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Originally Posted by Roderick Usher
Billy
A 10 year old boy who is lithe and sneaky and doesn't give a fuck about anything. He hides well and likes old-school practical jokes with a twist, like the bucket of water above the door...except it's a bucket of razor blades
He's particularly fond of poisoning people before slashing them up, so he isn't at such a tremendous size advantage.
He's a child of the system, fostor homes and abuse only unlocked the monster that was always lurking under the surface
Hmm...
That's not such a bad idea
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I like that. I'm much more interested in just plain sociopaths than with serial killers who have
a backstory.
Also, starting them young is so incredibly creepy and gothic, very much like The Bad Seed or The Other. If we excuse our children for "not knowing any better," how much can we really excuse them fore?
I think that I would like to work on a female serial killer, because you don't see many in movies (I'm not saying that you don't see them
at all, mind you, just that you don't
see many). As a young girl she is completely sociopathic with no concept of right or wrong or a concept of consequence. She is incredibly sadistic, but not because she
enjoys inflicting pain on people and things, but she is curious and extremely
fascinated by the psychology of pain and suffering. She does not understand suffering and therefore does not understand what happens when she causes other things to suffer (slow straight razor to a wounded bird or mouse; twisting a playmate's arm much, much to far, just to watch them scream in rapt curiosity).
She manages to grow up without a lot of psychiatric attention because her parents think that her acts are an expression of intellectual pursuit to understand the difference between life and death (remember when you were young and learned about mortality?). She cuts herself every now and again just to taste her own blood, but doesn't feel pain or horror. She is curious about suffering and cannot inflict it on herself (maybe she's masochistic).
Not much of a motive yet... Most "children's" motives are childish greed (in the Bad Seed it's the prestige of winning her class's medal)... Though I want to develop on that. I think that children as absolutely horrifying Big Bads as their sense of right and wrong our skewed and their reasoning is less emotionally developed than an adult.