#Evil Torment

[stardustdiiving]

Nahida is kind of the funniest person alive for seeing Scaramouche’s memories and then deciding to compare him to a sad little kitten. She canonically poor little meow meow’s him. Then after he accepts he is kind of poor little meow meow and not a being of pure evil she enrolls him into college as part of her plan to help him gain a sense of emotional stability. Incredible

#wanderer #scaramouche #nahida #hat radish #Genshin #fern.txt #I just feel you can see the moment nahida decides to assign him a kitten fursona in how #she pauses when he starts crying and begging for her to not take the gnosis #you can see it in real time shes like ok. you are kind of tormented and possibly not completely evil #this is extra funny when u compare it to how she is like visibly disgusted to be in dottore’s proximity #fandomferns

[lnmei]

🤍你也来了 🖤正在捉你

黑白无常 / Black and White Impermanence, Chinese folk deities of the underworld as women with swords for Fight Like a Girl! Anthology !

#my art #girls and swords #as of posting this early June there are still zines and ebooks available at the store link! #thanks again to Andy for bringing this together ♥️ #if you committed evil in life they arrest and torment you in death 🤷🏻‍♀️ #also drew 牛头马面 as little guys lol

[lord-squiggletits]

I think the key component to my personal reading of post-Delphi Pharma is that he's trying to be a horrible person on purpose. Not "on purpose" in the way that people have free will to exercise their own choices, but in that Pharma's "mad doctor" persona is a performance he puts on to deliberately embrace how much everyone else hates him. Basically, if people already think you're a "bad Autobot" and a horrible doctor who just kills his patients for fun, why try to prove otherwise to people who have already made up their minds about you? Just fully embrace the fact that people see you as an asshole. Don't try to change their minds. Don't plead for their forgiveness or understanding. Just stop caring. If you're going to be remembered as a monster, you might as well be a memorable monster, and eke as much pleasure and hedonism as you can out of it before karma catches up to you and you inevitably crash and burn.

I mean, I guess you could just go the route of "Oh, Pharma was always a fucked up creepy guy and Delphi was just him taking the mask off," but I really don't like that interpretation because, for one, it feels really wrong to take a character like Pharma becoming evil under duress and going, "Oh well clearly he did the things he did because he was evil all along," as if somehow Pharma breaking under blackmail/torture/threat of horrible death was a sign of him having poor moral character. As opposed to, you know, suffering under the very real threat of horrible death for himself and everyone he cares about while being manipulated by a guy who specializes in psychological torture.

The second reason is that it just doesn't make sense to write Pharma as having been evil all along. I mean...

Occam's Razor says that the best argument is the one with the simplest explanation. Doesn't it make way more sense to take Pharma's appearances in flashbacks, his friendship with Ratchet, his stunning medical accomplishments, and the few we see of him speaking kindly/sympathetically (or in the least charitable interpretation, at least professionally) towards his patients and conclude "This guy was just a normal person, if exceptionally talented." Taking all of these flashback appearances at face value and assuming Pharma was being genuine/honest is a way simpler and more logical explanation than trying to argue that Pharma for the past 4 million years was just faking being a good doctor/person. I mean, it's possible within the realm of headcanon, but the fact is Pharma's appearances in the story are so brief that there simply wasn't room in the story for there to be some sort of secret conspiracy/hidden manipulation behind why Pharma acted the way he did in the past.

I just can't help but look at things like Pharma's friendship with Ratchet (himself a good person and usually a fine judge of character) and the fact that even post-Delphi, pretty much every single mention of Pharma comes with some mention of "He was a good doctor for most of his life" or "He was making major headways in research [before he started killing patients]" which implies that even the Autobots themselves see Pharma's villainy as a recent turn in his life compared to how for "most of his life" he "used to be" a good doctor.

And although Pharma doesn't know this, we as the readers (and even other characters like Rung) know about Aequitas technology and the fact that it actually works, so... if Pharma really was an unrepentant murderer, why couldn't he get through the forcefield too? The Aequitas forcefield doesn't require that a person be completely morally pure and free of wrongdoing or else how could Tyrest get through, just that they feel a sense of inner peace and lack feelings of guilt. Pharma has murdered and tortured people by this point, and put on quite a campy and theatrical show of how much he sees it as a fun game, so why then can he not get through?

