  It’s normal to feel like they’re going to suffocate in the silence. Isn’t it?  They get startled one day because something creaks outside the door and for a second they believe it’s the Whumper returning from whatever villainous task they were attending to, and they scramble to their feet before they even know what they’re doing, heart skipping a beat. It isn’t just fear.  They refuse to eat that day once they realise.  By the time the Whumper does finally return, they find a Whumpee that leans into their touch when they first reach out, eyes hazed over with need. They’ve become more pliant. More like the pet they were always supposed to be.

They also cry more often. But that only leaves them even more susceptible to human warmth. 

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I was thinking of things that Maia would do to Sam, because she is of the intimate and sadistic whumper type, so here’s a list of some fun ideas that I’ve collated (with additions from @pythagoreanwhump and @questionable-references, thanks!)

- the whumper sitting on the whumpee’s lap while hurting them 

- carving their name into the whumpee as a permanent mark of ownership

- putting out cigarettes on the whumpee 

- stabbing them while holding them close so they have no choice but to cling to their torturer as they whimper and shake with the pain (this one is all @pythagoreanwhump‘s, thank you for my new favourite trope)

- digging their fingers into the whumpee’s wounds 

- whispering threatening things into their ear while they stroke their hair 

- alternating between being gentle and hurting the whumpee

- gentle hair petting turning into harsh grabbing 

- the whumper giving their pet a collar to demonstrate exactly to whom they belong (shoutout to @thesithwhumper ;)

- intimate whumper holding whumpee in place very closely from behind. A second whumper/henchman mechanically hurts the whumpee, be it knives or punches or anything, while intimate whumper strokes their damp hair, supresses every twitch of their body and whispers pet names and possessive threats into their ear from behind (similar to @pythagoreanwhump s but with more free hands)

- intimate whumper accompanying whumpee while a teammate is being tortured by another  in front of them, the whumpee doing his best to hide their fear and pain but can’t with the whumper observing them from up close… When a silent tear runs down their face, the whumper gently wipes it away and whispers “You can make it end, you know…”

… and further additions to the intimate list that only involve whumper and whumpee

- the whumper being in their cell in the morning and gently waking the whumpee up, taking them several seconds to readjust themselves and realizing whose kind touch and soothing whisper they have waken up to - the horror upon realization!

I was thinking of things that Maia would do to Sam, because she is of the intimate and sadistic whumper type, so here’s a list of some fun ideas that I’ve collated (with additions from @pythagoreanwhump and @questionable-references, thanks!)

- the whumper sitting on the whumpee’s lap while hurting them 

- carving their name into the whumpee as a permanent mark of ownership

- putting out cigarettes on the whumpee 

- stabbing them while holding them close so they have no choice but to cling to their torturer as they whimper and shake with the pain (this one is all @pythagoreanwhump‘s, thank you for my new favourite trope)

- digging their fingers into the whumpee’s wounds 

- whispering threatening things into their ear while they stroke their hair 

- alternating between being gentle and hurting the whumpee

- gentle hair petting turning into harsh grabbing 

- the whumper giving their pet a collar to demonstrate exactly to whom they belong (shoutout to @thesithwhumper ;)