May The Whump
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What if Cardan had not escaped the Coronation? What if the plot for the throne began in a different way?
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Hello Cruel Prince Fandom, I'm here to resume my efforts in creating a Hurt Cardan tag. I'm terrible at summaries but! Welcome to May The Whump - aka a test run series for my 2025 Whumptober prompt list :D - 31 days of Whump for your entertainment, just five months early :)
Day 1: Left for DeadSeries
- Part 1 of May The Whump
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Cardan is kidnapped and has an attitude about it. It goes fine, I'm sure.
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- Part 2 of May The Whump
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Cardan knew he was bleeding. He knew he would heal. Physically he would be fine. His wife, however, felt otherwise.
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Jude scolds Cardan for being reckless and getting hurt to save her. She tends his wounds.
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- Part 3 of May The Whump
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Jude was happy with Locke. She was happy with how the party went. With the outcome of it. Now she was late to her lessons and the wet sounding coughs and wheezes in the woods weren't helping her arrive on time. She said she was a monster. And then she came face to face with her enemy coughing blood on the ground.
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What if Locke's Garden Party got a little more violent than it does in canon.
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- Part 4 of May The Whump
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Jude asks Cardan to get medicine for a sickly Oak. The trip in the human world turns very wrong, very fast.
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Fantasy weapons are a given, what about guns?
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- Part 5 of May The Whump
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Aftermath of Cardan being cursed. Because I feel like we didn't see enough of the impact that took on him.
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- Part 6 of May The Whump
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We know about Grimsen's Bridle, what about Grimsen's Muzzle
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I invent a new, but similar, device to weaponize on our favorite dark haired faerie King.
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- Part 7 of May The Whump
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What if Cardan didn't actually bounce back after being saved from the curse?
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The ending chapters of QoN but Cardan can still feel his other body. Yes, While it's being eaten.
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- Part 8 of May The Whump
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They were here to relax with family. It wasn't meant to end with Cardan feeling water flooding his lungs and sinking to the sand below.
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Cardan drowns cutely in front of his wife, sister in law, and nephew <3
It might be one of their faultsSeries
- Part 9 of May The Whump
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When Cardan was a boy, he would sleep in the stables and pretend his family was looking for him. He would pretend that he had worth when he was every nothingness of a Prince. Now, he lay against the cold iron and knew that he was truly alone. No game to save him. No foolish hope. He was King and it all still meant nothing.
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The threats don't stop between Wicked King and QoN - what if for one of them Cardan was trapped in the worst thing for a faerie.
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- Part 10 of May The Whump
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An alternate way for how Cardan ended up in Hollow Hall as a child
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- Part 11 of May The Whump
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What if Balekin had planned for Cardan in the coronation? What if he tried to force his hand with bargaining and shame?
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Balekin does the third tag to Cardan <3
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- Part 12 of May The Whump
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In Wicked King we have the Wraithberry and everyone assumes he's just drunk. That could apply to several of the canonical items we know about. So I wrote one :)
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Deathsweet for the High King? Anyone?Series
- Part 13 of May The Whump
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An attack on the palace, a worried husband, an angry wife. To protect her, Cardan is glad of one simple fact. Blood cannot be seen against black.
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I stab Cardan right in front of Jude and she thinks the damage is much less than it is until it's too late :DSeries
- Part 14 of May The Whump
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In the wake of battle, a King may fall.
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Magic comes with a price. Always. So why do we always ignore that that includes the High King tooSeries
- Part 15 of May The Whump
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A gift. Only a gift. But things were never as they seemed. Cardan had said no. He'd see her death until he said yes.
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- Part 16 of May The Whump
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There was a benefit to Cardan always wearing the dark colors. The powerful lines of his body. The shape that he cut against everything else. The fact that his enemies would never see him bleed. Jude learns the hard way that black hides blood from allies as well.
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- Part 17 of May The Whump
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Jude returns to Hollow Hall for a second time. She finds something worse than she'd found the first time. And it still revolved around him.
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- Part 18 of May The Whump
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The revel was meant to celebrate a new court swearing allegiance to the High Rulers of Elfhame. The allegiance only came with a taint at the end of the night as well.
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- Part 19 of May The Whump
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What if Jude and Cardan had been caught while trying to build support with the lower courts? What if they'd been attacked? What if Cardan had shown his protectiveness before either of them knew what it meant? What if he paid the price.
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- Part 20 of May The Whump