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whumpbug · 6 months ago

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i hope you don't mind another prompt from me!!

i just have a thought in my head of Simon having to do emergency first aid on Archie while in a crowd. running it well, telling specific people to grab this kit, do this, all while keeping Archie calm while he's in pain and afraid.

(plus I feel like Archie would find Simon being so smoothly in control very soothing. Simon is here. he'll be okay because Simon is here.)

- @whump-kia

i will never mind a prompt from you kia you have the best ideas on how to torture these boys (≧▽≦)

this one is admittedly not my best work BUT it was still so fun to write and broke my heart seeing archie so overwhelmed BUT HIS HUSBAND BEST FRIEND CAME IN CLUTCH

also really quick, i just want to say that i decided on archie's alias during this fic. basically, since he never had a formal name, people just started calling him "the vigilante", and then just shortened it to "vigil" so his alias that the crimelords and civilians know him by is just simply. Vigil.

OK onto the fic!

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Apparently, Archie had died and woken up in a universe where no one knew what the hell personal space was.

He had been downed in the street. His first mistake was even pursuing a chase so openly in the middle of the afternoon with civilians everywhere, but he was just so close. One of the major names in the drug ring was right there, and he almost had him.

Until the guy pulled out a gun and fired practically point blank into his side.

Archie was lying on his back, gasping for air that would not come. There were hands on him, cold hands, rough hands, calloused hands, sweaty hands, and he wanted them all off.

He let out a low whine as he tried to jerk his body away, but he only succeeded inducing an intense jolt of pain, which caused him to curl up reflexively while the hands held him in place.

“It’s going to be okay dear, we’ll call an ambulance,” A woman cooed, gently patting his chest. Get off.

“Should we sit him up to get him some air?” A deeper voice said, hand grasping his shoulder. Don’t touch me.

“No way! Is that Vigil?! I heard my parents talking about him!” A smaller voice shouted, right next to Archie’s ear. Shut. Up.

Archie knew this wasn’t like him. He always strived to be the kind, empathetic, forgiving symbol of hope everyone expected him to be, but right now, he just wanted out.

His side hurt, his head hurt, everything hurt and every tiny movement sent him biting his tongue to avoid crying out. To make things worse, he could feel the blood leaving his body through the open wound, and it was.. not a pleasant feeling. Sticky blood was pooling below his lower back and his skin began feeling clammy and cold, and he knew he was losing precious seconds and where was Simon.

A familiar buzz on his wrist brought him slightly back to the present. It was his emergency signaling bracelet. It meant that Simon was on en route, if he recalled correctly.

Thank god.

Simon had probably been alerted to Archie’s vitals dropping to dangerous levels out of nowhere, and dropped everything to get to him.

He couldn't help the weak sigh of relief that escaped him. He was content to resigning himself to the torture of these civilians manhandling him, because he knew Simon would be there soon to make it better. All he had to do was wait as patiently as he could.

Until he felt fingertips grip the edge of his domino mask.

Archie’s identity was the one thing he had to himself. He went to great lengths to ensure that no one revealed it because it was the only way he was able to live a life as a civilian where people weren’t walking on eggshells around him. And it was about to be stripped away from him.

A strangled cry tore from his throat.

Suddenly, he was thrashing desperately, despite the seething pain, trying to get everyone off of him. Everything was too loud and too bright and he was so dizzy and people were touching his mask.

His bloodied hands flew up to his face, holding his mask down and batting away the offending fingers. He needed space, he needed air, he couldn’t breathe—

“Everyone stop crowding and back up. I’m a medical intern, and Vigil is clearly in distress. Give. Him. Space.”

Archie knew that voice. He could have sobbed.

The group of bystanders murmured, before shuffling out of the way and making room for Simon.

Simon’s scent whooshed past Archie and then settled as the bystanders gave the two a wide berth. He kneeled beside Archie, and immediately took off his sweater, balling it up and pressing it into his wound.

“Eyes on me Archie.”

Archie’s breath hitched. The world was spinning around him, whether from his hyperventilating or his blood loss or the pain, he didn’t know, but all that mattered was that Simon was here. He reached a clumsy hand towards Simon, whimpering softly. "Hurts.."

