Emotional pain is one thing, but I'm talkin' like, bruises, broken bones, and deep cuts and other stuff beyond that today. How far do you personally go to let your readers know "aye, they ain't invincible just bc they're my baby"? Just wondering~
Mar '19
Mar '19
One of my character dies in the first story arch. And one of them almost drowns. But it's okay because magic lol. But I do believe I gave the villain some visible bruises. It's not that much of an intense story so the risk of harm, like broken bones, isn't going to come up. They do spend a lot of time using their brains trying to avoid those sort of things from happening. LOL
I don't want to give out spoilers for the next season of my show, but one character dies off who's very important to the story. 'nuff said.
The main character from my webcomic was actually transpassed by a sword XD But he's a vampire so he's kinda okay. But I would kill one of my OCs if it's the best option for the plot.
my side kick often looses the ability to sit down in comfort , I also have a magic talking shield that has had knife thrown at it by a moody teen. oh and i also killed a kid off by having him eaten by a plant.
Hmm, thinking back I don't tread the middle ground between "light injuries" and "dead" very often in my writing 
The closest was probably this isekai style story I wrote in middle school, like ch 5 some of the chars get ambushed by a werewolf in the forest and one of them gets beat up pretty bad... but even then he's better like 1-2 chapters later lmao. I'm currently writing something that has a lot of metaphorical death, but I haven't yet decided how physically beat up most of the characters will get in the process... definitely something to think about 
I definitely tear up my characters. The main male lead in my comic lost his foot, (and no, it ain't comin' back. XD) lots of other characters get mangled, there's all kinds of shenanigans going on. I don't make it gratuitous but, when the damage is done, it's mostly forever.
No broken bones or wounds(YET), but my MC has gotten his ass handed to him a few times...at the end of the 1st chapter, and in this current chapter I'm working on(havent gotten to the scene yet, but...).
I try to leave damage, bruises and blood stains during fights in my comic. I mean its kind of essential, but i only just finished the first chapter and havent drawn up the fight scene for chapter 2 yet, but for a convincing scene involving physical pain its necessary to be as detailed as possible with continuity
Heck YEAH!! I love physically wrecking my characters. When I get the chance, I'll Write or Draw my characters being mangled, beaten, blown up, destroyed, chainsawed, ripped apart, or just straight-up thrown into the dumpster. It's a lot of fun.
My MC has scars on his arm and cheek and a big ass one on his side and he has yet to get them in the plot. I think that answers the question. xD
I can mess up my characters a lot if we're talking about physical pain. I kind of enjoy drawing blood, bruises and scars, nothing too graphic tho.
Yes, I do.
I have to say I recently realized that a lot more painfull and real are the scars that the readers see them get. At one point, my MC is tortured with burns and is left with a scar on her forarm.
Another one of the main characters is already covered in scars, since this is routed in this background story.
Actively seeing my girl go from untouched to scared was a real process, since now I have to remember about the scars everytime I draw her. It´s very visible, and I think that´s the same for my readers. It feels very real.
Still, this is all within the walls of a fantasy setting. I am thinking of making a Slice of Life style comic next, set in the real world and tackling a lot of forms of abuse, and with trying a more realistic aproach, I will dive a lot deeper into how physical trauma really affects a character.
My poor baby Saive never stood a chance from the start. In fact, I’ve effed up just about every single one of my mains. My MAIN main, Roenan, starts out on the floor in a pool of his own blood. I’m evil. But they’re also living in a very bad country, two are prisoners of war and one is a soldier.
Yes I do physically wreck my characters. Two of my main characters are about to die pretty soon. Others will die in the future. Some of the characters won't be returning either.
I know that this type of story telling isn't popular, but I'm doing something a little different to make defeats, deaths, etc. mean more in the story.
I like a good mix of physical and emotional pain myself, haha.
All of my characters usually end up walking away from their adventures with at least a couple of scars, maybe a broken bone or two. Depending on the tone of the story, it's possible they might end up dead, though I'll admit that's rare for me. I often give my characters injuries that they can't recover from, or will leave a visible scar. They have to suffer for their goals, and their goals have to come at a cost. Most of the time, anyway. I guess it really depends on the tone and themes of the story, like I said above. Sometimes you just want a nice happily ever after where the characters may suffer, may face serious challenges, but they win in the end in a satisfying way. And sometimes, Luke has to lose a hand. Though admittedly he got it replaced by a perfect robotic replacement, so it's not like it really impacted him that much, but you get my point.
In a big novel I'm working on, I really put one character in particular through the ringer. He gets choked out, attacked by a dog, rips his own skin off with his bare hands, his head smashed onto a brick wall, he gets shouts about four times, he gets poisoned by silver and has to have it purged from his body he almost gets his soul sucked out twice, he gets his nose broken by his own brother, he gets a nasty magical shock, several of his molars get cracked, and he ends up losing his hand at the end of the novel.
It's fantasy and he has healing powers, so several of these things are just minor annoyances, but quite a few cause some lasting damage. Plus he's slowly falling to pieces because of his magic that he isn't supposed to have, so he's going to die in the final book of the trilogy.
Another character dies in the first book of the trilogy, but she gets brought back in the second, so I guess that hardly counts.
