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 Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 10:40 am
::Is new, says hi::
Well I've always had this obsession with bad things happening to people. It wasn't that I WANTED them to happen, ever, but I loved thinking about how they would, hypothetically, affect someone. When I was really little my favorite book was a childcare book that told you all about different diseases and bad things that could happen to kids. When I FIRST started writing I didn't torture my characters too much...didn't occur to me yet. In middle school I really started having fun making them miserable, though that was mainly fanfiction characters...I was way too nice to my originals back then, but I would put the Digimon characters through hell for no particular reason.
Then I came up with the first original I actually cared about, Rue Daniel Quiril. (Yes, it's a stupid name, but that's part of the torture! Lame torture yes but...) Anyway he came around in eigth grade, and I have a novel in progress about him and all the hell I put him through. I'm going to be going into senior year soon, so thats an awfully long time...but he's not the only one I torture!
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Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2005 5:19 am
I'm with my twin... I always am... except when I'm not. I hurt my characters (more emotionally than physically) because then they are the center of attention. It also reveals facets of their personality and can make them likable because it makes them more human.
Look at the latest Harry Potter book, there was one character I used to hate and now that Rowling has shown his sensitive side, I like him. (I won't say who because I don't want to spoil it, in case someone hasn't read the book yet or reads really slow and hasn't gotten there yet.)
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Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2005 5:29 pm
... xD Holy crap, I started this topic?
Well. surprised Since nothing has changed, that pretty much sums it up.
EXCEPT NEW STUFF!
My newest story, Social Stigmata, is more emotional and psychological abuse, because I loved abusing Raven so very much. :3
Nick gets hurt a little physically, but nothing near what I've done in other stories. ^^
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 2:57 pm
Stigmata...in your eye! xd
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Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 10:45 pm
eek That would HURT!
Especially Nick's left eye.. he's got a contact. surprised
... whee
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 6:40 pm
I think I've been torturing since day one. When I was a kid, I loved Cinderella because her step-sisters were so mean to her and I liked the whole servant idea...
I have yet to find out if character abuse is normal. I, however, believe it is a natural process and anyone that doesn't do it is missing out on hours of fun. Yes, I have an inner therapist.
And, that's really just my excuse. Shhh! No one is supposed to know...
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 2:35 am
o_o; I have just figured out why I torture my characters.
I have issues.
I take my issues out on my characters.
Characters are miserable and I'm giggling like a maniac.
Been doing so since I was in the single digits, so I obviously have a few characters I can't believe I wrote. domokun
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 3:55 pm
I just find the whole concept of pain to be artistic, beautiful, and aesthetically pleasing. 3nodding Most people I know just think I'm a sick, sick b*****d, however. Pssh.
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Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 10:40 am
I don't really know when I started the character abuse. I guess it started when I was three or four, because my brother had more villain action figures than hero action figures. You know how that goes, right?
And, of course, we used to freeze some of those hero action figures. Add "little kid fighting with bigger kid because that one toy is cooler", "dad who knows how to fix broken toys by using every kind of thing in his toolbox", "lots of Power Rangers, Batman and Disney villains" and you might get where did Dax come from. 3nodding
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Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 11:38 am
BaBy LoVeS tO dAnCe In ThE D A R K
I started when I was little, creating new characters simply to torture my old ones and letting them know that is the only reason they were ever needed.
Then I discovered Mary sues and realized that my writing sucked because my characters were underdeveloped.
Then I was so angry that I tortured them more, came up with more things to break them down square inch by square inch of permanently scarred flesh.
Now I've discovered that the 'Not only, but also' method is sipposed to make a good story an even better story.
XD
'CaUsE wHeN He's LoOkInG sHe FaLls A P A R T
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Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 8:36 pm
When it comes to reading, it was a very gradual thing for me, full of accidental stories about kids in mental hospitals and going through abuse. The first time I activly sought out a torture fic was through Stephen King, when I heard about his book 'Misery'. After that, I was hooked.
Now, when I began writing it was a hugely abrubt process: it was all because of a dream I had when I was twelve. I had this really creepy nightmare one night about a black haired girl hosting a hide and go seek game in the middle of the night in the woods. All of the kids were really scared, and as the dreamer I didn't understand why until the black haired girl found a black haired boy, terrefied, hiding in the burrow of a tree. Then the black haired girl smiled, and then it seemed like the night around them suddenly came alive, and crushed the boy to death as the girl looked on, laughing. It was one of the most vivid dreams I had ever had, and inspired the story Lethal Sanctuary, about a girl named Susan, who took kids away into what seems to be a paradise, right before they die in the real world, only so she can kill them off in hers. Obviously, this story opened up tons of room for abuse for nearly every character, and I've been doing it ever since.
And that's how I got started.
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