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#Sickfic tropes
whumpprentice · 10 months
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you know what trope drives me absolutely feral? Repetition. Just :
"Hey, hey, it's okay"
"Shh, you're safe, you're safe, it's alright "
"Look at me. Hey, look at me"
"Stay with me. Come on, just stay with me"
"It's over. It's over now."
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry"
"I'm here. I'm right here"
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sickiehugs · 6 months
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Tough and hot-tempered characters becoming extremely protective of their sick partner
Getting angry at anyone who dares ask their Sickie a favor while they're supposed to be resting
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redd956 · 6 months
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Small Whump/Sickfic Prompt List
Caretaker fighting a delirious character just to check their temperature, and sighing at the results that they expected.
Character A worriedly turning over a half-conscious Character B, only to reveal a reddened and blanched face drenched in sweat.
A team member falls sick, and one by one it begins to take over the team. Only a few remain healthy to take care of everyone, but for how long?
Villain stumbling to Hero's doorstep, barely able to stand. What they want? Medicine. What they get? Hero's worried expression.
An isolated character falls dangerously ill unable to contact anybody. They simply have to wait for someone to notice their absence, and hope.
Villain aiding a stumbling sick Hero to a team's shelter. Is it Hero's team instantly blaming Villain, and snatching Hero from their arms? Or is it Villain's team immediately detesting their decision?
A sick character calling out weakly to two arguing character to stop.
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ficsick · 1 year
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Ok hear me out..
Caretaker dips a clean washcloth in a bucket of ice water. They wring it out, fold it horizontally, and place it on a feverish whumpees head. They press the rag on the whumpees cheeks, and under their chin. Whumpee was a bit spacey, not paying attention to caretaker pressing ice cold water on their face. They leave a bit more water on the cloth this time, and lay it on their forhead. “Im gonna run a cold bath, i promise ill be back in just a moment.” All whumpee could do is watch their caretaker exit the room. They couldnt even speak.
guh? <33
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angstyaches · 1 year
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Thinking about scenarios where the caretaker acknowledges the sickie's empty stomach/appetite a short while after they've thrown up:
Frowning in concern, raising an eyebrow, or chuckling when the formerly sick stomach lets out a deep, hungry growl.
"Feeling better now, are we?" (Said directly to Sickie or to the belly in question.)
"You threw up so much earlier/last night; you must be so hungry."
"Do you want something to eat? You did end up losing your dinner/lunch/breakfast..."
"I got you a snack for later, seeing as how you just completely emptied your stomach."
"I keep forgetting you've technically missed a meal..."
"You should eat something so that your stomach's not completely empty."
"All that puking must have worked up an appetite, right?"
"No wonder you're starving; you threw up until there was nothing left."
"Your poor stomach must feel so cheated out of its (insert meal/food type)."
I feel like most of these work best with tropes like motion sickness, where the nausea will most likely fade as soon as the sickie's environment changes, rather than lingering causes like actual sickness or food poisoning, but I suppose it depends on how much time has passed. Anyway, I hope someone out there can enjoy this product of my insomnia and trash brain 🖤
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bestwhumptropes · 22 days
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this will be unpopular but idc: a ballerina pushing through her last show of the season with a high fever because the understudy hurt her ankle and she'd rather perform with a "cold" (or so she says) than make the understudy potentially hurt herself worse. maybe she collapses in the wings. maybe she misses a lift and falls. maybe she faints on stage under the hot lights during the most taxing part. maybe she makes it through the whole show only to collapse as everyone is congratulates her on her performance.
then there's the whole dilemma of "does she tell anyone?" like does her best friend see through it? does she announce it so no one gets close to her, only to be taken care of from afar? or perhaps she hides it until she can't anymore?
