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Hello, hope you are having a wonderful day! I love your lists so much, they help me find great shows to watch. You are really amazing, and hardworking!! I'm so grateful for your effort. I have a request for you, can you do The Atypical Family whump list? 💜💜

Hello!

Short answer: yes, I can!

Medium Answer: I am currently waiting for all the episodes to air but once they’re done I’ll have the list uploaded IMMEDIATELY!!! (I have it updated rn to the most recent episode)

Long Answer: Long

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Hey hey, this is just really short, but you asked for recommendations about the guard dog trope?

A series called man to man has it (at least as far as I can remember- it’s been a while since I watched it.) Anyway yes just wanted to share that and say that I appreciate all of your work!!

- Atlas

Hello!!! Nice to hear from you, Atlas!

Tbh I am shocked I haven’t made a list for Man to Man yet. I’ll get right on it!

Thank you so much!!!

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If anyone has any drama recs that fit this trope PLEASE send them my way. I'm currently working on a movie that will go under this but I need more guard dog men.

Specifically like Healer, The K2, Big Mouth and My Demon. Superpowers are VERY welcome

Guard Dog Whumpee - Whump Lists

A sub list of whump lists I've made where the whumpee is a guard dog to their families, romantic partners, friends, etc. Think "Touch her and you die."

Guard Dog = mostly in a physical sense, like he fights or kills for his loved ones

There will be overlap between the two. It will still count those with superpowers.

DRAMAS

🇰🇷KOREA

Healer >>> {x}

The K2 >>> {x}

Bulgasal: Immortal Souls >>> {x}

Descendants of the Sun >>> {x}

Snowdrop >>> {x}

Big Mouth >>> {x}

Vigilante >>> {x}

My Demon >>> {x}

Love Song for Illusion >>> {x}

Escape of the Seven: Resurrection >>> {x}

🇨🇳CHINA

The Untamed >> {x}

🇯🇵JAPAN

Fuujinshi >>> {x}

MOVIES

🇰🇷KOREA

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🇨🇳CHINA

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🇯🇵JAPAN

Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning >>> {x}

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Guard Dog Whumpee - Whump Lists

A sub list of whump lists I've made where the whumpee is a guard dog to their families, romantic partners, friends, etc. Think "Touch her and you die."

Guard Dog = mostly in a physical sense, like he fights or kills for his loved ones

There will be overlap between the two. It will still count those with superpowers.

💜: This is one of my all time favorite tropes that isn’t immediately whump related like shot/stabbed/bleeding out

DRAMAS

🇰🇷KOREA

Healer >>> {x}

The K2 >>> {x}

Bulgasal: Immortal Souls >>> {x}

Descendants of the Sun >>> {x}

Snowdrop >>> {x}

Big Mouth >>> {x}

Vigilante >>> {x}

My Demon >>> {x}

Love Song for Illusion >>> {x}

Escape of the Seven: Resurrection >>> {x}

🇨🇳CHINA

The Untamed >> {x}

🇯🇵JAPAN

Fuujinshi >>> {x}

MOVIES

🇰🇷KOREA

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🇨🇳CHINA

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🇯🇵JAPAN

Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning >>> {x}

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hi! i really love your lists - you do really wonderful, hard work!! I'm so grateful for your effort <3 I had kind of a request. it's pretty specific, but I was wondering if you'd be up to making a sub-list for emotional whump specifically surrounding low self esteem? i know you've already got an emotional/mental whump/trauma sub-list, which is great, so I understand if this request is a no go <3 just thought it was worth a try! either way, i hope you know you've been doing a great job! lysm, keep up the good work!

Hello! I love you so much and wish you only good things in this world!

So basically I have made ultra specific whump lists before so best believe I am willing. I’m working on one right now that I’m hoping to have uploaded within the next 10 min of me posting this that is a random and specific trope that nobody even asked for. I just like it.

So to actually answer your question you came here for, yes. I will absolutely do that for you 🖤

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New sub list coming soon!!!

