John Sheppard Whump

[Steve Austin]

That's Sharpe's Sword. The book's better, in that it takes him slow weeks to recover, and that stupid girl isn't in it. I mean, you shouldn't really go from death's door to romping with some stupid girl and curing her muteness through the manly power of your loving, all in about five minutes.



Pine Bluff Variant. (Wow. Over ten years since I left the fandom, and I still know the names.) I would love to have seen Sheppard undercover, having to stoically endure some painful test of his loyalty.

I also love the situation from Folie a Deux, when Mulder could see this creepy monster thing (an enormous, vaguely insect-like thing, I think, that crept across the ceiling) but no-one else could, and he ended up strapped to bed in a hospital since everyone thought he was crazy, while the monster was creeping in through the open window to attack him. Lovely angsty, whumpy scenario.

One situation I love from a book comes in my favourite series of novels, The Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett.

Spoiler:

In one scene, the hero is undercover and in disguise, and he becomes aware that he's been poisoned, but he can't give any sign of knowing this since it'll blow his cover. So he has to endure the rest of the evening, acting as if nothing's wrong, knowing that his poisoner is present, but also desperately drinking anything - alcohol, oil etc - to try to purge his system. Then he goes home alone to sit out the agonies, finally able to lay aside the masks and show his pain.

And, yeah, I totally stole this scenario for Shep in a certain AU I wrote... I really should write more undercover!Shep, since I've really enjoyed the two I've done.

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really?! and that would be.....fic names? please.

that was something like the 007 poisoned scene at Casino Royal....nice one!

[Strey]

I've always said I'd love to see Sheppard get whumped a la O'Neill in Solitudes.

What season? And - what happened? And - should I fetch my drool bucket?

[Strey]

Hey there Strey!!!!


yep! he is ready for anything! you remembered his name!

I did, didn't I. *pats self on head*
You mentioned that broken finger whump for Mulder, right? Ew! Makes me cringe. Hate knuckle cracking, too. Would I like that for Shep? Noooo... although if it results in a spot of yummy grimacing or better still, a scream, I guess I'd just have to block my ears from the hideous snapping sound.
As for anyone breaking into my home - I've got kids, so - loads of toys lying around, death-trap style. Yes, I could and would shoot intruders, but I'd rather see them trip over a skateboard and pile headfirst down the basement stairs.

[Ruffles]

What season? And - what happened? And - should I fetch my drool bucket?

I think Solitudes is in S1 of SG-1. O'Neill and Carter are accidentally transported to the wrong gate. When they go through, they fall hard. O'Neill breaks a rib. They are actually in Antarctica though they don't know it, so they are freezing. He's bleeding internally and gets weaker and weaker.

Another O'Neill whump I'd LOVE to see for Shep is Abyss in S6 where Ba'al catches him and repeatedly tortures him by killing him and reviving him in the sarcophagus.

[pilgrim soul]

Oh, yes! (Have you seen NF's new show? I love it!)

I haven't but I've been hearing good things, with most of my shows coming to an end in the next few weeks I've been thinking about seeking it out, hopefully it'll give me something to watch while I wait for the new season of.... um... no they've pretty much cancelled all my shows.

[pilgrim soul]

I think Solitudes is in S1 of SG-1. O'Neill and Carter are accidentally transported to the wrong gate. When they go through, they fall hard. O'Neill breaks a rib. They are actually in Antarctica though they don't know it, so they are freezing. He's bleeding internally and gets weaker and weaker.

Another O'Neill whump I'd LOVE to see for Shep is Abyss in S6 where Ba'al catches him and repeatedly tortures him by killing him and reviving him in the sarcophagus.

Ooh good call, I liked that one a great deal.

[shepsgirl72]

I did, didn't I. *pats self on head*
You mentioned that broken finger whump for Mulder, right? Ew! Makes me cringe. Hate knuckle cracking, too. Would I like that for Shep? Noooo... although if it results in a spot of yummy grimacing or better still, a scream, I guess I'd just have to block my ears from the hideous snapping sound.
As for anyone breaking into my home - I've got kids, so - loads of toys lying around, death-trap style. Yes, I could and would shoot intruders, but I'd rather see them trip over a skateboard and pile headfirst down the basement stairs.

Ewww. Finger snapping whump! Reminds me of the whumping Harrison Ford got in Bladerunner. Ouch! But yeah, if it makes Shep scream, maybe I could just about stomach it...