i just love lady sickfic
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whumpingaround · 7 months
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just imagining a shivering, feverish whumpee asking for a blanket, then when caretaker puts a blanket on them they immediately take it off because now they’re too hot
that’s all
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sickficideas · 6 months
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[source: Bungo Stray Dogs manga, chapters 47-49] Fukuzawa suffering through the effects of Pushkin's ability..."You have a terrible fever", the thermometer in the cup, going in and out of consciousness, the sweat, the bags under his eyes, the jolt of pain when be finally sits up, he's checking all the boxes
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writing-whump · 5 months
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This or that: sickfic tropes I enjoy edition
Fever nightmares or fever confessions / angry about being sick or in denial about it / craving physical touch when sick or rejecting it. / delirium or passing out / cold compress or ice bath / persistent cough or sore throat / multiple caretakers or multiple sick characters / hand to forehead or mouth thermometer / "You're burning up" or "Are you okay?" / Dizziness or pale face / overheating or hypothermia / sick at a formal event or sick during important activity / enemy caretaker or crush caretaker / caught in the rain or caught in a blizzard
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pixelatedraindrops · 7 months
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I made some changes to Chapter 1 of my RainCode sickfic making Yakou even more fatherly and warm a caretaker towards Yuma and made Yuma a bit more pathetic... xD
I just love them so much
The perfect father/son found family pair ☔️
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At this point I’m just the CEO of making this poor boy suffer… 💦🌡️ I’m so sorry Yuma 😅
Full Fic
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arumbleinthedark · 1 year
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CW: EMETO
Ah, fuck it, if any of you wanna write stomach flu/norovirus and want some input from someone who has had first hand experience, then here it is.
I'm actually gonna put this under a cut since I might get a bit too descriptive. Because I still have a vivid memory of how it was.
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To start, you have a hard time falling asleep as the fever starts. You're hot and uncomfortable. Maybe you do fall asleep, but that's not going to be for long.
You're gonna wake up in a haze, maybe feeling thirsty, or hotter than when you fell asleep, your mouth and throat are dry or slimy.
If you're stupid like me, you're going to reach over to your ice water on your nightstand to try and alleviate this, only to end up with a terrible cramp when the cold water hits your stomach.
And as you're coming to your senses, that's when the first wave of nausea hits, and you're running to the toilet. I really do think that vomiting normally is not the same as vomiting with the stomach flu. Normally, it just happens, right? Or you gag a couple of times and then, boom, done and done.
Not with norovirus. You will gag and dry heave several times before anything comes up, and you will be gasping for air as you do so, and it will be painful. It is NOT FUN. (Of course that's the point, isn't it?)
You'll go back to bed, if you're anything like me you'll feel fine, thinking it was just a random fluke. If not, you'll crawl into bed feeling icky and gross and sick and try to sleep off the lingering nausea.
This will be the cycle of events for the next few hours. Depending on how much you've eaten the day before. You will be exhausted by the end of it, and pissed off that this is just the beginning of a long day.
You'll spend the rest of the day feeling hot and nauseous. You won't be able to take anything to lower your fever or relieve your stomach because you'll just vomit it back up. And you can't drink any cold water because, remember, it'll make your stomach cramp.
You'll also still be gagging and heaving and gasping for air, except usually nothing will come up, maybe occasionally a bit of mucus or the minuscule bits of food you've been daring to eat or the lukewarm water you've been sipping on. But for the most part you're dry heaving over an empty bowl or bucket, and it's going to hurt every time.
You'll throw a cold washcloth or bag of ice on your forehead just try to take a nap to try to make the day go faster. Though it'll feel more like you closed your eyes and suddenly it's two hours later.
As the day draws to a close, you'll feel the awful combination of nausea and hunger. That deep, hollow, desperate hunger because you haven't eaten since last night. Your stomach will clench up, just serving to make you more nauseous, and you're afraid to eat anything because you're just so tired of gagging and spitting up.
Then you pass out for the rest of the night. You take what may feel like the most restful sleep you've had in years.
Then, you'll wake up at the tender hours of the morning to find that it's not entirely over.