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亀梨和也 (Kamenazi Kazuya) - Whump Lists

A list of whump lists I’ve made that Kamenashi Kazuya is in:

DRAMAS

Final Cut >>> {x}

MOVIES

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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

Red Eyes: Surveillance Investigation Team >>> {x}

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Arrested / Detained / Jailed / Imprisoned - Whump Lists

A sub list of whumpees who have been arrested (will also count detained), jailed or imprisoned.

There may be some overlap with the "captive/kidnapped/hostage" whumpees list.

Will count if they are simply handcuffed but it has to be by police or another government/legal (including royal guards in fantasy/period pieces) entity.

DRAMAS

🇰🇷KOREA

Duel >> {x}

W: Two Worlds >>> {x}

I Hear Your Voice/I Can Hear Your Voice >>> {x}

Memorist >>> {x}

Two Weeks >>> {x}

Healer >>> {x}

Lawless Lawyer >>> {x}

Flower of Evil >>> {x}

Royal Secret Agent >>> {x}

The Game: Towards Zero >>> {x}

Beyond Evil >>> {x}

Gunman in Joseon >>> {x}

The K2 >>> {x}

One Ordinary Day >>> {x}

Lovers of the Red Sky >>> {x}

Descendants of the Sun >>> {x}

The Smile Has Left Your Eyes >>> {x}

Children of Nobody >>> {x}

Time >>> {x}

Snowdrop >>> {x}

Alice, The Final Weapon >>> {x}

Bad Guys >>> {x}

Big Mouth >>> {x}

If You Wish Upon Me >>> {x}

Blind >>> {x}

Iljimae >>> {x}

Doubtful Victory >>> {x}

Joseon Attorney: A Morality >>> {x}

D.P. Season 2 >>> {x}

My Lovely Liar >>> {x}

Sweet Home Season 2 >>> {x}

Shark: The Beginning >>> {x}

My Name is Loh Kiwan >>> {x}

🇨🇳CHINA

The Untamed >> {x}

The Golden Eyes >>> {x}

Psych Hunter >>> {x}

Prodigy Healer >>> {x}

Love and Redemption >>> {x}

Under The Skin >>> {x}

Hello Dear Ancestors >>> {x}

The Blue Whisper >>> {x}

🇯🇵JAPAN

Final Life >>> {x}

Hiru (Season 1) >>> {x}

Hakubo no Chronicle >>> {x}

Final Cut >>> {x}

🇹🇭THAILAND

Bad Guys >>> {x}

MOVIES

🇰🇷KOREA

Psychometry >>> {x}

Werewolf Boy >>> {x}

Blind >>> {x}

Fabricated City >>> {x}

A Mother’s Nightmare >>> {x}

V.I.P. >>> {x}

Project Wolf Hunting >>> {x}

Christmas Carol >>> {x}

🇨🇳CHINA

The Witness >>> {x}

🇯🇵JAPAN

Blind Witness >>> {x}

In the Wake >>> {x}

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

🇰🇷KOREA

The Fair >>> {x}

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ァイナル・カット - Final Cut - Whump List - 🇯🇵

Whumpee: Hayakawa Keisuke played by Kamenashi Kazuya

Synopsis: During his high school years, Nakamura Keisuke’s mother was accused of the murder of a young girl and ultimately ends her life due to pressure from the public. 12 years after this incident, Keisuke sets out on a revenge mission to find the actual murderer who is to blame for eventually causing the death of his mother. In order to complete his revenge mission, Keisuke covers up his real identity to get as close to his targets as possible and utilizes a ‘FINAL CUT’ video footage to manipulate his targets. (MDL)

Genre/Tags: Cop/Crime, Mystery, Trauma, Revenge, Constant Emotional/Mental Whump, Restrained, Arrested/Jailed/Imprisoned Whumpee

Watch On: DramaCool, KissAsian

WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILERS DOWN BELOW

1.01 : (traumatic flashbacks: finding his mom dead) ::: (traumatic flashbacks: ambushed by reporters, scared) ::: (traumatic flashbacks: finding his mom dead ::: ambushed by reporters, scared) ::: emotional, (traumatic flashbacks: finding his mom dead ::: ambushed by reporters, scared), crying

