Can poisoning be a murder method?
If the MC wanted to kill their mother with poison or other, stealthier means, they already could have. But they want to do it in a more personal, hands-on approach so it’s more satisfying.
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What about flaying her?
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Now you’ve got the idea. XD
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Can we torture her with our magic abilities?
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Yep! Though I still have yet to determine what those are, haha.
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Well if we have elemental powers there are so many things that could be done!
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I’d personally like to see something more unique, like actual dark magic: curses, paralyzation, frightening illusions, possessing animals/objects, deforming own appearance to look horrifying, enchanting our chosen weapons with affliction, etc etc.
Edit: Or maybe even a Drain Vitality spell that weakens and actually ages victims to the point where they’re literally vulnerable to everything.
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Yeah, I was thinking of more necromantic and dark abilities like that which would fit especially well with the atmosphere of the story.
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Can we still favor melee, though? I’d like to see a balance, honestly, between magic/weapons/hands, in terms of choices.
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Of course! In The Magician’s Burden and The Enchanter’s Misery, you’re a low level magic wielder with very limited mana, so most of the time you have to rely on your attributes, skills, and knowledge to accomplish your goals. It will be the same case here.
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Good to hear! (plus 20)
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This reminds me of a film that is coming out later this year, “The House That Jack Built”. The protagonist is a serial killer himself and its supposed to be very brutal and a “celebration of the idea that life is evil and soulless”. Not sure how similar your story and this movie will be by the time their both finished but I thought it was a nice coincidence.
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Don’t play me like this. Don’t post this appeasing as hell teaser, only for me to wait until December to get another update:sob:
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Ooo, psychological horror. My favorite. I’ll definitely be checking that movie out when it’s released.
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It won’t take that long. 
I’ll be releasing Chapter 1 sometime in June, probably.
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Man I love evil MCs!!! 
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Just in case anyone’s interested:
Psychopath: cruel, sadistic, incapable of morality, violent
Sociopath: deceitful, conniving, very twisted sense of morality, but still capable of love and remorse to some extent; usually anti-social, and can be violent, but isn’t necessarily
So the MC would be a true psychopath with a lot of sociopathic qualities (minus, obviously, the morality.)
The MC’s mother is a sociopath. Although cruel, insane, and manipulative, she is also capable of many emotions that the MC is not capable of, such as love, remorse, and empathy. For example, she loved Efastia, and is an alcoholic as a way of trying to cope with all the terrible things she’s done. On the other hand, the MC would never lose a wink of sleep over anything they’ve done, unless it was to revel in those things.
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You remind me of Ramsay Bolton lol. Speaking of him, could you feed your mom to the dogs?
I wonder if the MC would be as crazy as Ramsay was
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The way the plot is set up, the climax of the story will actually be really intense and fast-paced. After battling your mother, there will only be so much time to murder and torture her before the other antagonists arrive.
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Will the MC have some sort of power/influence though? Like having corrupt guards on your side, or being a member of some assassin guild or something.
I mean Ramsay was the son of a noble house so he could do whatever he wanted but here it looks like you mostly work alone so you couldn’t murder people openly