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cold1dead1eyes · 7 months
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i love caretakers who used to be whumpees. a caretaker that’s covered in scars, who screams themself awake at night, who sees the marks on whumpee and has to look away because it’s too familiar.
and nobody else knows. caretaker is so put together, nobody would expect it, but whumpee can tell. they see the fear in caretaker’s eyes when whumpee talks about what whumper did to them. how sometimes they flinch when they’re touched. how they wake up shaking and covered in sweat, reaching out in a panic to shove their blankets off.
still, caretaker tries to be strong for whumpee. they know how it feels to be hurt and they want to be there for them, even though they still haven't gotten over their own trauma.
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loserwithsyle · 3 months
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Thinking about Whumper and Caretaker being siblings.
A whumper who used to comfort and be Caretaker's caretaker back when they were kids, but grew up to be just like their abuser.
Caretaker finding out that Whumper, their beloved sibling, did fucked up things to a child just like their own parent had done to them.
Caretaker listening to the young whumpee cry, and instead of being able to comfort them are so wrapped up in their own traumatic memories
The child whumpee who saw Whumper as a parental figure getting upset whenever this formally estranged aunt/uncle says bad things about Whumper.
Perhaps there was even a second parental figure involved. Are they being hurt? Did they encourage Whumper? Were they ever there for Whumpee?
Family dynamics in whump can be utilized in so many different ways
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whumblr · 4 months
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What's best
"You'll want to wait inside, Whumpee."
Whumpee glanced from Caretaker to the strange man. They were curious, especially why Caretaker's demeanor suddenly changed so much... and why the man was looking at them like that. But Caretaker's expression and tight clipped voice stopped them from asking.
"I... okay."
Whumper watched them carefully until they were fully out of sight.
"Don't you leer at them like that, you fucking piece of shit," Caretaker snarled as soon as the door closed.
"Just curious..." Whumper said casually. His gaze remained on the door, somewhat lost in thought. "They really don't remember?" he said after a beat. "Anything?"
"I'd like to keep it that way. Stay away from them."
Whumper hummed. "I didn't beat on them that hard... Or wait, maybe that time when-- Hm, no... No, they were still frantically begging me for forgiveness, so they definitely remembered that they did something wrong..."
"Stop it."
"Keep them like this, huh?" Whumper turned to leave, a smile creeping over his lips. "Well, if you think that works. Just remember... Surpressed memories are a tricky thing. At some point, probably when you and Whumpee least expect it, everything will violently explode back to the surface."
He glanced back at the rigid Caretaker. "And I wonder who will be worse off... you... or Whumpee."
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the-baby-storyteller · 10 months
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A character after having a panic attack says, “I’m sorry. I was being dramatic.”
Cue horrified, disgusted, and furious caretaker.
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jordanstrophe · 1 year
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When whumpee's medical treatment is far too similar to their past torture. Even though it's relatively painless, whumpees reaction is as if they were under relentless torture.
No matter how gentle and assuring caretaker is, they're met with screaming, begging and hysteric sobbing from someone they never even heard grunt in pain before.
[A drabble]
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cryptidwritings · 2 months
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"Aren't you tired?"
Caretaker looked up from their book, smiling. It was a habit. Whumpee wasn't even looking at them this time.
"No. I'm okay."
It was a lie. Every time Caretaker closed their eyes, they heard the sound of shattered glass and Whumpee's pained and panicked screams rolling underneath the barricaded door before disappearing into the night.
They weren't going to let that happen ever again.
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whumped4whumplover · 11 months
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Whump Idea
Months ago, Whumpee was taken. Caretaker was a wreck, spending the days scouring the streets in search of Whumpee and investigating at night, hoping to find some clue, even the most insignificant, about where they might be.
Caretaker and Whumpee had a special relationship, they always had. While Caretaker was an extroverted and popular person, full of friends and party invitations, Whumpee was extremely shy and reserved. They didn't like crowds, or loud noises, or talking for a long time. In fact, if it were up to them they wouldn’t have spoken to anyone at all. To anyone but Caretaker. And Caretaker was grateful for this, for the fact that, with them, Whumpee smiled and laughed, cried and vented, a completely different person from the one with that neutral expression and empty eyes which they were the rest of the time.
One day, finally, Caretaker manages to find Whumpee, and their heart skips a beat. Whumpee is covered in bruises and dried blood, thin in the most severe meaning of the word, it is as if Caretaker can count all their body’s bones, and their complexion is pale as that of a ghost, their lips of the same purple as the dark circles under their closed eyes.
If it haven’t been for the pulse they heard when they places their trembling fingers on their neck, Caretaker would have thought Whumpee was dead. But, as soon as the two’s skin makes contact, Whumpee's eyes suddenly open, and a strange expression forms on their face. At first Caretaker thought it was confusion, but then they realized: it was just pure terror.
