Give me your worst!

[A-weird-girler]

Heya guys, it's me, again. Since there are no new topics, I figured I might make one. We all know those times where you're tempted to make something dark and sinister that will make an audience horrified at the very mention of your series! Ahaha.. I guess I'll calm down a bit. Ever had a dark moment that you considered too sinister or horrifying to include in your series, so you scrapped it?

For mine, it was this ((SOME SPOILERS BUT ALSO DISTURBING WRITING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED)):

So Person A hates a criminal with all their heart and is sent a video of said person getting tortured from the face up by the antagonists of the series. Since the criminal is notorious for wearing a mask, Person A is just sadistically happy to see the one who did a lot of harm punished, and recognizes them through said mask. There's another video of the aftermath of the torture of the person wearing a bloody sheet over them huddled in the corner. The mask is off and Person A sees it was Person B all along and breaks down.

Now, for obvious reasons, I chose to scrap this scene. It was just a little bit overboard and too edgy. That doesn't mean there won't be dark themes and dark situations, but they won't be as blatant as that one.

Share those moments here! Share the gruesome details on how you wanted it to play out!

[J.Z.Castillo]

Hell no! I have a few dark scenes I TOTALLY CANNOT WAIT to get to. I just really wanna get to it. I have rewritten it to include less characters in it and make it feel less convoluted, but it has become an important scene to show the other side of the coin and introduce the ones working in the shadows pulling the strings.

Pretty much there's a huge fight and at the end someone ends up without a head LMAO, can't say how and when it happens because then everyone would know who loses the head and who beheads them

[A-weird-girler]

Oh no they won't get to wear their favorite hat now. F

[Kann]

I have many dark moments, that are important to the plot, so I cannot scrap them. I just can't wait to get to the point where one of my MCs got his scars, so... XD There's also going to be some stabbing, limb loss and so on.

[TimCaloweh]

Does that part of my comic where Henri accidentally lands on a glass shard that stabs into the back of his knee count?

[A-weird-girler]

Yeah I guess it does. He probably will never play sports, either

[SleepingPoppy]

Oh no they won't get to wear their favorite hat now.

I mean, they can still wear the hat. Just because a head isn't attached to a body doesn't mean it can't still look nice. Alternatively, its a nice way to cover ones bloody stump of a neck, right? Very on trend.

My current comic has its moments but I don't consider it particularly dark. A future story I want to do involves some.. torturous elements.. though.. and I'm a little worried. I don't plan to cut the messed up bits out, but I will be very careful in how I present them when I eventually get there. I'm a little nervous about it, even though it's the far distant future before I can actually work on it. XD

[joannekwan]

I was considering having a threat of a school shooting in Demon House, I even scripted out the whole scenario. No one would actually get hurt, they would have stopped the kid before he acted. But the plan was for Tula and her friends to get wind of the student's intentions, call the authorities, and the cops would find some firearms and makeshift bombs in the student's room.

Needless to say this would be an all too real topic and I want to keep Demon House fairly light and more on the fantasy side so I scrapped it.

[A-weird-girler]

Yeah. Gotta do it with finesse!

@joannekwan Yeah I definitely see that upsetting some viewers. But eh, it's your story

[joannekwan]

Nah, it didn't fit with the overall tone of the comic any way and I scrapped it long before all the major shootings that happened in the past 2 years.

[A-weird-girler]

Oh I thought this was a recent idea. That's true too. I don't see how it'll fit in with any scene either

[Thesleepypencil]

Since my comic is both about Fairytales and for kids. I have a weird mix of dark and friendly. mostly friendly, I don't do dark as in violence dark, more of a creepy monster dark. ((though there is a scene where rats attack and tear at a monster soooooo maybe some violence someplaces))

the one thing that I cut was In the first 3 drafts a main character dies.

It was in the third act, the heros needed to get out. and this character stepped in to save them and ended up getting a spear through their centre.

In the end I cut it not only because it would be jarring in comparison to the rest of the comic, but also I also It hurt me to see this character go (and I have no problem killing off characters).

[A-weird-girler]

I knew this scene would also kill my character (because who can live with half their limbs gone and no cure to stop the blood?) so that was also one of the reasons I scrapped it. They had already gone through a lot so it would be overkill at this point and I grew attached lol. Good to know someone understands.

[ericsalinas149]

Well, since we are talking about dark scenes...I may or may not have a character commit suicide. I haven't decided yet.

[DiegoPalacios]

I toned down the design of a demon because after some feedback, i realized it was too overwhelming and dark for the tone of my comic. (a comedy)

It was a good call. Got some further advice in the forums and the latest design was more fitting to what i was aiming for.

[A-weird-girler]

How did this demon look?

[DiegoPalacios]

Here is the first draft of how the demon was gonna look like:

[lunaartemisasama]

I wanted to give a dark past to my character where sexual abuse was involved, because sadly is not so uncommon where I live, but that is a really serious topic and I was not able to give that kind of past to a character even if it's fiction just for the sake of drama. So I decided to avoid that topic unless I want to do a really serious story with more research involved.

[dawgofdawgness]

Originally I was going to have one of my supporting characters murder someone (in their past), but I realized that killing an innocent person can make someone sorta irredeemable.

@DiegoPalacios That's badass

[spadesart]

spire isnt. That Dark even though its about vampires but

scrapped this line because it came off too creepy (it was funnier in my head)

an earlier version of spire had cogs head being replaced with a tv screen as humiliation/punishment for defecting, hunters also had guns but it seemed too op for them

in an earlier draft of blaise's backstory william was originally going to be his sire and the scene surrounding his turning was really dark, cant say much without spoiling some stuff but it happened as an impulse decision where blaise said something bad about vampires and it set william off the edge with him pinning down blaise and turning him. it was out of character for william and casts him in a worse light than i want when the story explores his past living in a vampire clan.

chapter 6 of spire has a murder shack in it though