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 Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 12:02 am
...Abusing your character, I mean?
Characters are supposed to be little pieces of yourself that you spend hours pouring life into - not little pincushions to abuse the hell out of.
Emphasis on 'supposed to be.' X3
Just wondering what got everybody on the twisted road of hurt.. XD
Myself, I started small.. I first killed a character off and then brought him back so he could die again later, come back again and then have to watch his girlfriend die in his arms while he could do nothing about it. D:
Then I started another story, where the character just ended up becoming more and more abused as time went on - and thus Raven was born, my lovable little schizo. X3 His abuse was gradual, though in the second one, every chapter he was either injured or went into a screaming fit. sweatdrop
Abuse to fictional characters is more addictive than nicotine and.. some other addictive substance. PUT TOGETHER. or something.
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Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 12:29 am
I've been a sadistic little child since I was...a...little child. whee I loved Disney's Beauty and the Beast, and still do, not only because of the catchy music, but because the Beast got shot and stabbed. And really...I don't think he would have died from that. Then again...ah, nevermind.
My first real abused character was either Garrett or Gabriel. Garrett contracted a strange disease that caused all of his muscles to tense...fever, sweating, and...probably other things I've forgotten. He nearly died, but I made sure he was all right by the end.
Gabriel is still one of my favorite characters. Probably my one and only Gary-Stu, but I still love him. Ahh, yes...blonde dreadlocks, white wings, and he could use a sword. Lessee...he got attacked by a huge swarm of little demon creatures, was injured in a swordfight with some "Huntsman," was convinced his girlfriend had been kidnapped by the Huntsman, so he tried to track them down from the air, but his wound caused him to crash, lose his memory, and become temporarily crippled. Eventually he became the leader of some bandits and was reunited with his precious Mary-Sue girlfriend when he tried to kill her and she reminded him of who he was. *gag*
Hey, it could have been a good story... ninja
I dunno, I've been sadistic ever since I can remember. I was always playing "vet" with my stuffed animals, if I wasn't playing "mad scientist controlling people's minds" or somesuch. I was somewhat violent to some of those stuffed animals, too. I never actually hurt them or anything, but I would squish their heads between my hands and stuff.
Really, what I think it is for me is that my maternal instincts kick in once I've hurt a character. The fact that I only torture male characters contributes to this; when a male character is hurt, they are vulnerable, which is...no other word for it...hot. Also, when a male character is hurt and vulnerable, my brain is screaming, "Awwww, he's in pain. He's crying! Awwww, he should be comforted." And you just want to tuck him into a nice warm bed and smooth his hair back and give him a tiny little kiss and put a cool cloth on his forehead...and nurse him back to health. (Okay, since when do I actually feel like this anymore? Never. I just smile and giggle and listen to his labored breathing.)
The nursing-back-to-health part is the important thing...the only tortured character I ever let die was Deimos, and only because it was essential to the plot.
Ugh...It's 2:30 in the morning and I'm rambling horribly.
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Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 3:31 am
I think it started when I made my first charry get forced into slavery... O_o I was 8. Been six years... more or less. If she found me in RL, she'd kill me. I'll leave it at that...
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Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 6:19 am
I guess I started to abuse my own characters when I realized that PAIN makes a good story. I always liked to read things in which the characters had to overcome pain, and when I was little, I'd roleplay with my friends, and my characters were always the most developed and most angsty. xp It was kind of cute, and probably a little creepy at the same time ...
But I've been abusing characters ever since. Like having one's soulmate born into the body of her brother because the fates wanted her to suffer for what she had done in a past life. That would suck. And slowly driving my characters insane with the fact that they can't socialize correctly and so have to turn to books, but they get no feeling out of them anymore, so they crave the attention but don't get it day after day after day ...
Yes. I abuse my characters in fairly .... original and creepy ways. ninja
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Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 1:45 pm
I first began torturing my characters when I roleplayed. I've actually created a samurai character called Alleria that I use exculsively for RPs...and when I was LARPing with my friends, we would beat the crap out of our characters. When I finally decided to start writing Ryn's novel, I began brainstorming ideas on how to torture my characters. And I've been torturing ever since. But I enjoyed watching or reading about people getting tortured long before that...whenever I would read a book with lots of torture, I would reread that part, and that part only...my favorite parts of my video games are when characters get captured and other character's lives are at stake (Kuja's Desert Prison, Final Fantasy IX).
