Another bad thing i did to one of my characters was take away his wife and new born child and left him for dead
What is the worst thing you've done to your characters?
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@primaldesire
Killed Alex's parents, then his godmother, he then moved to another state(which kinda benefited him since really didn't have friends there), then gave him severe depression when his condition of Demon's Curse began to affect him badly, THEN he got into a really good relationship with this girl who later developed cancer and died, so he tried to kill the main guy that supposedly gave her the cancer indirectly,
Then he tried dating someone else but-uh it was really abusive and he forced him into things, then he tried dating someone else but she was a bitch so yeah, now he thinks he like this German werewolf boy but he's not ready to get hurt again and his condition is getting worse.
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Sometimes I think about certain character's story arcs and/or backstories and almost cry.
Sometimes I think about certain character's story arcs and/or backstories and almost cry.
lol same bro, I feel you
The only thing I don't see here is sexual abuse so…
I've done it and made it a huge part of her backstory and I felt terrible but it made for such a good plot. So I had no choice but to keep it in
Man, I feel you.
Why is Eponine the saddest?
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Why is Eponine the saddest?
Idk but she's played by Erin Kellyman who's very pretty.
What about Samantha Barks?
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Idk but Erin is precious!
Okay, I know I've tortured my characters enough already, but I need Akira to accidentally injure Hinata and I can't decide how she should be injured. It needs to be something that has permanent effects (physically or mentally, either work), doesn't stop her from walking/running, but is also serious enough to send her to the hospital, even after her brother attempts to heal her wounds. Should I have her arm torn off, her leg blown off and replaced with a prosthetic (I probably used the wrong word but whatever), or should she be stabbed/pierced/severely wounded and nearly die of blood loss? So many choices…
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Okay, I know I've tortured my characters enough already, but I need Akira to accidentally injure Hinata and I can't decide how she should be injured. It needs to be something that has permanent effects (physically or mentally, either work), doesn't stop her from walking/running, but is also serious enough to send her to the hospital, even after her brother attempts to heal her wounds. Should I have her arm torn off, her leg blown off and replaced with a prosthetic (I probably used the wrong word but whatever), or should she be stabbed/pierced/severely wounded and nearly die of blood loss? So many choices…
If you want her to be able to run and walk, I'd suggest against blowing up her leg, since she won't be able to adjust to a prosthetic right away (if my memory serves me). Depending on the setting, a stab/pierce would also eff up her organs and she might die if the technology isn't good enough to repair them. An injury to the arm is likely the best choice, or to the shoulder.
I love how talking about this is legit and accepted and no one wonders if we're crazy.
I love how talking about this is legit and accepted and no one wonders if we're crazy.
That's because all of us are crazy here, we're WRITERS
YASSS!!!
Every writer has a little morbid side, some much deeper than others
My character Coallen's backstory is perhaps not as graphic and overwhelming as some, but it's still pretty bad (and shapes him a lot) so I'll try to briefly retell it. It won't be as great as having the full thing, but here:
His people were once pacifists, but due to a halving of the population because of war they became angry and wanted to kill. Into this nexus of resentment Coallen and his three siblings were born.
Coallen was intelligent like his siblings, but he was mechanically-minded and scorned schoolwork and extracurriculars, while his siblings embraced it, gaining their scholarly parents' esteem. By twelve he was all but forgotten about by his parents, dismissed as the disappointment in the family. He soon built a tree-house for himself and rarely saw his parents, except for the occasional meal. It was, in essence, a kind of child abandonment.
But Coallen's youngest brother Madigan still made an effort to try and connect with Coallen, and he is the only person Coallen truly loved past the age of twelve.
At fifteen, Coallen got swept up into a rebellion on Tymbran, and became an assassin. He killed empire officials, all of whom were his own people, without mercy. At seventeen he influenced his peace-loving brother into joining the rebellion. Madigan became just as fervent, which will play into his story later.
At eighteen, the ruler of the empire came to visit, and asked to see Coallen.
This was a wonderful opportunity! Coallen prepared himself to kill one final time. Snap the backbone of the empire, and his people at last would be avenged.
And the ruler talked him over. (How he did it would require a lot more explanation than this.)
Coallen switched his loyalties, and all his family was captured and set to be executed.
Coallen didn't really care about his family – they'd never done anything for him except scorn him and call him a failure – but he did care about his brother.
So he tried to talk his brother into joining the empire as well.
And Madigan thought Coallen was forced into offering that choice, and proudly refused it.
This has caused Coallen to be plagued with guilt and the perennial What if I did this … question. For two years after the event he had nightmares, flashbacks, isolated himself, couldn't pick up a gun for anything without visualizing Madigan on the other end of it. Therapy helped him with other traumas, but on this point he refused help.
At the end of two years he accepted therapy and healed somewhat. But mentioning his brother to him is, quite often, the surest way to see the grief and guilt that lies beneath that poised facade which can fool the most acute observer.
