Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-29414935-20190706142344/@comment-29414935-20190823095738

To be honest, I'm now really glad that I let the wolf lady suffer much more. Not in the sadistic way. Because I learn that, especially with your own favourite characters of your own, you feel more empathy for them when they are suffering mentally and physically. I was always scared to let her through horrible things and don't wanted it, because she is one of my favourite characters of all my stories. But then I did it, because I learned. First she was suffering just mentally so much that she even wanted to commit suicide. Now I decided it's necessary to hurt her also physically to show how she goes weaker and weaker, because of the death of her sister and the betrayal of her uncle. To show she can be hurt. In the parts before, no one really had a chance in fighting her and she was the most skilled martial arts fighter in the story, and if she was hurt a little bit, she doesn't cared because she is really tuff. That was what made her really badass. But in the last part, she is overthrown by her even more skilled uncle who trained her as a kid. So that's why she got knocked out and tied up by him. And even that is not enough because the child slaver turns out to be one of her elementary school classmates who was obsessed with her and wanted her to be his girlfriend. But she refused and that made him angry. So he put her the shock collar on, which he uses for the children, and tortures her with electro shocks, even to near death. That's the first time she saw her sister again but woke up again. Then the gangsterboss finds her, grabs her by the neck and lifts her up, trying to kill her. But is stopped by the child. The gangsterboss had never really a chance against her, because she was to skilled in fighting, but because she is already weakend and tied up with hancuffs, she didn't really had a chance to defend herself. A little bit unfair, yeah. After that, they work together to rescue the other children. I had also an funny idea that she goes into her car with her future adoptive daughter, the little girl, and because she is still tied up and can't really do something, she activates the pedals and the girl must drive the car and take the wheel. Would that be nice and logical? But couldn't she just like "put her tied up hands under her butt so they are in front of her but still tied up"? Do you know what I mean? Then, she collapses because again of the electro shocks and has again, a near death experience. There is a last and emotional scene with her sister and she learns and accepts that she is gone and that she is in a better place now. So what do you think? Before that idea in "her suffering" came, she was more than a Karma Houdini. Sure, she was sad because of the death of her sister, but she didn't got a single scratch, and now she is the complete opposite, a Scapegoat. It was very fitting and perfect for the conclusion of the story and her general character arc, so I'm really proud of how it turns out, and I have much more empathy and sympathy for her than ever before. And I also needed to "exaggerate" because she needed the talk with "the spirit of her sister" so she can finish with that and can live in peace again. So that's why she needed to be in a "near-death condition"