It circles back to my headcanon at the start of this post that the "mad doctor" persona is just that-- a persona. Delphi/post-Delphi Pharma's laughing madman personality is just so far removed from every flashback we saw of him and everything we can infer based on how other people see/saw him before that, to me, the mad doctor act is (at least in large part, if not fully) a persona that Pharma puts on to put his villainy in the forefront.

To avoid an overly simplistic/ableist take, I don't think Tarn tortured Pharma into turning crazy. To me, it's more like the constant pressure of death by horrific torture, the feeling of martyrdom as Pharma kept secret that he was the only one standing between Delphi and annihilation, the physical isolation of Messatine as well as the emotional separation from Ratchet, being forced to violate his medical oaths (pretty much the only thing Pharma's entire life has been about), etc. All of that combined traumatized Pharma to the point that the only way he could avoid cracking was to just stop caring about all of it. Because at least then, even if he's still murdering patients to save Delphi from a group of sadistic freaks, Pharma doesn't have to feel guilty and sick about doing it. As opposed to the alternatives, which were probably either going off the deep end and killing himself to escape, or confessing to what he did and getting jailed for it.

In that light, Pharma becoming a mad doctor makes sense. It avoids the bad writing tropes of "oh this character who was good his entire life was actually just evil and really good at hiding it" as well as "oh he got tortured and went crazy that's why he's so random and silly and killing people, he's crazy" and instead frames Pharma's evil as something he was forced into, to the point where in order to avoid a full psychological breakdown and keep defending Delphi, he just had to stop caring about the sanctity of life or about what other people might think of him.

Then, of course, the actual Delphi episode happens, and Pharma's own lifelong best friend Ratchet basically spits in his face and sees him as nothing more than a crazy murderer who went rogue from being a good Autobot. Then Pharma gets his hands cut off and left to die on Messatine. At that point, Pharma has not only been mentally/emotionally broken into losing his feelings of compassion, he's received the message loud and clear: He is alone. Everyone hates him. Not even his own best friend likes him any more. No one even cared enough about him to check if he actually died or not. He will only ever be remembered as a doctor who went insane and killed his patients.

So in the light of 1. Having all of your redeeming qualities be squeezed out of you one by one for the sake of survival and 2. Having your reputation and all of your positive relationships be destroyed and 3. People only know/care about you as "that doctor who became evil and killed his patients" rather than the millions of years of good service that came before.

What else is there to do but internalize the fact that you'll forever be seen as a monster and a freak, and embrace it? People already see you as a murderer for that blackmail deal you did, so why not become an actual murderer and just start killing people on a whim? People already see you as an irredeemable monster who puts a stain on the Autobot name, so why beg for their forgiveness when you could just shun them back? You've already become a murderer, a traitor, and a horrible doctor, so what's a few more evil acts added to the pile? It's not like anyone will ever forgive you or love you ever again.

Why care? Why try to hold on to your principles of compassion, kindness, medical ethics, when an entire lifetime of being a good person did nothing to save you from blackmail and then abandonment? Why put yourself through the emotional agony of feeling lonely, guilty, miserable, when you could just... stop caring, and not hurt any more?

#squiggposting #pharma apologism #i'm sure the doylist reason for the writing is just that pharma was a designated villain #so since he's a villain and 'crazy' it's fine for everyone even the good guys to treat him like complete trash #i just think from a watsonian perspective taking a sympathetic approach is way more interesting and logically consistent #what i mean is like. from a meta perspective one of the best ways to show that a character is super evil and not worth saving #is when even the good guy heroes. the ones who are supposed to be kind and compassionate and wise. see him as dirt #and this is also kind of a necessity in most plots bc TF is the kind of series that just needs action villains and long-term antagonists #so not every villain is written or has a plot to be made redeemable. and pharma is one of these bc he's not important or a legacy character #so from a doylist (meta) perspective you could read the autobots' disregard of pharma as a sign of #'this guy is not meant to have your sympathy as a reader. pay no attention to him' #but from a watsonian (in universe) perspective it paints a miserable picture of pharma being utterly forsaken by the ppl he served alongsid #and like yeah i'm super autistic about pharma so of course i view him with sympathy but like #the idea of being a loyal and good person for years only to be subjected to a Torment Nexus of #being blackmailed into breaking all of the oaths you held sacred. under threat of you and all your comrades dying horrible torturous deaths #then when your comrades find out about it they focus solely on the 'harvesting organs' and not on the 'blackmail' part #and then you get literally left for dead by your comrades and best friend hating your guts #and then you get rescued by a guy who uses you as a test subject for his evil machine #this is a fucking nightmare scenario like pharma could hardly be suffering more if the author TRIED to make him suffer #and for me it's like. the evil pharma did can't be decontextualized to what drove him to that. as well as the question of like #how easily ppl can write someone off as evil and turn a blind eye to (or even find satisfaction in) their suffering bc theyre evil #and either brought it on themselves or it's just karma paying a visit #like. i feel like if pharma WERE a shitty doctor and a terrible person his whole life then the delphi situation would feel like karma #but the way it's written and the lore retroactively put in makes it feel more pharma getting thrown in a torture carousel #and THEN becoming evil. but then being treated as if he was always evil or was some sort of bad apple #bc like i'm not opposed to LOLing when a villain gets a karmic torture/death related to the wrongs they committed #but in pharma's case it feels less like karma and more like endless torture + being abandoned by ppl who should have been more loyal