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One of my characters is a lost princess with amnesia, but unlike in a lot of stories, she never remembers anything about her past, so she just has 7 blank years of no memories. And then her love interest gets knocked out from a blow to the head and she freaks out because she thinks he won't remember her when he wakes up.
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this is not it kids
this is not it kids
I gave my character, James, magic in a world where magic is illegal. If you have magic, you can either run to the streets and hide, or get arrested (read, killed). She didn't find out that she had magic until she was about 12 years old. When she told her parents about the magic (cause she's scared and your parents will always help you, right?) her parents tell her everything is going to be alright, then lock her in her room and call the police. She manages to escape and spends the next two years on the streets.
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I gave my character, James, magic in a world where magic is illegal. If you have magic, you can either run to the streets and hide, or get arrested (read, killed). She didn't find out that she had magic until she was about 12 years old. When she told her parents about the magic (cause she's scared and your parents will always help you, right?) her parents tell her everything is going to be alright, then lock her in her room and call the police. She manages to escape and spends the next two years on the streets.
Love stories were the parents are actual trash.
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You… Don't want to know, my characters have been through the most fucked up shit
Well I think probably making one character immortal and forcing them to go on the run then having them watch their loved ones die of old age before forcing them into slavery for hundreds of years. Then making them a benevolent god-type figure over a people who are eventually wiped out, their belief that kept her powers strong getting snuffed out so she can't do anything as she watches the people she's looked after for centuries die one by one. Then her finding new family, before watching them die like all the people she's ever loved before in her long life of suffering.
My girl Alena is cursed to be immortal. She is stuck as a ghost forever. And when her family dies she can never see them again.
My girl Alena is cursed to be immortal. She is stuck as a ghost forever. And when her family dies she can never see them again.
This hurt to read; I had a niece named Allena, who sadly passed away before she could even be born. 😭
Ooh. I have a (probably) sister who died before she was born.
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Well, added on top that the Mistress of the labs of my book is an actual psychopath driven mad by the death of her husband so she’s creating all sorts of half human creatures and giving them literally no privacy or happiness in life, I also had her create a monster that was supposed to be the first human made completely in the lab without the help of an egg or sperm. They’re disgusting creatures that can sense the vibrations of the heart (so to say, they can ‘see’ a heartbeat). I took one of my most innocent characters, introduced them to these creatures, and watched as my character was ripped to shreds in a very painful, noisy death.
I've been hesitating to post to this because I assumed what i've done to my characters wasn't that bad but then as I was telling a friend the other day about their stories she looked genuinely concerned so why not!1!!!1
Yuki
He grew up in a super peaceful town with a loving family and a wonderful girlfriend! He was considered one of the smartest people in his village and life was gr8! In fact, he was about to marry his beautiful fiancee! It's his wedding day and,,,,,a ton of humans come and literally kill everyone except him!:) His fiancee gets shot and is all like "let's say our wedding vows so we'll at least be married" and so Yuki says his wedding vows but his fiancee dies before she can say her's lol!!!
Exila
i killed her dog
ok her mom accidentally crashed the car into the dog
but ya girl exila was Not Happy about it that's for sure (she killed her mom) (but that's a spoiler so shshshsh)
Astrid
She's actually a background character but she gets the worst of it (that might be a lie) anyway her parents are part of this secret organization but when they realize this organization is about to start experimenting on humans they're like "no thanks" but then the organization is like 'we can't have anyone ou t there that knows about this' so they kill her parents!! then they take her brother to do experiments on and everyone presumes the brother to be dead but she's tryna tell everyone he's alive and they're like "no just like ur parents he hella dead!" (he not)
and technically there's Jean but he's an asshole so he had it coming
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This gonna take a bit but here's the deal. All my characters have been through some horrendous shiz nit, but two stand out tremendously: Talu and Helen.
For Talu: his introduction begins with him horribly experimented and mutated beyond the limitations of magical capabilities and he looks like a walking science disaster. His body hurts all the time, he has voices in his head that are both the spirits of dead test subjects and his own hallucinations, he suffers from memory loss and doesn't know who he was before he was kidnapped by sorcerers. And to top it all off. The one guy. The one guy he fell in love with. The one guy who he truly felt safe and at peace with. THE ONE GUY WHO FORGED AN UNBREAKABLE BOND WITH AND IS THE ONLY PERSON IN THE WORLD WHO HE DOESN'T HATE. Doesn't love him back. He can't. He has the legitimate inability to form romantic feeling for another person. So Talu was obviously crushed and depressed by this. Which made one of the malevolent spirits of the dead test subjects that live in his head possess him in his moment of weakness and went about killing people for the heck of it. Talu, being possessed, could do jack, and was stuck like this for several years. It was his crush/lover that ultimately snapped him out of it, but not before killing said crush/lovers best friend and in turn, having his crush/lover kill Talu and finally put him out of him misery.
