What's the worst entity you could put a fictitious part through?
I want to know, what's the worst thing YOU'VE done to one of your characters? (if you're an author).
Me: Send someone far away, to another galaxy to save her, only to find that galaxy be destroyed moments later, and he ordered its destruction (he panicked, and it was the first place that come to mind). Losing his son, and blaming himself for it (his son might be alive, but he thinks he's dead).
Not that bad, but, they were his energy, and the only people who saw him for who he was, and not the monster he'd become.
Answers:
i wrote a story something like a woman who has fallen in love near someone who can't feel emotions (not indefinitely he just can't gain his feelings to surface) and after 6 years of being close to him, he finally begins to show her how much he truly loves her. she's on cloud nine.
then, in the course of one day, that emotionless man finds another woman near whom he instantly falls in love.
he then invites the first woman to be what is similar to a "best man" at his wedding.
The worst item that I've ever put a character through is, throughout the entire piece, allowing her to gain confidence and grow and accept that she is not quite the "garbage" that society call her and give her genuine hope (not denial) and then hold her die before she gets to experience all of the fruits of her realization.
It upset me greatly, mostly because I think more about the entire story- plot, characters, style, et cetera- as a person instead of characters within a story, but this one was different because she was special.
Well, is special- I'm still working on it. But it makes me mournful. :(
About your story:
That sounds like a really interesting plot. It seems like a really human science fiction story, which I love when genre like that embrace really deep concepts.
Death.
I wrote a short story once in which an 11-year-old girl, who be watching her baby brother, set fire to the house and tried to keep the screaming baby inert while they burned up so they wouldn't be captured by the evil baddies, who probably would've done worse to them.
I've written lots of bad stuff. Beatings, time of war, attempted rape, debilitating illness, abject fear...
loss,
it seems pretty mundane compared to what others have done, but i normally find it plenty
I once wrote something within which a parent was forced to watch the murder of their child. I guess it was a road for me to work through my fears for my own kids, but it turned my stomach and has since been packed away.
I once wrote this really cheesy Battle Royale fanfiction on fanfiction.net (which I deleted as it be soooo you know, ****) but the main character Holly Faraday witnessed her best friend being bested to death, was almost killed by another friend and the two fought, moment latter she killed said friend and a girl who had gone ka-razy before breaking down into tears. I don't remember it too honourable, but I know she got knocked out, and was buried alive contained by a big cardboard box, she managed to climb her way out before self attacked, she killed somebody else but in the process lost four of her fingers and an eye. She then kill one more person before encounter the guy that murdered her bestie, she gets shot in the hip with a shotgun, but manage to scalp him. So she wins the game, tears out a mans throat next to her bare teeth and the ending is left ambiguous (until the equally shitty sequel where on earth she becomes the games host).
destroyed true love and killed dear friends and family
Well, I haven't done it yet, but I plan on making two of my characters enjoy a huge argument (they're best of friends), and just when they're about to make up, previously he can say anything, he is killed abruptly.
It's not that spectacular, but it's only just poignant and it reflects that sometimes you can not always win.
die... I'm not too good and torturing them...
A papercut. And there is no group aid. ;O
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Me: Send someone far away, to another galaxy to save her, only to find that galaxy be destroyed moments later, and he ordered its destruction (he panicked, and it was the first place that come to mind). Losing his son, and blaming himself for it (his son might be alive, but he thinks he's dead).
Not that bad, but, they were his energy, and the only people who saw him for who he was, and not the monster he'd become.
Answers:
i wrote a story something like a woman who has fallen in love near someone who can't feel emotions (not indefinitely he just can't gain his feelings to surface) and after 6 years of being close to him, he finally begins to show her how much he truly loves her. she's on cloud nine.
then, in the course of one day, that emotionless man finds another woman near whom he instantly falls in love.
he then invites the first woman to be what is similar to a "best man" at his wedding.
The worst item that I've ever put a character through is, throughout the entire piece, allowing her to gain confidence and grow and accept that she is not quite the "garbage" that society call her and give her genuine hope (not denial) and then hold her die before she gets to experience all of the fruits of her realization.
It upset me greatly, mostly because I think more about the entire story- plot, characters, style, et cetera- as a person instead of characters within a story, but this one was different because she was special.
Well, is special- I'm still working on it. But it makes me mournful. :(
About your story:
That sounds like a really interesting plot. It seems like a really human science fiction story, which I love when genre like that embrace really deep concepts.
Death.
I wrote a short story once in which an 11-year-old girl, who be watching her baby brother, set fire to the house and tried to keep the screaming baby inert while they burned up so they wouldn't be captured by the evil baddies, who probably would've done worse to them.
I've written lots of bad stuff. Beatings, time of war, attempted rape, debilitating illness, abject fear...
loss,
it seems pretty mundane compared to what others have done, but i normally find it plenty
I once wrote something within which a parent was forced to watch the murder of their child. I guess it was a road for me to work through my fears for my own kids, but it turned my stomach and has since been packed away.
I once wrote this really cheesy Battle Royale fanfiction on fanfiction.net (which I deleted as it be soooo you know, ****) but the main character Holly Faraday witnessed her best friend being bested to death, was almost killed by another friend and the two fought, moment latter she killed said friend and a girl who had gone ka-razy before breaking down into tears. I don't remember it too honourable, but I know she got knocked out, and was buried alive contained by a big cardboard box, she managed to climb her way out before self attacked, she killed somebody else but in the process lost four of her fingers and an eye. She then kill one more person before encounter the guy that murdered her bestie, she gets shot in the hip with a shotgun, but manage to scalp him. So she wins the game, tears out a mans throat next to her bare teeth and the ending is left ambiguous (until the equally shitty sequel where on earth she becomes the games host).
destroyed true love and killed dear friends and family
Well, I haven't done it yet, but I plan on making two of my characters enjoy a huge argument (they're best of friends), and just when they're about to make up, previously he can say anything, he is killed abruptly.
It's not that spectacular, but it's only just poignant and it reflects that sometimes you can not always win.
die... I'm not too good and torturing them...
A papercut. And there is no group aid. ;O
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