[ SECRET POST #5154 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5154 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Revenge - Trigger Warning

[(Anonymous)]

I am writing a sequel to a fic I wrote about 2 years back. I want it to be about a rape/sexual slavery victim getting revenge. I want the rapist dead by the end, but he is a magic user and pretty overpowered. How can my character kill him? I was considering it being an ironic end, but I'm out of ideas.

Re: Revenge - Trigger Warning

[(Anonymous)]

He needs an achilles heel. Either something that will make him drop his guard and give your protagonist a moment to kill him, or a physical or metaphysical weakness.

Re: Revenge - Trigger Warning

[(Anonymous)]

I had to write an incredibly overpowered magic-user being taken captive in a recent fic, and what I wound up doing was making use of a magical item (which technically exists in their canon! Hooray!) that drains magic energy, leaving him unable to cast.

I don't know if there's something akin to that, or an ability someone might have, in whatever canon you may be writing in. Something that inhibits the flow of energies necessary to cast magic. ...I almost was going to give a content warning here but since we're already talking about a rapist and all that might entail, and obviously this is not a discussion of real things that are okay to do to real people: possibly a drug/potion they could slip them? Because once the overpowered magic-user is depowered, I mean, you can get creative with what you can do to them.

Or possibly the opposite - cut them off from the ability to stop casting, either depleting their stamina or just frying them with too much power flowing through them for their body to withstand.

(...I spend a lot of time thinking about overpowered mages, haha.)

Re: Revenge - Trigger Warning

[(Anonymous)]

Can the victim convince him that he's fallen in love with the rapist? And that he's forgiven him etc, and then poison him to death during a shared meal.

Re: Revenge - Trigger Warning

[(Anonymous)]

If magic is involved, the rapist excludes the victim/"lover" from his protection spells because he trusts/isn't threatened by them and THAT choice is his undoing?

Re: Revenge - Trigger Warning

[thewakokid]

I always like the "Magic not prepared for mundane" fights, Like Equal Rites when Eskarina wins by being able to do magic but choosing not to, or when Harry Dresden pulled a gun on the wizard at the end of Storm Front who was expecting a magical duel, Or pretty much any time Batman comes out ahead of a magic user.

I just like the idea that the mystical becomes so run-of-the-mill to magic users that they don't even fathom there being a non-magic solution. Sort of the magical version the Indianna Jones Gun vs Sword fight, or the old myth about how the US spent billions working on a pen that would write in space, but the soviets just took pencils.

Re: Revenge - Trigger Warning

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I think this is the easiest way to do that sort of thing without writing yourself into ever more complicated knots to put in an Achilles heel he hasn't had up until this point. It's emotionally satisfying. And hell, if you play it right, you could make it into some kind of a Chekhov's Gun situation, where it's some mundane item (maybe one she's always had?) you can introduce at the start that does him in in the end.

Re: Revenge - Trigger Warning

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, it depends on the magic system you're using and what it allows for. Some options:

- anti-magic drugs/poisons, like Dragon Age's magebane, that'll take out his magic long enough to kill him, if you want to do things the old fashioned way

- if the vengeful can get access to magic of their own, curses. I'm a big fan of ironic curses. If lust is a thing for the villain, curse him to fall in genuine love and starve himself by it. If magic and power are, invert his magic, cause it to kill him slowly if he casts it, and make him choose between his power and his life. Or your choice of slow, inventive curses, really

- in the Thief of Bagdad (1940s) movie, Jaffar killed the king by creating a 'Silver Maiden', a machine dancer, that lured the lustful king in and stabbed him during the embrace. If lust very much is a thing for the villain, and the crusader doesn't want to put a feeling person in that position, and if artificial constructs are a thing your world allows, you could have a look at that avenue

- if the villain's power comes from an outside source, such as demons or djinn or the like, is your character potentially able to turn them against him? Trick him into breaking contract, or simply making the powerful being a better offer?

- does the magic-using villain often seek more power by artificial means? Can your character trick him into going after things man was not meant to know and dying of them? To go back to the Jafar's of the fictional world, trick him into 'phenomenal cosmic power, itty bitty living space'? Hand him a soul-sucking magic rock, trick him into looking into the lake of regret, what have you?

It really does depend on your world and what options are built into it, but generally speaking if you're looking for ironic, you're looking for something that takes advantage of either his lust or his power. There's a lot of fictional precedent for very nasty fates making good use of either. Have a look at what options your setting has!

Re: Revenge - Trigger Warning

[(Anonymous)]

There are very few wizard problems that can't be fixed with a big stick.

The trick is getting close enough to use the stick.

Re: Revenge - Trigger Warning

[(Anonymous)]

I knew I should have made a setting for wood...