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Hello! This is my first addition to this discussion and I would like to contribute by sharing how I permanently scarred one of my characters
-His parents were part of the Russian mafia and they tried to escape to Canada after his younger sister was born. When he was 14 he came home from school one day to discover that both of his parents were tortured and executed in their own home and that his little sister (7 at the time) had been strangled and shot as well. Nobody was convicted of their murder. He was put into the foster system and ran away from 3 abusive families in 2 years. Eventually he was sent to a couple in Amsterdam who were very good to him and loved him very much. One year later, right when he started to consider them family, they were killed in a car crash and he was sent back to Canada to attend University a year early.
(This definitely isn't as detailed as it could be but I did not create my characters to write a novel with)
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Here's a list of all the horrible things I've done to a character. I can't choose which one's worse. XD
- A bubbly slave gets his face blown up all because he went sight-seeing in the balcony. But the misery doesn't end there. He also gets amnesia so he forgets about everybody he's known except for his nemesis. Not to mention, he becomes friends with his nemesis who continues to tangle him up in conspiracies and secret plans not remembering the fact she ruined his life.
- A child gets his home raided and was separated from his family because of his species. He gets transported to a place where people of his kind get abused. There, he is forced to fight for better treatment for 5 years.
- The same character who I listed above this one. Except, instead of a child, he's now an adult. Years after breaking out of the abuse house, his friends force him to kill his son. And so he throws his son into the river. This actually affects him super, super deeply knowing that he's the one who left his loved one behind.
- A happy-go-lucky little girl loses her parents. After that, she gets adopted into a large family consisting of one dad and probs like 10 babies, she loses her adoptive father and almost all her adoptive siblings in a forest fire. But the next day, she gets amnesia.
sniffs Whhhyyyy do I have to torture my characterssss…
I put a twelve year old in hell.
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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.
That is one interesting story, you have me intrigued…
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One of my characters has this horrible disease which basically makes her sweat blood, and is super, super painful. Add a dead mom and constant nightmares, you get a very traumatized girl. Then, she has to rule three dimensions, so isn’t allowed to show any of that trauma. And she is stuck with the mentality of a sixteen year old.
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Cool! Like in the Masque of the Red Death!!
Lucas runs after his girlfriend after she got kidnapped and he gets blinded by her kidnapper. He wanders through the forest before finding the Autumn Court, and finds out that his mother is a faery, and he's thought his whole life that fae are wicked and awful.
sounds like a court of thorns and roses
Copper, I think. He got hurt, went into a coma, and because of a magical artifact, he became part monster. He still has full control, but lives in constant fear that one day, he's wake up with blood on his hands. Also, his best friend became his arch-enemy and the only friend he got after that was brutally murdered. AND ALSO, he was already really poor so all the medical bills put him into deep debt. He isn't even the main character c:
I think the worst thing I've done to my character is creating him in the first place. As in, when he was a child his father tried to have him and his sister executed, before that he was abusive, their mother pretends they don't exist. Oh and when he's ten he gets caught in the middle of a mass slaughter, that includes watching his parents slaughtered in front of him. And to keep his little sister safe he has to either die, or join the army. (AKA the people that just committed mass murder) Having just promised his sister that he wouldn't die he joins them so he can keep his promise. Turns out this army is run by a woman who is slowly going insane and power crazy. He is stuck in her army for over thirty years before crazy general lady is finally killed. In that time he was forced to kill children burn villages, fight the people that are the good guys, several times he get's captured and tortured to info, which he won't give. Oh and his little sister? She spent six years alone, waiting for her brother to come back. But wait there's more. When the brother does finally get out of the bad guys army, he is instantly thrown into the good guys army where he spends two more decades fighting for them. In this time he loses an eye and loses a brother. (The man his sister married) He continues on with his life constantly being thrown into wars left and right. Until Finally he fights a battle which mortally wounds him with a blow to the heart, and he dies. But what's the worst thing about all of this? He never got to fulfill his promise to his sister. He also dies miles from home so he doesn't even get to be buried where he belongs. And also no one knows that he died until a month and a half later.
damn, there's a lot of death and abuse in here. So dark lol
So true. These backstories… Makes me think my characters have it well.
My character is from Greek mythology so technically I haven't done anything to them but he was attacked by two snakes as a child, Driven crazy enough to accidentally murder his own wife and children, Screwed out of his birthright to be king, had his boyfriend killed by nymphs sending him into a rage which caused his friends to abandon him on a remote island, Poisoned with his own venom by his wife which should have killed him but he was too powerful so he instead had to burn himself to death (because the poison caused incredible pain) on a funeral pyre lit by his own ex-boyfriend.
