#protective whumpee
I love self sacrificial whump.
I love when a character allows themself to be hurt when it’s preventable, not because of anything but that they’d rather them than anyone else.
I love when they take the load of multiple people on their back because it’s better one be hurt than loads. Even if that one ends up shattered.
I love the look of horror on friends’ faces when they realize what had been done. What had been done for them.And all the character can do is smile sadly.
I love when a character knows what they’re getting into. They know how much they’ll hurt. They know they’ll be begging and crying and pleading for it to stop. They know there’ll be parts of them that regret the decision. That wish they had left the others in the dust to suffer instead. They know they’ll likely never be the same again.
But they’ll do it anyway. For them.
When the whumpee gets beaten up while protecting the caretaker, and the caretaker helps them get home and patches them up. The caretaker helping the whumpee inside, and settling them on the edge of the bathtub. Them gently cleaning the whumpee’s wounds, and apologizing when they hiss in pain. The caretaker helping them to the couch as soon as they’ve finished patching them up, and them covering the whumpee in a blanket. The caretaker grabbing ice packs and putting them on the worst of the whumpee’s bruises, and the whumpee flinching at the sudden cold. The caretaker apologizing again, and thanking the whumpee for protecting them, and the whumpee thanking them for taking care of them.
