The concept of beating someone while they’re down.
Whumpee is in hospital for whatever reason, suffering from some sort of physical injury. They’re in pain, perhaps even being given light sedatives.
Whumpee has a visitor. And no, this visitor is not caretaker, not someone here to help them through the pain or hold their hand with well-meaning sympathy. This person is here to do the exact opposite.
They mock and taunt whumpee, perhaps they press cruelly onto a freshly-bound wound, or maybe they yank whumpee upright by their shirt.
Whumpee can do nothing but whimper helplessly, too weak to call out for help under the hands of their tormenter.
Better yet, perhaps this visitor is the same person who landed them in the hospital in the first place, come back to snigger at them and promise future ‘incidents’.
There are two major ways in which this could go. Either, caretaker walks in on the scene and flings into action with no moment of hesitance, or whumper is eventually finished and leaves behind a shivering, terrified whumpee as they walk off smugly.
in case anyone else needs to hear this it’s ok to be more serious. i don’t just mean ‘it’s ok to be serious sometimes’ i mean in general. not everyone has to be funny. it doesn’t have to mean you’re sad or unlikeable. you can just be serious and genuine most of the time and that’s great. i personally think that we’re too focused on ‘funny’ as the primary carrier of likeability right now. i often feel starved for serious conversation, for serious spaces, for a feeling of gravity. you don’t have make good jokes to give people a good time. i say, goof only as the spirit moves you, & don’t worry about it.
