#whump potential

It should have been obvious, really.

The late nights, the cold dinners, bringing work home with them because there was too much to possibly finish at headquarters…

The signs had been there for a while.

They should have been better.

They should have tried harder.

They should have done more!

But that didn’t matter now did it?

Not after the betrayal cut through their heart like a searing knife and left them frozen to the ground.

They should move.

Really, there was no point in sticking around.

What were they going to do? Yell? Punch the wall? No, they couldn’t even move let alone summon the energy to…to…scream?

No, not even that.

Why weren’t they moving?

They really needed to get out of this doorway before they were noticed…

“Oh, my god!”

Too late.

“Oh shit!”

“Hero!”

“Hero!”

“Shit, fuck, Hero…hey it’s not…”

“Hero, baby, I can explain!”

“You’re early! You weren’t supposed to see this!”

“I know what you must be thinking…”

“Oh god, we were going to tell you, just not like this…”

“Never the right time…”

“Surely, you…”

Hero let the two voices clamor over each other without the energy to form two words in response.

In the end they finally did move, staggering, without purpose, without supplies, without any clear thought save for the mantra of move, move, MOVE pounding in their overwhelmed skull.

They don’t remember ending up in the 24 hour diner just off K Street.

But they do remember a hand gripping their hair, pulling their head from over their cold cup of coffee, cold eyes meeting their own red-rimmed ones and a voice teasingly speaking,

Rafayel’s comments on “I won’t fall for it again”. “You’re gonna lock me up” “you’re with them” etc…. What is that about?

My first thought is that this perfume collab was part of an attempt by Ever to take Rafayel down but the “again”? Have they already taken Rafayel captive in the past? He obviously knows about the experimentation Ever and Xander Corp was doing on Lemurians but I never suspected he might have been part of that until this.

Since this part was only mentioned in this story too, we don’t know if MC tried out the actual fragrance for the collab or something someone had planted.

I also don’t think this is the same perfume Raf gave her in that 4star “Fragrant Dreams” where MC has that dream about potentially part of their past. This felt like something very targeted toward Rafayel by someone who meant him harm.

I’m currently going back through all of the anecdotes and stuff so maybe I missed something before but if anyone has any thoughts on this throw them at me.

So, tentative first post.

I have had a craving to write whump for quite a long while, but I could never find the courage to actually stray from the carefully laid out societal structures that underlie the foundations of literally any writing.

The fear of something being unconventional in its descriptions or lack of fade to black has always plagued me and made me fear writing my own whump-filled stories.

However, I met an idea that I couldn't resist a few days ago, and I have officially finished the first small chapter of it.

It will be a royal whump/surrender/tactical kind of story, and will mainly rely on three key characters- General Jace, our primary whumper, Prince Henley, our primary whumpee, and Advisor Ezra, our primary caretaker.

If this sounds in any way interesting to you, please, follow along, I would be very grateful for any kind of interest, and I hope all you lovely people who have taken the time to read a novice whump writer's starter post have a wonderful day!

Oooh, so Will Trent is back tonight, and I'm excited to see some whumpiness on Will's face (ig pics) 😈 How very promising.