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What's the nature of the story? Is this like a typical sort of thing going on or is this just one scene? How far into the story is this scene? Is the rapist the player character or is this just some other character?

I'm guessing you probably don't need such a scene, unless you really feel that you have to write it for your own personal reasons.

What about lighting the house on fire with fragrant candles. He could also hide the body under a pile of rose petals or bury her in a shallow grave, dousing it with a bottle of Mondavi's Divining Rod afterward.

Wasn't that in some Hentai story?

... What have you been watching? >.<

He could've just imagined it and later forgot it wasn't all in his head.

Mai-chan's Daily Life. 

The woman volunteers at an animal shelter and participates every year in the March of Dimes and various other charity events. She's part of an outreach program in her church for drug addicted and runaway teens. She visits nursing homes in her area every week to read to the residents and for many of them is the only ray of sunshine in their otherwise dreary lives.

Also she provides foster care for half a dozen special needs children, who through her have finally received the love and understanding they never got from their abusive, alcoholic parents.

And naturally she has a dog--a beautiful golden retriever--that the rapist strangles right in front of her.

It will have more emotional appeal if she feels like a real person...
 

He's already talking about the guy sawing her feet off and shoving them up his ass, I think 'realism' went out the window a long time ago in this scenario...

I dunno. Allow Malky to indulge in some storytelling...

Four years ago, when I was at the tender age of 12, I saw The Sixth Sense with my parents. That movie terrified me something awful, for one reason. Ghosts aren't intrinsically scary, for me. However, when coupled with the brilliant acting of Haley Joel Osment, it felt so... vivid, that it horrified the shit out of 12-y/o me.

Which is why I recommend this: If you want to make the seen horrifying, and make it feel tragic, let us like the character, first.

Also, Mary Sues are annoying.

Okay then, we'll give her a flaw: she's a closet Warrior Cats fan and when she's not busy being Mother Teresa she's posting shitty fanfic on a CYOA site.

...speaking of which, somebody needs to hurry up and post some shitty fic so I can grab another free point and go to bed. Haven't seen one all day, what is this? Damn lazy kids are slacking.

Maybe I should... No, I couldn't...

Warrior Cats: The Free Point, Chapter 1 of 1000

Just a title and one page with no text.

(don't do this)

Ignore Negative. If you make her a Mary Sue bitch like he's suggesting, I'll only want her to die faster.

Besides, that's what the derpsquatches behind Life is Strange did - don't put yourself in the same boat as Life is Strange's writers.

Upon greater reflection of your rape scene, I say you should just have the undead corpse of Billy Mays raping and mutilating the ShamWow guy.

But I guess whatever you decide to do as long as you write the rape tastefully you should be fine.

... Curious what a tasteful rape scene would look like. 

Same as a tasteful, violent sex scene, but less consensual and more rapey.

There's a candle lit dinner first and he cuddles with her afterwards.

And then a plot twist: The women was a transsexual all along, so the man uses the gay panic defense as an excuse.

1) Unless "oraface" is meant to be a humorous portmanteau, the actual word is "orifice."

2) If she's completely paralyzed, there's not much point in trying to force her to give oral- the mouth is pretty wide, and assuming he's long enough to get down into the throat, he'd really be better off removing the teeth first.

3) There is no drug that can completely paralyze someone yet leave them the ability to breathe.   During general anaesthesia, if a full paralytic is used, they put a breathing tube down your throat after you go unconscious. 

4) Is this a serious question, or a joke? If someone's been drinking, it can often be detected in their breath hours later, depending on what they're doing.  That's not actually the smell of alcohol per se, it's the body's metabolic reaction to it, so having alcohol breath could just mean you're an untreated diabetic, or have cavities, cancer, heart failure, or something else.  

5) If you're too young to drink, you're almost certainly too inexperienced to write an effective rape scene. 

6) I have an odd sense of humor, I know, but if I read the shamwow thing, I wouldn't think it was random-humor-style funny, I'd think the author was a little kid.

7) A story was removed in the past for beginning with a lengthy and not-very-interesting description of the protagonist being raped.

8) Why are you writing a rape scene, anyway? If it's just to be creepy at the beginning of your story, you can do a lot more with details and suggestion than an overload of Ikea-style description.  If it's for shock value, the story probably will be taken down.

Yeah, to be serious a moment I agree with point 8 here, The scene as you described it was so over the top it seemed more like you were going more for the 'haha whoa this sure is fucked up and twisted amirite' style of humor, which I'm rarely a big fan of and would feel out of place in an otherwise serious story or if you're going for a scene that's emotionally effective. (Of course I have no idea at this point what the tone is of the rest of the story.)

But just generally speaking, less is more. The same way a horror movie is more effective with hints and suggestions rather than just letting the camera sit there and linger on every detail of the monster.

That last sentence ... so true. Subtlety is a beautiful thing.
 

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I think we lost Danaos somewhere along the way, because he just asked me this question...

Have you ever put rape into any of your stories?