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

Started November 24, 2018 by Deleted user

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Not as bad, though Empirean faces betrayal by a former ally by having his left eye blinded and wounded - a lot. He wasn’t able to heal his eye.
He also witnesses the death of his mother (though it’s after a battle, so in all honesty it’s more of a sad thing if anything.)

A lot of my monster characters get into fights. A lot of them.

Injured that I’ve given them in the fight include, but are not limited to:
Spine removal (Not many experience this, but the few that have aren’t really alive anymore.)
Gutted
Breaking of the jaws
Blinded
Getting impaled by an overpowered ice creature (and dying)
Beheaded (Look to spine removal, expectations are made but still a painful thing to experience usually)

Boy, being a monster is metal.

i'm waay too nice to my characters but

Feraen: had to escape to a different country when she was ten, mom died during the chase and they had to leave her there. ten years later, her father is almost executed for being caught with contraband(which belonged to Feraen) but Kalo pulls some strings and gets him put in jail for life. she spends most of the book trying to break him out.

Kalo: is separated from her childhood friends when she's young and has to sneak out of the palace to be around them. is forced into an arranged engagement to a psychopath whilst falling for Feraen.

I've murdered a few children in my day.
Mardrie- Shot, later suffocated in a fire
Gram- Poor pure child shot and killed someone and had to live with that (Not Mardire)
Yvette- Witnessed a few people die. Ran around and starved to death for several weeks
Mcgee- Manipulated into killing his younger brother
Rylo- Had her memory wiped of her family and friends
Timothy- Suffocated in space
Olivia- Got kidnapped from her home
Les- Had to live with the stress and guilt of kidnapping someone (Honestly he was more traumatized)
Peter- Parents were killed. His siblings gave up on him after a misunderstanding and joined forces with the villain of the story. Got kidnapped a few times. Had his magic ripped from his very being
Carson- Was experimented on
Osmond- A hybrid of species rejected from society

That's all I've got off the top of my head. But that's probably a character from every story I've written

Jayson:
Born into what's basically a mafia. His sister is the don, and she's not a good person. She constantly belittles him and drags him into plans that never work out well for anyone involved. He finally makes a break for it and runs off, finding a close group of friends only to watch the girl he loves get her leg blow off in an explosion his sister causes and is taken away from her. 3 years later they meet again after his sister antagonizes the closest thing that his country has to a leader. Then andrew (Our Supreme Lord and Overseer), the only stable figure in his life is killed by his sister. He's able to get one of his friends out of the country, and the others all die (maybe? still working out the ending). Also his sister shatters his hand in a fight, leaving him unable to use it. Yay.

That's dark. But honestly I would do something like that. I'm the person however that has created a character that seems just important enough not to kill, and just when everyone starts to think that, I kill him.

Why?

Because I can't let my readers get away without breaking their precious hearts at least once. Plus it was essential to the plot. He had to go, in order for several things to happen that were important.

Well pain for the sake of pain is a bad policy. But if it's for a good reason it's okay.

Yea, I came up with a lame excuse for everything that happened to my character. My story revolves around keeping balance in the multiverse, and I have Hinata figured out at the end that maybe individuals need balance too, and that the more good she does that wasn't fate is coming back and finding balance in her.

Well, I have a new one fellas: Created them.

Or rather, just Ateris. My character, Ateris is a special case, since it lives its life in physical pain (its inner body structure is so messed up, it doesn't function like any creature we know of on Earth.)

Ateris used to be an arena fighter for an alien race in its past life. I was debating making it human at one point, but then I decided I could fit that in in some other way. Ateris had an appearance that looks somewhat similar to its current one, although this past appearance looks a lot healthier and more.. whole..? Not really sure how to word it. Anywho, Ateris was a champion at this sort of fighting until one day, a fighter who was some sort of demonic space entity arrived and knocked Ateris out of the ring. The aliens left Ateris, now supporting this new entity, and Ateris was supposed to die here.

It did not.

