What is the worst thing you've done to your characters?

When Veronica was still human, she was married off to a man four years her senior at the age of fourteen. When she became pregnant two years later, she found out he was having an affair with a Faerie servant and impregnated her as well. She was heartbroken yet didn't do anything about it (considering the fact that she was a girl in the B.C era). However, she couldn't suppress that feeling for long when she miscarried while the Fae woman bore a child for her husband. Her heartbreak quickly turned to rage and what she did to them, all three of them, was so vile and wicked, she created her own organic darkness-darkness that destroyed her humanity and turned her into the creature she is now.

Daniel was raped eighteen hours straight by fifteen Cloaker soldiers during one of his shifts as a prostitute. As siren males being the one who carry children, he became pregnant after it but proceeded to abort the child. He hasn't yet told anyone of this incident and doesn't plan to.

You are almost as bad as Lori. Lemme tell you kids something. (Please pardon my insensitivity if you have experienced sexual assault.) Rape is a big deal. A huge deal. For the love of everything that you hold sacred do not use sexual assault as a plot device for a tragic backstory. Please just don’t. Unless you have had the misfortune to have any experience in the matter you do not understand the impact. I realize that in this culture we can use death as just another tool in our belt to produce our craft. I also realize that we sometimes have to dig deeper to find good horror and tragedy. But please. Do not have such disregard for something as hideous as rape to easily use it as a plot device.

Deadass not many people are using rape as a plot device.
And, as for my characters, I use my personal experiences and escalate them by a lot to kind of cover everything up. It's a great way to express myself without revealing the truth. I'm sure other people do that too.
And yeah, some people overuse rape. They don't know any better. If it bothers you that much, block them or just do something so you're not reminded of it.
The whole point of this forum is about the worst thing that has happened to our characters. Not the whole idea of our novel. Just saying lmao

You are almost as bad as Lori. Lemme tell you kids something. (Please pardon my insensitivity if you have experienced sexual assault.) Rape is a big deal. A huge deal. For the love of everything that you hold sacred do not use sexual assault as a plot device for a tragic backstory. Please just don’t. Unless you have had the misfortune to have any experience in the matter you do not understand the impact. I realize that in this culture we can use death as just another tool in our belt to produce our craft. I also realize that we sometimes have to dig deeper to find good horror and tragedy. But please. Do not have such disregard for something as hideous as rape to easily use it as a plot device.

Amen to that

Speaking as someone who's been a victim to sexual assault, it is kind of a big deal. Write it like you're showing the world how terrible these people are, don't just keep it in the back and in the shadows. Have characters come out about the fact, have them take a stand for themselves. It's something I was never able to do, and I really regret not getting the chance to tell someone sooner.

You are almost as bad as Lori. Lemme tell you kids something. (Please pardon my insensitivity if you have experienced sexual assault.) Rape is a big deal. A huge deal. For the love of everything that you hold sacred do not use sexual assault as a plot device for a tragic backstory. Please just don’t. Unless you have had the misfortune to have any experience in the matter you do not understand the impact. I realize that in this culture we can use death as just another tool in our belt to produce our craft. I also realize that we sometimes have to dig deeper to find good horror and tragedy. But please. Do not have such disregard for something as hideous as rape to easily use it as a plot device.

Listen, I know this topic is a big deal and I wouldn't have included it into my novel if I didn't understand what it meant to be in that type of situation like other topics I talk about in my entire novel. And you don't have to pardon yourself for being sensitive about something like this, like a normal human being should be. To add to this, I don't add this stuff to my novel for "shock factor" or "for angst" or just to make a good tragedy, no, I do it to make people understand the effects of this, how it effects
a survivor (no, not victim but a survivor) and it's not just this but for racism, sexism, peer pressure, substance abuse, homophobia, colorism and I do understand your sensitivity because there are people out there who romanticize this shit when they shouldn't.

Preach it, @Bananapudding which by the way is an amazing username, I'll just say

Thank you XD

Speaking of the initial topic of this thread….

Onyx and Lucian are both biologically male (Onyx is genderfluid though) so they can't have kids. Onyx and Lucian both wanted a child, however,as Lucian, being the foolish human boi in the scenario, dabbled in dark magic to make them a son. However, dark magic is obviously a bad thing and despite the fact that they had a son, he was also destined to kill both his parents on his nineteenth birthday. Onyx disapproved of Lucian's methods but, not knowing about the prophecy, came to care for their son very deeply and emotionally, but Lucian was filled with unease. Onyx came home the night before their son's nineteenth birthday to find Lucian holding their son's still-beating heart in his hands and covered in blood. Lucian ripped his son's heart out of his chest just to save Onyx because he couldn't bear to think of a world without his partner, and now their son is dead and Onyx hates Lucian forever. They both end up committing suicide.

If that's too goddamn sensitive for you guys, deal with it okay? I'm a salty bitch. But while I haven't experienced homicide myself (thank god, I don't really have interest in murder but it's still a good thing) I have experienced death of someone very close to me, broken relationships, and suicidal ideations so fear not, I do know what the fuck I'm talking about!

Draco was drafted into the Auriyan army to protect the Empire's walls from collapsing, however, after a few incidents took place, he ended up becoming trapped in the underworld and by the time he comes up (maybe in my future books) and out of there everyone he's ever known is already dead (since time works differently down there)

Sorin, Veronica's guardian angel, has always had a one-sided love for her, despite witnessing what she has become.

Nimue was disowned by her family because her skin wasn't as light as theirs

Amelia had killed her older brothers and father in order to make space for the right general of her empire. She became the first woman in history to ever have a part in the Auriyan army.

In 2019, Vicente's mother and sisters fled after seeing a hoard of vampires coming after Vicente. He was eaten alive but not to the point where he couldn't re-spawn as a vampire.

My mc, Elise, had to watch her youngest sister sacrifice herself (in order to save her).
Syrune's wife was killed in front of her
Veleda's sister imploded-
Raunaeril was pushed off of a cliff by his wife (it's funny, he survives, she doesn't)

Kyoko isn't even Keris's legitimate child. He died not knowing that she wasn't his.

Imploded? How?

Well, people always craved their species (mostly for science) so they kidnapped her sister and basically made her a lab rat. And during one of their experiments, something went to shit and she imploded

I'm guilty of putting characters through some tough times, and maybe one of the worst ones that I felt a little bad about after writing it in was isolating my 16 year old protag in a supermax jail for half of her lifetime. :(
It had to be done. Sorry Harlow