1.02 : emotional, angry, crying

1.03 : emotional, angry

1.04 : emotional, angry, crying

1.05 : (traumatic flashbacks: finding his mom dead ::: ambushed by reporters, scared) ::: emotional, angry, grabbed my the collar, forced to sit, defiant ::: saving someone from getting hit by a car

1.06 : emotional ::: (flashbacks: saving someone from getting hit by a car) ::: concerned for someone, found his friend beaten and bloody ::: slapped (tbh rightfully so)

1.07 : emotional

1.08 : pushed, yelled at ::: at knife point

1.09 : arrested, in handcuffs, put into a police car ::: in handcuffs, perp walked, visually and audibly hallucinating ::: in a cell ::: in a cell ::: interrogated, defiant ::: interrogated, defiant, hair grabbed, threatened, defiant ::: (shown on TV being perp walked in cuffs) ::: emotional, angry, crying

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レッドアイズ 監視捜査班 - Red Eyes: Surveillance Investigation Team ep. 7 - Episode Highlight - 🇯🇵

Whumpee: Fushimi Kyosuke played by Kamenashi Kazuya

Synopsis: Fushimi Kyosuke, a former detective with the Prefectural Police’s First Investigation Division, is now a special investigator whose loved one was murdered by a serial killer. Other members include an expert profiler who was once a university criminology professor, a single mother formerly with the Self-Defence Forces and a young genius hacker. They seem like a dream team, but each is a criminal harbouring a dark past. (MDL)

Genre: Cop/Crime, Thriller, Mystery, Found Family

Watch On: DramaCool, KissAsian

WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILERS BELOW

9:34 - shot with a tranquilizer dart, fighting the drugs, collapsed

10:58 - loved ones realizing he’d been kidnapped (CCTV)

11:40 - loved ones getting live video of him being held hostage, chained up to a wall, freezing, concern for him, curling in on himself

13:08 - backing away from captors

16:45 - attacked, fought back, shocked with a cattle prod, holding his leg, told he’d die with his captors

19:08 - shivering

19:58 - electrocuted, holding his neck, electrocuted, passed out, concern for him

24:32 - unconscious in the back of a car

26:07 - woke up, shivering, curling in on himself, weak, struggling to stand, emotional

31:07 - water thrown on him, shivering, collapsed

32:17 - curled up, shivering

34.19 - concern for him, unconscious, conversed in ice

34:52 - concern for him, struggling to stand, shaking, in an explosion, thrown, coughing

36:58 - passed out

37:38 - found unconscious, concern for him, chains cut, dragged out of the freezer, woke up, groaning

39:00 - sitting in a blanket in the back of an ambulance

39:37 - concern for him, scolded, looked after

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Lists Currently Being Made:

These are the lists and sublists I am currently working on.

I update this post as often as possible. -- If it's been a while since it's been updated, it is safe to assume some things have changed and I have forgotten to update :,)

At the bottom is dropped lists. If you make whump lists, DM me and I can send you what I have if you would like to take over making that list. - However, I do request that you give credit for the part I made, myself.

(More info at the bottom of the post)

Last Updated: May 26, 2024

Working on it very often / as it airs

🇰🇷Although I'm Not A Hero >>> [MDL LINK] - currently airing

🇯🇵Destiny >>> [MDL LINK] - currently airing

🇰🇷The 8 Show >>> [MDL LINK]

Movie lists I'm considering making

🇰🇷Bad Guys: Reign of Chaos >>> [MDL LINK]

🇺🇸The Fantastic Four (2005) >>> {IMDb LINK}

🇺🇸Edge of Winter (2016) >>> (IMDb LINK)

Working on if I have extra down time or have the motivation / Episode Highlights

🇰🇷Weak Hero Class 1 >>> [MDL LINK]

🇨🇳Cambrian Period >>> [MDL LINK]

🇰🇷Moon in the Day >>> [MDL LINK]

🇰🇷Night Has Come >>> [MDL LINK] - ON PAUSE

🇰🇷The Worst of Evil >>> [MDL LINK]

