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goddddd it’s been done time and time again but i’ll never get tired of two characters that mirror each other down to their smallest tells and want the other person fucking deaddd. we reach for a weapon at a same time but i’ll never understand your cause. we bleed from the same wounds and i don’t care as long as i land the blow. we were carved from the same marble. i’d never admit that they did anything less than made you wrong. you’ll always go for my jugular and i’ll know why without you saying a word. and hate you forever for it. spin it around and around until the heat death of the universe amen!

character that got chewed up and spat back out by their trauma versus someone who pushes them a little too far and is about to find out that the horrors also gave your guy teeth of their own. animal fear is sometimes whimpering and sometimes rabid.

maybe nothing better than your fave who is a liarrrrr having the most miserable time of their life. deciding the truth is worse than whatever respite they might get from showing where they’re soft and vulnerable and committing to it. And then of course having something carve it out of them anyway like godddd what if you gave the most important performance of your life and it didn’t even save you. what then! what then!!!!!

yet again spinning caretakers and rescuers who are not good people but are not as bad as the other guy around in my head. preferably when they are not reformed by the act of caring. they’ll gut whoever did the damage to Their wreck of a human/pet project/misc unfortunate soul plus anyone else who gets on their nerves and none of that matters as long what they personally cherish is safe hell yeahhhhh run that back 🥰

characters who consider everyone they loved Before like a gaping wound and still would rather suffer it all again than let them see what they’ve become……….. well far be it from me to let them wade through a hell of their own creation by themselves cmere handsome 🥰🥰🥰

always chewing on characters who would Never do anything as vulnerable as admit what happened but the signs are all there. stark, shiny scars they brush off concern for. pains that crop up at strange times. obsessive habits they refuse to break and aversions they won’t explain. bags under their eyes and a thin face, no matter how competent they are at whatever task is set before them. a worn cog still turns. even if everyone can see the damage, it doesn’t need to draw attention. really.

when the damage is hidden but happening to the Character in plain sight is sooooo satisfying and not even in a woe is me no one pays enough attention to my little meow meow way. everyone DOES care but your guy would rather die standing up than let on that something’s amiss. gonna take those hits behind closed doors because they can swallow the blood in their mouth and keep swinging. gonna wear themselves away until they’re raw and exposed because doing anything else would be worse for someone else. a dull knife is better than none and someday things will be good again. probably.

mmm whumpee who so, so clearly wants things whumper would easily give them—different food, a walk around wherever they would let them roam, something to do—but would never lower themself to asking. so they say nothing and stay bitter even as they wither away, and whumper gets to watch the furious, helpless longing and enjoy the waiting game of how long it takes for them to crack and ask nicely anyway.

character rescued and the first thing they ask while still bloodstained and filthy and delirious and actively being broken out of their restraints is if they saved whoever they gave themself up for as people desperately try to cart them away to safety/convince them to worry about themselves AMEN !

very specific false of sense of security i go crazy for in a scenario w two whumpees is where one has the game figured out and is bending and scraping to do whatever captor asks for the prayer that the other will come out unscathed. and they do everything right—no matter how humiliating or painful or vile—and think it’s working until it doesn’t because their efforts never meant anything except that they were being indulged. captor does what they want and always has and obedience isn’t more valuable to them than how much they love whumpee’s fury that has nowhere to go. especially not when the most precious thing in the world to them already lies bleeding. terrific!