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Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 11:31 pm
Psykiapa And slowly driving my characters insane with the fact that they can't socialize correctly and so have to turn to books, but they get no feeling out of them anymore, so they crave the attention but don't get it day after day after day ... That's precisely why Nor needs Vitae. And Vitae needs Nor because he needs somebody with a similar level of intelligence to look after him. Too bad they're from completely different stories and worlds. eek surprised Fanfic crossover time!!! ( It's getting to be that time of the night when I can no longer post intelligently... Time to go write my story!)
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Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 2:47 pm
OK, I first started abusing my characters around the age of nine, when my family and I took a trip. Not any normal trip, but a month long 'hey let's drive to California trip (I live in Pennsylvania)'. I had my mom's laptop, and 8 hours of boredom, put those two together and you have a writer xd I really don't know how it evolved from there, but all I remember from that story was my Mary-Sue character getting stabbed, kidnaped, and enslaved all within the first chapter... (ok ok... I lie... It was the second page xp ) (what a plot line)
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Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 10:37 am
I've been abusing my characters from day one. My very first RP char, Sailor Crystal, watched her mother killed when the Negaverse attacked the Moon Kingdom. After that she was put into a time capsule of sorts by Sailor Pluto, revived centuries later, and in the process of being revived passed through a door that spawned her exact opposite, a homicidal killing mistress by the name of Claw. In the RP, Claw actually took over Crystal's mind at one point, and tried to kill her boyfriend. XD
There was never any "easing in" for me...I've always abused my chars horribly. Made them more fun to play with. *grin*
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Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 5:08 pm
Abusing characters--I never realized it wasn't exactly normal until a few years ago. Middle-school-ish. I went professional when I made up Strider.
No, I'm not really professional at anything aside from procrastination. And eating. And mauling my lunches.
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Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 8:14 pm
Raincrow No, I'm not really professional at anything aside from procrastination. And eating. And mauling my lunches.
Take it from a fellow professional procrastinator.
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Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 6:38 pm
erikakaiser Raincrow No, I'm not really professional at anything aside from procrastination. And eating. And mauling my lunches.
Take it from a fellow professional procrastinator.Sometimes, I even procrastinate eating in the summertime. Not a good idea. No wonder I lose weight in the summer. At least, you'd think I would. But I don't. Funny, no? [/wandering train of thought]
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 10:22 am
Let's see, when did I start abusing my poor characters? O.o; I don't really know, I think I just started doing it. Mainly after reading a lot of angst fanfictions, since I knew that those made good stories. XD
I don't think I want to get into all the things I've done to some of them, but I also have a friend that's done MUCH worse, and far more frequently. o_o
(Oh yes, being a professional procrastinator is very very hard. I think my only complaints are that we're so underestimated and therefore underpaid XD)
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Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 3:50 pm
Ooooh...when did I start? Halfway through last school year, I had a stressful day, and was walking down the outdoor hallway. It's next to some random courtyard where a bunch of Japanese maples grow...and if you've ever seen a Japanese maple, you know the leaves look freakishly like marijuana.
So...I started daydreaming (never good when Joan starts daydreaming...no) about a school campus where marijuana was grown. I sat down right there, and started typing, from first person, the account of someone at that school. The story and character evolved...and then I just started torturing...and...that's pretty much it.
Wow...that was disjointed. Oh well! It's a Friday! I have an excuse!
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Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 12:15 am
Merrick. I started with Merrick. When? I don't know. But Merrick was the first to suffer.
The origional Merrick was a sailor who came down with a rather nasty case of scurvy...Then later developed an unsual obsession for eating lemons. As time wore on, Merrick was shot, stabbed, run over, burned alive, etc. Nearly every torture he's faced with is a mistake--A wrong place wrong time sort of thing. My other characters sort of came from Merrick's story, and in time got their own stories.
As for the reason, well...Whenever I find out about something kind of odd, like a disease or disorder or paraphilia or something, I like to learn about it and then dump it on one of my characters.
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