whump-a-la-mode:

  • Whumpee chained to their lab desk, working as the chain clinks with their movements
  • Whumpee being forced to keep up with ridiculous schedules, Whumper demanding impossible results in impossibly little time
  • Whumpee being monitored and abused by the guards in their own lab
  • Whumpee being forced to experiment on their friends
  • Whumpee sitting alone at night, after they’ve been locked in their cell, stitching up their own wounds
  • Whumpee working themself to exhaustion until they collapse in their lab, on their feet
  • Whumpee being held captive in their own lab, now taken over by Whumper
  • Whumpee being forced to go to conferences, pretending everything is okay, with Whumper by their side the whole time
  • Maybe Whumpee was once a mad scientist, a danger. Now, they’ve been captured, and the heroes intend on making them work. But, what if the heroes aren’t so nice after all?
  • Whumpee being beaten and reminded what a monster they are, and that this is the only way they can ever be worth anything to the world
  • Whumpee being forced to watch as their work is destroyed and they have to start over
  • Whumpee being too traumatized to ever return to their profession, trembling at the very sight of a beaker