🇰🇷My Demon >>> [MDL LINK] - ON PAUSE

🇰🇷Arthdal Chronicles: The Sword of Aramoon >>> [MDL LINK] - ON PAUSE

🇰🇷 너를 기억해 (I Remember You) >>> [MDL LINK] - highlight

🇯🇵Rurouni Kenshin films >>> {MDL LINK} - remaking what was lost in The Incident™️ - ON PAUSE

🇰🇷Miraculous Brothers >>> [MDL LINK]

🇰🇷The Uncanny Counter Season 2: Counter Punch >>> [MDL LINK]

🇯🇵For the Kid I Saw in My Dreams >>> [MDL LINK]

Considering dropping (but still in progress)

none at the moment

Dropped - DM if you want to take over making any of these lists

{ POST LINK }

Lists to be made when the dramas air / movies come out (estimated or exact air date will be listed) (some of these may not happen at all - I'm just putting it on here because I've seen it on MDL or I've heard rumors going around)

🇰🇷Weak Hero Class 2 >>> [MDL LINK] - 2024

🇰🇷Bastard >>> [MDL LINK] - unknown

🇰🇷The Mentalist >>> [MDL LINK] - unknown

🇰🇷Sweet Home Season 3 >>> [MDL LINK] - 2024

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I normally heavily focus on a rotation of 3 lists at once while working on the others as I have time or motivation to do so. Movies won't be updated like dramas because those are 99.999% of the time finished within one sitting. Sometimes I will upload a drama whump list without updating this post and that means that it was either finished in one sitting or I started it at night, slept, and immediately finished it in the morning once I woke up and uploaded immediately. I prefer to upload immediately but sometimes life gets in the way of that but I always upload the second I can.

For those who are new here: There is no consistent upload schedule.

For 1: dramas air when they air. Sometimes they get postponed, sometimes things happen so I don’t always get to decide when a list is finished.

Second: My life does what it does. I am a mere passenger, unfortunately.

Also: you can expect to see multiple lists uploaded at once or within a few days then have none for a random amount of time. (This is kinda how it works for me).

Enjoy!

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My Favorite Whump Lists pt. 2

A list of all my favorite dramas/movies/animes I've made whump lists or Episode Highlights for-- (in multiple parts due to Tumblr's link limit) -- Lists that are my FAVORITE favorites are in italics.

DRAMAS

🇰🇷KOREA

A Time Called You >>> {x}

My Lovely Liar >>> {x}

Sweet Home Season 2 >>> {x}

Flower Crew: Joseon Marriage Agency >>> {x}

My Demon >>> {x}

A Killer Paradox >>> {x}

Love Song for Illusion >>> {x}

Vampire Detective >>> {x}

Escape of the Seven: Resurrection >>> {x}

🇨🇳CHINA

coming soon

🇯🇵JAPAN

Diver: Special Investigation Team >>> {x}

Hakubo no Chronicle >>> {x}

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MOVIES

🇰🇷KOREA

My Name is Loh Kiwan >>> {x}

Exhuma >>> {x}

🇨🇳CHINA

coming soon

🇯🇵JAPAN

Bleach >>> {x}

Chainsaw Man >>> {x} anime

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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

🇰🇷KOREA

Dr. Romantic 3 >>> {x}

MORE FAVORITES >>> [link]

MORE WHUMP LISTS >>> [link]

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My Favorite Whump Lists pt. 1

A list of all my favorite dramas/movies/animes I've made whump lists or Episode Highlights for-- (in multiple parts due to Tumblr's link limit) -- Lists that are my FAVORITE favorites are in italics.

