here there be whump

WOULD LOVE TO, HAPPILY. this is my absolute jam, as my url may indicate. some concepts for this (which is one of my FAVE things generally - using Family Words, especially for the first time)

sudden realization that something terrible is about to happen - spotting a bomb or a pressure plate, seeing someone pull a gun, any kind of immediate and shocking danger, calling out in warning or in fear

nearly delirious with pain, being beaten or tortured, screaming for help - a little extra fun because there’s some potential here for like. does the father figure in question even know it happened? were they present or not even there? does the person hurting them use this to taunt father figure later - “they were calling for you, you know” etc.

slight variation if you’ve got a sinister/abusive father figure, can be begging the person hurting them to stop, calling them dad for the first time as they’re being hurt

another slight variation - painful wound care or medical treatment. it has to happen because they Need it but it hurts and they beg for it to stop or for help or just. saying ‘dad’ and ‘please’ without purpose, just saying it because they’re hurt and the pain won’t stop.

nightmares are SO good for this. in their sleep, just coming out of one, panicked and afraid and confused.

drug or fever or exhaustion induced disorientation and lowered inhibitions!!! yes!!! then you also get to play with whether they remember saying it later.

whumper forces them to make a ransom call or just a call to taunt the father figure, and either makes them say it - “go ahead, call your dad and beg to be saved” - or just makes them make the call and it slips out - “tell them how much it hurts, tell them what’s happened to you”

oooooooo that's always one of my favourite scenes forever. 'abuse reveal' is one of the best scenes in anything ever and 'reveal of sexual trauma' is an absolutely peak version of that. so! here are some concepts and scenarios for a reveal:

i used this in a fic recently but the survivor character is worried that someone else might be experiencing the same thing, or otherwise being preyed on, that they're in danger. and they reveal it that way, that they know what it's like and they don't want their friend to experience the same thing. (for a fun bonus layer, the character in the thing i wrote didn't even realize that's what had happened to them. they just know that something happened and it felt bad and

flashback or getting triggered during (consensual) sex with someone who cares about them. (for me this is always a friend/qpr with sex, not in a romantic context, but it could be that too! i'm just romance repulsed lol)

the person who raped them being the one to reveal what happened. maybe it's bragging. maybe it's a casual reference. maybe it's a threat. regardless, the choice is taken out of their hands, and they experience what feels like yet another violation from their rapist.

i'm always gonna be a sucker for 'someone who cares about a character walking in on them being sexually assaulted in the moment as it's happening.' finding them or being approached by them for help or care in the immediate aftermath is also a good version of this sort of thing. where the evidence is just... so physically present and obvious.