Abomination Does Whumptober 2023
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three clicks and i'm home by stillateenageabomination
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
07 Oct 2023
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He took a swig of gin, wincing, and then slammed the bottle onto the pavement. It shattered into a good dozen or so pieces. Tim grabbed a particularly large shard.
If this didn’t go how he thought it would, then he’d be pissing away the only lucky thing that’d ever happened to him. But then again, Mum’d always said that there was no shame in returning gifts that he didn’t want, so long as no one ever found out.
So this time when Tim killed himself, he was polite enough to do so quietly.
or,
Post Season 3, Tim wakes up. He's alive. This isn't supposed to happen.
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- Part 1 of Abomination Does Whumptober 2023
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i can see a tear on my father's face (before it falls) by stillateenageabomination
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
01 Nov 2023
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Casey blinked at the turtle. The adrenaline was already fading into a bone-deep weariness. “There are thermometers for ears?”
“There’s thermometers for many things, Casey Jones.”
“Like butts!” Leo whooped from the other side of the room.
Donnie sighed, pinching the bridge above his nose. “I detest the fact that he’s not wrong.”
Leo twiddled his fingers to an invisible air guitar.
Casey pressed his palm to his forehead. “M’head hurts.”
or, it's a Casey Jones Jr. sickfic, and it turns out that fever-induced delirium is not fun for someone who most definitely has not processed their trauma.
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- Part 2 of Abomination Does Whumptober 2023
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our lives are made in these small hours by stillateenageabomination
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012)
12 Nov 2023
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“No one talked to me, so I didn’t talk back. Maybe I should’ve, I don’t know. But I didn’t, and now when I freak out, I can’t. I didn’t talk in the cage, so I can’t talk when I go back there.”
“You don’t go anywhere,” Raph snapped. His voice had that bite to it that made Mikey wonder how his throat didn’t bleed. “You’re right here, alright? You’re not going back.”
“They took me out when you guys showed up,” Leo continued, as if Raph hadn’t spoken at all. “Dragged the cage out of the closet and unlocked it, put restraints on me before I knew what was happening. Then they shoved me around a bit, and I didn’t do shit. It was so much after so long with so little. I thought I was dying.”
or,
Leo after solitary confinement from getting kidnapped for six weeks. Being alone is tough. Being with brothers makes it a bit easier.
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- Part 3 of Abomination Does Whumptober 2023
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Talon felt surprisingly alert as he watched the Owls file in. They were each escorted to their table by a sharp-eyed Talon, one hand resting on their knife and the other keeping a firm hold on their charge. It reminded Talon of how Grandfather used to walk with him, when he wasn’t sure if he’d need to cut out Talon’s heart in order to keep him in check.
He used to be so, so bad. He was very lucky that the Court taught him to be good. Talon tried to remember that, even as his head got fuzzier at the sight of his opponent.
It was an owlet.
He was small, almost as small as Talon. His clothes hung off of him like a scarecrow. Angry, narrowed eyes flitted across the room as he was dragged forward by a Talon on both sides. His mouth was pressed in a thin line, but still he tried to bite the hands hoisting him up. Talon nearly cooed. He had teeth!
or, The Talon that used to be Dick Grayson is tasked with killing a street rat when a deal for the Court goes south. It doesn't go smoothly, but Jason's pretty grateful for that.
Series
- Part 4 of Abomination Does Whumptober 2023
- Part 1 of talonized and turned around
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the rest of our lives wouldn't sound so scary by stillateenageabomination
Fandoms: The Umbrella Academy (TV)
29 Dec 2023
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The kid stuck out a tongue, swiping the impressive fringe on his face away. Diego’s heart stopped. “Well, this loser just got a 91 on his Pre-Calc final, so eat it.” He threw his head back and shout-sang, “We-e-e-e are the champions, my friends!”
Holy shit, that was Five, and he looked like a fucking weeb.
Diego was vividly reminded of scene culture as he stared at the slightly-off version of his youngest older brother. Admittedly, it could’ve been a lot worse. The kid’s hair was dyed the same shade as the Five Diego knew and tolerated now, and some of his jewelry actually could’ve been regarded as cool, if it wasn’t clearly cheap plastic. He looked like the same not-age Five was now, just way more cringe.
“At times like this,” said the other, slightly older kid, dryly, “I hate that I even have to call you my brother.”