DRAMAS

🇰🇷KOREA

Duel >> {x}

He Is Psychometric >>> {x}

Just Between Lovers >>> {x}

My Love From The Star >>> {x}

W: Two Worlds >>> {x}

I Hear Your Voice/I Can Hear Your Voice >>> {x}

Memorist >>> {x}

Sweet Home >>> {x}

Sweet Home Season 2 >>> {x}

Healer >>> {x}

The Uncanny Counter s1>>> {x}

Lawless Lawyer >>> {x}

Flower of Evil >>> {x}

Memories of the Alhambra >>> {x}

The Arthdal Chronicles >>> {x}

Where Stars Land >>> {x}

Color Rush >>> {x}

At A Distance, Spring Is Green >>> {x}

The K2 >>> {x}

One Ordinary Day >>> {x}

Semantic Error >>> {x}

Bulgasal: Immortal Souls >>> {x}

Lovers of the Red Sky >>> {x}

Descendants of the Sun >>> {x}

Come and Hug Me >>> {x}

Angel’s Last Mission: Love >>> {x}

The Smile Has Left Your Eyes >>> {x}

Uncontrollably Fond >>> {x}

Mirror of the Witch >>> {x}

Snowdrop >>> {x}

Money Heist: Korea: Joint Economic Area >>> {x}

Alice, The Final Weapon >>> {x}

Bad Guys >>> {x}

Big Mouth >>> {x}

If You Wish Upon Me >>> {x}

Blind >>> {x}

Revenge of Others >>> {x}

The Good Detective 2 >>> {x}

Island >>> {x}

Black Knight >>> {x}

Joseon Attorney: A Morality >>> {x}

Bloodhounds >>> {x}

Vigilante >>> {x}

🇨🇳CHINA

The Lost Tomb >> {x}

The Lost Tomb 2 >> {x}

Reunion: The Sound of The Providence >> {x}

Reunion: Sound of The Providence Season 2 >> {x}

Ultimate Note >>> {x}

Sand Sea >>> {x}

The Untamed >> {x}

The Golden Eyes >>> {x}

Psych Hunter >>> {x}

Miss Crow with Mr. Lizard >>> {x}

Legend of Fei >>> {x}

Hello Dear Ancestors >>> {x}

The Blue Whisper >>> {x}

Back From the Brink >>> {x}

🇯🇵JAPAN

Fuujinshi >>> {x}

Virtual Detective Tabito Higurashi >>> {x}

Hiru (Season 1)

Smoking >>> {x}

An Incurable Case of Love >>> {x}

Junkyouju Takatsuki Akira no Suisatsu>>> {x}

Algernon ni Hanataba O >>> {x}

🇹🇭THAILAND

Not Me >>> {x}

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MOVIES

🇰🇷KOREA

Psychometry >>> {x}

Werewolf Boy >>> {x}

Blind >>> {x}

Fabricated City >>> {x}

Abyss >>> {x}

Youth of May >>> {x}

The Great Seducer >>> {x}

Why Her? >>> {x}

The Good Detective >>> {x}

🇨🇳CHINA

The Witness >>> {x}

🇯🇵JAPAN

Ajin: Demi Human >>> {x}

Blind Witness >>> {x}

Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning >>> {x}

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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

🇰🇷KOREA

The Fair >>> {x}

MORE FAVORITES >>> [link]

MORE WHUMP LISTS >>> [link]

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Was excited to see Hakubo no Chronicle pop up because your list made me think it had finally been subbed but when I went to check...nope, no subs :'(

Girl IKKKKKKKK I had to watch the whole thing without subs. I understand a little Japanese but not enough to watch a drama without subs

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The lack of shows to watch is catching up to me and I am desperately trying to outrun it! Is Love Song For Illusion worth the watch? Or are there any other current shows you particularly enjoy?

Love Song for Illusion is absolutely worth the watch imo. I will however warn you that I will watch anything Park Jihoon is in so it's entirely possible that I am simply biased.

I am actually working on a sublist of my favorite dramas I've watched recently and will be updating me WIP list post so look out for that to see! <3

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白暮のクロニクル - Hakubo No Chronicle - Whump List - 🇯🇵

Whumpee: Yukimura Kai played by Kamiyama Tomohiro

Synopsis: Fushiki, a newbie employee from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare who is assigned to the department to work alongside Yukimura Kai, an 88-year-old vampire detective who still looks incredibly young due to his immortality. Together, they will investigate a series of murders by the “Ram Killer” that have been occurring every Christmas in the year of the Ram over a period of 70 years. (MDL)

Genre/Tags: Vampire, Cop/Crime, Supernatural, Superpower, Stabbed, Captive/Hostage, Collapsed, On The Run/Field Medicine, Beaten, Constant Whump, Little to No Romance

