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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!

Content Warnings: NSFW, Intimate Whumper, Conditioned Whumpee, Previous forced body modification, NonCon

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"Little bird~! Are you still sitting pretty where I left you this morning? Or did you try to fly off again?"

Y'know, I think one of the things that people get wrong with conditioned whumpees is their rules. Specifically, when a whumpee was in long term captivity/training and they later get released or escape.

Most people write them as latching onto a caretaker or new whumper, and begging for new rules so they know they're doing something right. A new set of laws to live by, a new framework to behave to.

And that's... not really how conditioning works.

Conditioning means automatic reactions. Your body doing something that was trained into you without consulting your brain first.

There is no decision making. There is no choice. The trigger hits, and you are immediately performing the correct action regardless of anything else.

You're told to kneel? Your knees have already hit the ground. You're supposed to be standing in one part of the house when a certain noise is made? You've launched into movement before you even realize what you heard.

These rules are woven into the fabric of your body. And they are insurmountable. The conditioning overrides emotion, internal conflict, hesitation, beliefs, wants... everything.

Your whumpee may very well hate what is being done to them, and after the moment has passed they're cursing themself and their whumper. They're still a person on the inside. And that person is still very much alive. Most of the time, they will have some level of awareness that what's being done to them is wrong. They'll be angry. They'll be hurt. And they will hate that there is nothing they can do about it.

But the next time that trigger occurs, the response still hits them exactly the same.

So now take your whumpee out of that situation. They ran away, were rescued, were sold. They got out. Now they're with new people, a new caretaker, a new whumper. Or they're on their own and trying to make their own way in the world.

But those conditioned responses are still there.

There's no turning them off. You don't just replace them with new rules. They are in your every fibre. They have been built into the very framework of who you are.

The next time someone says the word "kneel", your knees are on the ground again. No matter where you are, or who you're with. The response happens before you can stop it. If they don't know why, everyone looks at you like you're insane. And you feel like you are.

Deconditioning is an agonizing process that takes more effort than I can even begin to describe to someone who's never experienced it.

Every time they hit that trigger, that response will still be there. Over, and over, and over, and over.

Breaking those rules down takes YEARS. And it is a constant effort that the whumpee has to choose to undergo every single time. Progress is measured milimeter by milimeter. You're told to kneel, and you kneel. You're told to kneel, and your mind catches up with the fact that you already did it— but a little sooner than it did before. Then a split second sooner. Then as you're doing it. Then you feel the impulse just before your knees hit the ground. Then you have a split-second of resistance before you go down. On and on and on and on, inching toward progress despite the fact that you're fighting with all your might. And that progress is anything but linear.

You don't just start obeying new rules. You don't latch on to your caretaker's new way of doing things and drop everything that you were conditioned to do before. These rules don't just get replaced.

Conditioning is not a belief system. It's a flinch response. Programmed deeper than the instincts you were born with.

You can be ordered not to obey the old command, and moments later when the trigger comes, you will anyway. Because in conditioning, the action comes before the choice.

These rules, these laws of your existence, come above everything else. And if your new whumper wants to replace them, they are going to have to beat the new rules into you so often and so severely that the pain becomes stronger than the old conditioning. At which point, the newly desired response will very, very slowly start to take over.

You're not swapping out new rules. You're layering new, worse conditioning on top of the old. And your brain will spend time stuck in that split-second between both responses before one finally grows stronger than the other. And even then, the change will not happen quickly.