Scared Shirtless

“The Test Subject” aka my lab rat edit 🥲

By whatiswhump

Song: Can’t Pretend by Tom Odell

Hello! And welcome to the whump gifmaking challenge! I'm your host @aceofwhump and I'm excited to bring another year of a whump challenge specifically created with gifmakers and visual artists in mind.

The challenge begins in August!

Rules:

All gifs posted must be made by you. Do not just post gifs using the gif keyboard and claim them as yours and do not repost other people’s gifs. No AI-generated content please.

Various mediums are welcome! So long as the visual art aspect is the focus you can make whatever you want. Yes this is primarily a gifmaking challenge so everything is geared towards that but any visual art is welcome. If you draw, make moodboards, edits, videos, etc you’re welcome to participate!

You can use the prompts however you like. There is no wrong way to use a prompt. Feel free to interpret them however you wish. If you think it counts as whump? It's whump! Make it! Angst, comfort, emotional whump, small things, big things, it all counts so no need to over think it.

Tag all potential triggers (things like emeto, gore, nsfw, blood, eye whump, rape/noncon, etc.) When in doubt, tag it.

Tags to use when posting so I can find your ppst: #whumpedit, #whumpgifathon, #whump gifs

Please try to include the show/movie title, character names, and episode number (if applicable) somewhere either in your tags or in the post caption. This way anyone interested in watching it can find it easily.

An example of a way you can caption your gifsets:

@whumpgifathon | Day #: "prompt description"Show/Movie title, episode number, character name

2026 Prompt List

Each day comes with one thematic prompt and 3 specific prompts. Feel free to use any of the 4. If none of them float your boat, use one of the alternate prompts!

Text version of the prompt list is below the readmore:

Tracker’s whumps’ list

[referred to main male character: Colter Shaw, portrayed by Justin Hartley.]

Season 1

.01: pensive, painful memories about his childhood, apprehended by police and into a cell, painful memories telling about his father's death, under gunpoint and on his knees, shot at his arm and collapsed on the ground, groaning in pain, grunting getting up, furious chase through the woods by foot, jumped on a running truck and almost fallen off, grunting in effort pulling himself up, hanging over a waterfall from a falling truck by only one arm and bleeding by the other, jumped into the waterfall from a great height, arm sling, shown bicep bandaged.

.02: a bit worried for the break-in at his mother's home, brief scuffle with two men then under gunpoint, interrogated by a cult leader and annoyed, memories of his childhood, surrounded and threatened, under gunpoint, brief fight.

.03: harsh confrontation with an armed man and fought, cut at his back, taken care of by a medic and sewn stitches without anesthesia, old scars on his back, groaning softly, covertly threatened, under gunfire, brief scuffle.

.04: conflicted, rough climbing a hill, under gunpoint, under gunfire and brief scuffle.

.05: arrested on porpouse, chased, hit at his head and knocked out, bloody wound and T-shirt stained, tied to a chair and interrogated, cleaning up by himself, worried, rough fight withiut consequences.

.06: uneasy conversation and painful memories of being betrayed, conflicted, grunting in effort, trapped into a burning barn, slipped and almost fallen into the fire, under gunpoint and threatened.

.07: confronted, angry and indignant, brief scuffle, upset, attacked and punched, thwron to the ground and under gunpoint, brief scuffle, under gunpoint again, fought against two opponents and gash on his forehead, pensive and bruised forehead.

.08: brief scuffle, fought and punched in the face, bruised cheek.

.09: hit with teaser and brief scuffle.

.10: training, grunting for physical effort, ambushed and under gunpoint, shielded another person and got shot at his shoulder, rough landing on the floor and shot at again, grimacing getting up, almost hit by a car, bleeding and heavily breathing, field approximative medicine, panting, brief scuffle, hunted, arm into a sling.

.11: uneasy, unpleasant conversation with his sister, under gunfire and brief gunfight, difficult conversation with his sister about past childhood and pensive.

.12: uneasy conversation with his estranged brother, pensive and conflicted, tense, arrested and handcuffed, into a holding cell, under gunpoint and brief scuffle, into a gunfight (plus Russell Shaw's whump).