Ateris, bleeding and tired, dragged itself to a cave where it went to sleep, and healed surprisingly fast (which was influenced by another entity.) Eventually, the entity contacted Ateris through its mind and told Ateris to "kill them," and Ateris was pretty much like Why would I do that? at first, but the entity told Ateris it had healed Ateris, and promised more power if Ateris followed its desires. Ateris, recalling how it was brutally kicked from its spot and left to die, went to kill the space entity, and succeeded, but the other influencing entity left it, hoping to return once Ateris was killed by the aliens and use Ateris' body as a shell. However, Ateris didn't like this and let's just say the aliens didn't have a good day that day. A leader of the alien race saw this and cursed Ateris to another planet where it would live its life in 'eternal pain' without being able to die. A cost of the curse was wiping the memory of Ateris, though this was good, should Ateris ever achieve space travel, it would not return to their species. That planet was earth. Ateris lived there for a long time, and like I said, living life in pain, but also causing pain to living creatures around it. It survived some extinction events but fell asleep, then woke up, and boom, there were little villages everywhere.

The rest is history. Literally. And future, as well.

Sooo the worst thing I have done to my OC is to gave his such a girly name Alexander and I know it is not that girly but it sounds girly to me so it is too late for me to change his name but I love him because he is such a little cinnamon roll and also a demon. :D

I killed my favorite character's girlfriend, someone he'd been dating for over a hundred years (he's not human), and then when he finally moved on and got another girlfriend I killed her, too. But then I brought her back as a cyborg.

TAMW you've done so many horrible things to your character's you don't know which is the worst.

I think it would probably be having an 8 year old get tortured with fire. Then, after she escapes and accidentally kills her torturer, she gets convicted of killing the guy who tortured her and sent off to a very spooky mental hospital for 2 years that literally has no idea how to handle mental health things and wound up just torturing this poor 8 y/o more.

Oh and did i mention that the torture didn't end there?

Yeah, the rest of her life is pretty much torture.

O_O. I have an equal

Oh man…

my baby queirra was born a stillborn, then she lives again with that kind of restoring dead's person deal yadda yadda yadda with a lot of pricey deal which probably gonna torture him the rest of her life (especially those dead soul who vent their pain and suffering to her). she bear the curse mark, she lost her mother at 7 (her mother only comes back when she dies so that's gonna make her feel guilty for being alive) and almost killed by her father at 14, runaway and living alone with her friends until 19, meanwhile working at super secret company which y'know torturing and brainwashing and stuff is a daily thing. oh dont forget one of her foot is kinda limp. and also when she comes back to her home her father has an adoptive daughter so seeking for recognition is a hard thing to do now. and then i make her fight with her greatest fear, and she's dead with her body literally like crushed can, but she lives again yadda yadda yadda, but that broken body ain't a thing to be fixed :(

^^^^Why though?

not the worst thing i've done but-
i've stuck Adonis into the prosthetic arm of an annoying teenager
bc he's a ghost and he got stuck possessing it
so uh, now he' stuck with said annoying teenager
and he's Carmen's husband, so,, yeah both his kids are dead and Carmen is now in the military bc of sadness

^^^^Why though?

Coz i like her to suffer even though she's my favourite character. And somehow the suffering i put her through fit with the story so yeah

I meant @ThetaSigma but why do you like your baby to suffer?

Because writers are sadists.
In all honesty, I write characters who suffer because I enjoy it, and because it helps add stakes and depth to plot and character.
I also like examining how they react when they're completely helpless since that can tell you a lot about them.
And I enjoy writing them in pain.

Because writers are sadists.
In all honesty, I write characters who suffer because I enjoy it, and because it helps add stakes and depth to plot and character.
I also like examining how they react when they're completely helpless since that can tell you a lot about them.
And I enjoy writing them in pain.

Honestly though on all points.

^^^^Why though?

To be honest plot. And also because I'm a mean author with a dark imagination? But yeah, mostly plot…..

Okey.

The worst thing I think I've done is taken my most tiny and innocent character and put them in a situation in which their leg got ripped off and now they have PTSD and nightmares and all that fun stuff.