The virus may be gone, but your body is still recovering.
Your throat muscles hurt, your abdominal muscles hurt, your head hurts, your face hurts, you're starving, you feel like you're made of spaghetti. Everything sucks and you're laying there, staring at the ceiling thinking "Why, God? Why me?"
Good news is, you can take some pain meds to help with the pain a bit, and you can go ahead and eat something. Just make sure to rest.
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whumpprentice · 7 months
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me: I hate cliches
media: here’s a character losing control of their powers when they’re sick
me: omg a character losing control of their powers when they’re sick
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sickiehugs · 7 months
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An overworker who so desperately wants someone to tell them to take a break, because they so badly want one and they know they need one but they can't give themself one.
They work themself sick, yet still, with a blanket wrapped around their shivering form, pale skin as white as the blanks that their foggy mind keeps drawing, and a crimson flush on their warm, tear-stained cheeks, they keep working.
Their partner checks on them.
"Oh...! Oh, honey. Oh, my baby. I didn't know it was this bad..." They rush closer and wrap their arms tight around their sick sweetheart and whisper, "Honey, please stop. You've done enough, you need to rest."
Finally given permission to have a break, they simply melt into their partners arms, practically going limp like a tired little ragdoll. "...okay..." is all they manage to mumble before sleep finally wins the battle that'd been going for weeks.
They're carried from their desk to their bed, covers are layed over them, they're tucked in nice and snug, and when they wake up, they'll probably cry. This is exactly what they needed someone to do.
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softsnzstuff · 2 months
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You know the silly goofy character in the friend group who is a lil dramatic and might try to get out of stuff they don’t want to do? But they’re still lovable and hilarious?
Thinking about them getting sick and everyone just sort of blatantly assumes they’re faking for some ulterior motive until one of the sweeter friends checks up on them and realizes they’re actually quite unwell
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ficsick · 3 months
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im craving a fictional illness similar to Hanahaki, but like, instead of onesided love-caused flower puke, what if the victim becomes sick because of jealousy? like, he is extremely jealous his friend has been hanging out with someone new and not been around him much, and due to his extreme jealousy he becomes really sick from it. like. most symptoms i imagine are basic flu-like symptoms, or some which are also virus related. this sickness starts off easy to manage but gets worse every day, and the only way he can make it go away is to confront the person about his jealousy, or have the person take care of him until he no longer feels forgotten.
is this anything
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angstyaches · 1 year
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Emeto in Cars Appreciation
(tropes that don’t necessarily have to do with motion sickness)
Sickies who would usually slink away to deal with their sickness (or anxiety) in private - how do they cope when that's not an option?
People in a car together (especially if it's just two in the front seat) generally try to uphold conversation, which might be extremely hard for a sickie who's moments away from needing to throw up.
Friends in close quarters might notice something’s up a little sooner than they otherwise would, so the questions and looks of concern arrive more quickly.
Sickies not wanting to be a burden and disrupt everyone's journey by asking the driver to pull over, so they suffer silently for as long as possible.
Awkwardness if they’re in close proximity with people they don’t know or trust so much.
The heat, motion, or claustrophobia of being in a car could tip their nausea over the edge, even if it was just mild to begin with.
Being stuck in a seat under a seatbelt, not being able to stand up or stretch out.
The smell of food, other bodies, someone’s overpowering perfume, etc. is inescapable. 
Maybe the seatbelt itself is pushing on their stomach and making things worse.
If it’s anxiety-related, the uneasy feeling would only swell and become more urgent as they hurtle closer to their destination.
The desperation in their voice when they ask the driver to pull over. They don’t even need to say what’s wrong - the driver immediately knows what the problem is when they hear “pull over”.
Stumbling on shaky legs to get as far away from the car as possible before doubling over.
The miserable shake of the head when someone gently asks if they’re just motion-sick.
Please feel free to add on your favourite aspects of cars as sickfic/emeto settings.
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