killing characters

[avidreader_01]

what's the most gruesome way to kill a character? I prefer decaptiation. I would also like to create an opportunity to throw someone out of a plane, but I wonder if that's bloody enough.

 

[PennLady]

what's the most gruesome way to kill a character? I prefer decaptiation. I would also like to create an opportunity to throw someone out of a plane, but I wonder if that's bloody enough.

I'd think disemboweling would be pretty gruesome. i'd also think that whenever someone landed after being thrown out of a plane, the end result would be pretty bloody. And you could bloody them up first.

I've always thought crushing, if they know it's coming, is pretty gruesome.

 

[LettersFromTatyana]

what's the most gruesome way to kill a character? I prefer decaptiation. I would also like to create an opportunity to throw someone out of a plane, but I wonder if that's bloody enough.

Set a story in Prague, throw someone out of a really high window, and then consider it a worthy Defenestration of Prague.

Blood and a cool name: the perfect combination.

 

[TE999]

what's the most gruesome way to kill a character? I prefer decaptiation. I would also like to create an opportunity to throw someone out of a plane, but I wonder if that's bloody enough.

Being drawn and quartered is a really gruesome way to go; it's noisy and messy too.

Check out the movies 'Braveheart' or '1,000 Maniacs' for details.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I once saw a photograph of some poor soul who happened to be too close when a shed full of dynamite blew. It opened him up like a gym bag and spilled the contents.

 

[Edward Teach]

Blood Eagle

 

[russellvilleman]

Torture is always a steady line to an end, be it motion picture, or written word.

 

[manyeyedhydra]

Doesn't matter unless you can get the reader to form a link with any of the characters. Gore is only meat no matter how creatively it flies apart. If you don't make the reader care then all it is is meat.

 

[Kurokami]

If I'm going to kill a character, then I'm going to make it hurt. I'm going to build him up, give him a backstory, a deep psychological profile, thoughts and feelings and desires all his own. I'm going to make the audience like him, go through his adventure with him, I'm going to make it seem like he's so close to his ultimate goal...

And then I'll crush him. Tear away everything important in his life, stamp him down into the dirt again and again until he stops getting back up, and then kill him, in the most hideously appropriate way possible. Because it's only going to be more gruesome, more completely horrible, if the readership identifies with the character.

Also... Maybe be careful reading my stories if you like happy endings

 

[russellvilleman]

If I'm going to kill a character, then I'm going to make it hurt. I'm going to build him up, give him a backstory, a deep psychological profile, thoughts and feelings and desires all his own. I'm going to make the audience like him, go through his adventure with him, I'm going to make it seem like he's so close to his ultimate goal...

And then I'll crush him. Tear away everything important in his life, stamp him down into the dirt again and again until he stops getting back up, and then kill him, in the most hideously appropriate way possible. Because it's only going to be more gruesome, more completely horrible, if the readership identifies with the character.

Also... Maybe be careful reading my stories if you like happy endings

You'll have to live with it.

 

[Boxlicker101]

I hope you know, if you make it too gruesome, it won't be accepted unless, maybe, it is in EH. I have people killed in only two of my stories. In one, he was a rapist who was shot by a victim's mother. The other one was myself. I was suffocated under a BBW while I was eating her pussy.

 

[Darkniciad]

From Ebon Genesis

As he completed the casting, he banished the magical cage around Peronelle with a thought. The huge, disembodied hand he had conjured scooped her up and slammed her against the unyielding stone wall.

Peronelle screamed in pain as her head cracked against the wall, then gasped and screamed again as the hand continued to apply pressure.

Tharsas tilted his head and his lip twitched in a half smile as he listened to Peronelle's scream trail off into a wheeze, the air being pushed from her lungs. He chuckled as he heard the cracks of her ribs breaking, and burst into gales of laughter as he heard the louder cracks of her other bones snapping and her skull bursting.

Waving his hand in a flourish, Tharsas banished the magic. His stepmother's corpse collapsed into a broken, twisted heap on the floor, at the foot of the wall.

"You are avenged, Father," Tharsas whispered as he stared at the pulped remains of Peronelle.

Nightmares make good fodder for killing off characters.

 

[avidreader_01]

I'd think disemboweling would be pretty gruesome. i'd also think that whenever someone landed after being thrown out of a plane, the end result would be pretty bloody. And you could bloody them up first.

