Super sad bits in your stories/comics

Darkshines 2024-01-18 21:28:25 UTC #1

Upon writing notes for the current Colliding By Design story and notes for one of he Prequels... I keep writing these super sad and tragic stories involving my OCs. One of them I hold very close to my own tragic back story (which I'm not afraid to admit has bought me to tears writing it down on more than one occasion!)
Just wondered if anyone has done the same here?

Leyelle 2024-01-18 21:47:54 UTC #2

Definitely, my story has almost brought me to tears a couple of times, especially with my character's attempt to recover after a horrible experience with some unsolicited sexual advances in "Lurid," and her desire to just be rid of or escape her body, which feelings, I admit are based on some horrible experiences from my childhood, thought they are toned down for this story.

And also the trauma of my characters dealing with the loss of their parents, never knowing their parents, neglect, and feeling like they'll never be good enough because of things they've grown up hearing from their parents, it's in general, a pretty sad book, though it is also a romance:

“Sometimes I have this weird idea - it’s totally stupid - but you know, shower thoughts - my mom says they were divorced 30 days before I was born, but that’s old enough to recognize voices I’ve heard - even in the womb. Sometimes I kinda wonder if I ever met him, if something inside me would just know…”

“I missed hearing from you the last few days,” he says casually, “You feeling alright?”

I swear he’s magic.

My mouth blurts the single syllable before I have a chance to lie, to swallow it back down-

“No.”

Why does that word feel so dangerous to say?

There’s a brief pause, and I think I can hear doors closing somewhere far away in his background. He asks almost timidly, “Do you want to tell me?”

Yes.

And no.

No no no.

I want to pretend it didn’t happen.

I want him to tell me it’ll be okay. That it wasn’t right.

And I don’t even know where to start.

With the calamity -? Or all of the space in between -?

Explaining what I should have seen coming but never did-

I’m such an idiot.

Maybe if I had…I wouldn’t be here, cowering in the dark, trying to get out of my body.

And many more with more to come...I'm really giving my characters some pretty tragic lives honestly.

ThunderChicken 2024-01-18 22:36:00 UTC #3

Oh yes, my story brings the sad. Childhood death, mental illness, substance abuse, religious cultism, suicide...

The really sad thing is that it's a true story. All the sad stuff really happened.

abigaillmartin 2024-01-18 23:23:00 UTC #4

This part. So far.

ArtGremlin 2024-01-18 23:26:05 UTC #5

Well, despite my comic’s current happy vibes, at the end of the “first season” (veeeery far away btw) (The whole thing is kinda structured like a two season tv show tbh) there is big sad and then the rest of the second season continues to have big sad. The ending is still a little sad, but it’s pretty much an “It’s ok. life will go on” ending.

simonitropunk 2024-01-19 00:08:50 UTC #6

...wait for the next chapter

kyupol 2024-01-19 00:26:38 UTC #7

Jose's back story...

As well as Lucia...

And Eman...

And lastly... from ANGHELL DELA BLACKPILL...

Animal508 2024-01-19 02:59:33 UTC #8

I have an unpublished short story that has a ton of sad moments.

It's about a little girl who sees herself a monster, and believes that everyone hates her for it, including her mother. This is goaded by a voice that she speaks with, who tells her to run away from everyone, claiming they want to kill her.

It does have a somewhat happy ending, but it gets REALLY dark and sad before then. And the previous paragraph hints to what I mean by that.

thaonguyenviolet 2024-01-19 03:33:34 UTC #9

Some sad scenes in my manga, 6 Summers, romace, high school genre

kitschensyngk 2024-01-19 04:04:01 UTC #10

Without spoiling anything, chapter 6 of my comic is quite saddening.

Also chapter 10.

Scarlet_Cryptid 2024-01-19 06:58:14 UTC #11

I definitely cried when I wrote, drew, and posted a critical, heartbreaking scene in chapter one. I knew it was coming, but it was still agony to create, and agony to inflict on my readers.

(SO glad chapter two isn't this excruciating to draw.)

2DLenzy 2024-01-19 13:19:03 UTC #12

My story starts off a little sad, but also light-hearted and a bit humorous. I'm planning on some sadder dramatic parts coming later, but for now, I'm playing around with characters and different situations, for story development as well as reader attachments. Eventually, more tragic stuff will happen, and some parts are gonna be difficult for me to draw, but there's a purpose for all of it, though it will take some time and patience to realize it...

lignorice 2024-01-19 13:49:04 UTC #13

I do not cry (because it's really hard to make myself cry even if I want to), but yes, I give most of my characters sad bits in their story. I just started uploading one novel here, but I do have many drafts, and when I think about this topic, I just realized I gave my characters (even not the main characters) at least one of the sad bits, whether they are protagonist or villain.

