I don't really know how to show references for how I imagine hearing Duke screaming while being tortured (an example is from that Eye Examination writing thing I posted).
So then I went on YouTube. All I could think of that could be the most similar to how I hear Duke during these painful scenes is through anime.
(Omg Cutepups, stop being such a weeb lmao.)
These screams from anime are the best video refs I can find. But then again. I didn't look very far.
Oh and the audios might make your ears and throat kinda hurt. They kinda hurt for me now. Probably due to the fact I replayed these videos many times. Ha, ha.
Blood and gore warning for the videos. They get.. violent.
Oh yes. This is how I imagine Duke sounding like. Hear the pain. >;)
(Why are you like this, Cutepups? What is wrong with you? Pfft.)
Alright, alright. Gonna show the videos now.
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The parts starting at 2:49 and at 2:58.
Oh yes. Fun~! :'D ;^) :•) <3
Wtf lmao of course gotta include Tokyo Ghoul. Suffering is a must, haven't you heard?
Duke's eyes (his left a lot more though) getting stabbed repeatedly by a bug that produces electricity at its stinger is only the beginning. Taurel does much worse stuff than just that.
I've been thinking of Duke torture scenes since 2015 lmao. Modified them a lot better this year. Made the characters involved a lot better too. There's way more character development now than whatever I would've put if I wrote the torture scenes in 2015.
I love planning out the killing, post-death, fight, and torture scenes so much, you guys don't understand how much.
The death scenes (spoiler alert- Ardere is gonna die; more characters as well) are cruel, but they're so important to the plot continuing and then the story themes and characters' realizations kick in.
It's hard to explain, I'm sorry.
To sum it up, it goes like this:
Duke said he wanted to protect Ardere and make sure none of his friends get hurt because of Fierdan and Soulless being huge and dangerous parts of his identity.
Duke breaks that promise by having Taurel and Risak (the others don't really matter) on the search for him, the Duke Fierdan.
Duke doesn't necessarily hurt Ardere (or Dawn either), but he obviously failed his vow to keep them safe and not get hurt because of who he is. Taurel and Risak are there to hunt down Duke because he's like the new Fierdan.
I'm pretty sure I made Duke say that he'd rather die if that'll mean keeping Ardere alive.
And like.. Ardere is so pure and good. Ardere made Duke happier at least a little bit, just like how Finny made Duke happy. And well, there's a chance that Finny is also going to die but much later in the story.
In other words, Ardere and Finny are parallels in the way that they both save Duke from that darkness and negativity being around him (family issues) and inside of himself. They're both bright and happy people that have cheered Duke up by them being good distractions to him.
Ardere and Finny are the lights in the dark. In some ways, they might as well be Duke's life saviors.
After Ardere dies, there's gonna be a detailed scene where Duke talks (while crying, laughing, screaming, being hysterical) to someone (not like a proper conversation though) about his messed up past. About how his parents would always be fighting, how his mother hated him being alive and would abuse him verbally and physically, how his memories of his father weren't even that accurate and that he was glorifying his father, how he had an aunt and uncle who were the only people in his life that made him happy but only to have them die by fire or from suicide, how he always knew the flame on his heart is a burden so he would physically harm himself from a young age, how he was depressed and would self harm a few years previous to the year the story takes place in, how he grew up learning and doing bad coping skills to cope with all the terrible crap that happened in his life, and how he pretty much has a history of suicide also because of how he was very close to attempting suicide several times. And for most of those things, they're before Finny enters his life.
So having Ardere and Finny suddenly die, well, it freaking breaks Duke. Without them, his positive influences are gone. They made him want to stay alive; they made him feel happiness when nobody and nothing else could.
And so without Ardere, Duke changes for the worst. Duke views Ardere as all good people he knew in his life. So to him, Ardere is like another Finny from the months before when they would hang out together and be best friends. And Ardere is also like Pre-Fierdan to him. Pre-Fierdan was so pure and sweet.. geez, I love little kid Danny so freaking much.
Duke being forced to acknowledge that he ended up lying to Ardere due to the fact that he gets killed without being able to save him, breaks Duke apart. That's the beginning of the torture arc. It starts with emotional torture.
Ardere said to himself that Duke would die physically or emotionally, and that he would die the way that Duke doesn't. So.. Duke dies emotionally. Ardere dies physically. Both change them from before the events. They can't go back to how things went before.
So by the time Finny dies, Duke is too tired to even make a dramatic emotional crying scene over it. By that point, Duke witnessed enough deaths. He's just too numb to care. But having Finny dead also brings great pain and grief to Duke. He just doesn't show it as externally. Oh and by that point, Duke is basically being consumed by Soulless and he's more of a demon than any equivalent to a human. Duke is also pretty much traumatized.
So yeah.
Things get painful.
Bye. <3
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