I've always thought crushing, if they know it's coming, is pretty gruesome.

ah yes, the delicious smell of fear, they can see the end but is helpless to stop it... very cool

 

[avidreader_01]

Set a story in Prague, throw someone out of a really high window, and then consider it a worthy Defenestration of Prague.

Blood and a cool name: the perfect combination.

Sadly, I've never been to Prague so I'm not sure how I would get around describing the setting but I like the idea of throwing someone out of a window... sounds very Jason Bourneish & I am a huge fan of the Bourne enterprise

 

[avidreader_01]

Set a story in Prague, throw someone out of a really high window, and then consider it a worthy Defenestration of Prague.

Blood and a cool name: the perfect combination.

Sadly, I've never been to Prague so I'm not sure how I would get around describing the setting but I like the idea of throwing someone out of a window... sounds very Jason Bourneish & I am a huge fan of the Bourne *franchise*

 

[avidreader_01]

Being drawn and quartered is a really gruesome way to go; it's noisy and messy too.

Check out the movies 'Braveheart' or '1,000 Maniacs' for details.

oh wow, I just got a story idea off of that image. Thanks a lot! Now I need to find a way to introduce him into my current story... possibilities

 

[avidreader_01]

Doesn't matter unless you can get the reader to form a link with any of the characters. Gore is only meat no matter how creatively it flies apart. If you don't make the reader care then all it is is meat.

so true

If I'm going to kill a character, then I'm going to make it hurt. I'm going to build him up, give him a backstory, a deep psychological profile, thoughts and feelings and desires all his own. I'm going to make the audience like him, go through his adventure with him, I'm going to make it seem like he's so close to his ultimate goal...

And then I'll crush him. Tear away everything important in his life, stamp him down into the dirt again and again until he stops getting back up, and then kill him, in the most hideously appropriate way possible. Because it's only going to be more gruesome, more completely horrible, if the readership identifies with the character.

Also... Maybe be careful reading my stories if you like happy endings

I love the way you think

I hope you know, if you make it too gruesome, it won't be accepted unless, maybe, it is in EH. I have people killed in only two of my stories. In one, he was a rapist who was shot by a victim's mother. The other one was myself. I was suffocated under a BBW while I was eating her pussy.

lol, death by pussy

 

[avidreader_01]

From Ebon Genesis



Nightmares make good fodder for killing off characters.

lol, so you wrote this? shameless advertising but it worked b/c now I'm curious & will check it out

 

[PennLady]

ah yes, the delicious smell of fear, they can see the end but is helpless to stop it... very cool

I have to say that crushing was on my mind b/c they used it in the new Torchwood series. There was a character in a car, in a compactor, and a voice came over the speaker to talk to her. Then the car was compacted, and -- b/c it's the plot of the show -- she was still alive, b/c no one dies on Miracle Day.

 

[lovecraft68]

Drawn and Quartered.

 

[lovecraft68]

Now that I have thought about it a little more, if you want to be exceedingly cruel tie them to a chair and read anything from here out loud to him

http://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=721539&page=submissions

However, be warned, this is so cruel it may be rejected by the site.

 

[rgraham666]

Wood chipper. Feet first. Slowly.

 

[Handley_Page]

I have to say that crushing was on my mind b/c they used it in the new Torchwood series. There was a character in a car, in a compactor, and a voice came over the speaker to talk to her. Then the car was compacted, and -- b/c it's the plot of the show -- she was still alive, b/c no one dies on Miracle Day.

It was the blinking eye that made that scene for me.

I presume it is the baddie that gets the gruesome ending ?.
I think that a lot depends upon how you write it. Drowning sounds pretty bad to me, but have you considered the 'Pendulum' (as in the Pit & the . .)

 

[beatrice_dreams]

Wood chipper. Feet first. Slowly.

It wasn't feet first, but the woodchipper scene in Fargo certainly was the closest I ever was to being physically ill from a death scene...my vote's for the chipper...

 

[PennLady]

It was the blinking eye that made that scene for me.

I presume it is the baddie that gets the gruesome ending ?.
I think that a lot depends upon how you write it. Drowning sounds pretty bad to me, but have you considered the 'Pendulum' (as in the Pit & the . .)

Yep. They do some nifty things, those people who write Torchwood.

I think I'm wondering if gruesome is just bloody, or knowing it's coming, or what. I mean, who decides it's gruesome? The person who finds the body? The reader? The author? The killer? And does bloody = gruesome?