What is the worst pain you can inflict on someone?

What is worse?

  • Physical pain

    Votes: 3 10.0%
  • Emotional pain

    Votes: 14 46.7%
  • Both

    Votes: 13 43.3%

  • Total voters
    30

Hoshino

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Torture is a form of art, an aesthetic way to express emotions or desires, or without reason or purpose.

There are many kinds of torture, including psychological torture and physical torture.

They are both forms of torture, but which inflicts more pain?

Someone numb to physical pain might not feel as much agony as someone who can feel it, when your body is minced piece by piece at every level, prickled by sharp objects only to melt away, your flesh scraped off.

But there is also someone numb to emotional pain, though there’s a chance both conditions could apply here.

The question remains—what pain causes the most suffering?

Let’s say a human named Yuki, who cannot die, is bound to a bed with blades protruding from it. When Yuki lies on it, he gets stabbed, his organs slashed. The pain he feels is instantly greater than anything he’s ever experienced. Normally, he’d die, but since he cannot, his body regenerates, returning him to normal. Now, he’s forced into inhuman tortures: being drugged, minced, pierced, stabbed, sliced, burned alive, frozen alive, nerves shattered, muscles and tissues ripped apart, organs ruptured. By now, Yuki is numb to pain, his brain should’ve reached its limit—but his body regenerates, along with his nervous system and pain receptors. His mentality, however, doesn’t recover; only his body is immortal.

So Yuki is given a drug that ensures his mentality can’t break. He can feel pain but can’t escape it.

Since he’s numb to pain now, he’s released and allowed to live freely. He’d been trapped in that lab, experimented on for a time he can’t perceive. He slowly recovers (realistically, surviving that torture is nearly impossible—but since Yuki can’t break and his recovery is sped up by the experiment).

He makes friends, finds a lover, marries them.

But suddenly, Yuki is captured again—along with his lover. He’s forced to watch his loved one tortured, and his family (fabricated memories, of course, it’s an experiment) suffers too. Seeing them break before his eyes shatters Yuki completely.

He’s continuously shown kindness while his loved ones suffer in front of him. Given hope, only for it to be ripped away.

After this, Yuki faces another experiment.

Put Yuki in a white room. His sanity slowly deteriorates. Or make him kill his own children, commit murder, the guilt consumes him.

Or give Yuki a perfect life, only for him to ruin it himself.

Or force him into a game: choose one to save and one to kill. No matter who Yuki picks, the saved one dies, the other becomes a drug addict and later kills themselves. Yuki plays again, this time, he can sacrifice himself to free the others. But he’s gaslit into choosing wrong, causing them to kill each other. He’s offered a choice: kill himself to let them live. But he’s immortal, they try to kill him, fail, and he’s forced to kill them himself.

Yuki could loop parts of his life, finding escape routes only to realize there’s no way out.




I do not know what I am saying anymore. These are rookie experiments, by the way. They are generic. They do not capture the feeling of watching someone suffer, crumble before your eyes (okay, I should stop this is getting to me-nya.)

So, what is the worst pain you can inflict on someone?
 

Rezcore

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Acupuncture to certain nerves to increase sensitivity, and a chemical that does the same. Then peel their skin with a butterknife
 

RepresentingThree

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I voted physical pain because going through it can cause emotional pain. The other way around would only happen in the most extreme of cases.
 

Representing_Tromba

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Depends. I would rather not inflict pain on others but there are ways to inflict constant repetitive physical pain in a person as well as long lasting emotional pain. Both are rather easy to do if you know who it is you are wanting to hurt and how. If you can tie the physical pain to the emotional then that is even worse. For example, giving them a limp that reminds them of their failings.
 
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Hsinat

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De-gloving injury..... worse form of physical and emotional.......

Watching the pit.

A good med show. Actually, no crap and it got Doctor Mike verified.
 

Hoshino

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This could also work.

Imagine not feeding Yuki for months, causing him to starve, and then tying him to a pole above a floor covered with sharp, pointed, and hot objects. Each time he steps down, his feet touch these objects, forcing him to keep his body curled up for protection.

Then, food is presented in front of Yuki. Although he is starving, he cannot reach it, and he is consistently teased by its presence.

For an even stronger effect, you could make Yuki addicted to the food and then continue to tease him by keeping it just out of reach.



( I'm just using these in writing-nya.)
 

StoneInky

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This could also work.

Imagine not feeding Yuki for months, causing him to starve, and then tying him to a pole above a floor covered with sharp, pointed, and hot objects. Each time he steps down, his feet touch these objects, forcing him to keep his body curled up for protection.

Then, food is presented in front of Yuki. Although he is starving, he cannot reach it, and he is consistently teased by its presence.

For an even stronger effect, you could make Yuki addicted to the food and then continue to tease him by keeping it just out of reach.



( I'm just using these in writing-nya.)
Edging? Kinky.
 

Prince_Azmiran_Myrian

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The words I speak without using my brain... Its enough to hurt someone mentally, and emotionally. Without me realizing its happening in front of me.

It's not a good experience, and it's absolutely dumb to do so.
I totally get that. You can't take back what's been said and you realize you shouldn't have said it anyway.
 
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