Diego’s chuckle died in his throat.
or, the Infinite Switchboard shows the Hargreeves a timeline where Five Hargreeves grew up not a Hargreeves, not Five, and not anything like the old man they know. The comparison is funny, until it isn't, because being reminded of what could have been is its own kind of torture.
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- Part 5 of Abomination Does Whumptober 2023
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it's like i'm half alive (but it's not your fault) by stillateenageabomination
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
22 Jan 2024
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“They’re kids.”
“They’re dangerous. You saw, as I did.”
“I am dangerous too,” Dagger countered. He let his crossed arms fall to the side. Jason immediately studied the man’s palms for hidden weapons. “I was dangerous, but when I appeared on your front porch, you did not force me to sleep in the holding cells. You brought me to my room. You regarded me as a person, though it’d been much time since I’d last been treated as such.” Dagger’s eyes hardened. “Do the same with them.”
Jason remembered, clear as day, being held down by his wrists with an iron grip while he was told in no uncertain terms that he was nothing more than a cloth monkey dressed up to dote on Talon. In a heartbeat, he could be replaced with a doll, so he’d better perform better than the straw-stuffed stacks they had lined up elsewhere.
Or,
Escaping the Court doesn't undo the years of conditioning in a single day. Things are hard, and Jason just can't figure out how he's supposed to act without fumbling the chance he's been given. For his sake and Talon's, he'll need to figure it out.
Series
- Part 6 of Abomination Does Whumptober 2023
- Part 2 of talonized and turned around
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if i get too close (and i'm not how you hoped) by stillateenageabomination
Fandoms: White Collar (TV 2009)
04 Feb 2024
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The kid in front of him didn’t suck in a deep breath in near disbelief or grow quiet with wide-eyed hero worship. He just froze, breathing practically nonexistent for far too long, and curled his shoulders inward. Damn, if Peter’d thought he’d been small before, then he’d need a microscope to find him now.
He worried his lip in a way that made Peter want to send him over to the dentist. Overbite city, here they came. “FBI’s like the Marshals, right?” he said softly, almost miserably. Shit, you’d’ve thought that Peter’d just told him that he was getting his tonsils removed.
“Pretty much," he lied. Well, it wasn’t really a lie. More like a stretched-out, kinda sorta warped truth. The taffy of truths. Wow. Neal was rubbing off on him.
He sighed, and it should’ve been a crime for someone to sound as disappointed as he did. “My name's Danny Brooks.”
Or, there's a kid in the office. Neal is missing. These are definitely two unrelated facts, and Peter totally won't suffer for knowing little to nothing about who Neal was before he was the Neal Caffrey.
Series
- Part 7 of Abomination Does Whumptober 2023
- Part 1 of wise head on young shoulders
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run for your children (for your sisters and brothers) by stillateenageabomination
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012)
13 Feb 2024
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In a flash, the mutant had Michelangelo pinned to the wall, one sword pressed against his throat close enough that the slightest twitch would send a waterfall of blood cascading towards the floor. His beady eyes narrowed into slits. “Where’s Raph?”
Oh. This – did not bode well.
Michelangelo held up a single trembling finger, pointed directly at Donatello’s one and only red-accented brother with anger issues.
The mutant didn’t even glance Raphael’s way. “Don’t bullshit me. Tell me where Raph is, or I’ll play tic-tac-toe on your kneecaps.”
“That’d be a hell of a game,” Michelangelo mumbled, and Donatello saw his life flash before his eyes. Not Donatello’s life, though. Michelangelo’s life. All the dumb shit his little brother had gotten away with; losing the T-Pod behind Donatello’s back, pulling daredevil stunts behind Sensei’s back, staying up late behind Leonardo’s back – Michelangelo did a lot of stupid stuff when people weren’t watching. He really did need constant supervision.
Or, 2018 Leo gets pulled away from the fight against the Kraang in the Rise movie that ends with Raph captured. When he shows up in the 2012 universe, he's not exactly in the best mood.
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- Part 8 of Abomination Does Whumptober 2023
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a bird in your teeth by stillateenageabomination
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
03 Mar 2024
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“Such an unfortunate color that you decided to take on,” Kraang mused from everywhere. He really was all that existed in the entire universe. His voice rumbled from the patch circling his waist and from the splotchy sensation swirling atop his tongue and from the streak stretching across his plastron. “You almost look just like me, Pest, only a touch too strong. I wonder how long it will take for the red to drain out as the rest of you has.”