"Hey, hey, it's okay. It's me, it’s Caretaker. It's going to be okay" Caretaker tries, but their words are uttered in vain, and Whumpee pushes their weak convulsing body against the wall, screaming hysterically and crying, no, sobbing desperately, as if danger was about to envelop them. But it doesn't make sense, Caretaker thinks, because they’re here now and they’re ready to take Whumpee to safety. There is nothing to be afraid of, Whumper is no longer here, there is only Caretaker. Yet, Whumpee's heart wrenching screams don't cease.
The torch falls from Caretaker's hands and they retreat, realization evident in their eyes.
Whumpee is reacting like this because they are afraid of Caretaker.
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whumppzzy · 3 months
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No one will hurt you but me ∘⁠˚⁠˳⁠°
Cw: past abuse, mention of violence, pet whumpee and conditioned whumpee, kinda carewhumper?
Whumpee was lying on the floor with the blanket Whumper gave him. It was very soft, and it smelled like Whumper.
Whumper had just gotten home and was preparing dinner for him and Whumpee, but he had had a horrible day. He barely focused on the food, but on the stress that had been outside the house, when he finished he placed his plate on the table and Whumpee's food in a bowl on the floor.
"Whumpee, the food is ready!"
Whumpee entered the kitchen shyly and bent down to eat on the floor, which was his place (and he knew that, so he never questioned it).
Whumper didn't like to interrupt his meals just to waste time torturing Whumpee, this time he really needed to talk to someone and his pet was perfect at listening.
"Today I had a bad day at work, it was stressful...They don't listen to me! It seems like I have to fire some..."
Whumpee puts down his bowl to pay attention to his master's speeches, he suffers at home while Whumpee enjoys the comfort of being on the floor with a warm blanket and well fed.
"I'm sorry master, it must be difficult for you, if I could help you I would definitely help!"
Whumpee looks down thoughtfully.
"Look, maybe I can help you. My old master did something to me when he was stressed..."
"What? What kind of thing did he do to you?"
"Well, he w-was kind of...touching me, you can do that if you want. Maybe you'll feel better."
"Whumpee, I-"
The whumper was horrified by Whumpee's words.
" I'm very sorry. "
" what? "
"I don't want to do this to you, it's not right-"
Whumper thinks about all the times he yelled at, hit, and tortured Whumpee. That wasn't right either, but what his former master had done was the final straw.
" You can't offer that, you don't need to... He was a crazy person, don't let people do that to you, you hear?"
Whumpee is surprised by his master's words and nods.
"Now that you've finished eating you can go to sleep, I already have an idea of ​​where to take my anger out"
Whumpee obeyed, went to his little corner on the living room floor and covered himself, closed his eyes and tried to sleep. But he heard a noise at the door, his master was leaving, where would he go at a time like this? It was already late at night.
Well, Wumper went to Whumpee's old master's house and beat him unconscious, that was his fun for the night, all the stress and anger was taken out on that bastard.
Whumper was evil, he was bad for Whumper but not to the point of doing that kind of thing, he had limits.
Every night Whumper made sure Whumpee slept well, ate a hot meal, and was protected. No one would harm Whumpee but Whumper himself, he could swear it.
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runawaycarouselhorse · 3 months
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abhainnwhump · 10 months
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Caretaker teaching Whumpee how to have their own wants and dreams again.
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Whumpees so traumatized caretaking them is basically impossible! Caretakers that have to act like soft whumpers in the beginning because telling whumpee "actually, you are human with free will and rights" does nothing but overwhelm them! Caretaker having to "train" whumpee to show and express discomfort and desires because whumpee will rather starve than admit they are hungry or would rather suffer than say they are cold/hot!
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cold1dead1eyes · 1 year
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whumpee who associates praise with pain. whenever whumper would hurt them, they’d do it with a soft hand in their hair, thumb on their cheek wiping away their tears as they cut into their skin.
“good job, darling. you’re doing so well. just like that, you’re so good.”
caretaker doesn’t know why whumpee always flinches when they praise them. they’re trying to be comforting, but it only makes whumpee pull away more.
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Oh my gods- okay, so we all know of the trope, “Whumpee can’t sleep due to the traumatic nightmares and it gets so severe that Caretaker has to add some sort of thing to help them sleep or make them go to sleep into their drink”
BUT
What about “Whumpee can’t sleep due to the traumatic nightmares !but! They start getting hallucinations due to sleep deprivation and start SEEING what would be in their nightmares, so they:
Down a bottle of Ny-quill, Take a bottle of melatonin (so on and so forth)
Basically, Whumpee doing a fully 180 going from never wanting to sleep because they get visions of their trauma to forcing themselves into a sleep coma.
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furiousgoldfish · 10 months
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Abusive parents will talk about your childhood experiences as if you were so stupid and annoying and obtuse that of course they had to humiliate and smack you and degrade you for how stupid you were. They'll act like it was your fault you didn't know that you're supposed to prioritize adults never being interrupted or inconvenienced or annoyed by you at all times! You just HAD to have that drilled into you and if they didn't do it you'd grow up an entitled selfish brat who'd be nothing but a huge burden on society. (they still call you that regardless).
