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

Scrapped them all and restarted a few months ago

I killed my MCs parents and made him think he did it.

The worst thing that I ever done to my characters is create them in the first place. :I

Mood

Ya'll are such good writers I swear! I thought I treated my characters bad!

My character Akiya, has, to simplify it, a power where he can generate a deadly toxin from the palms of his hands. His breath is also toxic, so he always has to wear a gas mask.

As a kid (when his power manifested), he almost killed his parents, which he blames himself for, making him afraid of hurting people.

When he’s fifteen, he gets kidnapped, along with one of his classmates (who is a close friend of his). The kidnappers take his gas mask and lock him and his friend in a cell together. He tries to get them to open the door, but they ignore him, leading to him watching his friend slowly die from the toxins he’s producing, despite him trying his best to hold his breath.

The death was basically the friend starting to cough violently, eventually spitting up blood and passing out (and dying).

Samuel, a superhero, had to turn in his bestfriend's dad for mercenary work. His friend, Cameron, turned on him and has tried to kill Sam multiple times before he convinced him to be better than his dad and use his big brain for the good of the world.

My protagonist is a very sensitive man that hates himself for being a loser and lacking any motivation whatsoever - he even attempted to commit suicide at one point, but was too scared to bring himself to actually do it, which made him even more miserable. He was also bullied when he was little, lost his best friend and only moral support, was forced to study something he didn't even like and had his artistic drive constantly opressed by his father, teachers and colleagues, thus being unable to express himself.

Now, this may seem bad enough, but there's a catch. All that negative energy he piled up over the years ended up becoming an actual monster inside his head. This hideous, violent creature feeds off of the protag's feelings, gaining power and starting to literally take over his body whenever he feels any intense emotion (yes, including "positive ones") - luckily it's temporary and he'll go back to normal after calming down, but the transformation itself is extremely painful and not pretty at all, and most often than not he'll be stuck in this medium stage where he basically looks like a grueling Frankenstein-like abomination with the mind of a pained, scared man. After this started happening he was forced to adopt a cold façade in order to try and avoid it from affecting his normal life, so he's now able to work and do other stuff without nothing happening, but when he's back at home he basically breaks down due to his repressed emotions. His self-esteem was low enough before, now imagine the nosedive it took after this little… issue appeared. And I'm not even going through the stages of the transformation, or the whole "destabilization" mechanic i included for the sole purpose of making him suffer even more hahaha

Stuff gets better later on and he learns to live with it and even gets an accepting wife and yadda yadda, but the things he had to go through before were far from nice. Sometimes i feel sorry for him. But then I remember how fun it is to write angst :^)

He reminded me of Alexei Karenin at first.
Then Jekyll and Hyde.

Yes, Jekyll and Hyde were some of my main inspirations. The duality of man has always been an extremely appealing topic to me.

You read it?

Yes, although a shortened version for school. It was a very good read regardless. I should probably pick up the whole thing, though.

I spent nearly two years on an edgy roleplay with a friend where all we did was beat up characters until we ran out of ideas
That was fun

I have yet to join an rp without killing it

And by killing it I mean all the RPs I'm in are dead because I'm really good at procrastinating

I Killed them all.

I kind of feel bad for one of my characters. I don't know if I did him already, but here goes:
My character Coallen was only happy until he was ten.
At twelve, he wasn't abandoned by his parents, per se, because they still fed him if he showed up at their door, and acknowledged that he was their child, but they essentially treated him like he was a stranger and a bad influence on his own younger siblings because he was more of a gearhead than an academic, and they desperately wanted scholars in their family (Coallen's three younger siblings filled this mold, hence why they enjoyed all the benefits of being in a settled family.)
At fourteen, he joined a rebellion and became an assassin, which is why he doesn't really feel any guilt after killing someone. He's died several times (yes, died; he implanted something in his heart which brings him back to life).
The ONLY PERSON he ever cared about past the age of twelve in his teenage years was his younger brother Madigan, who was the softhearted boy that always knew how to make him feel better. Unfortunately, Madigan, in his hero's worship of his bitter, mentally scarred elder brother, became a killer too, and when Coallen switched sides to the Empire of my story, he tried to convert Madigan too because life would be empty for Coallen without him. Madigan thought that Coallen was being coerced into trying to talk him over and accepted death instead, which threw Coallen into two years in which he did nothing but grieve and refuse help for his post-traumatic stress, hating himself one day for not successfully talking over Madigan, hating the world for taking Madigan from him the next.
So he becomes friends with the head lord of the story, the Magistrate, because he has to cope somehow, and then when a new rebellion breaks out the rebellion kills him (the Magistrate) too, leaving the empire to essentially self-destruct as the rebellion sways more and more people over, and Coallen, who sacrificed everything for the empire, refused to switch sides again and ultimately died because of that resolution, that desperate hope for just one thing to be constant in his life.

I Killed them all.

Ooohhh how?

All of them are the children of death, life, pain, love, fear, birth, good, evil, and the grimm reaper. they have to be killed to be with people like them.

Well, one of my characters ended up kidnapped. Said kidnapper ended up knifing him in the left eye and cutting off his penis. The good thing is that his penis ended up sort of coming back to life after he gained superpowers, but as a ghostly thing. He now keeps it in a box under his bed.

…What did I just read