Kraang’s armor plates veered closer, and Leo got to see firsthand in the reflection as his crescents were smothered underneath a pair of wriggling pink half-moons. They burbled on his face.
“Much better. What do you say, Pest?”
His mouth was stuck shut the first few times he opened it, but eventually he managed to swallow and rasp out, “Th – Tha-a-ank youuu.”
“Such a good Pest,” Kraang said, and his heart soared, because maybe it was time to play again, and maybe this time he could be even better, better enough to finally get that reward, until – “But not good enough.”
or, Leo is in the Prison Dimension for a while. It messes with him. 5 times Leo felt trapped +1 time he was exactly where he wanted to be.
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- Part 9 of Abomination Does Whumptober 2023
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a shot in the heart doesn't make it unbreak by stillateenageabomination
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012)
13 Mar 2024
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Stockman shrugged. The motion was casual, but Leo could see in his twitchy little eyes that he was as panicked as he ever was. “Zzz – ome of him may have been lo – zzz – t in the proce – zzz, but I completed my ta – zzz – k. He’ll gladly kill the rat now.”
He sat up like a shot. Clambering toward Stockman, he didn’t so much as walk as pounce, tackling the stupid bug in one quick move. He pulled him close, even as his hairy little fists pounded against his chest. “The rat? Where’s the rat? I need him, need to kill him – where is he – I know you know, I know you know, you told him so tell me where’s the rat?”
Stockman gaped, mouth opening and closing but not a word coming out. Leo growled and hurled him against the ground. He spasmed, trying to crawl away, but Leo planted a kick in his ribs to throw him off. He grabbed his squirming ankles and yanked them towards him, and when he was only a few inches away, he leaned into where the fly’s ears should be and screeched, “WHERE’S THE RAT?”
or, the Shredder uses the Brain Worms on Leo, not Raph, and he's a little more creative about it. Based on IDW's City Fall arc.
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- Part 10 of Abomination Does Whumptober 2023
- Part 1 of unbroken heart
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your grace is wasted on your face by stillateenageabomination
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
21 Mar 2024
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“Can’t,” Zuko grunted out, just as Katara pushed the cold compress closer. “Father says that if – if it’s my fault, I have to fix it myself. Asking for handouts after a tantrum is dishonorable.”
He’d said as much before, when the worst thing he’d shown up with was enough cuts on his knees to border the wrong edge of questionable. Sokka had never thought twice about the explanation. He knew that Toph’s parents had cut her off from time to time. Rich kid problems at their finest.
This time, though, Sokka took a good, hard look at the burns on Zuko’s arm. And he did something he’d never done before: he asked follow-up questions.
“How’d you get that burn, Zuko?”
Or, Zuko's made a habit of texting Sokka when he needs to be patched up. But when said patching up only ever happens in the middle of the night when his dads aren't home, there's only so much Sokka is willing to not question for the sake of someone he doesn't even know that well.
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- Part 11 of Abomination Does Whumptober 2023
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doctor, i can't tell if i'm not me by stillateenageabomination
Fandoms: The Magnus Protocol (Podcast), The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
22 Mar 2024
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If personhood is blue, like tears and the sky and the eternally expansive ocean, then what it’d been before was green. It is similar enough. At first glance, it can even be mistaken as its previous form. Blue and green, what difference does it really make? Now, however, it is yellow. The stretch from green to yellow is plausible, if daunting. It really isn’t such a wonder that it ended up here, if one really thinks about it. Yet looking from blue to yellow, it is nearly imaginable to think that they’d ever been one and the same.
Maybe it’d never been blue at all. It’s possible, really. There is a chance that its whole life, it’d deluded itself into believing wholeheartedly that it was blue, when really, it had been green. How would it ever know otherwise? It has only its own knowledge, and it believes that that can be tainted without hesitation, even withheld from it. It has been done before.
or, a look into .jmj error's mindset during the first ten episodes of the magnus protocol. personhood is difficult, especially when there is so much to question.
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- Part 12 of Abomination Does Whumptober 2023
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the sky is overcast and i'm sorry by stillateenageabomination
Fandoms: The Owl House (Cartoon)
31 Mar 2024
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“I was wondering when you were going to come back.” Her voice was light, teasing maybe. She wasn’t mad, even though her words could easily have double meanings enough to suggest as much. “What did you grab for lunch?” She turned, smiling, but her face paled at the sight of him. “Hunter?”