[avocadoraisin]

Strahm taking what he wants

#mamma mia i drew them kissing again. i promise ill draw evil hoffman again im just. yknow #anyway here have Strahm slightly in charge for once cuz i always draw this guy getting tormented #coffinshipping #hoffstrahm #mark hoffman #peter strahm #saw fanart #sawposting

[krispycreamsicle]

#xue yang #mxtxnet #theuntameddaily #the untamed #mo dao zu shi #cql #mdzs #yi city #*my gifs #cleansing the bad vibes in the xy tag with a gifset of him being hot while tormenting sl <333 #anyway this is a songxue post. it's also me holding my little evil dude in my hands and watching proudly as he commits murder

[laurents-secret-diary]

Can we see any of your drawings you may have had for the side characters please??? 👉👈

I only got a couple so far! I think I'm gonna do Nicaise next

#jokaste #aimeric #captive prince #kings rising #caprisun #can you believe damen fumbled a tall evil goddess? i would end myself #OKAY maybe he didnt “fumble” her. maybe it was the evil goddess part that ended it. but. but the loss is there ok. that shit would plague m #she is obviously sporting my headcanony akielon undercut like damen #but can you imagine going from this tall enchanting queen to. to looking down at a weird blue eyed frog with a stick up his ass #bi rights to damen but jesus christ my man #damen literally became the kinda guy that shows you a photo of his aint shit boyfriend on his iphone 5 while you're getting brunch together #and you have to say oh you two look so nice together. even though you cant believe he's letting that dude hit it. #like bro? you ever been to my garden? because i think you're dating one of my fucking gnomes #now onto aimeric. #he is my. he is my little tormented guy. manipulated to hell and back. abandoned. alone yet soulful and full of promise. #he schemes and pretends and KILLS A BUNCHA PEOPLE...... #FUCKS UP JORD FOR LIFEEEEEEEEEE #AND THEN OLLIE OUTS OF EVERYONES LIVES DUE TO IMMEASURABLE GUILT #AND MAKES SURE TO DELIVER THE FINAL KAMEHAMEHA TO JORD WITH THAT LITTLE MESSAGE???? #who does it like him #iconic. show stopping. mesmerising. he is the moment

[dokidokitsuna]

GONE. AU

Fecto Elfilis Ruler of the Realm of Blood. Successfully conquered the Forgotten Land and resorbed its missing half. After consuming its mind-controlled subordinates, it took a liking to the practice, and now continues enslaving and devouring any life forms it finds during its invasions. Searching across dimensions for any remnant of the Ancient people who originally captured it, intent on brutal revenge.

Star Dream Ruler of the Realm of Stars. Absorbed the mind and soul of its creator, and recreated society in its own image, bringing a new age of Infinite Prosperity to the universe. The hopes and dreams of its mechanical people are its lifeblood, all connected through a hivemind that stretches across time and space. Wants only to continue freeing souls from the torments of the flesh and welcoming them to the perfection of the machine, and will eradicate anyone who stands in its way.

Master Crown Ruler of the Realm of Fate. Parasitized the body of a young mage many eons ago, and has since destroyed every trace of its original owner. So it believes. Although it may not be a match for its more established peers…who do and say things it finds unnerving, for some reason…its sole purpose is to rule, so it will do whatever it takes to bring them to their knees. Failure is impossible…so it believes.

The Arbiter God of Life and Death. Challenged three powerful entities to each prove themselves stronger than the other two, or have their existence brought to a swift end. In truth, they already know which one of the three they would like to take, and hope that this trial will be just the thing to finally break them.

