#magic whump

The first time they’re vulnerable enough to wear clothes that don’t cover all of their skin, they’re worried of how the team will react to the magic markings on their skin, but nobody seems particularly bothered.

In fact, they all think it’s super cool. All of them think magic is invaluable, after all, and can’t imagine why Whumpee would cover up the markings it causes.

They ask a few questions here and there (after all they’ve never heard of magic doing that before) and Whumpee gives vague answers that are enough to satiate their curiosity.

Some time after a strenuous mission, Whumpee panics about the markings spreading. The team assume Whumpee is insecure about how they look, so comfort them by saying how much they love the markings.

Whumpee starts to cover up less, however this leads to disaster when the team encounter a fellow spellcaster and Whumpee doesn’t have a cloak or anything to hand.

To the team’s surprise, the spellcaster is horrified because oh my god what the hell happened to Whumpee?? Are they ok??? How the hell are they alive????

That day, the team find out that magical markings aren’t, in fact, normal, and are clear cut signs of magic actively harming the user. Whumpee had been covering them up because they didn’t want anyone to think they were weak.

Bigger fan when said Whumper then keeps Whumpee trapped against the wall just by outstretching his hand. Pressing them harder against the (broken) bricks. Better yet, when that hand tenses, fingers shape into a claw, and Whumpee grasps at their throat, at nothing, all air taken from them. Huge bonus when Whumper slowly walks up to them, all menace and threat, yes.

What happens if they are captured? Do they desperately explain that the standard protocol isn’t going to work, and promise to obey without it? Are they sedated? Restrained more tightly in other ways? More importantly, are they even believed?

Based off of my SOA magic system that should probably post, because yesterday was my birthday, these are basically my truest fave tropes

When heartbreak/grief affects a character's magic

Magic backfiring often having the same effects as a gun backfiring

When the stress and trauma is genuinely killing the character

The variance of scars caused by magic. Necrotic scars from dark magic. Colorful scars from haphazard spellcasting. Lighting scars that refuse to fade. Leathery skin from overuse of fire magic. Discolored fingertips, foggy eyes, rapidly graying hair, gimme gimme gimme

Nose bleeds from overuse? A class. But what about... tinnitus, blurred vision, dizzying, loss of appetite, weight loss, tingling/numbness, loss of balance, paling skin, weakened immune systems, muscular pain, oh I could go on

Soldiers collapsing mid battle from using their magic too much

Squad mates holding up their comrade so that they can keep casting magic, despite their weakness and inability to stand for themselves

Watching magic trace through someone's veins before it conjures into reality

Magic whiplash, magic friendly fire, magic misfire? Yes yes and yes

Curses are such a common thing, that they're basically a disability, and yes people discriminate against the cursed of course

The party fighting the villain would begin to notice that he becomes more desperate and angry each time they interfere with his plans. Each time they see him, he looks just a bit thinner, the shadows under his eyes darker. Finally, when they deliver a blow that could crush his plans for good, he breaks down. There's denial at first, but surprisingly little anger. He has no more fight left in him - the pain becomes so overwhelming he just wants it all to stop.

everywhere they go, they trail magic. people around them babble their secrets and truths compulsively. lightbulbs burst or candles light themselves. a friend asks what perfume whumpee's wearing because the scent of greenery and ozone lingers in the air around them. they're holding themself back as much as they can, stopping the people around them from catching the brunt of it, but flowers grow under their feet and there's no keeping their powers a secret, not now.

whumpee who can read minds knowing exactly what whumper thinks of them

^ whumpee who can read minds knowing what their team thinks of them, they know everyone thinks they're weak

whumpee who can read minds constantly being overwhelmed by the volume of thoughts they can hear

whumpee who can predict the future always dreading when whumper enters their cell, knowing what's to come

whumpee who can predict the future knowing exactly when the team will try and rescue them, and being forced to give up that knowledge to whumper, thus changing the future's outcome

whumpee who can predict the future being forced to tell whumper's future, giving whumper the ability to change their fate