No Pain No Gain

Anon asked:

Singer whump? I've been playing Wandersong, and I want to torture the little bard guy

Sure:

Forced to sing for so long their voice goes hoarse.

Forced to play their instrument with a broken wrist/fingers

^ Maybe they break another finger for every mistake.

grown up to be polar opposites

‘you are all i could have been and i am all you never will be’

competition for parental attention / affection

lost touch long ago and now trying to reconcile this new person with the one they knew years ago

codependency: you have always been there and i cannot donit without you

two sides of the same coin

one is complacant in their parents’ behavior, the other rebels

two siblings left after their third (with whom both respectively were closer with than each other) has passed away

Staring at the ceiling, unable to move, unable to think, unable to do anything.

Crying and screaming, not being able to deal with it anymore, but also not being able to get away from it.

Breathing through it and feeling some relief. Okay. I can do this. I'm still in control. I can still handle this. Just breathe. Just focus on your breathing.

Breathing through it and feeling no relief at all. Slowly losing your grip on your coping mechanisms. Decending into panic and desperation. Hyperventilating.

Doing okay with the pain until one small extra thing suddenly completely sends you over the edge.

Rocking back and forth. Trying to sooth yourself and distract yourself. Fidgeting. Biting your lip. Bitting your nails.

Pulling on your hair to create new pain to distract you from the existing one.

Getting dizzy and nauseous just from the pain.

Drifting in and out of consciousness. Welcoming the softening edges of the pain as you're slowly drifting off.

Constant chronic pain that might not be that severe but becomes completely overwhelming to your mind simply because its always there.

Sharp unexpected blunt pain that suprises you and makes you yell out, all of your brain consumed by the sudden wave of agony as adrenaline rushes through your system and you're awareness completely shrinks to the sensation or the injury.

Whumpee tied down, allowed to move only when Whumper says they can.

Collars! We love collars! Yank that Whumpee around by the neck. A collar that digs into the skin. Escaped whumpee not being able to have anything around their neck without being reminded

No name. Whumpee is not allowed to have a name anymore. Or if the whump started young, they never got one to begin with. Maybe whumpee is referred to only as a number, or an insult, or simply something like "the boy/girl/(is there a good gender neutral version that has similar vibes?)", or maybe they're referred to like an animal

Whumpee is not allowed to speak. Only people can speak, and Whumpee is no longer a person. When they try to speak, they are cut off and punished. Gag that Whumpee.

Food eaten out of a bowl or off the ground without the use of hands. The embarrassment whumpee feels as they eat, but they need to eat if they want to live.

Whumper(s) speaking like whumpee isn't even in the room.

Whumpee who can do nothing but lash out. Whumpee who bites, who kills the second they can. Only to end up with a muzzle, or even more restraints.

Restraints! So many restraints! No freedom of movement, kept in a stress position, no care for the pain just the restraints and position whumpee is in brings them.

Left for days on end in darkness, no way to tell how much time passes.

And so much more!

I love it so much!

Pros:

Working with such dangerous opponents will encourage rapid improvement.

Soldiers often find living weapons difficult to work with. Training lowers the chance of mishaps in the field.

Living weapons are examples of proper discipline.

An effective threat for misbehavior. Remind the troops how much they can still lose.

Contrastingly, certain interactions allow soldiers to feel powerful without harassing civilians or disrupting the chain of command.

Cons:

Introducing living weapons to new circumstances can result in unwanted casualties.

Beware of soldiers humanizing the weapons. This can cause them to regress in their training, or in the worst cases, lead to revolt.

Send some soldiers to train with the living weapons, but whatever you do, make sure neither group has sympathy for the other. The soldiers should feel frightened, privileged, outmatched, but never sorry. The weapons shouldn't feel much of anything, but pride is acceptable, as is fear.