That all sounds bad, but there's actually a good ending to all this, cause Talu is one of my favorite characters and I don't want him to suffer that much. Basically, after he dies, his crush/lover dies sometime later and they reunite in the afterlife with Talu bawling his eyes out about how sorry he is for ruining their life and for falling for him in the first place and for being so weak and a bunch of other stuff. But crush/lover tells him that he knows that Talu wasn't in control of himself, and in a shocking turn of events, apologizes to Talu for not being able to love him back properly. He says that even though he can't love romantically, he can still love platonically. He says that they can't kiss and stuff, but he'll be darned if he can't hug/hold hands/ support/ save the world with/ hang out with/ love unconditionally and unprovokedly his best friend ever. Talu, being the biggest sap ever, cries even freaking more and finally makes a proper confession of love to him. It's all sweet but the baseline is that platonic love shouldn't be looked as a lower form of love compared to romantic. Because crush/lover can and WILL destroy ANYONE that hurts Talu. He cares about his friends a whooooole lot.
OKAY SO HELEN: her tragedy is different from Talu's, cause she actually brought this upon herself one way or another. The gist is, she's a powerful witch with the ability to control the powers of the void (super powerful entity of complete darkness and nothingness) and played with them so much, she broke the fabric of time and reality, fixed it, broke it again, tried to fix it, did a bad job, stopped caring, abused polymorphism, kept stealing innocent souls, kept stealing stars from the skies and put them in little jar bottles, created like four different kingdoms and demolished all of them in different ways, had affairs with at least AND I'M TALKING AT LEAST 200 different people, and finally, after literally centuries of screwing with everything and everyone, the void grew tired of her shenanigans and punished her. Now, these punishments don't sounds that bad, but the thing is, they are. The void ripped both her eyes in pairs of four. It sealed her lips together and took away her throat. Then, it put these horrific, parasitic, unnatural worms in her gut that cannot be taken out and burn in herself forever. And finally, immortality. With all this pain she must bear, she must live with it forever. Thing is, she absolutely deserved. What she did wasn't evil, but it was not kind. So she now faces these consequences. She outlives all her lovers. She either kills them accidentally because of her crooked, twisted body or they run at the sight of her true self. She has created remedies to deal with all her ailments except for immortality. She truly cannot die and walks alone, knowing she will succumb to boredom, and later insanity, and even later, nothing. She fears this evermore.
BUUUUT
Like I said, I don't want my ocs to suffer ALL the time, so she gets her own happy ending. She meets a strange, but lovely man that introduces her to a world she never truly explored. Nature. He holds utmost respect for the trees, the animals, and all that life has to offer, something she cannot comprehend as nature rejects her existence for her crooked soul. But they fall in love anyway, he doesn't run at the sight of her eight eyes, no mouth, worm belly self and loves her all the same, and in due time they have a baby. All seems great until the world starts ripping apart again. This is the void being VERY pissed off at her again. It tells her that her child has inherited all of her abilities and is basically another being that can manipulate the void, and it DOES NOT want that. It tells her that she must decide to either give up her physical being and become an entity of void matter, or kill her daughter. Helen wanted death since day 0 and doesn't want to kill (another) baby, so she gives herself to the void, although very reluctantly. Before she ascended, se asked to leave two of her eyes with her family. She basically (cause witchcraft) ripped out her two of her eight eyes and gave one to her lover and the other to her daughter while they were asleep. This was her farewell to them as she couldn't bring herself to say goodbye.
It seems bittersweet, but Helen gets to embrace the closest thing to death she's got all while not really dying, as she still watches over her family even though she can't reunite with them.
RUNNER UPS:
- Hel: Her sister killed her while she was pregnant and devoured her child.
- Thorne: Was left to shoulder the death of her first and only child after her lover left her.
- Frederick: Accidentally killed his 8 year old son while trying to save him from crooks and couldn't afford a funeral for him.
- Phantom: Was too late to save his crew and arrived at their secret base to see them all gunned downed and murdered.
- Crefus: Grew up being hated and despised for something he couldn't control (He was born a hybrid) and reluctantly accepts all the abuse he gets
- Jane: (WHERE DO WE START??) Has a mental parasitic infestation that lives in the back of her mind that forces her to do terrible things; fell in love only for mental parasite to possess her and kill her lover; had to abandon her child because she believed she would be a terrible mother; suffers from mental breakdowns constantly; depression
- Jiangshi: Became a jiangshi against his will; is sentient, but at a price (he feels his muscles shutting down and it's painful for him) doesn't want to devour human souls, but he's weaker that way; missing his eye; his mother threw him out of their house after seeing what he became; has to travel with a bunch of jerkwads
- Lucille: Constant never ending pain all over her body; has to obey the will of a demon; forced to hate her younger brother who she promised to protect; taking off her clothes reveals her deformities and mutations and none of them look pretty; she gets one hour of sleep a week; she's dealt with all of this for over a decade
Ugh that was long i'm sorry for the wall of text
I love the ending with Talu.