My character is from Greek mythology so technically I haven't done anything to them but he was attacked by two snakes as a child, Driven crazy enough to accidentally murder his own wife and children, Screwed out of his birthright to be king, had his boyfriend killed by nymphs sending him into a rage which caused his friends to abandon him on a remote island, Poisoned with his own venom by his wife which should have killed him but he was too powerful so he instead had to burn himself to death (because the poison caused incredible pain) on a funeral pyre lit by his own ex-boyfriend.
this sounds like Hercules all over tbh :0
One of my characters lived a long time ago (still alive in the story) with a bunch of her species, but fell asleep for several million years, and woke back up to to the modern world. Obviously it was confusing for her, maybe even annoying when she was eventually shot a few times, and even a little bit upset that she was forced to work with humans (which so far, her opinion of them was not good, since waking up she was surrounded by trash. She sort of assumed first glance.)
She went through many battles before eventually coming across another non-human, though humanoid, unlike her, and they fought, before eventually the dude was like (well the actual conversation was a lot longer) “your kind is dead, we killed them all long ago” and at first she was calm before betraying the humans and walking towards the humanoid, before mauling him.
She then ran out of the forest and jumped off a cliff into the ocean, before getting shot by a sub later on and presumably ‘dying.’
this isnt all too bad bUT
basically the main character of something im making (her name is valentine- she's a cutie) had her parents murdered (when she was seven) and heard her younger brother scream repeatedly as he was killed, yet she didn't do anything since she thought it was one of her "visions" (she hallucinates.) when told this-
it wasnt great !
she has a unknown mental disorder, with the main "symptom" being psychosis. she hallucinates vividly and will shrink back to her own little world most of the time. after attacking her uncle in one of her "visions" she was sent to a asylum!
oh! fun fact, this is the 1920s
she was electrocuted repeatedly, tied down for days on end, put in a straitjacket and locked in her room. oh and her psychiatrist sexually, physically and mentally abused her and attempted to "destroy" her safe place through hypnotism and emotional manipulation.
and she's eleven.
so yeah!! she's doin great
…kill them? Like "majority" (almost all save for one) of them?
oooh boy you summoned me??
let's see so kelly was a senior in high school studying for his college acceptance exams and so stayed home the night his family went out to eat. there was a shooting and his dad and sis died, and his mom committed suicide after a month. few years later a demon knocks on his door possessing his sister's body and claiming to be an angel, and he accidentally sells his soul for revenge that he didn't even really want, so fast forwards now he's thirty and hates everybody and kills every supernatural he sees.
wyatt's dad had anger issues and would emotionally abuse him and his mom, until one night wyatt crept down the stairs to a particularly bad fight and ended up watching his dad "accidentally" murder his mom, and was almost beaten to death himself (thrown down the stairs, hit with broken bottles, standard stuff) before the cops showed up. he spent a few months in the hospital and was then thrown into foster care, where the family only took him in for the money and didn't particularly care about him. people bullied him for being behind a year (since he took a year off for valid reasons) and whatnot, then he was late getting home one day (thanks to kids locking him in a closet at school), heard a scream and long story short was bitten and nearly killed (again) by a werewolf. so then he ran away to a different state and was forced to come to terms with the fact that he's now a werewolf.
and dorian is probably the worst off, tbh. he was born with anxiety and is prone to sickness. his parents were killed in a car crash when they left him home to get him medicine on their way back from church, and so he was informed by police and handed over to his closest relative, his uncle that he'd never met. things were cool for a while, but then he started developing his powers (physical and emotional empath) around the same time his uncle, who was dirt poor, decided to start pimping him out for cash. which lasted about five months. so now this fourteen (at the time, though now he's nineteen) year old has ptsd and pre-existing anxiety and can't speak without stuttering.
BUT IT'S OKAY I'M TRYING TO MAKE THEIR LIVES BETTER
even though kelly was just stabbed in the library by a supernatural
wyatt's being targeted by a member of the werewolf pack in ny
and dorian was just betrayed by a friend and nearly kidnapped by the leader of the hunter organization………………
..why am i like this
I feel really mean but-
I killed Carmen's husband, Adonis, and her two sons. they were 3 and 4 years old.
I feel terrible
Why did you?
because I'm a writer and it's what I do?
also because it pushed the plot forward but-
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Alright so I'm kind of a dick to my character Jake.
