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Azul's VA Tamaru Atsushi comment from the fanbook (vol.1):

"The most difficult part was, of course, the end of the third chapter of the main story, 'The Merchant from the Depths.' There is a scene where the director told me, 'throw a temper tantrum like an infant!.'

It couldn’t be just losing my temper.

I started out speaking heavy and low, then exploded, then became quiet again…I went through so many changes in tone that it sounded like Azul had become an entirely different character.

It was an extremely important part of the story and it felt like the hurdle was so high―I put a lot of effort into it.

I have no idea how many retakes we ended up doing. It was a lot of work, but I think the final product is a great scene that the audience will enjoy."

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Whumpees with animal-like features/qualities are the best. Whumpees who purr and growl and screech and roar. Whumpees with wings and claws and tails and gills. Whumpees who open their wings and shoot out their claws and arch their backs in a display of threat. Whumpees who curl their tails and wings and bodies around Caretaker to protect them.

And then there is the different Whumper reactions. Do they find it cute, patronizing Whumpee by talking to them like one would a cat or dog? Do they find it intriguing, wanting to study Whumpee like you would a lab rat? Maybe Whumper is even scared of Whumpee, having an equally animalistic reaction and trying to kill Whumpee before even thinking to try and understand them.

And Caretakers who know. Caretakers that are experts on Whumpees species. Caretakers who know that Whumpee could kill them at any moment. Caretakers who know that Whumpee won't kill them because if they wanted to, they would have already. Caretakers that take Whumpee in because, monster or not, everyone and everything deserves love, right?

sigh, just, animal-like Whumpees

Feel free to add onto any of my prompts

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I feel like sometimes certain TWST fans categorize Azul's trauma as less than because they boil it down to "He was bullied." And that is where they stop, but I feel like they don't see the layers as to why he was bullied.

Facts from the game are that Azul was bullied for being slow, his appearance, and being a crybaby. We also know his peers did not respect him until he held power over them(this, of course, transfered to how he behaves at NRC). Azul grew up around kids who hated him for his natural appearance, something he couldn't control, making him think he didn't look pretty and to have a negative self-image. They also accidentally taught him that if he doesn't have anything over people, he can not be their equal.

I think everyone is aware that Azul's bullies were racist. That is quite clear in the story. Azul's species is considered to not be common in the Coral Sea, implying that they are either not native to there or have a low birth rate. Maybe even a combination of both. This can also lead to the idea that Azul was possibly the only octomer at their school, making his alienation from his peers more evident. Another thing you have to remember is that children are not born racist. They have to learn that behavior from someone, so Azul's bullies had to have a source. Whether it be an educator or their parents, this racist prejudice against Azul came from someone else. This was also high society. The Coral Sea prince went to their school, high class mers were here, meaning this wasn't just a small opinion in a little town, but an opinion high class society has against octomers that could possibly trickle down to lower spaces in mer society.

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i ❤️ men screaming in excruciating agony and pain and writhing on the floor and crying and begging and pleading and desperate and vulnerable and and and and

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silver has asked me to "stop using your unique magic on floyd when he falls asleep in class" because giving him various nightmares to try and figure out what he's afraid of is "invasive". however, he knows of my little experiments because he uses his unique magic in class, peeking into other people's dreams while he sleeps. seems it is the hospital that does not care about charity, no?

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in total, i have walked into three doorframes and two table corners today. to be clear, these were all accidents.

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My babygirl🐙🐙🐙

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Whump Prompts 130: Lab Whump Aesthetic

CW: lab whump (obviously), blood, self-harm, psychological/emotional whump, magic whump

The lab rat uniform: loose, drab, hanging on whumpee's frame like it doesn't feel comfortable there

Bloodstained, soiled clothing, the result of experimentation

Whumpee left naked in their cell as their uniform is washed

Whumpee arriving at the lab facility as a new subject and realizing that whumper will be experimenting on them, not with tools and drugs, but with dark magic

Inhuman whumpees losing whatever shreds of humanity they might have had as time and experiments continue and they're treated more and more like animals

Or, conversely, inhuman whumpees that become more human and exhibit more human emotions as they're mistreated

Whumpee forgetting their own name because they're only referred to by a subject number

Disorientation from drugs/experiment aftermath

Whumpee's sleep, the only time they're alone, being disrupted by nightmares about what's been done to them

Or, a whumpee who's never left alone, always watched, always under observation of some kind

Whumpee's skin slowly turning into a scarred, chaotic mess from cuts/syringes/injections, etc.

Whumpee seeing their own distress and pain mirrored in the glimpsed faces of other lab rats in the facility

Whumpee learning to see themself as nothing but a test subject

Bandages, sterile gauze, sterile lights, sterile everything

Whumpee being overwhelmed when they catch a glimpse of life outside the lab when visitors arrive

Waking up after an experiment, seeing bloodied instruments and wondering groggily what terrible thing whumper could have done to them now

Learning to damage their own body to foil whumper's plans

Whumpee becoming desensitized to whumper's drugs and needing higher and higher doses for them to work

No longer recognizing their own body after recovering from whumper's last experiment

Whumper leading lab rat whumpee to a mirror, after intentionally keeping them away, and letting them see how pathetic they've become

Or, whumpee looking in a mirror and realizing that whumper has turned them into a monster

Whumpee deciding that it's too late for them and they might as well embrace what they've become

Feel free to reblog and add on!

