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@kpcentaursister The easy answer is don’t actually show the act, and be respectful with your description of the results. A character can look at the wounds and then look away or otherwise show how disturbing the damage is, without the gruesomeness of the camera leering at the wounds themselves.

I’d advise the eye lost to infection. The idea of the eye itself mutilated is extremely squicky. The character losing sight in that eye from infection is a great idea for creating consequences without needing to be gruesome about the wound itself.

I think Eragon did this fairly well, all things considered. A character is tortured quite a lot, but we really only see the results. For a story intended for younger audiences, this is around the limit of what gore you should allow yourself, IMO.