EstelRaca's Ramblings

*silently places these down and scurries away*

WPP is currently open to submissions for After the Hurt, our anthology that explores the effects of whump. The endlessly creative authors here at WPP have come up with a list of prompts to jumpstart your imagination!

Whumpee has tried to escape multiple times. When their escape attempt is finally successful, they don’t know how to react.

Whumpee is recaptured by whumper, which undoes all of their progress in recovery.

Conversely, whumpee is captured by a different whumper, and everything is worse now because they don’t know what to expect.

Whumpee has given up being defiant and whumper has lost interest.

Whumpee has learned how to be good, so whumper doesn’t hurt them anymore.

Whumpee thinks Caretaker is their new Whumper

Classic broken plate scenario (whumpee breaks something and is terrified that Caretaker will be mad or hurt them)

Scar reveal

Whumpee hallucinating/having nightmares of Whumper during illness

Having to hurt Whumpee to help them

Struggling with things due to Whumper’s past actions, eg having to take medication when Whumper drugged them,

Famous/popular Whumper = Whumpee keeps seeing them, in the news, on TV/online, whatever. They can’t get away.

Famous Whumpee (made famous by their case or before it)

Whumpee being in a true crime show, podcast, youtube video, whatever, maybe without their consent

Whumper’s trial

Whumpee visiting Whumper’s grave

Whumpee visiting Whumper in hospital or prison

Distrust of their own thoughts or emotions after mind control or emotion manipulation

Caretaker is Whumper’s relative - Whumpee being triggered by looks, mannerisms, etc

Whumpee feeling like a burden to Caretaker

Whumpee learns how to allow themself to show emotion/pain again after being punished for it

Whumpee acting like a hurt animal (snapping, refusing treatment) and Caretaker has to coax them to accept help

Whumpee dealing with withdrawal symptoms because of the drug Whumper used on them

Whumpee lashing out at Caretaker, trying to prove that their love is conditional

Reaching the point in recovery where the pain starts to register

Caretaker finally having to accept that Whumpee is different now and they’re never going to be the same again

Caretaker never allowing Whumpee out of their sight, to the point of being overbearing

Running fingers through Whumpee’s hair while they sleep / shake from the pain

Waking up in hospital or at home, hurt and confused

Chronic pain from injuries that never healed right

The small milestones, like Whumpee’s first smile after the whump or their first full sleep without a nightmare

Silently trailing after Caretaker as they go about their day (caretaker is fully aware and equally wants Whumpee to stay close by)

Accepting new limitations on their body after being injured or sick

As the fear is slowly processed, the anger directed at Whumper starts to rise up in its place

A bad fever making bad memories resurface

Caretakers needing to prioritise care over comfort, even as whumpee is screaming to not be touched

Caretaker watching Whumpee sleep, every slow rise and fall of their chest, waiting for their heart to stop again

A bad illness that makes any future sickness just hit so much harder

(and then also saga entirely brushing past that and answering his questions and listening diligently and staring eye contact like okay masking girl who also doesn't realize that's not a neurotypical way of talking)

(also gestures at Jaakko who both barely talks EXCEPT for when he's explosively angry and who doesn't ever make eye contact and who literally has a flat affect when he does talk.)

Combeferre：The man gazing at the sky

"While Combeferre was raising a wounded man, he received three bayonet thrusts through his breast; he cast one last look toward heaven, and breathed his last."

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Obviously, this painting references the original Les Misérables—the scene of Combeferre's death.

I particularly love the colors in The Night Watch and Liberty Leading the People, so I used them as references. I also drew inspiration from "Masquerade," one of my favorite songs from The Phantom of the Opera. In the book, their deaths all feel absurd and grand, yet they end just as absurdly—even Combeferre's death is brushed over hastily. But this kind of ending, without grand fanfare, though silent, is deafening.

The highlight on Combeferre isn't based on much logic; it's simply because the Chinese translation of his name, "公白飛," contains the character for "white" (白), so I thought it suited him perfectly.

I really enjoy the sense of motion in certain famous paintings—where every figure, whether protagonist or secondary, has their own business to attend to. Though I may not have fully achieved that, I still tried my best. Combeferre is helping up a wounded soldier; the soldier on the far left intends to stop him, not knowing whether he means to save or harm the injured man. When he later realizes Combeferre is trying to help, he moves to intervene—but is killed by one of the soldiers. Beneath that soldier lies a wounded young man. Behind the soldier who kills Combeferre, Enjolras is fighting another soldier, watching his closest friend die before his eyes, while the soldier seizes the moment to stab the man behind him. An old man, seeing the soldier attack Combeferre, tries to step over Courfeyrac—who lies on the ground, trying to hold him back—but is struck from behind by another soldier with a short sword, never seeing it coming. In the background, a soldier is quietly carrying away his friend, who is part of the rebellion. There are three already dead in the painting, and two more will die in the very next moment. I particularly love this sense of absurdity and chaos.

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Bonus Day: Ahti

This month of art is closed and Ahti came back from vacation to clean it, perkele!

wow… I did it guys! =DD

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