.13: roughly pushed and brief scuffle, restrained and punched in the gut, groaning and on his knees, coughing, under gunpoint, brief scuffle, blackmailed, handcuffed for fake., received upsetting news, pensive.

Season 2

.01: upset confronting a suspect, brief scuffle, under gunpoint, brief rough fight and abrasion on his cheek, bruised cheek, under gunpoint, upset about an old case (from the beginning of the episode).

.02: taken and gone missing, recovering consciuosness un a stretcher restrained, locked into a room and rescued, trasker removed from his neck without anesthesia, brief fight, high-pitched whirring and sore ears.

.03: worried about his friend's fate, rough fight without consequences (!).

.04: brief fight against a man with a hammer.

.05: attacked and brief scuffle, chased by armed men, brief scuffle, shot with a crossbow arrow and pinned to a pillar, screaming in pain, gun pointed at his head and almost executed, bleeding and groaning in pain, broken the arrow's tail and breathing heavily for the pain, hands covered in his blood, mustering the courage to push himself through the arrow to free himself, deliciously groaning in pain, roughly fallen on his knees and dressed his wound with makeshift equipment, laying on the ground and helped walking a few steps, weak and almost out, very pale and sweating, passed out, laying on a stretched with dressing tainted of blood, holding his torso and pale, loaded into the ambulance, grimacing moving around.

.06: under gunfire.

.07: brief scuffle.

.08: under gunpoint twice, upsetting news and tears in his eyes.

.09: upsetting news and tears in his eyes, coughing after a gas filling the room and dizzy, attacked with a hammer and brief fight, on the ground almost killed and saved at the last moment, groaning and coughing.

.10: still shaken up from previous episode's events, attacked and bar fight, ambushed and knocked out, tied up, under gunpoint, into a gunfight.

.11: fast forward: on his knees kneed and spitting blood, bloody lip and under gunpoint; brief fight and under gunpoint, manhandled and hands tied, (back to beginning) under gunpoint, hit at his leg and kneeled, grabbed by his head and kneed to his face, spitting blood, blood in his mouth and bloody lip, brief scuffle and under gunpoint, brief scuffle.

.12: almost shot because of a trap, into a gunfight, emotional memories.

.13: into a dangerous situation and tense, threatened, annoyed, brief scuffle, under heavy gunfire and into a gunfight.

.14: into a gunfight.

.15: slightly worried for his "friend".

.16: grunting in effort, worried for his friend, under gunfire, brief scuffle.

.17: under gunpoint, fought.

.18: brief scuffle, under gunfire and brief scuffle.

.19: worried for his friend's fate, brief scuffle.

.20: investigating his father's past, under gunpoint, upset, brief scuffle, found his father's killer, tears in his eyes and voice cracking, received very upsetting news and tear rolling down his face.

Season 3

.01: still upset after the previous episode's news, into a bar fight, emotional conversation with his borther and tears in his eyes, into a car accident, brief scuffle, pensive, upsetting news (plus Russell's light whump).

.02: still upset and pensive about previous episode, targeted (plus Russell's light whump).

.03: nothing.

.04: pensive and upsetting memories, cut himself working a piece of wood, taken by corrupt law enforments and under gunpoint, jumping from a moving car and run away in the desert, bruised face and arms from the falling, heat exhaustion, into a gunfight twice.

.05: surrounded and brief scuffle, painful memories.

.06: brief scuffle, rough fight and almost strangled, coughing.

.07: brake line cut on his car and almost in a car accident, attacked and bried fight, into a gunfight.

.08: brief fight, shot at without consequences.

.09: worried for his injured friend's fate, ambushed, shot at and into a car accident.

.10: groaning extracting himself from the car wreck after the previous episode, bruised face and injujred arm, grunting in effort climbing the hill while holding his arm, panting and repeatedly leaning on parked cars for support, collapsed on the floor and passed out, person of interest into an investigation and wanted, regaining consciousness on the ground and moaning in pain, all bruised up, turns out he was shot in the shoulder during the ambush, treated on the filed and bullet extracted without aneshetic, many groaning and moaning, weak and losing balance, helped sitting down and heavily panting, bruised torso too and grimacing, wanted by police, holding his arm while moving around.

