Whumper forces Whumpee to make a list of all the things they did wrong so they can be punished for it. Whumpee is supposed to hand it to Whumper at the end of every day. If Whumper feels like Whumpee missed something important, they will get double punished. Sometimes Whumper gets mad when Whumpee didn't include the smallest of things.
"remember when you didn't make eye contact with me when I walked in the room this morning? Why isn't that on here?"
Whumpee apologizes and gets beaten twice as hard. Eventually they end up in a perpetual state of analyzing their own behavior for mistakes.
Even worse, sometimes Whumper gets mad at them for things they didn't even do. If Whumpee insists it never happened they'll get punished both for the thing and for "lying".
Whumpee gets so paranoid that they end up writing things down that Whumper probably would never know otherwise, giving Whumper so many more reasons to punish them.
One day Whumper gets mad at Whumpee because Whumpee didn't put "having angry thoughts about Whumper" on the list. Whumper convinces Whumpee they know what they are thinking and that there is no point in trying to hide it.
Whumpee ends up conditioned to write down the "bad" thoughts they have, to be punished for them. They now aren't only desperately analyzing everything they do, but also everything they think. Whumper now officially has control over Whumpee in their own head.
When Whumpee is rescued, the conditioning doesn't go away. On the first day back home they meekly come to caretaker with a list of everything they did wrong, waiting for Caretaker to punish them. Caretaker is horrified by everything that's on there.




