“I know, I know.. it’s okay.. I’m going to help you,” He hummed. He lifted the fabric lightly to get a look at the wound and winced. “Just.. stay awake for me, okay?”

Archie hummed noncommittally.

“You,” Simon pointed to the man from before. “I need you to go into that shop over there and check for a first-aid kit under the front counter. The ambulance won’t get here in time.”

The man nodded and disappeared behind the door.

“And you,” Simon motioned towards the woman. “Come here and hold pressure on this.”

The woman blanched slightly, but with Simon’s guidance, she was quickly situated with her hands pushing firmly on Archie abdomen.

The man came loping back with a small box in hand.

“I got it!” He shouted, tossing it to Simon.

The next moments went by in a blur. Archie saw Simon swiftly unwrap packets of gauze, and felt the strange sensation of them being shoved into his wound, but he was too focused on forcing his eyes open to give the pain much attention. It was kind of nice honestly. Not the pain, of course but seeing Simon handle everything so efficiently. Usually, Archie felt the need to be the one always in charge, always figuring something out to help everybody else.

It felt good to have Simon fill that roll too.

He was blinking in and out of consciousness now, but every time he’d look up, he’d see Simon’s face right there, steadfast as ever, and he felt just a little safer.

Eventually, he felt himself being lifted from the ground and held close to a warm body. He hadn’t realized how cold he was until he felt Simon against him. He heard Simon barking more orders at the bystanders, presumably telling them to get out of the way, and soon, he was nestled in the backseat of his car. It was finally, blissfully, quiet.

“Just stay awake a little longer Archie.. we’re almost there,”

“Hnnng..” was all Archie could manage.

He blinked, and the next thing he knew, he was being carried up the stairs and settled into Simon’s soft couch. The couch smelled of him, and he inhaled deeply.

Simon pulled up a stool beside Archie, pulling gloves over his already bloodied hands. “Just hold still for a bit, okay? I'll make this quick.”

Again, Archie was in and out of consciousness while Simon worked to clean, suture, and dress the wound in his side. It hadn't been too bad, just bled a lot. Luckily the bullet hadn't gotten stuck in it, and it missed anything super vital. Simon had numbed the area with gel before beginning (no needles, of course), so the pain was slightly more bearable (though not by much). Once it was over, Simon saw that Archie was flagging. He decided to take pity on him.

“Wait here.”

Archie’s head lolled to the side. This was getting ridiculous. How much longer was he going to have to stay up?! For as much emphasis that Simon put on getting rest, he sure wasn’t making it easy for him.

Suddenly, a straw was being shoved between Archie’s lips.

“Drink. It’s apple juice. Once you down the cup, you can go to sleep.”

He downed the cup, feeling exasperated and spent. His eyelids were already drooping by the time he got down to the last sip. He stopped fighting it, letting them flutter close.

The last thing he remembered before drifting off was a soft blanket being pulled up to his chin, and a hand slipping into his.

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#whump #whump prompt #whump community #sensory overload #bullet wound #blood loss #prompt fill #i feel like my writing was stale towards the end ;-;#but we must soldier on.#also the amount of inconsistencies these emergency bracelet things they have is astounding but ive elected to ignore it #simon and archie

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fastidious-and-a-mess · 2 months ago

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i think a lot about iwatex lore and story stuff outside its context of Video Game

like, it’s coded into the Video Game that kom always dies and there’s nothing you can do to save him. but in-universe? i don’t think fate or predestiny is a big thing here, bc it’s a time loop and sol’s whole life is different every time, so i often think about an In Universe fluke timeline, where something different happens and kom survives. anemone gets to grow up with her older brother and she doesn’t become a soldier and sol gets to see what it looks like for her to have a happy life.

and then it never happens again. sol can’t figure out what let kombucha survive in that loop, and they can’t ever recreate it, and he never survives again. that was the only loop where anemone was actually genuinely happy, and the guilt of its eats at sol in semi lucid moments of loop-awareness.

