Hey, out of curiosity, I know we're two months ahead, but is anyone planning on sacrificing their souls to the gods of chaos doing NaNoWriMo this year?
Well, I won last year, so I'll be able to say that I've done it even if I don't participate now. I'd like to participate again, but I'm just not sure what to write - there's this fantasy story I want to work on but I'm not even sure what language to write that in, and there are several background characters in The Quest for the Legends whose journeys I've toyed with the idea of writing about for the hell of it, but none of them are quite as interesting to me as the Scyther stories that I wrote the past two years. :/ Then again, I could also go with trying to finish one of my old pieces that I've been too lazy to pick up again, such as The Type Chart (a Pokémon/The Matrix crossover parody). So many choices!
What is the most gruesome thing you have ever written?
Let's see. When I was a kid I made up a whole bunch of little stories I never wrote about random innocent people being executed in painfully elaborate and torturous ways by evil kings, and many others involving painfully elaborate and torturous executions in other contexts. There was one in which the evil king was instructing a servant to go out, kill a particular made-up animal in a particular way and do this and that with this and that internal organ in order to make a medicine; that was pretty gruesome as well, even though it was just the king's description of what he was supposed to do.
If that stuff doesn't count, then I wrote a one-shot about a trainer who accidentally murders Mew and a one-shot about a trainer who catches Suicune and is then chased down and killed by Raikou, but those weren't particularly gruesomely described; then there's Chains, in which a starving, dying Mewtwo is hanging in a crucified position inside a secured chamber in a lab in order to prevent him from unleashing his power, and that one had some descriptions of bloodied wrists and countable ribs.
Now, then you have the prologue of The Quest for the Legends, which involves a bunch of body parts splattered around all over the place but is not described in much detail aside from a severed head with one eye a bloodied pulp and the other missing altogether. And then we have Scyther's Story and The Fall of a Leader, the former containing a bunch of self-mutilation scenes and a Scyther murdering a human kid as well as later being run through with an enormous fang and killed, and the latter containing rituals involving splattering infants with blood, several throat-slittings, and the line, "It screamed until I'd torn its lungs apart."
Take your pick. Actually none of this is described in a very gory way as I don't like wallowing in splattered intestines, but there's a whole bunch of blood.
