Whumpy Daydreams

i agree so much about making your blorbos pathetic but i do fear that many take this to mean 'make them more traditionally feminine/submissive' which genuinely hurts my soul. make your blorbos pathetic in interesting character-oriented ways. understand their neuroses and turn the dials up to eleven. juxtapose the parts of life they handle extremely well with the parts of their lives that make them eat shit. make them angry. make them cold. make them pave their own way to hell while building walls preventing them from seeing any other way. please i'm begging you no more pathetic as an euphemism for bottoming im gonna mclose it.

@pangur-and-grim You did a good job I think with Cameron and Merulo :3

whumpee who goes out looking for fights whenever they feel guilty. who gets themself all banged up and bleeding because they feel like they deserve it. who purposefully picks losing battles, because it helps them get away from the storm of emotions within. because it quietens their mind enough so that they can sleep.

Whumper playing Russian roulette but instead of ammo is syringes.

Interrogating someone who has clearly been tortured. Was it by your side, someone in your organisation that you disagree with, or just not your job? Do you dance around the matter, do they bring it up to see how you react, do you threaten them subtly or not so subtly?

whumpees (especially living weapons, though this is more broadly applicable) with terrible interoception are great, but also: whumpee who is precisely aware of their physical condition. be it through experience, training, cyborg/robot whumpee with performance readings in their HUD... they know exactly how much further they can push themself until they actually hit a wall. as they see it, any signals from their body in the meantime are empty complaints, which they fully intend to ignore.

i need more characters with bfrbs or self harm habits. give me characters who show up to the function veiling or always wearing hats or hoodies because they have a large bald spot they don't want people asking about. give me characters who know how to patch a wound with peak efficiency with household objects because they've had practice staunching their own blood for years. give me characters who always wear gloves because the skin on their fingers is bitten to obscurity. give me characters with weird scars and weirder advice who always seem a little too comfortable handling an injury. give me characters like me.

Living weapon whumpee who wouldn't know how to properly use a fork and knife even if their life depended on it because they were never given access to such luxuries, vs living weapon whose table manners are beyond perfect because their handler/owner has an image to maintain, and they must play into it.

no ai usage over here. you’re gonna get my shitty authentic writing whether you like it or not

i have such a profound hate for stories that go 'what if just some guy like literally just some guy was thrown into these horrible circumstances with huge stakes' and then take it back and go 'haha he is not just some guy, he's the specialest little boy in the planet, last in a long line of specialest little boys, it was in his blood all along'

Such love for stories that go 'what if some guy was the specialest little boy on the planet and thrown into these horrible circumstances with huge stakes' and then go 'actually you were just some guy all along, they lied about you being special because it was convenient. But you're in the situation now so buck up, Some Guy.'