Have you ever read a story and been tramatised? I have. one was very badly writen and one was amazing. The Amazing one give me nightmares for months after wards. The plot was so dark and the twisted agony of the charater was ammazing. WHo would have thought who could draw such darkness form nightwing????
actually i love dark fics
and im writing some dark ones too
on is already pasted with few more chaps to be finished.
and the other will be an one shot
one of the characters gets really sick and dies after few months her lover is there and watching her dying slowly unable to do anything to save her etc.
I like dark fics, ones that are dark all the way through, as the characters struggle to take down a evil enemy (Classic HP)
Those fics are always great.
A great story forces the author into the pain of the characters. They make it so the reader feels like all of these events are happening to them. Each bit of despair and hopelessness consumes the reader. Dark stories can be really incredible.
I absoloutely love dark stories! Angst and dark humour are probably some of my most favourite genres. I'm thinking of trying to write a few myself. If you like dark fics you should read things like Wire in the Blood or Dexter.
I know the feeling. Most stories I read aren't intentionally dark, but one particular scene in a story has formed a mental scar in my brain. I couldn't imagine the character ever expressing his want, his desire so openly... it was terrifying because the female was a shy character, and found it really difficult to return his affections. Luckily her tears prevented the beginning of a strange relationship... he almost struck me as a rapist. I consumed most of my time at school after that envisaging the nightmare, being unable to erase it from the core of my mind...
Im reading a really quite sad Harry Potter fic right now, in which Ginny was kidnapped and held at Malfoy Manor. She was in a different room when dobby got Ron, hermione, etc out, and then Harry finds her, chained up. The fic begins after Harry kills every death eater in the house, and Voldemort. And for some bizzare reason Ginny is 2 years younger than Canon, but whatever.
Its really good, heres a link.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4464089/2/Yellow_Submarine
I read a Yu-Gi-Oh fic, I'm not sure if it was a dark fic...
but some awful stuff happened!
But it was well written, the grammar was mostly good!
It didn't give me nightmares but it brought some right emotions up!
One of the best stories I've read, it was before I got obsessed with a certain couple!
It was horrific to me...but an excellent read! I think it could definetly be turned into a book, and I so would buy it!
x Casondrah Kiku x
"The Sacred And The Profane" on FF.net is heartbrakingly sad. It's a Good Omens AU, but you don't need to know canon to get into it. Even with the darker tone it still has some of the humor of the original, but it can still make you cry and disturb you greatly.
Seriously, read it. Then curl up into a ball on the floor.
I have never written a dark fic but i desperatly want to, i just have to think up a plausable plot.
I have read many dark fics, Merlin is fantastic for them - because it's all magicy the darkness is truly amazing - but i've read the most terrible tortured (literally) and tragic Gundam Wing fics too ('Break' was the most memorable).
frankly i think they're very hard to pull off but epic if you get them right.
I write and read dark fic in the BtVS/Angel fandoms.
I started to write them as so many fics were started and yet never completed. As if the author could break them but didn't know how to mend the characters - or be brave enough to kill them off (which I have done several times! LOL)
But although there are very dark themes - torture, mind control, physical mutilation, there is always a strong plot alongside it.
I've found to write a good dark fic you have to care about your characters, but at the same time be willing to hurt them. You must emotionaly destroy them, but give them something that will make them move on, only to experience more pain.
I am quite twisted in that i adore darkfics- and i mean DARK. For some reason i'm not aware of i get drawn to stories about rape/abuse/torture more than others. I really don't know why- I was sexually assualted a few years ago and i've never considered rape in REAL LIFE to be anything other than a sick, disturbed, degrading thing to do and an absoloute hell to live through yet, why i don't know, i love to read about it happening to FICTIONAL characters. This used to worry me, though i've grown used to it. Anyone else here into darkfics and not sure why?
I shouldn't be posting here, in this section I mean.
I don't think I've read a darkfic...Might try and read one, I doubt that I could write one (unless I'm in the mood to, as I gotta IMAGINE the WHOLE THING D:) but I could try to...Meh -shrug-
What's it like to be emotionally scarred for the rest of your lives then? :P
I've only really read one dark fic which had child abuse in it and was really well written and emotional and I tried to write a slightly dark fic once myself but it was more psychologicaly weird(can't think of right word lol) than dark.
Yeah ive read some dark fics..... Ive read a certain Harry Potter one it had; Torture, abuse, rape, mental instability, betrayel and heart break and in the end Harry dies after acomplishing his goal. Voldemort dies then Harry Collapses..... was shocking and well written..
Sure have. The HP fandom seems full of darkfic. I read a multi-chapter that had Sirius harassing Snape back in their Hogwart's days. It ended by Sirius transforming into Padfoot and raping a tied up Snape, without Snape knowing Sirius is an animagus.
So... Angst, rape, violence, bestiality and countless other dark themes. It really got to me. I had trouble sleeping after reading it, that's for sure.
(It was incredibly written and an execellent fic overall, but damn it hurt to read.)
I typed 'fanfiction' into google thinking nothing would turn up, and something did, after that I couldn't get my own ideas to get out of my head till I wrote them
AHH, wrong thread again! Newbie in the house.
As for the actual topic: Darkfics
I've never been scarred by any fanfics namely 'cos I either realise and escape or just let it go. However, I was feaked by an official anime called 'School Days' in which the ending came out of nowhere.
I don't mind dark fics if they have a happy ending.