Hunter hadn’t brought his staff with him. Uncle had been particularly upset with him after his last performance review, as evidenced by the way Hunter’s collarbone still ached at any sudden movement. He’d wanted to make sure that Hunter wasn’t becoming overly reliant on the crutch. Still, he brought his fists up and sunk into a loose defense position. His lack of a mask made him feel exceptionally vulnerable, but he did his best to school his expression into something firm. “How do you know my name?”
“You’re so young,” she mumbled. She paused, then moved to stand so quickly that Hunter couldn’t help but flinch back. “Oh! Don’t be scared.” With a sharp grin, she added, “I only smite those who dare to oppose my loved ones!”
Or, pre-canon Hunter time travels forward to meet the post-canon Hexsquad. Things can't change, and they know that. That doesn't make it hurt any less.
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- Part 13 of Abomination Does Whumptober 2023
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breaking a boundary we used to break before by stillateenageabomination for Box_o_Ritz_Crackers
Fandoms: Hades (Video Game 2018)
21 Apr 2024
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Zagreus pushed forward. It wasn’t a conscious thought that had him wrapping his hands around Hypnos’s, stepping close enough that he could feel the pitter-patter of his breath on his lips. “I would love to drown my sorrows with you, Hypnos. You’ve quite the talent for raising my spirits.”
There was a moment when all that existed was Hypnos’s hands in his and the not-quite-heartbeat passing through one of them to the other.
Hypnos was a friend, and Zagreus loved him. Loved him like the sun loved the stars, smiling hello to equally twinkling beacons of light. Loved him like the shore loved the waves, like springtime loved the early morning. He did not love him enough to lean into that would-be kiss, nor enough to mean the easy teasing that fell from his lips.
He did not love Hypnos the way that Hypnos loved him. He’d never realized how strong that love was before today.
or, this time when Zagreus escapes the Underworld, he isn't pulled back. Past Lives AU of what comes next, emphasizing his relationships with Hypnos and Thanatos.
Series
- Part 14 of Abomination Does Whumptober 2023
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the subject of so much of your fear by stillateenageabomination
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
06 May 2024
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The son of a bitch had the nerve to monologue as his goons bound Leo’s hands together. “Phyllobates terribilis. The golden dart frog. An endangered species native to Colombia’s rainforests.” Someone stuffed a balled-up rag into Leo’s mouth. It tasted rank, but unlike the sicky sweet chloroform he was rapidly becoming familiar with. “It’s also known as the golden poison arrow frog, did you know that? Fitting name. After all…”
A gloved hand shoved Leo toward the tank as the cover was removed. Face mere inches away from the surface, Leo’s vision swarmed with hundreds of coiled, fanged serpents that writhed within the too-small confines of their tank. Cylindrical as Donnie’s various vats of chemicals, the tank almost seemed to shudder as its inhabitants pressed themselves against the sides.
“A single brush against its skin is enough to stop the heart.”
Something in the back of Leo’s head, primal and small, screeched at him.
or, Leo gets captured by the EPF. It wouldn't be too bad if Bishop, the head scientist, wasn't so intent on making his experiments so personal. Bishop's actions are designed to make Leo feel weak and inhuman, little more than a beast. The worst part? It's working.
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- Part 15 of Abomination Does Whumptober 2023
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Bruce tensed. It was small, imperceptible enough that most wouldn’t pick it up. Dick saw it coming a mile away. “You’re supposed to be taking down a smuggling ring in Tricorner.”
“Yeah, that’s exactly where you want me, isn’t it?” Jason's voice was calm, deceptively slow. Then it flipped on a dime, transforming into a cracking scream. “‘Cause if I was there, I wouldn’t have to see you put my brother in the fucking Pit!”
Pit. The Pit. The Lazarus Pit, noxious and intoxicating and everything Dick had spent years trying to forget, even as Jason showed up on his doorstep, unprompted, near tears, needing someone, anyone, to listen to his butchered, incomplete descriptions on what it was like to live drowning.
It melts you, he’d said once, wrapped in a blanket Dick didn’t remember owning. Brings you to your bare parts and builds you back up in a new form, again and again, until you forget that you ever used to be anything else. But it’s so cold, at the same time.
Dick didn’t feel cold or hot or angry or insane. He – didn’t feel anything, despite the heaving cries that choked him even now.
or, Dick dies. He gets better, but the Pit always has a cost.