I think that Jake is the one that's gotten most of my wrath lmaoo so I may or may not have had his parents force him to join street fights for money. The street fights usually end up with someone dead and that's usually the one who ends up losing so Jake basically has to kill his other opponent to live. He was still in elementary school when he started with the while fight shabang but since he was home schooled no one really found out. His parents kept him locked in the basement because he tried escaping one day. Also, Jake isn't your 'born in the hospital kid'. He was born without being registered into the system so that's already a plus lol. He doesn't really get "abused" by his parents because they don't really care about Jake enough to be doing that 24/7. His father later on makes Jake kill his little sister (the only person who showed him any love and that he loved back) and since Jake comes from a really dark line of sadists, his other family members were just as twisted as everyone else, for example, his brothers sexually abuse him all the way up until he gets to meet his team. So Jake just grows up to be this sick twisted person until be meets the group he's going to work with on jobs for the rest of his life. For some reason Jake ends up keeping it together all this time (probably because he has the strong will to kill all of his family, which he does end up accomplishing in my book) and although he is a bit on the sadistic insane side he can be pretty smart and calculative when he really needs to. Other then that he's pretty reckless and could care less if he died trying to do something. Despite having gone through all of this he's easily one of my most badass character's I've got. And don't worry, he's not a character that gets killed off, I actually make him have a decent life at the end of my book along with coughs Lighter/Marcus coughs again
I made a bad guy kill everyone except 1 person then told that one person that if he left him alive he may as well be dead. So the bad guy didnt kill that one person, so the whole time the character is hunting the bad guy and in the end the character died knowing that the bad guy will get away.
I've had my character Bridget lose her parents and a sibling to gunshots, one sibling to drowning/freezing, another to suicide, another to blood loss from being sliced on the cheekbones, arms, and legs and being left to bleed out, two siblings from disease, and later her last sibling being killed by one of her friends (it's kind of hard to explain. If you have seen Detroit: Become Human, it's pretty much like when Connor is taken over at the end of the game). Not to mention Bridget has been shot in the right leg and has been starved.
Needless to say, I feel like a horrible person
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Giana's sister gets kidnapped, and when she asks Lucas to take her with him to rescue her, he refuses on the basis that since she has a horrible limp (from a broken foot that never healed right). She's basically stuck in the Spring Court and even though Iam is kind to her, she can't be happy knowing that Ophelia is gone. When Lucas fails to return, she sets off on her own after having a huge fight with Vivian (her other sister) and both say some horrible things they regret.
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An update on Lucas, since his story has changed!
He sets off after Ophelia the moment he arrives in the Spring Court, and is rude to Giana, insisting that her limp will slow him down and he's wasted enough time already. He catches up to Ophelia and Oleander and tries to get Ophelia back, but Oleander magically blinds him. He stumbles through the forests until ending up in the Autumn Court, where he finds out that his father is the King of the Autumn Court, and he is forced to stay there until he can be healed.
And then there's Maia, a mortal girl kidnapped by Oleander and enchanted to be his bride. When the enchantment is broken she is made immortal but left mute so she cannot expose what he had done.
Oooh good stuff!
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Iam: Thinks he's a faery, but is in reality a mortal boy taken at birth by his mother, Queen Juniper of the Spring Court, and raised to be her successor. As king he tries his best to do a good job but is looked down upon by Queen Poplar, Queen Alys, and King Aspen (of Summer, Winter, and Autumn, respectively) for being so young and inexperienced. He falls in love with Vivian when she and Giana arrive in his court, and they form a political power couple (her firey spirit and emotional personality intrigue the other rulers) until during an important meeting, an assassin sent by Oleander shoots him with an iron-tipped arrow. Luckily he dodged and it lodges in his thigh and not his stomach, but it reveals that he isn't Fae, since he would have had an intense reaction to it and quite possibly died (in this universe, Fae are immortal unless killed by ash and/or iron weapons, mortals are killed by anything, and immortals are, well, immortal unless killed but it doesn't need to be by ash or iron weapons.)
Sounds even more like a court of thorns and roses
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Basically, I have a character (the main character)
A. find out her lover is the bad guy who traded places with her lover
B. have to kill him
C. Make her watch her other lover die
D. Watch her sister be nearly killed
E. Watch her robotic son die because
F. She cannot have children but she wants children really bad
G. Most of her friends die
H. She has to keep doing her job
I. Depression
J. a whole slew of emotional disorders because
K. Her homeworld was completely erased and
L. She tried to warn everyone and
M. Her parents died and
N. Her friends died
O. Find out her real lover (from A.) is dead.
Oof.