Quote Originally Posted by Scytherwolf View Post
I'm definitely thinking of doing that. The weird thing is she's been really nice to me in the past (though...it's been a really long time since she did anything nice for me). But I really can't put up with this anymore. I'd probably be able to deal with it if she wasn't blaming me, but well...here we are. I really hope she's not a violent person in real life. Luckily she lives quite a ways away from me so I think I'd be safe from that.

The weirdest thing about all this? Back in 2013 when she first found my story, she refused to read it because it was mostly adventure and she says adventure is "boring." So she skipped over the adventure chapters and skimmed the rest of it looking, I assume, for any violent parts. (I assume that because when we'd talk about new stories I was writing, she would suggest to me all these violent ideas. That was seriously the ONLY thing she focused on.) But when she found the violent part she hated it and now blames me for all her mental problems.
Yeah, I've had some good friends in the past and they turned to the dark side. They started off as really good people and always seemed fun and nice, and then something berserk happens and they feel more like an enemy than a friend. I had to leave people like that behind behind, but new friends will come along if you open yourself up to new people and give them a chance. New coworkers, joining a club, or meeting new people at the gym and such is a great way to find new and better friends to hang out with.

The fact she's blaming you for her problems when you've done nothing wrong is a sign you've got to let her go before she starts dragging you down with her. Misery likes company and it seems like she wants you there being miserable with her. But the fact she likes to control the violence and hates it when she doesn't is really disturbing. That kind of obsession with violence is a really bad sign and has me worried someday soon she might try to take that fantasy and make it a reality.

You and I are both story writers and we know only to use violence to put characters under pressure, have epic battles of good versus evil and stuff like that. Some of it is okay and you'd be hard-pressed to find an adventure or fantasy novel that doesn't have at least some violence in it. But we don't do it because we just crave the gore and bloodshed for its own sake and that's all we do it for. Even a horror story only uses it as a tool to achieve of fear and pressure, but if it was a never-ending carousel of blood and violence, it would get lame, tasteless, and even stupid.

But in the end, don't change yourself for her sake. And the same goes for your stories. Don't take them down or change them just because someone else disagrees with it (unless you're getting it published and they have a certain criteria they want to use, which is a totally different story). At the end of the day, it's always good to listen to advice and weigh the pros and cons of different decisions based on what you hear, but it's still your creation and it's still your call. No one has the right to take that from you.