#and like. thinking about sol as their own character in this story instead of the player proxy #how they must feel every time someone dies #what their mentality must be like going into a life we the players might call a soldier route #i have so many thoughts #iwatex #i was a teenage exocolonist #iwate #iwatec #iwatex kom #iwatex anemone #truly one billion different ways to tag this. whatever

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redbean-nom · 4 months ago

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din djarin, age 10: clone wars refugee child

boba fett, age 11: in federal prison for destroying an entire venator while trying to kill mace windu

#star wars #din djarin #boba fett #redbean talks #meanwhile jango; age 14: the actual mand'alor #very funny to realize that din and boba are almost the same age #when you look at the difference in what they were doing for most of the clone wars #din at age ten was a small frightened child hiding from super battle droids behind a space dumpster(?)#boba at age ten was jangos copilot/getaway driver for jedi-hunting missions (and also an equally small child)#then three years later was a full blown crime boss and involved in human trafficking #i really want to see more of the mundane conversations about raising grogu #like among the mandos there's #din (children of the watch hardcore mando): i must teach my small son to shoot #boba (literally-lifelong bounty hunter raised in child soldier central): do you want recommendations for good starting blasters #bo katan: i asked the armorer to make a custom set of knives too btw #the armorer (already made armor for small son): dont you think he needs a flametrhower for his birthday #and then the Associates #they've got ig11 (trigger happy assassin droid); fennec (experienced bounty hunter who fought cad bane at age early-20s?)#krrsantan (crazy gladiator probably-madclaw); koska (tackled boba as an introduction); axe (stabbed paz over a game of chess)#and then. there is Luke.#imagine everyone pondering over how to modify a disruptor rifle to fit very small arms #(because boba's absolutely going to spoil his small green nephew)#and luke just in the background like 'maybe we should. not? give the preschooler a deadly weapon? this is not safe?'#din: eh he's smart he'll be fine #luke; fearing for his life: it's not him im worried about-

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pyrepostings · 9 months ago

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imagining a defiant interrogation whumpee who gets sick of saying "I'm not telling you" so they start going into what sounds initially to be them finally telling whumper what they want to know, but ends up being whumpee wasting time by just quoting a song.

#pyreprompts #whump prompt #I have a scene or two for Kevin specifically #'Why have I taken up arms against you you ask? Well #I was walking down by island bridge #Just rambling about- going as I please #That day was warm and there was such a gentle breeze #It was the month of April I believe #I strolled up by the monument then laid down in the grass #Then I heard a soldiers voice behind me. It said #Meet me at the pillar son meet me there at noon. I need you brave young Irishmen there's something we must do...#He said his name was Padraig Pearce and he just kept on calling me'#Meet me at the pillar is such a good song even if extremely call to action #But that's just been my vibe so youknow #Doesn't even have to be an interrogation really #'So what's with the red hair and green eyes combo? Isn't that a little on the nose for a fenian?'#'Well first off- it has been incredibly difficult to hide while trying to cross boarders you're right #Secondly that's just kinda what happens when you have a county cork mother and an ulsterman father.#It's just a horrid color problem I've been left with- this orange and green.'#I imagine Kevin specifically would take it as a challenge to 1. See how obscure a rebel song he can pull up and #2. See how long it takes for the other guy to notice not a word he is saying is actually true or relevant #The exact scenes I'm imaging are in a au idk if I'll ever actually post publicly #But I might write them as him messing around with Zander #I still need to post something with Zander maybe this will be it

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astrxxnxmy · 11 months ago

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My chaotic thoughts on Bucky in THAT What If episode because I haven't been able to get it out of my mind since I watched it

The scream I let out when Bucky first appeared though 💀

The intense eye contact with Peggy?? The way his gaze was so icy and emotionless while Peggy stared back in shock and sadness and then after, while talking to Howard, her voice shook.

(the drama is juicyy and i am all here for it)

And how he looks down when Hope says "Peter deserves our help as much as anyone." baby :( oh baby no someone give him a hug :(( and the help he clearly needs :(((

"It's just you and me, pal." "There is no me." BUCKY. BUCKY.

"You don't know me." AKSJKSFGHKS (that growl though)

"Steve Rogers did." THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT-- and the way Bucky's eyes widened. He knew, he recognized that name, he remembered, if only a little bit.