But if you go back to reality, you can acknowledge that you were put in completely impossible scenarios, that even an adult would not be able to get out of without trauma. As a child, you were experiencing everything in the world, for the first time. You needed guidance, you need someone to show you how, to explain in a way you could understand, to allow you to try things out. You were supposed to be introduced to the world by someone who cared what kind of experience you would get.
Instead, what you got is people who didn't acknowledge that you were a literal child with no knowledge of how the world, and no direction to how their selfish minds worked. All you had was your genetic wiring which instructed you to ask for attention, to ask for help, to try things out one way or another, to ask for your needs to be met, to rely on your family members to be a support to you. It's what the society was built upon, elder members teaching and protecting their young. Instead, you get these mongrels who not only fail to teach you anything, but if you ever, without any instruction or guidance, do the wrong thing, you get to be punished. You get to be a child with no sources to how to do things, how anything works, but if you try and teach yourself, since nobody else will teach you, you are put thru pure hatred. If you mess up, everyone in the world that you know suddenly is enraged with you and hates you. They're ready to hurt you for not knowing the information you were never fed, that there was never a way for you to gain access to.
And they go above and beyond to make your lack of knowledge a shameful thing for you! They sabotage your learning process because now you're not allowed to show or admit that you don't know something! You're not allowed to ask questions, to request to be taught, you'll get laughed at and called an idiot and asked 'how don't you know this, how old are you?!' and possibly punished just for your lack of experience. You'll get shamed for 'not learning by looking at their example' despite them never giving you an example to learn from!
There is no way even a full adult would know what to do in this situation! In every other scenario in life there are guides, resources, mentors, teachers, guidelines, rules of what to do and what not to do. When you start a new job you spend time being trained and being allowed to ask as many questions as you want. In any normal educative scenarios, you're allowed to ask for things to be explained to you. In real life, you're allowed to try and fail something hundreds of times only to figure it out and get it right, with NO punishment!
So why is it that you, as a child, who had no way of knowing ANYTHING, least of all how cruel and selfish your caretakers are, had to get shamed for not knowing things in advance? Punished for making noise, for trying to learn, for accidentally annoying people who were supposed to be obliged to help you go thru this process?
And it's devastating to grow up like that! Since young age, constantly hyper-aware that if any problem rises up, it will be your problem and yours alone, nobody will help you figure it out. Not even when you sink into panic, not even when you don't know what to do and in your child head, the thing is a disaster which will cost you everything, not even if you're feeling dread and lack of hope for week, nobody will come and explain the realistic way to solve this problem and comfort you and tell you that you did nothing wrong. Instead, you learn that anything you do could potentially have catastrophic consequences if it accidentally annoys your caretakers, and instead of learning, growing, having fun, making friends, living care-free and normal life, your entire focus has to be on not accidentally annoying these people. You have to hide, learn to never cause any issues, never to have any visible problems, to cry silently, to not ask for anything, to try and figure out day after day, what would make these people hate you less, what would make you a less of a burden on them.
And then, these assholes can go and laugh at how 'stupid' you were as a kid. They can joke about how they 'had to punish you' so you would learn.
You were not stupid. You were alone. You took the overwhelming task of raising yourself because nobody else would. You didn't fail. You didn't do anything wrong. It was never warranted to punish you. You taught yourself how to live when nobody else would even look at you. You had to figure out friendships, relationships, education, parental relations, and on top of it, how to stay alive, how to not have any problems, how not to irritate anyone, how to never be visible or needing anything, or god forbid, making problems for anyone else, all by yourself. When you were just a child. You had no guidance, no protection, no caretakers. You probably got into so much trouble that would have been completely avoided if only one person cared enough to sit you down and have a conversation with you and showed you that they care, explained to you how things work. Who would have told you that you were a good kid and that trying and failing is how all of us learn.
There is nothing funny about the neglect they put you thru. There's nothing funny about torturing a child who never received care or attention. You were not supposed to grow up surrounded by people who felt nothing but contempt for you. You did not deserve to grow up without love.
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the-baby-storyteller · 11 months
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“Who taught you how to fight”
Whumpee looked up. “What?”
“Those moves." Caretaker said, wiping sweat from their forehead, "They’re not ones that you learn how to fight traditionally. They’re ones you learn fighting to survive.”
Whumpee blinked.
“So who taught you how to fight?”
Hah. Whumpee let out a faint snort, then huffed and stood up, taking their weapon.
"You don't want to know." Whumpee felt Caretaker's gaze follow them as they walked out, an image of Whumper plastered in their mind.
Who indeed...
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jordanstrophe · 1 year
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The Only Survivor
[A continuation here]
Whumpee’s the only one who survived whumper’s invasion. Instead of killing them off, Whumper decides it would be fun to keep the sole survivor as a trophy. 
But what they think is just some fun show-off prize, they quickly realize whumpee requires a lot of attention. They’re wounded and traumatized; they wake screaming from pain and nightmares, keeping the whole place from getting sleep. 
Whumper soon finds themselves being their caregiver, soothing them back to sleep and cooling their fever down...
This was not in the job description.
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