#TLDR three of the biggest forces of evil in the Kirbyverse torment each other while Morpho sits back and laughs #y’know just normal stuff #I like coming up with the darker AUs because there’s never much I want to write #I just draw a few super-depressing pictures and then I’m out #kirby #gijinka #au #GONE. #fecto elfilis #master crown #Star Dream #morpho knight

[son1c]

*Gets hit with the AU beam for the millionth time in a row* Lovelyn, please, you gotta stop doing this to meeee I have other things to work on—

*opens google docs* hmm let’s see… what’s the room that Sonic is trapped in look like?

some sort of children's hospital vibe probably. starline seems to have a very... specific sense of humor irt the shit he does, so sterile white walls with "hang in there!" cat posters would probably fit the vibe. and piss sonic the fuck off.

if you've ever been to a pediatrician you might know that they usually have signs listing general "tips" for better health, too. usually in fun poppy colors with little mascots on them. starline's "fun health tip" posters would say shit like "it gets easier once you give up!" or some other dark shit like that.

plus, a jar of lollipops that is definitely empty. what can i say? he's pure evil.

#catiecat1320 #far from the ''dark empty room'' most people were probably imagining but i think this fits him better. #also he might never turn the lights off in there. just adding to the Torment(TM) #and sense of like. time being very hard to measure #it's like an evil liminal space... #snowpoint sonic

[hoofpeet]

Zingo being scary moments (on accident)(sometimes on purpose)

#hoof draws #replacement ingo au #<--like sugar getting the spice face shadow when she's having a malicious moment #i like imagining that she inherited his evilness a little bit and occasionally sates her natural zoroark urge to torment people #on a random plasma guy or smthn #body horror / #sugar voice (watching emmet sleep) my human. i love my human guy. my favorite human. i am looking directly at my trainer. please know this #emmet‚ trying to pretend he's asleep: this thing's going to kill me #i miss when sugar was just evil and fucked up and legit tried to kill emmet for real. good era #but also i'm attached to sugar i like that she's cool now<3 she's still a bit fucked up and evil but she likes emmet a lot

[bonefall]

even though I've never read the books, i love how you handle the women in this series.

The utter lack of interest in the internal lives of women characters in WC kills me. If you don't read the series it's hard to put it into words, but it really does not value women on the same level as their male counterparts

I think the best example I can use is Turtle Tail. All of her choices, from going to live with Bumble, choosing a "cruel man" as a mate, and even her grief when Bumble dies, all only happen as accessories to Gray Wing's arc.

Living with Bumble was because Gray Wing was obsessing over a woman who didn't love him, neglecting Turtle who does

Choosing Tom the Wifebeater was also because Gray Wing didn't appreciate her enough

She accepts that her friend's murder was just an unfortunate accident and her emotions carried her away in the moment, because Gray Wing needs to be right that his brother is a good boy

In this way, Turtle Tail's emotions and motivations aren't allowed to really be about her. They're about how her romantic interest influences her. And then she's crushed by a car for his man pain after they've explored every other way her life could make him sad.

This does not happen with men. Even characters like Stemleaf and Larksong, whose primary narrative purpose is dying for their wife's pain, have functions outside of that. Stemleaf gives his life opposing the tyranny of the impostor in a rebellion, and Larksong has input on The Kin, SkyClan, and even serves as a source of comfort and support to a son who he's never met in contrast to the unreasonable mother.

There's just so much more respect and reverence to the toms in this series. You have to be in the POV of a molly to get depth, and even then, they nearly always (exceptions being mothwing and mistystar) include a major conflict over romance and/or parenthood

(And they usually get punished for their choices a lot harder than male counterparts. Directly contrast Crookedstar and Sparkpelt, who both distance themselves from their children out of grief, but only one has to deal with the lasting consequences of being a "bad parent")

Anyway, enough wistful analysis. It is MY kitchen and I get to choose the conflicts. It is my personal mission to write lots and lots of women persuing a higher education in STEM. Sadism, Torture, Evisceration, and Murder <3

#Allowing women to exhibit their natural behaviors such as being covered in blood and screaming in catharsis #Good penguin: Fern displayed exceptional spacial awareness by packing two bodies in one grave #Bad penguin: Maple bit my ass #I think its funny that Poppy actually did persue a higher education in STEM for BB #She just happened to persue it because midterms are a good excuse for running away from all your problems #Running away from my problems and deciding 'well shoot if im running may as well chase a doctorate' #Women in STEM as in gardening lmaoo. Stems. Gregor Mendel ass girlie cat #The women kill. But the women are also silly. That is very important. They must also be funnygirls. #Women in PETAL if you will. Pathetic Evil Tormented Awesome Loser. #Bone babble #Anyway all that to say thank u for the compliment I am not normal about this