Watch On: DramaCool, KissAsian

WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILERS BELOW

1.01 : throat slashed, collapsed, stabbed, concern for him ::: knife still in his torso (semi comical?) ::: someone exposed him to the sun, concern for him, shaking, burnt face (healing quickly) ::: manhandled, thrown to the ground, in pain

1.02 : in an interrogation room, exposed to the sun, curling in on himself, shaking in pain ::: pushed down onto a desk, struggling ::: stabbed (into a vest so no consequences) ::: cutting his arm, bleeding, slapped

1.03 : none

1.04 : protecting someone, hit with a baseball bat multiple times, fell to the ground, hit in the face with the baseball bat, writhing, concern for him ::: face bandaged ::: ripping off his bandage, concern for him

1.05 : (flashbacks: arm amputated, barely conscious, shaky breathing, drinking blood, collapsed ::: asleep, bandaged, looked after, trying to sit up, startled, in shock ::: jumped out of a moving truck, on the run, stumbling, collapsed, concern for him, looked after, hunted, scared, hiding ::: hunted, on the run, stumbling, exhausted, stumbling, hit ::: growing weaker, concern for him, bloodthirsty, weak, cornered, collapsed, concern for him ::: woke up restrained on a table (strapped to it), struggling, scar reveal, manhandled, in shock, cut with a scalpel, screaming ::: asleep, woke up, scared, scar reveal, in shock), telling someone about everything that happened to him, (flashbacks: pushing a loved one away, concern for him, emotional ::: in shock, shaking, throwing up) emotional, concern for him

1.06 : heavy breathing, sweating, concern for him ::: hallucinating, stressed, concern for him, looked after ::: fought, hit in the head, collapsed, kicked ::: hit by a truck, thrown, eye roll, passed out

1.07 : woke up in the hospital, bandaged, arm and neck braced, heavy breathing, struggling to sit up, angry, concern for him ::: arm in a sling, face still bandaged, took the sling off, collapsed, concern for him, helped to walk ::: helped to walk, stumbling ::: weak, needing support to walk, stumbling, growing weaker, fell to his knees, concern for him, hallucinating, concern for him ::: taking his bandages off, emotional outburst

1.08 : shot at

1.09 : fought, concern for him, emotional, traumatic flashbacks (rlly just images)

1.10 : concerned for someone ::: panicked, desperate ::: jumped out of a truck, hit by a car, collapsed

1.11 : helped to walk, caring for someone over himself, weak, black eye ::: limping ::: visibly unwell, face red, limping, heavy breathing, concern for him, stumbling, growing weaker, dizzy, heavily lidded eyes, collapsed, heavy breathing, growing weaker, starting to pass out, helped to stand, helped to walk, struggling to walk, half collapsed ::: in shock ::: arm cut off, knocked unconscious, collapsed ::: dragged while unconscious in front of a loved one, concern for him ::: woke up, weak, concern for him, concerned for someone, helped to stand, weak, stumbling, collapsed, concern for him, fought, slashed in the stomach, fought, hit across the head with a pipe, bleeding, beaten, weak, trying to protect someone, stabbed in the leg, slashed with a scalpel, collapsed, concern for him, emotional ::: exhausted

1.12 : not feeling well, eyes rolling back into his head, slowly losing consciousness, collapsed, concern for him ::: woke up in the hospital, concern for him ::: in physical rehab, struggling to walk, collapsed, concern for him, helped to get into a chair, weak, upset, crying ::: limping ::: emotional, angry, crying, collapsed, concern for him, helped to walk ::: semi carried, collapsed, weak, emotional, passed out

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BAEK IN HO WHUMP LIST

Played by Seo Kang Joon

From the K-Drama 'Cheese in the trap'.