We're supposedly allowed to use reasonable force to defend out homes. If they have a gun, then by law you can shoot them in self-defence. If they have a knife, you can stab them in self defence, at least I think that's how it works, the law's a bit vague.

Personally, I wouldn't bother waiting to find out before beating the crap out of them with a rolling pin. I'd rather know my kids were safe than spend the rest of my life wishing I'd acted. I'm a vicious begger when it comes to protecting my family.

[shepsgirl72]

I think Solitudes is in S1 of SG-1. O'Neill and Carter are accidentally transported to the wrong gate. When they go through, they fall hard. O'Neill breaks a rib. They are actually in Antarctica though they don't know it, so they are freezing. He's bleeding internally and gets weaker and weaker.

Another O'Neill whump I'd LOVE to see for Shep is Abyss in S6 where Ba'al catches him and repeatedly tortures him by killing him and reviving him in the sarcophagus.

I love both 'Solitudes' and 'Abyss'. We see a kind of desperation in O'Neill we haven't seen before in 'Abyss', when he practically demands that Daniel breaks the rules of the Ascended to save him. But Daniel insists on playing by the rules and quietly supporting him through the torture, promising him that help is on the way. Very intense scenes.

[rhymer]

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really?! and that would be.....fic names? please.

that was something like the 007 poisoned scene at Casino Royal....nice one!

(Behind spoiler tags for shameless promotion of my own stories.)

Spoiler:

The fic for which I totally stole that "poisoned while undercover" scenario is my second eighteenth century historical AU: The Price of a Pardon. You need to read The Pirate's Prisoner first, though. Warning: they're not short (the first one's 42,000 words and the second is longer), but there are pictures! (I got to indulge all my happiest dreams of drawing Sheppard in 18th century clothes.) And he gets whumped in lots of eighteenth century ways, like sword fights.

If you like stories in which Sheppard's undercover, that's the main premise of another of my long stories: Practise to Deceive.

I did, didn't I. *pats self on head*
You mentioned that broken finger whump for Mulder, right? Ew! Makes me cringe. Hate knuckle cracking, too.

Yeah. I don't really like the finger breaking in that X-Files episode, but I do like the actual scenario - Mulder having to stoically endure pain, and not giving away the fact that he's undercover.

I'm a bit weird, whump-wise, in that I'm not actually a huge fan of any broken bones, except for ribs. It's certainly not a thing that turns me off a fic, but it's not my first choice.

I think Solitudes is in S1 of SG-1. O'Neill and Carter are accidentally transported to the wrong gate. When they go through, they fall hard. O'Neill breaks a rib. They are actually in Antarctica though they don't know it, so they are freezing. He's bleeding internally and gets weaker and weaker.

Another O'Neill whump I'd LOVE to see for Shep is Abyss in S6 where Ba'al catches him and repeatedly tortures him by killing him and reviving him in the sarcophagus.

Ooh, the first sounds great. The second... possibly, depending on how it's done. I'm not a fan of magically healing injuries. I want all the friends back home to see the results of the hurt, so I'm never that happy with stories in which Sheppard is horribly hurt, but healed up magically by the time his friends find him. Whump aint fun unless it has witnesses.

I guess I ought to watch SG-1 one day...

[shepsgirl72]

Ooh, the first sounds great. The second... possibly, depending on how it's done. I'm not a fan of magically healing injuries. I want all the friends back home to see the results of the hurt, so I'm never that happy with stories in which Sheppard is horribly hurt, but healed up magically by the time his friends find him. Whump aint fun unless it has witnesses.

I guess I ought to watch SG-1 one day...

He does suffer before the resuscitations, knives, acid, etc. and he's aware that if he goes in the sarcophagus too often it will alter him, so it's pretty goood whump, all in all. If the team had been forced to witness it, yeah, it would have been even better.

[Vecturist]

SA Yes, this flu is scary - we have our first confirmed case in AZ. I like your pic though - my cat would simply shred the mask.

[Alipeeps]

I also love the Colony/End Game episodes of the X-Files, that start with Mulder rushed into a hospital in the Arctic, hypothermic, and ends with a slow montage of ever-decreasing tubes, while Scully does a bedside vigil. Oh, and Beyond the Sea - getting shot in the thigh, and blood splattering.

