Recent content by TheMoonStain

There was another anime I watched that had crap a lot worse than what happened to Yoko in 12 Kingdoms. Basically I wanted to take elements of what happened to both Yoko and that character and write a story about a character whos been through a heavy amount of suffering, and while not overcome it...

I have read the book. Honestly it's the same with horror. Having something horrible described to you in graphic detail is much more unnerving than just seeing it happen. Also in the anime. More people sufffer. Seeing Yokos male friend reduced to what he was in the show was depressing and...

That's the idea for my protag. Although it's not so much 'insanity' as it is being broken and molded into a completely different person. I dunno. Quite a few books and anime I read and watch can get INCREDIBLY dark at points. Berserk makes no bones about how awful it's setting is right out of...

Can this just be a generic world-building thread?

What if the suffering is done with intent to improve/change the character?

How offended would people be if I went into detail about what I planned to do to my character here?

In my own work I'm trying to create a setting that is the best of both. That is very much reminscent of D&D style fantasy worlds like the examples I said, but not entirely as unmoored from logic and realism as those settings.

The problem I have with so many Japanese Light Novels is that the fantasy settings are so generic and don't feel like real worlds with real cultures and ways of life and religion. Compare the setting of Grimgar RE Zero or Goblin Slayer, to Game Of Thrones, Lord Of The Rings, or Berserk. The...

Your characters aren't real, they are constructs. Remind yourself of that. You're not abusing a person when you write sad or tragic or messed up events. You're abusing lines of code. Writers have to be sociopaths sometimes.

That was the general idea I had in mind.

Serious question. As I was once told that you need to hold off on having horrible things happening to your main character in order to establish the stakes of the setting and then when you've lulled the reader into a false sense of security. Then you hit them with the misery porn or the violence...

All the time. But I usually change just enough to avoid giving too much away when I describe it to them.