Well, since we are talking about dark scenes...I may or may not have a character commit suicide. I haven't decided yet.
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.
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.
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 
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
That is a hard and sensitive topic to put in a story. If you didn`t feel ready to tackle it, it was a good call to avoid it.
Thanks! 
this was one of these cases of toning down some darker element to fit the tone of the story.
Not gonna lie, that was an awesome design, but you're right, it won't fit with the rock comedy
@lunaartemisasama More research! Don't completely scrap it, it could be used as a gateway to serious topics and one that could seriously impact the reader and leave them with a good impression of your writing
@dawgofdawgness Murder is definitely irredeemable. That's why I made someone a big scale bank robber (doesn't kill people just hurts them) instead of a murderer because that would ruin all her characterization and would not allow the reader to sympathize anymore with her after that. Who was the murderer gonna be? i strongly suspect Anton
@stnmaren Yeah, that line is creepy, but it has a murder sh- wait what!?
I had an old character design in pencil which had which had them a human male with needles piercing his flesh from head to toe and no empty eye sockets. I scrapped it as I found the design too edgy for my taste and his human form was a bit too similar to another character.
tbf the line is between two people who dated and probably got past third base but the story doesnt explore it enough for it to fit :'v
WelllIII....I've completed a script that deals with demons, warlocks, and cosmic horror; the story itself goes from the 1970s to the 1990s. It's centered around a young woman who suffered severe amnesia (losing years of memories and thinking she's 6 years old), and the sheep with red eyes that followed her. And this series is
a part of a larger series that connects several stories because of a cosmic horror event that essentially threw the world in a fit of panic and an existential crisis.
Long story short -- in the final act of this script, she's condemned as a witch by a fear-stricken town and was nearly burned at the stake (she did suffer some serious burns). I had to rewrite the scene several times because of how messed up it got. 
Well that was a pleasant image at 10 pm
@Jenny-Toons I would read the hell out of that!
I have a lot of dark scenes in mind, and I decided not to hold back in one of my comics, which I also call my "rebel child" because I just throw all the gruesome ideas in there. Which includes horrible character deaths, tragic pasts, torture, drugs, some gore, etc... yeah.
I actually thought people will dislike the comic, but it has over 1K readers so I guess people just like to read something dark from time to time haha
I guess it's not as bad as torture and other stuff described here,
but every time I have a story with romance and "overcoming a struggle/ bad guy" I play with the idea of giving the reader the happy ending..
AND then kill one of the characters off.
Like the final battle, they win, but one of them doesn't get help fast enough and dies on the other one.
Or them being happy but then something "out of control" kills one like a car crash or something.
It's not even THAT relevant to the story since it's the end. I just feel drawn to it because it would in some cases be more realistic.
But if I think about it I hate it when that happens. It always makes me cry, cause you watched them grow and struggle then finally they made it. And then they just die.
I cannot think of a time I have done this. There was a scene in Alien Fiction that I almost cut. The character Shiva (one of the aliens) does something involving a human toddler which renders Shiva almost unlikable. Shiva is my wackiest comedic character in an already goofy story, so I stood to lose quite a lot, but I decided to keep it because the aliens are not supposed to be trustworthy, and they seemed to be getting too likable to my mind. I won't go into details here because it's technobabbly sci-fantasy nonsense and would take too long to explain in a story that nobody reads.
