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Whump Prompts #48: Self-Sacrifice
CW:kidnapping, illness, curses, magic whump, self-harm, torture, experimentation, inhuman whumpees
Experimentation:
Whumper is draining whumpee A of blood for an experiment; whumpee B steps in so whumper can take their blood instead
Whumper has been experimenting heavily on whumpee A; whumpee B sees that A is declining quickly and offers themself for whumper’s experiment
Heroes and villains:
Villain has kidnapped sidekick and is torturing him; hero takes sidekick’s place, knowing that sidekick can succeed him as hero
Sidekick saves hero from villain’s attack and gets gravely injured; hero snaps but has to decide between attacking villain and taking care of sidekick
Villain kidnaps civilian and threatens hero with civilian’s death; hero rescues civilian knowing that it’s all a trap and villain just wants hero dead
Supervillain orders villain to kill hero; villain makes the fatal choice to save hero instead
Immortality:
Whumpee becomes a royal bodyguard; when whumper kidnaps the royal to execute them, whumpee volunteers instead, but neither the royal nor whumper know that he’s immortal
Whumper threatens whumpee’s team; immortal whumpee makes a deal: whumper will kill him once for every team member that was saved; only whumpee knows that he can only come back to life a certain number of times
Magic/curses:
Inhuman whumpee has their scales/feathers/blood etc. harvested for a spell to find others like them; whumpee decides to kill themself so the magic won’t work
Whumpee has been cursed and is very sick; caretaker can’t bear to see whumpee suffer and manages to shift the curse so they’re the one dying instead
Team whump:
Whumpee is on the run with a team and for whatever reason their affiliation with the group puts everyone in extreme danger; whumpee gives themself up to whumper to protect everyone
Whumper gives whumpee an enchanted dagger, telling him that his soul is the only thing that will save his team; whumpee stabs himself to save everyone
AMonthOfWhump’s March Event is: Mafia Madness!
Join us for a week of organized crime whump from March 14-20, 2022. Bring your crime syndicates, families, gangs, and let’s have some whumpy fun!
Important Event Notes: the prompts are not assigned to a specific day. You can use any prompt or combination of prompts on any day during the week of March 14-20. You can choose one for each day in an order that best fits the story you want to tell, or combine two or more in any fashion that suits your creative spark.
As always, any form of creation is accepted, whether it be writing, art, moodboards, cosplays, and more. Show us what you’ve got, whump community!
- Snitches and stitches
- Family business
- Vendetta
- Kidnapping
- Swimming with the fishes
- Assassination
- Rite of passage / initiation
Mafia Madness starts on Monday!!
To aid in your whumping, here are a bunch of prompts to jumpstart your creativity. If you want, combine one prompt from each of the three sections and see what happens! For extra fun, use this random number generator to draw a random prompt from the dialogue, whump fun, and character sections and write a story!
These prompts are free to use whether you submit to the anthology or not, but if you do use them make sure to tag us!
CW for implied torture and captivity
Dialogue
- “What a bloody mess”
- “Look what you’ve done, now I have to do laundry again”
- “Now now, don’t cry. I want to see that beautiful smile.”
- ”Let’s try to get that sound out of you again”
- “I thought you said you were going to be good for me?”
- “Please punish me.”
- “I told you to kneel.”
- “It’s been too long.”
- “I’ll never forget.”
- “You’re not hiding it as well as you think you are”
- “Shh be quiet. Do you want them to hear?”
- “Disappointing.”
- “Good. Good. Let it all out”
- “I thought we agreed never to lie to each other.”
- “One day you’ll thank me.”
- “That wasn’t part of the arrangement.”
- “How much?”
- “Run.”
- “Cute, do that again.”
- “You can do better than that.”
- “Don’t touch me!”
- “I just want to go home.”
- “It hurts.”
- “I hate you!”
- “Leave me alone.”
Whump Fun
- Vivisection
- Revenge is a dish best served cold
- Crunch
- Psychological torture
- A spark of hope
- Hysterical laughter
- Working for the whumper (you know, like there’s a caretaker that’s the whumper’s doctor, and they try to make it easier for the whumpee)
- Forced to whump
- Hiding
- Alien abduction
- Worthless
- Sold
- Whumpee is rescued. Or are they?
- Solitary confinement
- The Torture Room
- Hugs
- Breaking
- Haunted House
- Desert
- Lost at Sea
- Untrained medic
- Once upon a time
- Court Intrigue
- (Forced?) Bath
- Force of Nature
Characters
Here are a bunch of characters, now make them whumpers, whumpees, and caretakers!
- Ghost
- Cyborg
- Spy
- Doctor
- Knight
- Victorian gentleman
- Heir to the throne
- Wizard
- Healer
- Necromancer
- Immortal
- Political prisoner
- Hero
- Sidekick
- Villain
- Supervillian
- Civilian
- Mer
- Artist
- Farmer
- Academic
- Lighthouse keeper
- Vampire
- Werewolf
- Winged