The one novel I upload here, Eigria: Lume, has sad bits about almost every character when I rethink about it. My main character is forced to live as the prince which he hates, turned into a fugitive as he got betrayed by their most respected and trusted person, carry a country's future burden while revealing what he knows, believes, all shattered. He's also having sleepless nights because of his dreams which able to foresee things, forced by predetermined destiny to carry the burden of someone who'll save a country from calamity... It's really a lot for someone.

Yet, these are what makes him learn about life.

Even I sympathizes with the villain from Eigria: Lume. He has his own dark past, his own trauma (abandonment, golden child syndrome, bullying, and not mention how he turned into villain as his reactions to his life)

As far as I wanna talk, I guess I have to be careful to not spoil too much things. Most of these things are in upcoming updates. I want to talk about it but then it'd spoil the story too much haha.

UrMom 2024-01-19 19:59:49 UTC #14

It's hard to say what bits are the saddest, my whole comic is kind of intended to be sad. (It isn't a tragedy, just has a lot of dark stuff.) Prologue is one of the MCs talking about losing someone he didn't appreciate enough to suicide, or at least he thought they were gone at the time. But it sets the tone, after that there are moments could be sad, relating to mental illness, abuse, trauma, substance abuse. Personally for me there are only two scenes that are really sad, but they haven't show up yet in the story.

Spoilers

Julian (The not actually dead character.) is helping Apollo (The other MC.) clean up his hoard of trash, Julian finds a guitar in Apollo's closet. It turns out to be one they had refurbished to give as a birthday present to Apollo when they were still teens, and one Apollo had thrown away because he didn't like it. Turns out his siblings fished it out, and he wound up keeping it. While Julian is looking it over Apollo says "Thank you for the guitar, I'm sure it costed a lot for you to get it fixed, and to get the strings and stuff.", then "Sorry it took me so long to thank you for it.". Julian's back it turned, but you can tell they're starting to cry a bit.

It's sad for me because Julian isn't the type to cry, and seeing those types break down a little makes me sad. Reminds me a lot of my grandpa or other gruff figures.

I won't go into too much detail with this one, but Apollo is trying to convince Julian to get treatment for this quickly developing cancer they have before it's too late to get it treated. Julian doesn't want to, basically giving up after everything that's happened so far. There's a bit of an argument, Apollo cries, eventually Julian reluctantly decides to get treated.

It's sad because I'll have to dig a little deep with this one. My overall viewpoint on life is nihilistic, add depressive moods to that, and it's genuinely hard for me to argue for life. If I were in Julian's shoes I'd no doubt ride that rainbow bridge, so this scene will be really emotionally challenging, gonna be doing so soul searching.

WorldBreakerNovels 2024-01-19 20:08:29 UTC #15

Technically, we're not there yet in either of our stories. However, if you want a little future taste, I suppose I can give a sampler. A small preview of Jethuun's past as an experiment. He was the perfect test subject because he would heal from nearly anything instead of having to replace the subject after every life extinguishing test.

I couldn't, in good conscience, showcase anything from Techromaster yet. The scene for this post is coming, but we still have some time.

Rai_Muffin 2024-01-20 01:07:29 UTC #16

I don't know how sad other people would find them, but a lot of the anxieties my characters go through reflect my own experiences.
Drew the 3 pages of this scene after a really shitty day at work; put the Guts theme on repeat and just tried to reflect how I was feeling through my characters. Though naturally, I need to tweak the dialogue; it would be weird if Keanu here suddenly started babbling about not being a good artist.

Darkshines 2024-01-22 07:10:06 UTC #17

Nice! I'll give all of these a proper read! Tapas is doing that thing where it opens just the app and doesn't take me to the comic

Rai_Muffin 2024-01-22 12:09:50 UTC #18

Forgot the link to my comic.
Now my characters have more reasons to be sad.

llobucervallince 2024-01-22 15:32:48 UTC #19

Ok so this is gonna sound bad, but the saddest part of my latest chapter, which I feel is the saddest I've drawn so far, is avaliable only on Ko-Fi for now, besides that, I don't feel like there's many others sad bits in my comic up until now.
Well, except for the current chapter (5) I'm working on, but that's another story.

Also! in Ko-Fi!

Edit:
Now that I think about it, I think chapter 8 will be the saddest, and I was thinking, years from now, I don't know which volume, but it is very far away, Henry would be yelling "Why won't you hate me! please! please hate me!" while sobbing on his knees,

JoshRaed 2024-02-12 05:40:16 UTC #20

My story has a bit where the main character has to go to his mothers grave and can't handle it and has to confront why he's been avoidant about it and eventually confronts his feelings about her death.