: I think its a good idea, and it makes sense. Say a man is aware during an evil possession, and he sees the demon intentionally in front of a mirror, using his body to rape and torture

I think its a good idea, and it makes sense. Say a man is aware during an evil possession, and he sees the demon intentionally in front of a mirror, using his body to rape and torture the wife he loves, laughing in glee the whole time. He can't do anything about it, and he sees her, thinking it is him doing this to her, begging him, and she dies thinking he did this to her, unable to understand.

It would be even worse than the horror of being tied up and witnessing a criminal torturing his wife, because she died believing it was him, believing he was telling the lies the demon screamed at her.

How could he ever look at himself in the mirror again without seeing the killer of his wife? How could he ever overcome that psychic trauma?

He may know the demon did it that way to torture HIM as much as her, but that doesn't help, it was his hands that wielded the razor, his face she saw laughing as she died.

I wouldn't worry if anybody gets offended; violent rape happens. You might as well not write about crime, or murder, or assassination, or drug addiction, or fatal accidents, or lethal disease, or sex slavery.

Bad things happen. Reading about it in a fictional setting is a way to help deal with our fears, we know what we are reading didn't really happen, even if it seems realistic. Just like the vast majority of us wouldn't watch this stuff in movies and on TV if we thought it was real and people were really being tortured and killed and burned alive. Fiction is a safe place to explore the dark side, without the trauma of knowing it is real.

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