1: upset, yelling, mentions of him needing physical therapy,

2: startled, getting chased, hiding, meeting someone painful from his past, (flashback: getting beat up, baseball bat to the hand, clutching hand, in pain, crying in hospital), upset, teary eyed,

3: Mentions of past trauma, looks sad and deflated, upsetting conversation with someone from his past, angry, lashing out,

4: Infuriating chat with his sister and someone from his past, upset, briefly talks about his accident,

5: upsetting confrontation with someone from his past, upset, mentions of the accident that made him quit piano without him being present, manipulated story, frustrated, flashback to his traumatic childhood with an abusive aunt, stressed,

6: stressed, upset, visibly shaken up, soaked from the rain, spots his old piano mentor with a new trainee in the tv, teary eyed, flashbacks to his time with his piano mentor, (flashback: in the hospital, face looking beaten up, arm in a cast, refusal to acknowledge anything), crying in the rain, infuriating conversation with someone from his past, getting angry, water bottle thrown to his head (comedic), followed, the person he's hiding/running from knows where he is so he'll need to move again, stressed, worried over what his sister will do without his income, in a fight to protect FL, punches a wall instead of a person, bloodied fist, bandaged fist for rest of episode, fired from his job because he got into a fight, slapped (comedic),

7: stressed, running around looking for someone, concerned for FL, angry, finds a piano whilst working, sad, reminiscing his old life as a piano prodigy, (flashback: in a fight with his sister, pushed to the ground), wanders into the music department at university, transfixed on the piano players, caught, running, looking sad sitting at a piano, in deep thought,

8: plays piano for a teacher after not playing for some years, isn't as good as he used to be, comment made about his lack of basics, looks upset, distracted, quiet, concern for him, stressed, upset,

9: forced to shelter his sister, she makes some rude comments about him playing piano and pretends to drop her ramen bowl to soil all of his music sheets, upset,

10: upset, storms off, sick (pretending), stressed, sniffling, sick,

11: looking sad, tired, concern for him, mentions of him not sleeping well that night,

12: angry, punches a table, upset, (flashback: blamed for something he didn't do, beaten and bloody,beaten up by a group of people, baseball bat to the hand, holding his wrist, screaming in pain, in the hospital, face bruised, hand in a cast, sad, crying, running away from hospital, in an argument, crying, finding out it was done to him on purpose because ML didn't want them as adopted siblings, sobbing, leaving home without his sister, running away), angry, in a fight, punched, bloody face,

13: face still bruised, overhearing FL say to her bf she won't hang out with him aside from studying, sad, being told people from his past are looking for him, hiding, calling them go protect FL, punched in the stomach, knelt over, groaning, kicked in the leg, grabbed by the hair, told he has to pay back a lot of money, threatened, has a week to pay them back, kicked in the stomach, groaning, bent over, stressed, finds out all his savings have been taken, being followed, asks for money, told he won't get any, upset, sad, looking around at everyone living their lives, teary eyed, looking depressed, ML tells him he can give him the money he needs if he leaves FL and her family alone, mentions of the life he's lived thus far and what will inevitably happen if he doesn't pay the money back, crying, upset, forced to stay quiet when he sees FL, goes into his house, depressed, looking super upset in the darkness of his home, piano teacher says for him to go home, upset, zoned out on the train, concern for him,

14: makes a deal with the people he owes money to, has one month to compete in the piano competition and give them the prize money, working himself too hard, looks deflated, overworking himself on the piano, making mistakes with his bad hand because it feels stiff, concern for him, protecting FL, punching someone, getting kicked to the ground, his hand bothers him a lot in this episode

15: his hand is cramping up and shaking, Dr says there's internal swelling because of a metal screw that's been exasperated by him fighting with his hand, told he'll need surgery but it'll take 2 months recovery time

16: stressed, concern for someone, finds out what happened, forced to apologise for his sisters actions, finds out his sister was forcibly taken to a mental health institution, panicked, trying to find her, constantly outside her hospital room waiting for her to accept him entering, stressed, upset, telling his sister he needs his big sister back, looks exhausted, not sleeping properly, waiting for ML to be discharged, looking deflated, apologising to her family again, mentions of him having suffered enough.

A/N: This drama is probably one of the only dramas I've seen where every single person online I see discussing it, is team In Ho rather than team Sunbae. He goes through a lot, and the actual main lead is the biggest red flag. Acting was 10/10 from all of the cast.