on the flip-side...

[pageless.livejournal.com]

to counter this post (which shows compassion for characters)...

i have this question for you folks. :)

do you have any character(s) that you particularly enjoy the idea of planning out their death(s)?

every single character of mine is an AU (alternate universe) version of characters i've used for roleplays, and a series of books which i'm actually putting thoughtful research into (so essentially, this novel will be a side-story, in an AU :D)

so thus, i'm enjoying the idea of killing them all off, just to relax my frustration of them just not up and writing themselves, and researching their own bloody weaponry and such for the series. friggin characters, not writing themselves. writing shouldn't BE this hard! XD

some don't deserve to die so much, but the characters around them do deserve to suffer, so they will watch their friends die, and then be killed too. :)

am i the only truly sadistic person who thinks like this? i hope not! O_o;

keep in mind, this is for my writing. i'd never do anything like this in the big scary real world. people seemed to forget that about me a lot when i was in school and into the horror genre. ;)

ETA: thanks all, good to know i'm not the only one who relishes murdering characters in wonderfully thought-out ways. :)

Comments

[nanofluffmo.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, did I enjoy killing off my first victim! I'm a frustrated grad student and, well, let's just say that the guy was a professor and he died a painful, slow, torturous death. Really, really sadistic. It was truly cathartic!

In my book, FBI aggregators...in my book.

[bookshelf-elf.livejournal.com]

Giving tragic characters a hard time and killing them off is loads of fun for me. I dont' do it randomly, but I make sure it all has a purpose, usually a really ironic or bittersweet one. I'm big on bittersweet endings.

[merrymagpie.livejournal.com]

Killing off my characters is as enjoyable to me as creating them. The only ones who seem to remain safe (thus far -cackle-) are the ones who actually deserve some pain and torment. :)

[china-lizard.livejournal.com]

I can't bring myself to kill any of my characters, even in an AU...

But I *do* so enjoy tormenting and torturing them. XD XD XD

[liz-ensley.livejournal.com]

eep in mind, this is for my writing. i'd never do anything like this in the big scary real world. people seemed to forget that about me a lot when i was in school and into the horror genre. ;)

Heh. I showed this (http://groups.msn.com/ElizabethAnneEnsley/general.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=2&LastModified=4675527551697084254) to someone, once upon a time and she asked me, in all seriousness, if I was a Satanist. Some people tend to have unrealistic expectations of horror (and comedic!) writers. I still write quite a bit of horror, too. A lot of it is planned into mu NaNo.

I mean, without knowing the worst that could happen, how can you really appreciate life? ;-)

[alison-sky.livejournal.com]

I find that you can find the true spirit of a character from torturing them down to their true selves. it's a great eye-opener, and I think I've tortured every main character that I've ever written, either verbally or physically.

Now killing... I always do create characters that need to be killed off. (surprisingly, this NaNo will be my first death-free idea!). But I make sure that their deaths count for something and move the story along. Frivioulus deaths do nothing for me.

[liz-ensley.livejournal.com]

Thr amusing thing about my fitst NaNo was, the character I was using initially died in the first 10k the fitst time I really wrote him, and then I made the mistake of putting it up for critique before it was done. Popular vote said he should live, so I used my first NaNo to explore the option. Hey, it gor me to 50k. Barely.

[crazylikealice.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. I'm killing off both my FMC and my MMC at the end. I cannot WAIT to kill of FMC. It's going to be intense and I can't wait to write it.

[mathkid.livejournal.com]

I am truly looking forward to the day when I get to kill off the villain, who, incidentally, shares initials with a certain Someone.

[shannon-zhang.livejournal.com]

I love writing about the death scenes of characters. I can just imagine it: their last breath, the light leaving their eyes, and if it's a violent death, the scream, pain, the blood....

Of course, I can't really do it! I can't even kill people in video games, unless they've hurt me.

[deadache139.livejournal.com]

I just killed a character today! Funny thing, I didn't want him to die--all of a sudden he was wounded-infected-feverish-dead. The man WANTED to die. RIP Lawton Whitford. :)

[jigglypuff.livejournal.com]

I'm sadistic, bloodthirsty, violent, and twisted. I love killing characters. :] My filler consists of pr0n and deaths. Sometimes at the same time.

[followthetisa.livejournal.com]

deathpr0n eh? Best kind... ^_^