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@kpcentaursister

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Hey! I haven’t seen you around before, so nice to meet you! I’m Sarah. Sarah Inkdragon to be exact, a rather spontaneous, awkward, and rather klutzy person(though I will never admit that in real life) obsessed with… well, all things nerdy and cool and pretty much anything to do with writing or art. XD Also, I love to analyze things, as you will see in a moment 😉

So, torture scenes.

*cracks knuckles*

A lot of this depends on how old your younger sisters are… but I’m going to guess around 10-14? Maybe? We’ll use that as a base.

Like @taylorclogston said above, I’d suggest not showing the actual act of torture if you don’t want to go to dark. Like… say your character gets captured by the villain, then is dragged into a dungeon of sorts and we see the villain draw a knife–then cut to the character getting dragged out back to wherever he/she came from(I’m guessing a cell lol). Or even cut to them waking up after the torture.

As for the eye–eyes are tricky things. Consider these questions–if the infection goes too far and starts going beyond his/her eye, is there any way to stop the infection/heal it? If so, why does the infection set in in the first space?(For example, if you character is tortured and then immediately rescued very soon after, he/she would have received medical help and the eye would be much less likely to get infected.) Also, consider that loosing an eye to an infection is an extremely painful and often long process–whilst loosing an eye to, say, getting it stabbed out sounds worse, but actually is probably more likely to heal faster and be less painful since it’s not a drawn out process, if you get what I mean.

Lastly–you don’t have to loose an eye to go blind. So if you don’t want to, you don’t have to make your character completely loose the eye. That may help with the issue of going too dark.

Sorry if I sound rather technical or hard to understand–sometimes when I get going on something I think to much in my head and don’t explain myself very well outside of my head. So if you don’t understand something, please let me know because it’s most likely me being confusing, not you. XD Anyhow, I hope this helped a little bit! This is something that I used to struggle with quite a bit when I was younger as well, so I understand how you don’t want your story to be too dark. Best of luck writing it!