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whumper and whumpee being thrown into a situation where they cannot reveal their relationship/power dynamic and are forced to pretend that everything is normal.

Some possible examples:

A bounty hunter whumper and their caught bounty whumpee get discovered by the guard and arrested for something basically meaningless. But since whumpee is a wanted criminal and bounty hunting is illegal, they both cannot reveal who they are or what their situation is.

Just yesterday, villain captured hero and beat them within an inch of their life. Hero managed to escape and dragged themselves to their civilian job the next day. To both of their surprise, the new coworker turns out to be villain (this requires that they recognize each other in their civilian identities).

Living weapon and their handler are out on a mission, when the organization that sent them out gets overthrown and the remaining agents hunted down. Handler will want to keep living weapon as a bodyguard and resource and living weapon is dependent on their handler to not accidentally reveal themselves to the public who hates all that they have done.

Hands that had so cruelly held them down hard enough to leave bruises, now cradled them so gently, carefully washing away the blood and filth. "I'm sorry, this might sting a little," as they go over bite marks and raw flesh, said so lovingly by the same voice that earlier told them, "Shut up and take it, you good for nothing whore," that voice that had whispered such vile things that echoed through whumpees mind now crooning soft comforts and praise, "You're doing so well."

Whumpee who never feels clean. They're gross, disgusting, dirty, ruined, all those things and more, they want to peel off their rotten flesh, they want to scrub their skin with scalding water until it burns and bleeds, peeling off the layers until they reach something that has never been touched, but nowhere is clean, nothing is safe, they want to submerge themselves in the water, they want to scream-

portrait studies on Sinners (2025)! I watched this film two weeks ago and it stuck in my head (and now social media feed???) ever since. probably my favorite film of the year so far, I definitely recommend it if you haven’t seen it already.

Step 1. Lab cleanliness and Safety

- In all labs, no matter what kind of science you're doing, it's important to keep a clean environment. (This isn't the same as a sterile environment, which you would need if you are doing any kind of major surgery.) Mostly, it's important to keep floors and walkways clear, to prevent tripping hazards.

- In most labs, latex gloves, pants, and close toed shoes are required. Long hair must be put up in a ponytail or bun. Sometimes goggles are necessary, but only when working with heat, pressure, or volatile chemicals. Eating and drinking in the lab is also expressly forbidden.

- In whump context, I would think that ensuring the ahem... test subject, is securely restrained would be of the upmost importance. You don't want your doctors getting bitten or scratched on the job.

Step 2. Experimental Design

- This is something I see a lot of writers misunderstand and it's a pet peeve of mine. Before you can start torturing your Whumpees, first you gotta ask: "What are the scientists trying to figure out?"

- For example, lets imagine a whumpee with very fast healing. The scientists studying them might want to figure out exactly how fast their healing works. So do they just start cutting Whumpee into pieces willy nilly? Nope. They gotta be systematic. Here's how I would design this experiment:

Independent Variable (The thing that you change): The amount of flesh removed from Whumpee.

Dependent Variable (The thing that you measure): The amount of time it takes for Whumpee to heal.

Levels (The different values of the independent variable): 5mm², 10mm², 100mm², etc.

Replicates (The amount of times you repeat each level): Should be at least 3

Control (The data you are comparing to): A normal human's healing speed.

Constants (Things that stay the same between trials): Same part of Whumpee's body, same time of day, same depth of injury, etc.

Cofactors (Other variables that could be potentially affecting your data): Stress levels of Whumpee, any drugs that might be in their system, conscious vs unconscious, hungry, etc.

- With all this in mind, you would run the experiment, with someone recording in a lab notebook real time. (Very important. Lab notebooks can be on actual paper or digital. Most labs use digital these days.)

- Once the experiment is done, you'd examine the data, see if there's any discrepancies or ways that the procedure could be improved, and run another experiment.

- Sometimes, questions answered from one experiment will give rise to even more questions. For example, let's use the healing Whumpee again. Let's say your scientist figured out Whumpee's baseline healing rate. But, they want to know if/how certain drugs affect Whumpee's healing speed. To figure this out, they'd conduct a new experiment, but this time, instead of changing how much flesh is removed, they'd make that a constant, and instead they would change how much of a drug they are injecting into whumpee.

- Experiments are meant to be repetetive and methodical, meaning that your Whumpee may very well have to go through the same thing over and over again, with very minor tweaks here and there.

- Overall, you don't need to worry too much about designing an entire experiment if you just want to write simple lab whump. But, if your whumpers are meant to be official and experienced scientists, then it might be worth it to go the extra mile and show how their scientific brains are working. (And personally, I will always find methodical lab whump more interesting than aimless torture.)

I hope this helped and it wasn't too long. If y'all have any more questions on lab whump and science, feel free to send me an ask. Happy Whumping!