"And the man he knew, the friend he loved, would never take that shot." THE FRIEND HE LOVED IM SCREAMING I CANT DO THIS TODAY

PLUS HIS HESITATION JUST AT HEARING STEVE’S NAME GOD

THE WAY HE THEN BROKE FREE FROM THE PROGRAMMING AND WENT ON THE RUN TO REDISCOVER HIMSELF JUST LIKE AFTER CATWS

"The Winter Soldier may be out there, but I'm pretty sure Bucky Barnes is out there with him." 😭❤️

#im convinced some of these writers definitely read some post-catws fics because wow #that was some good shit #us bucky fanatics just keep on winning dont we?#stucky fans too LMAO this episode was so stucky coded i cannot #STEVE ISNT EVEN IN THIS #steve rogers: saving bucky from hydra's brainwashing in every universe even when he literally isn't there 💀💀#i screamed way too much watching this episode my family must be so very tired of me #bucky barnes #marvel what if #what if season 2 #mcu #what if spoilers #marvel mcu #marvel #stucky #the winter soldier #peggy carter #howard stark

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boomhe4dshot · 1 year ago

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Alright i've had it

🚨 Attention TF2 enjoyers 🚨

Ex: medic tf2 or tf2 medic

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01x69homo · 7 months ago

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i remember seeing sandman way back when it was released and thinking "wow, the superwholock era of tumblr would've eaten this UP" and now there's a series set in the same universe where a pair of space-and-time(?)-jumping ghosts solve mysteries produced, developed and written by steve yockey and produced by jeremy carver and yeah. i rest my fucking case

#dead boy detectives #i've watched like seven minutes and i gotta say steve. it's not looking good #there's so much useless and clunky exposition akdkkfjf #''we gotta hide before death comes and reapes him. or she'll reap us too. that's her. that's death.''#[a woman appears clearly intent on reaping this soldier's soul] like my guy you must realise that your audience has braincells right. right #that's what writing for supernatural does to you ig fs in the chat #edit: ruth connell has entered the equation....... passing away now

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lewmagoo · 7 days ago

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the constant state of fight or flight that i have been in all day…good lord

#only thing getting me through any of this is the hope for the weekend #and then after that i will enter fully into the depths of despair #🫡#we must soldier through ladies (gn)

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sailorsleepymoon · 1 month ago

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Whole squad is in the discord vc except the one transfem friend before dnd starts and one of them refers to her using they asking if anyone knows when she’s coming. and you go. She said she’d probably be here but someone should message her :) also I noticed that we’ve all been using they/them for her but I checked her pronoun roles in a different server we’re all in and the only ones she has are she/her :) so we should proba

And you get cut off by the person who said it and one of the other people going “OH well I use they/them for everyone” and “yeah I just kinda always default to they/them” and “yeah same I just always use them” talking over each other and

And the impulse to bring out your academic essay from sjw university hits. There is the sharp impulse to go 🤨 you guys using they/them for her when we know her pronouns is degendering her and ultimately feeding into the larger structure of transmisogyny and

you ignore it and say ok well I think :) we should try anyway 💕 to use her right pronouns

And there’s the quiet consensus of like yeah ok that’s fair that’s true. and she joins the vc three seconds later

#ven.txt #the one other nb person in the group did go like oh you’re right that’s fair when I said it #so shoutout them they’re a real one #but I really did not expect the jump to defensiveness from the two friends !!! one of whom was not even the one who said it then!!!#and like the whole group has done it to the point where I once started using they for her because I thought I must be wrong #but I checked her roles and no it was she her. weeeee #but the immediate defensiveness really gets me!!! I had to be like noooo it’s not just you doing it ok haha everyone has #and the one who hadn’t even said it that time was the other who jumped to defensiveness is my boyfriend 😭#so I do need to talk to him about that but I don’t know when that’s gonna happen #since he’s been really struggling and feeling like shit recently #and somehow I don’t think going hey honey can we talk about how some of your actions are influenced and reinforce #the societal structure of transmisogyny? while he’s already doing poorly will go well #and like. oooooo I wanted to be the Soldier Ally who Explains Their Transmisogyny so bad in that moment I wanted to be the white knight #and there is a world where I confronted them and did that #but in this one I went. I don’t want to start a fight before dnd #and I don’t want her to join vc to hear us arguing about her pronouns and about transmisogyny when she’s the only tma person #and so I did not start a fight.#anyway. hope my boyfriend does not see this lmao #but he usually only looks at the posts I send him #uh if he does see this. I know neither of you had malicious intentions or wanted to be hurtful or anything #and I’m not trying to say that you are anything I just think that like #growing up in a transmisogynist world makes you absorb some stuff and some habits without realizing it #and that you should maybe be a little more careful and aware of your actions and thoughts and like how they could be influenced by that #anyway. weirder to experience the situations when you can put a name and systematic influence to the things happening when b4 you couldn’t