Series
- Part 16 of Abomination Does Whumptober 2023
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gotta listen well (only matters how you'll sell) by stillateenageabomination
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, White Collar (TV 2009)
29 May 2024
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It was almost comical, the way that they both spun, wide-eyed, like a couple of cartoon characters. Processing the little details the way he’d been trained to do so for as long as he could remember, Dick caught the instinctual motion of Peter’s hand straying to his gun holster.
Catalina Flores smiled at him, her eyes drifting up and down his figure with what had to be a deliberately slow speed.
Dick’s breath caught in his throat, thick and tight. He flinched backwards and knocked into Peter. It was a small, almost imperceptible motion he was sure that not even Peter picked up on, but the way her grin widened told him everything. He found himself switching to emergency mode, planning out exit strategy and how to minimize destruction, but it was severely hindered by the fact that he couldn’t look away.
He’d torn his gaze off of her once. It’d been on that rooftop. As rain had beaten down on his already bruised body, he’d shut his eyes tight. Her acrylic nails on his skin had instantly left welts, even before she buried them in, deeper, asking for more and more and more, until he was just that dried-out husk she’d left him as.
or, while undercover as Neal Caffrey, Dick runs into Catalina Flores.
Series
- Part 17 of Abomination Does Whumptober 2023
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all of my roots help me choose who to be by stillateenageabomination
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
01 Jun 2024
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“We will be discussing your codependent tendacies at a later date,” Damian said, “but I’d like to reiterate my previous point; we are not solely products of our situations. What happens to me will not lead to the same reaction if it happens to you.”
“Why?”
Damian shut his eyes, if only for a heartbeat. He forgot, sometimes, how purely childlike Richard’s voice was capable of sounding. Because he was a child. And while other children expressed curiosities on how the sky was blue or where babies came from, Richard questioned why he wasn’t doomed to repeat the same mistakes of his elders.
“Because we are complicated,” he said, “and we are illogical. There is no set ending determined by our actions.” He took a breath and risked it. “What happened to Harvey Dent will not happen to you.”
or, there are parallels between what happened to Harvey Dent and what happened to Dick Grayson. There are parallels everywhere, really. Damian notices them for the first time.
Series
- Part 3 of talonized and turned around
- Part 18 of Abomination Does Whumptober 2023
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from charmin' to alarmin' in seconds by stillateenageabomination
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
20 Jun 2024
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“Tonight, I am going to get you so addicted to the sound of my voice giving orders that your will shall be but an extension of my own,” said the Shredder. “You’ll be the happiest you’ve ever been, and it will be because you’ve realized that you fit best underneath my boot. Loyalty won’t even be a question, because regardless of what I ask of you, you’ll cling on solely for the faintest possibility of recreating the pleasure you’ll experience tonight.”
Leo took in a breath. “Why are you telling me this?”
“Because even if you know, you won’t be able to fight it. In a matter of hours, you won’t care what I’ve done to you, so long as it means that I’ll do it again.”
or, while captured by the Foot, Leo's mind is experimented on. He is manipulated into feeling an artificial dopamine boost when he follows orders – specifically, when following the Shredder's orders. It doesn't take long for things to turn from bad to worse as the euphoria of total obedience leaves Leo wondering why he ever fought back against Master Shredder in the first place.
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- Part 19 of Abomination Does Whumptober 2023
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now i know your name (but not who you are) by stillateenageabomination
Fandoms: White Collar (TV 2009)
03 Jul 2024
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“Fish out of water.”
“Excuse me?”
“Think about it. You’ve got a kid on your hands who’s used to vanishing in the middle of the night like a bad magic trick. WITSEC means no close friends, no looking back, no risks. It’s not easy for someone so impressionable. Being yanked out of this constantly stressful situation all of a sudden’s got to be like waking up on a different planet.”
“What do I do about him, then?”
For all the searching and secrecy, all Peter ever wanted to do was keep Neal safe. Did he go about it in the perfect way every time? Probably not. But he’d keep trying until Caffrey was good to go, once and for all. He couldn’t stop, not when there was no one else looking out for him the way he was. He deserved to have someone in his corner.
“Give him a slice of normalcy,” Diana said, and patted him on the shoulder.
or, Peter cares for a de-aged Neal, learns far too much about his past, and helps him adjust – to varying degrees of success.
Series
- Part 20 of Abomination Does Whumptober 2023
- Part 2 of wise head on young shoulders