.11: brief scuffles three times, heavily panting, into a gunfight.

.12: assaulted with a knife and brief scuffle, worried for his friend's state of mind.

.13: into a gunfight.

.14: panting, brief scuffle, upset.

.15-16: nothing.

.17: brief scuffle, electrocuted with a cat poddle and knocked down, regaining consciousness chained to a chair, smear of blood on his neck from the head wound, badly fallen from the chair, fought, tears in his eyes.

.18: nothing.

.19: rough fights, under gunfire.

.20: various brief scuffles.

.21: difficult conversation with his mother, under gunpoint, upsetting news and tears in his eyes, brief scuffle.

.22: into various gunfights, various scuffles, rough fight and fallen from stairs, little cut on his cheek, some unknown dark secret about his past (plus Russell's whump).

In the original books (by Jeffery Deaver):

0.5: “Captivated”: under gunpoint, brief scuffle.

1. “The Never Game”: (fast forward) T-shirt stained with blood, jumped into the cold water, hit his head on the pylon, hit his shoulder on a rusty nail and bleeding; molotov thrown against him without consequences, threatened with a (fake) gun, under sniper's fire, fallen into a trap and badly fallen to the ground, oil drum slammed into his shoulders and toppled him, handcuffed and arrested, ambushed and thought he would be shot, grabbed and interrogated, feeling sick on the helicopter and almost rechted, encounter with a mountain lion, hasrh confrontation and blade at his face, told he's been shot in the past, under gunpoint and taken, manhandled, under gunfire and worried, back into the cold water and hit by the boat, shoved again toward a pylon and almost crushed, gasping hardly after remerging from water, rescued and dragged onto the pier, hypothermic and badly shivering, upset, brief scuffle, threatened with a gun and handcuffed, sore and pensive.

1.5: “The Second Hostage”: into a hostage situation and under gunpoint, brief scuffle, almost shot and brief fight.

2. “The Goodbye Man”: (fast forward) rock rolling toward his car and almost hit, trapped inside the car and trying to break free, shot at twice, disgusted, dangerous climbing and brief scuffle, shocked, palm slammed into his back and knocking him forward, sore, feeling guilty, upset after a difficult conversation, grabbed and manhandled, brief scuffle, shocked and upset, elbowed and scuffle, slapped in the face, disgusted, worried, brief fight, attacked and pinned under a crowd, his gut and shoulder in agony from the piling on, struggling for breath, pulled to his feet and grippec arms, spat in the face, gasping and breathless, slammed hardto the ground and breathless, hands zip-tied behind him, blow to his gut and struggled to keep from vomiting, ankles zip-tied too and dragged towars the cliff’s edge, rescued and fought back, shocked, encounter with a rattlesnake, fifty-five feet jump from the cliff into the water, jarring impact and cold water pushing out all of his air, soles stung like hell from impact with water, rescued, rough fight and pounded hard on his back and shoulder and head, car chasing and under gunfire.

2.5: “Forgotten”: ambushed and shot tire, under gunpoint and brief scuffle.

3. “The Final Twist”: stun bomb and brief deafness, into the enemy's den and surrounded, daring escape and chased, almost shot in the foot and rescued at the very last moment, memories about being overwhelmed by an avalanche and get a bit injured when he was a teenager, attacked in the safe house without consequences, under arrow fire and brief scuffle, into a burning bulding, attacked and forced to drift with the bike, trapped under it and under gunpoint, rescued at the last moment, bleeding scraped knee, ambushed and under gunpoint, rough knife fight and slashed the back of his hand, under heavy gunfire and worried, dressed hand.

3.5: “The Deadline Clock”: targeted and almost hit by a car, targeted again and slided down a hill with the motorbike and got trapped underneath, breathing hard and wincing, under gunpoint, breathing deeply and wincing again, threatened to be tortured with a knife, rescued, turns out the wincing was a façade.

4. “Hunting Time”: ---.