I Think I Just Found A New Whump Trope I Like - Tumblr Posts

Tell me why I’m just now learning about the Box Boy Universe?! I mean, I’ve been lurking around pet whump sometimes, but today I just saw a lot of BBU hit my dashboard and got sucked into a rabbit hole.

I’m still new to it, but my general understanding of it is that people are conditioned and trained, like pets, to be obedient and act in accordance to what their future owners will want. People get these boys in a box like mail and just have an adorably obedient whumpee at their doorstep. Like… omg how convenient and brilliant is that?!

You can focus on just the story aspect of the boy being dropped off at the door and then whatever happens after that with their new owner. Whether they’re really kind owners or sick and twisted ones. Or you can even go back to when they were first captured and forced to participate in the training programs to become a box boy/ pet.

Imagine if the box boy only behaved just to get out of the program and get a chance of freedom when they were shipped out. So when they get to their owners house, they either immediately book it, attack them, or are just incredibly disobedient and have to be sent back to endure more advanced training.

I’m so excited to read stories about this now, I feel like I just found a new fixation and I already have a few. I might even put my characters into an AU like this just for the hell of it because it sounds so fun to do.

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