#tropes
Thinking about the moment a character realizes for the first time that they are no longer in control of their own life.
Hands being cuffed for the first time. Feeling the weight of chains, their movement restricted by shackles. An unwanted touch they can’t flinch away from. Being manhandled, grabbed and pulled and shoved. The indignity, the humiliation of their body no longer being their own.
A simple slap across the face - maybe not even a particularly hard one, but a shock to the system nonetheless, especially for a character unused to violence, one who is used to being treated with dignity and respect. The real pain may come later, this is just a signal to put them in their place, to teach them who is in control here.
Being made to kneel before someone, realizing the power that person now holds over them. Knowing there is no way to run, no way to fight, no way to escape from this. Their blood running cold, realization sinking in.
They have no choice what happens next.
Their life no longer belongs to them.
blood in whump>>>
- blood seeping through bandages
- blood trickling out of someone’s mouth
- coughing up blood after chest trauma
- bloody nosesssss
- split lips after being punched
- a pool of blood slowly spreading under someone’s body
- blood glistening on the blade of a knife
- blood from a forehead cut
- blood slipping through someone’s fingers as they desperately try to put pressure on a wound
- Swap bodies with your greatest enemy
- Swap bodies with an animal
- Swap bodies with a god
- The only way to return to your body is to admit to the person you swapped with your deepest darkest secret.
- The only way to swap back is for one of them to die.
- The only way to swap back is to convince everyone else you swapped but most people aren’t inclined to believe it
- The only way to swap back is to kiss
- Swap bodies with someone you’ve never met
- Swap bodies with someone by feeding the same cat
- The only way for the hero to live is to switch bodies
- One person purposefully causes the body swap because they think the other person has a better life
- One person purposefully causes the body swap because they know the other person has a worse life and needs a break
- When you turn 18, you swap bodies with your soulmate for three days.