Me: *goes about my day normally then sees something that interests me*
Brain: *whispers* make it an oc
Me: uh. No. I have too many, I can't barely keep track.
Brain: but you don't have one like that
Me: damn, you're right.
Anonymous asked:
For Whumpmasinjuly day 19: send someone an ask about their whumpy fandoms or OC's
Respond with anything about them that you'd like!
redwingedwhump answered:
Is this asking me a question or directing me to ask someone else one? I am not sure. I am just a confused sloth plz.
Okay um, my whumpy fandoms or OCs…
I’m not really “In Fandom” but there’s various shows I like/d at different points. I am a sucker for Bucky/Winter Soldier whump.
I guess you could say my Whump Fandom is D&D. Dungeons and Dragons, but in a setting with less Poof You’re Fine healing magic. There’s rules for how to do that in the rulebooks or online, if you want to play a lower fantasy adventure but still use the D&D system (there’s lots of other Tabletop rpgs!)
But a lot of the OCs I have are D&D characters I’d never get to play in a tabletop game, not unless fate magically drops a phenomenal DM on my gang out of nowhere.
Brother Martin, for instance, is a pacifist. Which many more pedantic DMs will insist you “can’t do in this game”.
Micah( Not Written Yet) is a veteran soldier who became accidentally bonded to a possessed sword that is basically his whumper- it talks to him in his head. His quest is to find a way to destroy the evil thing. I’d need a VERY good DM willing to run that one.
Saith Edris is literally immortal. People who think the point of the game is to survive the DMs traps and plans which then means you “Win D&D” will claim this is “Cheating”. As if Saith gets any benefits out of having to survive everything that happens to him no matter what it is.
And on and on… So I write them because I have story ideas but no way to tell the story except to write.
We all know hair washing is criminally underrated in whump, but you know what
SO IS WOUND CLEANING
I mean so many great tropes can be used:
Caretaker having to cause Whumpee pain in order to help them. (Additionally, maybe Whumpee begs Caretaker to stop, but they have to refuse for Whumpee’s own good)
Whumpee not comprehending that they’re safe because if they’re safe why is there still pain?
Restrained Whumpee
Whumpee not connecting the dots that Caretaker is the one patching them up, and after hearing their voice, Whumpee begs them to “make it stop.”
Even if it’s not painful, it can be so, so intimate and lovely.
May I add on? This is a great idea !
- the caretaker talking whumpee through the whole thing in an attempt to calm them down
- disinfectant stinging long after applying
- good old DIY bullet removal, maybe with a knife
- gruff caretakers not coddling quite as much as they could be, the whumpee attempting to stay quite through the treatment
- No Painkillers™
- disoriented whumpee grabbing onto caretakers arms as they try to treat them, not fully aware that they're interfering and more focused on stoping the pain in the moment
- whumpee gripping the sheets, trying not to push away caretakers hands as they manuver through the painful treatment
And how can we possibly forget:
“Bite down on this.”
A lit of people think that worldbuilding exists solely to make epic, sweeping fantasy worlds to quest across, but it can create smaller, softer, mundane worlds to inhabit too.
You can worldbuild a small village. You can worldbuild a bookshop. You can worldbuild a jail cell, or a wishing well, or a single-parent household.
Not every story wants a grand scope.
and lemme tell you a secret I learned in art. You don’t have to fill in every inch of the background. Make the right suggestion marks and people’s minds fill in the rest.
Have Some details that help the world feel real, but you don’t have to have ALL details. And nothing I describe with pages of purple prose will be as cool as the place the reader imagines when I tell them this is a city by the sea, with a bustling harbor, wheeling seagulls, white plaster walls and terracotta tile roofs, and red geraniums in windowboxes at any inn or rooming tavern. This is an old tradition to help visitors, especially festive and maybe inebriated visitors, locate a place to stay for the night.
See? You filled it in. You can hear seagulls. I didn’t have to do much. Just some general visuals, some sounds, a mood, and a little cultural background on the details we might be about to interact with.
Anonymous asked:
For Whumpmasinjuly day 19: send someone an ask about their whumpy fandoms or OC's
Respond with anything about them that you'd like!
Is this asking me a question or directing me to ask someone else one? I am not sure. I am just a confused sloth plz.
characters that go through hell yet still believe in the goodness of humanity, still hope for the best despite everything, refuse to let darkness consume them because someone somewhere is always going to be good are literally my favourite, because they give me that little hope too
random-oc-questions-fairy asked:
You've been visited by the random OC question fairy! :D ~☆
How easy is it for your character to feel anger? What’s usually a good tip-off that they’re experiencing this emotion? (Physical reactions, movements of appendages, etc.)
redwingedwhump answered:
I’ve got Brother Martin in my head this morning so y’all get him.
He does his best not to let anger dictate any of his actions in his life as Brother Martin, because he used to be a very (justifiably) angry person all the time.
When he gets angry “now”, that is in his life as a Priest, his mouth becomes a tense flat line and his eyes go hard. People who notice details might see him reflexively shift his stance as if ready to move even while his shoulders drop slightly because he’s consciously forcing them to un-tense.
If he’s really furious you’ll see him breathing very deliberately to maintain full control of himself, or even clenching and unclenching his hands like he’s trying to convince them not to do what they used to do best.
The benefit of writing all the side characters as if they are the protagonists of their own story is a feeling of depth and richness to the entire cast and world.
The drawback is then you want to go actually write their stories.
men who are incredibly smart but also kind of terribly pathetic. men who are good with kids. men who get bullied by kids. men who eat glass. men who are so kind and pure-hearted but also just a bitch. bisexual men. most importantly, men who are dilfs .
Hey Saith.
whumpwillow
madrono-but-i-am-not-a-fruit
Me: *goes about my day normally then sees something that interests me*
Brain: *whispers* make it an oc
Me: uh. No. I have too many, I can't barely keep track.
Brain: but you don't have one like that
Me: damn, you're right.