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lesbianralzarek · 9 months ago

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why does every article reporting on idf war crimes go "hamas, who started the war on october 7th with their brutal terrorist attack slaughtering innocent israeli civilians, has condemned the idf's use of-"? like, nearly verbatim every single time. we know about october 7th. we know by now. half the time, hamas isnt even relevant but they gotta find some way to sow doubt and numb any potential compassion responses. will you get fired if you show sympathy for murdered palestinian civilians without first adding a disclaimer saying its all their fault for being born in gaza? if you call "palestinians under 18" children? if you use the words "murdered" or "brutal" or "massacre" for acts that didnt occur on october 7th? if you call a spade a spade? why are israeli reports front page news without proper fact-checking but palestinian reporting is always "allegedly" even when theres video evidence? why does the idf not get the hamas treatment of reminding everyone that theyre biased before treating their words as law, like they havent been caught bold-faced lying again and again?

#soooooo fucking infuriating #'palestinians are allegedly starving but thats what hamas (who are savage terrorists in case you forgot) said as well so who knows?'#'idf soldiers are allegedly bragging about and showing pictures and videos of their war crimes on social media but #its not in english so we may never know what theyre saying. palestinian ''civilians'' are translating so whatever they say must be wrong'#'in other news. heres what ''doctors'' are referring to as a ''calendar'' but is written in arabic (terrorist language) so the idf must be #telling the truth when they say its proof they are all evil and must in some nebulous way suddenly stop living'#to be fair. the 'secret hamas names list disguised as calendar but REALLY about oct 7' shit was the target of skepticism quite early on #but it really does show how often the idf lies to justify obvious war crimes #maybe they should provide verified evidence or even just be given a bias disclaimer before printing their claims as fact???#every single fucking death toll is phrased as 'hamas-run ministry of health reports death toll of x' like?#yeah? thats their fucking government? what else do you expect?#you do understand that the healthcare portion of their government is probably more reputable #than what the phrasing of those headlines are obviously trying to imply?#i understand that bias is still possible there but its not armed combatants making shit up #its doctors who receive govt paychecks doing their best to identify the disfigured bodies not buried under rubble #youre not slick with that wording

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omens-daughter · 1 year ago

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just a lil reminder that Judicators and K'Nauth had a choice about defacing themselves and becoming vessels for their gods

the Ruidusborn Exaltants? who all felt fated to be in the Hellcatch? y'know, the ones like Imogen who are developing scars and physical disfigurement by just existing?

they didn't.

#critical role #cr speculation #the ruby vanguard #cr c3 #exu calamity #judicators #ruidus #predathos #my autism brain cant handle this #some gods? not great #ludinus da'leth? worse #the thing that eats gods and corrupts all life it touches and ACTUALLY robs people of their free will? worse #the soldiers of the Dwendalian Empire have done the same shit as the Pelor guys in Hearthdell #people rightfully hate the empire because of it #they dont want to kill all the people of wildemount though #that is the equivalent analogy #ludinus is a bastard but we dont wanna kill all elves #pelor is a bastard? now every god must die. thats just how it has to be #brother #did we forget that that temple was built 30 years prior?#did we forget that it was built there because a mill paid the church to be there?#i dunno man #“my faith is in people”#really seem to forget all the people getting hurt by the ones trying to kill the gods #but hey #whatever #who am i to say anything

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lampternfish · 1 year ago

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Hello, hi

This is unusual for a shark fortress 2 post

But

IM MAKING A DTIYS!

Feel free to tag me n stuff, any medium is cool, go wild, go crazy, hell draw him in a skirt thats intrigueing, maybe even turn him into desmos calculator art.