Like all the suffering and pain led to something good eventually?
Most of my own stories are rather dark themed, but in contrast I also write humor/parody. I like dark themed stories, because when I'm reading them, I feel mature.
To sdde
I so agree with you! School Days is crazy and traumatizing. I had nightmares.
Love Dark fics. Don't find many related to anime though (that i see) the darkest i ever read was actually about a wrestler (Undertaker) it was one of those 'you walk through a corridor' type written ones and it was so good you actually started believing Undertaker was well, you know 'add imagination here' to you. gave me the most major goosepimple attacks ever. loved it but creeped me out like crazy lol
Yeah, sure.
I once read one with Severus/Hermione. I thought I would check it out, but it was simply horrifying. It was amazingly written, but very disturbing as well.
>>22
I had no nightmares, but I was left screaming WTF!? Scary thing is that 'School Days' isn't the weirdest anime I've seen. Both the film 'Lupin III: The Secret of Mamo' and the series 'Loveless' surpass it, but they aren't dark, they're just pure mindf**ks
>>25....Is it something what maybe I could watch? Or is it traumatising and I'd end up having nightmares about it?
I had a go at writing a Darkfic if anybody wants to tell me how it is? XD It's only a (maybe) intro. Links in my name :)
But yeah. Not too keen on them. They makes me cry D:
I write the kind of fics I hope are so dark that people actually /think/ about them beyond the whole 'that's so hot' aspect. But then again, my fandom is full of dark fic if you know where to look.
I do love darkfics, but I'm yet to find one that really disturbs me in any way. That being said; I've seen, lived through and suffered at the hands of the darker side of humanity so a lot of what I read is pretty meh.
Actually, I was contemplating writing my own, but I really do need to finish the ones I'm working on at the moment.
I love darkfics and have tried them out, though I can't seem to get the mix right.
The fic in question is on the profile in my name, it's called "Such Weakness", not sure if it qualifies though, if anyone feels like a read.
>>29 I think it sometimes also depends on the fandom you're writing for. Many fandoms have lots of elements that, when you think about them, are very fucked up and dark (i.e. Most RPGs have elements of this) but some fandoms don't have that morbid factor, and some characters don't. Thus it's harder to write dark fic for fandoms like Street Fighter.
Difficult to write something dark about a bunch of warped individuals beating the crap out of each other on a regular basis? Think I'd have to disagree with you on that one.
> 30: Considering Vega's blatant blood lust and Bison's character...I'm not so sure I'll agree.
If anything I was just wondering if I've done it at all right since I want to actually know what makes a darkfic 'dark' since I've never got the concept fully on how to write them.
Elkkun >
I noticed the review :D Thanking you muchly ^_^ It wasn't putting up with your review, I actually enjoyed reading it XD
>>26 The 'Lupin III' film's probably the most scary, but I doubt it'll give you any nightmares. 'Loveless' is alot more likely to have you saying "ewww" and "how does any of this work?", even if you're open minded it's rather odd.
The anime loveless?
I found it to be very cute myself.
Or the manga?
... Or the 'poem'?
Even if the morrow is barren of promises
Nothing shall forestall my merchandising opportunity
To become the retcons that ravage the land
To make prequels, sequels, fanservice
I offer thee Gackt in a red leather coat.
>>34 hehe, that's good then. Thought you'd be more puzzled at it than anything, I tend to ramble sometimes :P That ain't a nice thing to do.
Elkkun:
No not at all, it was a nice little read ^_^
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Yes, and the manga because I read the manga first. As for the poem, meh I don't care. That's not justifying it being weird. and where does this come into darkfics? :/
because the poem was too sad to be true?...Sorry bad English joke there.
>>36 It's not to say ALL of Loveless is a mindf*** but most of it is to me. e.g. a 20 year old displaying affection that's hard to take any way other than romantic for a 12 yr old, how (and in the long run, why) the battles happen is never explained in the anime and the first one just comes out of nowhere, the main character doesn't make much sense either, especially his mom and why several people want his affection including his psychiatrist. These and several other factors just left me utterly confused and a bit creeped out.
I can see what parts can be called cute and I will admit I liked those, but it didn't fix the problem for me
>>36 It's not to say ALL of Loveless is a mindf*** but most of it is to me. e.g. a 20 year old displaying affection that's hard to take any way other than romantic for a 12 yr old, how (and in the long run, why) the battles happen is never explained in the anime and the first one just comes out of nowhere, the main character doesn't make much sense either, especially his mom and why several people want his affection including his psychiatrist. These and several other factors just left me utterly confused and a bit creeped out.
I can see what parts can be called cute and I will admit I liked those, but it didn't fix the problem for me
You just have to learn to take manga like that with a pinch of salt. It's generally how I get around the things that would be considered socially weird.
>>43
I'm not saying that wouldn't be the case as the manga is still going and has probably explained a few things; the battle & partner system being one I hope. Anyway, I just didn't undertsand what was going on in 'Loveless' and the social awkwardness escalated it. However, I did still watch it till the end, that says something in its favour.
I've gotten around social differences in other series, best example being what I called a "Dark" series 'School Days'. Apart from the ending obviously 'cos that wasn't weird it was just...DAAAANG!
I live off of dark stories or anything oozing with angst. Mostly I enjoy turning innocent shows into something...well different. I don't know why, then again? Who really knows what goes on in our minds.
Although I haven't found one that freaks me out, yet.