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A Whumpee who is thrown in a cell after a hectic event. Maybe they were arrested and thrown in front of the leader (king, queen, general, etc?), maybe they were finally captured after a long chase, maybe they were dragged away from a crime scene, wrongfully blamed for the death of their loved one. Whatever it was, it was chaos and Whumpee barely had time to take it all in.

Now, it's quiet. It's dark and they're alone. And finally, they have time to let it all sink in. They curl up in the corner, grabbing their head as it all catches up with them, and they start to sob.

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“The deeper the wound, the more private the pain.”

— Isabel Allende, Paula

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I have a drabble of this partially written that I desperately want to finish but I'm kind of torn on how much I want to stray from The Game Canon Cutscene tbh

Once again thinking of the conversation with Feo Ul at the tail end of shb and just!!! Goddddd what a gutpunch of an offer tbh. Mimikk absolutely thinks about taking it, maybe considers it for a bit TOO long before being interrupted. Which lets her think on it a bit more before ultimately deciding that, no, she can't run and hide away from her problems. She can't leave the Exarch in the hands of Emet Selch. She fought so hard to not only return to her world but also to set things right in it. She can't leave her friends in the source behind, wondering what happened to her and the rest of the scions.

JUST!!!! Feo Ul and all the implications of their offer of yielding the throne to the wol.

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sometimes the moral of the story really is just "you cannot go back and what happened to you is going to be with you for the rest of your life. but it's still going to be okay" huh

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the thing is, i think horror needs to have a little love. it needs to have an obsession. does the parasite in your body love you? it raises you from the dead, it sustains you. this is its body. this is your body. does the haunted house feel intruded upon? is it hungry? what is hatred but adoration?

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big fan of characters who have it all under control when theyre put in situations but no idea how to be like a regular guy doing regular stuff when all is said and done.

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Once again thinking of the conversation with Feo Ul at the tail end of shb and just!!! Goddddd what a gutpunch of an offer tbh. Mimikk absolutely thinks about taking it, maybe considers it for a bit TOO long before being interrupted. Which lets her think on it a bit more before ultimately deciding that, no, she can't run and hide away from her problems. She can't leave the Exarch in the hands of Emet Selch. She fought so hard to not only return to her world but also to set things right in it. She can't leave her friends in the source behind, wondering what happened to her and the rest of the scions.

JUST!!!! Feo Ul and all the implications of their offer of yielding the throne to the wol.

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"...How did you come to adopt a gateon from the Great North." The question was flat, barely a question at all, with Azazel's gaze drifting to the cub sleeping peacefully in Pandora’s lap. The girl didn't seem to have a care in the world despite being so far away from home. And she was impossibly far, far too far for a child to have gotten all the way here on her own.

The draeke gave a sad smile, eyes focused on the child in her lap. "We found her in a cage being sold by some merchant when we were in Rohiren," Nimble fingers threaded through Solana's fur as she spoke, gently untangling leaves from the girl's coat from her earlier wanderings in the forest that day. "He insisted she was a normal lynx cub, but she had already spoken to us to ask for help. So we knew he was lying when he said he had no idea she was a gateon."

There was a pause.

"That and I sensed how scared she was before she even spoke. In a cage alone in some strange place she'd never been to before..." Azazel had never spoken much about his past but from what Atash had told her of early encounters with the young elf, and her own intuition, she had a sense he might relate with the girl's situation. It was not her place to pry into such a delicate topic, however. Be it with words or her own gift.

"And what of her parents? The merchant didn't-" He was cut off before he could finish the terrible thought.

"No, they were lost before the merchant 'found' her. The merchant had set a snare to catch something to eat while on the road back to Rashvina and caught her instead of dinner. She was too afraid to speak up that she wasn't just a normal lynx." A rare surge of fury darkened the ice draeke's features for a moment as the tale continued. "It must have seemed like quite a boon, until we came along and forced him to let him go."

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Ideas 4

Books and Reading in General

A whumpee who used to spend all their time reading, now that they are left in the dark, barren of anything, they only thing they have to think out is their pain or their predicament

Perhaps whumpee is some sort of study assistant for Whumper. They read aloud books after books for Whumper until their throat runs dry, is they mispronounce something, go to fast, anything like that, Whumper will strike them. They have to stifle their tears in order to protect the book, which is probably worth more to Whumper than them.

Bonus if they have to read it all in a foreign language they don't know, Whumper won't exactly teach them it either, they just expect them to learn through reading, even if it takes getting beat to get it through their head.

Whumpee caught reading through Whumper's newspaper or mail, they find a letter about them, their family or loved ones wanted them back, they didn't abandon them like Whumper had told them. They can't hold back their tears, but Whumper catches them.

"By the time I'm done with you, you won't remember how to read or write in the first place"

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you can keep going, you have always kept going, but also you can rest (you have always kept going)

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req'd by @localhellraiser

love the energy of this, truly

text: If you'd like to schedule a time for me to be nice to you, you can :) contact my manager

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“Please, please, you have to believe me!”

“Funny, I remember saying those very words to you once upon a time, when I needed your support. We both know what happened there.”

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I LOVE IT WHEN ENDINGS CIRCLE BACK TO THE BEGINNING!!!

I LOVE IT WHEN CHARACTERS MIRROR EACH OTHER!!!!!

I LOVE IT WHEN CHARACTERS SEAL THEIR FATES IN THEIR FIRST SCENES!!!!

I LOVE IT WHEN CHARACTERS' GREATEST TRAITS ARE ALSO WHAT DOOM THEM IN THE END!!!!!

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Blood loss? No I know exactly where it is

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let's go crazy and get covered in awesome wounds

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tshirt that says I ❤️ Violent Catharsis

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characters recognising a doppelganger/evil twin/shapeshifting imposter because they know the original so well is such a good trope