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thinking about lab whump and how the whumpers in that situation usually have the proper equipment to control everything in whumpee's life. and i mean everything. captivity is already sort of like that- you're confined, only have access to food and water you're provided, clothes you're given etc. but in a lab? bro. bro. that but Tenfold.

constant surveillance. proper monitoring of every bodily function that's going on. food and liquids tailored exactly to the whumpers' intentions with whumpee, down to the exact nutrients and how whumpee's body is absorbing them. because they can just check that. do they get clothes? who knows! even if they do, it's likely a hospital gown or something similar. things in the room can be controlled so precisely from the amount of light (maybe even the ratio of natural to articial light) to the temperature. medication- need i say more about medication? all of them look the same, white pills with unknown effects and side effects, and that's not to mention the things whumpee gets their body pumped full of through an IV.

it's just... so much more than your usual "i'm keeping you in my basement and if for some reason you manage to get out and call the cops i'm likely going to jail". it's "you're never getting out. there's twenty of us here and there's round the clock surveillance, number pads, and finger print identification on every door. we know exactly what we're doing and that makes us experts at torturing you in very specific ways you might not even understand. and we're definitely going to act like you don't understand. even if you do get out, who are you calling? the authorities? how do you know they're not funding this?"

you're nothing but a rat in a cage, and you can only hope the button you're pressing is about to give you a treat and not a shock.

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Little things in whump/Ideas: Nightmares

Oh boy! My specialty via experience, nightmare whump. Here's a lot of little things or whump ideas to play around with when it comes to whump with nightmares

Waking up panting and hyperventilating, the chest aching as it heaves up and down. The breath slowing and whumpee's shoulders relaxing as reality slowly hits them, until they're breaths shudder from their lips just out of fear

Clawing at their blankets and pillows, the fabric scrunching up

Whumpee kicking their legs first, and their arms waving around in their sleep far before they begin to thrash about

That where am I moment. Groggy eyes opening while whumpee has to take a moment to remember where they are

Feeling almost feverish, drenched in their sweat. Immediately once they wake they all sweat begins to cool, feeling almost like ice against their skin. That cold sweat.

Refusing to let anyone room or sleep with them, out of embarrassment or worry for if they have a nightmare

Caretaker waking whumpee, only for a frightened whumpee to latch onto them with hate and fear in their eyes. Caretaker is left to watch the fleeting glare turn into a softened sad look.

Falling off of the bed

Whumpee's partner feeling them shudder in their sleep

Viewing whumper as their sleep paralysis demon

Waking, adrenaline already pumping through the veins, fear flittering around in their chest. Then it hits them. Like a heavy weight, their limbs only seem to twitch before all the feeling of movement flees. The only sign of their growing fear is in their wide open eyes as sleep paralysis kicks in

A stifled cry, caretaker having to lean in just to see if whumpee is doing that while awake or asleep

The blankets and sheets always smelling like sweat from repeated cold sweat wakings

Seeing a lost friend in their dreams, and waking up with a crushing bittersweet feeling turning into a mournful yearn

Noticing hours after enjoying their breakfast that they've scratched themselves

Distant cries and yelps heard from across the house, Caretaker walking in to see whumpee's eyes still shut, but their face contorted with distress

Waking 👏 up 👏 screaming 👏 (bonus points: whumpee is overwhelmed by embarrassment from doing so)

Bonus:

The ultimate panic wake

Drenched in cold sweat, just managed to escape the claws of sleep paralysis, screaming and flailing at their surroundings for a moment before-

They plop back down, red in the face from embarrassment, pretending that no one, not even a godly entity, saw that

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Small details in Whump -> Nightmares

The confusion: waking up not knowing what time it is, where they are, why they are scared...

Feeling almost sick, queasy after the nightmare fed them disturbing images

Checking the time right after waking up and panicking a little when they see it's not morning yet

The relief after they finally wake up

Slowly peeling their sweaty t-shirt away from their skin and putting on a fresh one, either nicely cold or sickening so

Angry tears: a childhood nightmare coming back after years of silence

Waking up sad, not scared or stressed, just... sad. The nightmare presented memories of the past, soaked in a shape of love they can't feel anymore. They lie down, staring at the ceiling, tears soaking their hair.

Flinching at the unexpected touch from Caretaker who had reached their bed after hearing muffled cries.

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this is me btw if you even care

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moth taxidermy makes me feral | one day i will have one 😫

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"The moon is beautiful tonight, isn't it?"

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… 𝑚𝑜𝑜𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑 ✩✰

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Azul with the princess treatment. Again

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POV you're mama Ashengrotto and your baby son learned a cool new trick just for you 💜