[quickhacked]

"The outer reaches of space remain unexplored by humankind to this day, but its greed is relentless. We grasp and yearn and hunger for knowledge— answers to questions we cry out into the endless void expecting to understand, expecting the stars to respond. The stars will not, but one day something else will— and we will not like what it has to say." — Rome Solomon, Beyond the Exosphere (1965)

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#obscura #edit:rome #nuclearocs #nuclearedits #ok so. ok hi. red and i made a new universe hi. sorry. morris quincy victor and eleanor belong to them the rest belong to meee :3 #the pictures i used are basically the patron saints of their occupation / line of work! so that's not what they look like #anyway it's a mix of paranormal stuff + lovecraftian horror + sort of zombies :^) #they're like. the domains of lucifer (demons) behemoth (zombies) and leviathan (the eldritch horrors that happen in space and oceans) #who are like. the three evils that torment the mortal realm #it's all in a historical setting kind of parallel to our world? so a bunch of historic events are the same but it's like #a little bit more advanced with technology but at the same time it's not. it's Just A Little Different y'know #rome's sister went to space for a mission and just straight up went missing which prompts him to become an astronomer #and he's the first one to start speculating the existence of leviathan as eldritch god #morris is a technician at the academy who has an angel stuck in his computer #eve is a nun and herbalist who witnesses the influence of behemoth firsthand through some sick travelers #that she and the other nuns of her convent take care of #anatoly and quincy are both from different space missions who end up as the only survivors who are not basically a plant #the other two survivors have secretly been replaced with some sort of parasites. annihilation style if you've seen that movie #eleanor is a demonologist and works together with her brother victor who's her cameraman #clarence is a blind psychic who lost her sight because of an angel trying to warn her and in return got her psychic abilities #and lazarus is one of the two most famous demonologists in the world but his wife (the other one) passed away #so now he's alone and since he's not from an upper class family like his wife was he's not all that loved as she was #there's a lot going on but it's SO fucking fun to work on so far. feel free to send any asks i would love to explain more :^) #if you've made it this far also hi i love you. kiss for you

[anatheyma]

the way in which i would love to harass some of you guys on anon, but it'd be so painfully obvious it's me. also i'm bad at lying. horrible.

#i have a list of mutuals i'd torment #nothing evil just a bit mischievous

[ceilidho]

this was an episode of a show on television when i was a kid like i never stood a goddamn chance

#masked and evil and helpless angry girl tied to a wall in a pretty dress #designed in a lab to torment me for YEARS

[penguin-scribbles]

a cold and maddening descent 🍏🐙

#reblogs > likes!! #tumblr be like: and the devils unleashed! hell is your destiny!! YOUR QUALITY IS ON FIIIIIIIIIIIREEEEEEE #click for better quality #penguin scribbles #artists on tumblr #digital art #procreate #hatchetverse #starkid #hatchetfield #starkid productions #wilbur cross #uncle Wiley #wiggog y'wrath #wiggly #lords in black #the black and white #what else do i tag #WHY IS THIS DENIM FUCK SO FUN TO DRAW #GAHHHH #yes that’s a fnaf song i quoted don’t @ me #i love lighting i love cell shading #i love evil guys who are actually tormented by an even more evil guy #in this case a weird ass octopus

[nickolashx]

Tormented Souls (2021)

Tormented Souls is a survival horror game developed by Dual Effect and Abstract Digital and published by PQube Limited. The game draws inspiration from classic survival horror like Resident Evil, Silent Hill, and Alone in the Dark.

While investigating the disappearance of twin girls at Winterlake, something terrible happens to Caroline Walker. Waking in the dead of night, naked and hooked up to some kind of outdated medical equipment in a bathtub, Caroline must fight for her life as she explores the halls of the abandoned mansion.

#horror #horror game #horror games #survival horror #psychological horror #classic horror #psychological #playstation #resident evil #silent hill #ps4 #ps5 #pc #tormented souls #resident evil 2 #japanese horror #psychological fears #psychological horror game #survival horror adventure #survivalhorror #surv

[aka-seco-svart]

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Urgehal - goatcraft torment

#urgehal #goatcraft torment #true norwegian black metal #black metal #evil #death #darkness #anti-christianity