formerly church-of-whump

Please consider giving your whumpees the hottest, most mind-melting, intestine-boiling, miserable fever, leaving her with barely functional lungs/glazed and distant eyes/an inability to keep anything down/constant dehydration/sweat soaking everything, and with her team/caretakers completely stressed out and unsure what to do. Bonus points if it's from an infected wound. Okay thanks for considering <3

The sheer romanticism of a character being bedridden with a fever and a cough and another character sitting on the edge of the said sickbed and stroking their hair with concern in their eyes. In this essay I will

When an injured/ill character collapses, but it's a slow collapse they feel coming and reach for support, or they're already so weak/hurt they're leaning heavily on their surroundings, and in their scrabbling for purchase/clinging to a surface they bring the contents of the counter/table/shelf down with them as they slip to the floor, the temporarily arrested descent suddenly turning to a clattering plummet, leaving the character in a crumpled heap amidst the mess.