Oh! Sharpe's Sword, as discussed recently (though the book's better.) Shot in the belly, mistaken for a common soldier and dumped in the dying rooms, but nursed back to health by faithful side-kick who's moved heaven and earth to find him.

I also remember a rather lovely fever from an arrow wound in an old episode of Robin of Sherwood (the Jason Connery years) which I loved when I was about 13.

Oooh as soon as you mentioned The X-Files I thought of the ep Beyond the Sea (one of my absolute fave Mulder whump eps!) but you beat me to it! Particularly loved in that ep the scene of Mulder being rushed into theatre and Scully, on the verge of tears, watching from the sidelines as the drs shout stats and rush around him etc.

Other good whump:

Cooper in Twin Peaks, getting shot in the stomach and left lying helpless on his hotel room floor, unable to reach for a phone or anything to call for help.

No 6 in The Prisoner, in the episode (can't remember the name) where he is abducted in his sleep and subjected to mindwashing to try and convince him he isn't who he thinks he is (to get him to reveal what he knows) and he's struggling to hold onto his identity and make sense of what's happening to him.

Sharpe (again!) in ummm... I can't remember which book/episode it was... where he gets shot (in the shoulder in the book, in the knee in the TV episode) by a woman who thinks he and his friend are bad guys coming into her house.. and then is of course filled with remorse and nurses him back to health.

Oooh and the last episode of Season 1/First episode of Season 2 of Supernatural, with Sam and Dean injured in a car crash and then Dean in a coma from head injuries but wandering around the hospital as a "spirit" and seeing his brother keeping vigil at his bedside, hoping for him to recover etc.

[Vecturist]

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No 6 in The Prisoner, in the episode (can't remember the name) where he is abducted in his sleep and subjected to mindwashing to try and convince him he isn't who he thinks he is (to get him to reveal what he knows) and he's struggling to hold onto his identity and make sense of what's happening to him.
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Oh I can just see Shep shouting, "I am not a number!"

[Strey]

I think Solitudes is in S1 of SG-1. O'Neill and Carter are accidentally transported to the wrong gate. When they go through, they fall hard. O'Neill breaks a rib. They are actually in Antarctica though they don't know it, so they are freezing. He's bleeding internally and gets weaker and weaker.

Another O'Neill whump I'd LOVE to see for Shep is Abyss in S6 where Ba'al catches him and repeatedly tortures him by killing him and reviving him in the sarcophagus.

Ah, yes. O'Neill deteriorating much like - spoilered for Season 5 -

Spoiler:

Sheppy in S&R.

Yep. As for Abyss in S6 - haven't got there yet, but might just check it out ahead of time, much like Memento Mori for Cam per a rec here. Might. After all, it's not our boy. Anyway, thanks!

[maggs]

Let's just say a toy and leave it at that...

Congrats on 300! You get a Shep clone!

LOL - if it's what I think then that would do the trick.

Thanks for the congrats. It is actually quite exciting. Now about that Shep clone... where does it come from? I'm patiently waiting...

I like the idea of some attractive native on the Planet of Broad Glaswegians offering Sheppard a Glaswegian Kiss. He'd certainly get more than he bargained for, but we whumpers would be pleased.

Talking of Mummerset Yokels reminds me of the film 'Hot Fuzz'. Ooh, that soft accent can lull you into a false sense of security. Yaarrrp.

Had to look up Glaswegian Kiss and you made me laugh. We would be pleased. Why did that never happen in SGA? He never gave or received one. Either would have been cool. He should have been explaining to Ronon what a head butt is and then in their next conflict taken the opportunity to demonstrate on an enemy... with painful results.


Ruffles thanks for posting those whumpy pics/quotes. They are perfect.

All this talk of accents in RL and in SGA has been very interesting. I started to quote but it just too much. So I'll try and cover as much from memory.

SA - sorry to hear about the latest craziness.

Thanks to everyone who mentioned my milestone. I know 300 is not alot compared to many others but I've had such a good time racking up those posts so thanks for letting me be a part of the whumpy fun.

Oh and I think I said I'm not allergic to anything but I did forget that I am allergic to the adhesive on band aids. I know a bit strange. It became apparent every time I gave blood. I'd get the rectangular raised itchy red areas on either side of the injection site. I avoid bandaids when at all possible and if I need to use something I grab the paper tape. OK no where near as dramatic...