Help me /tg/I need the saddest most depressing background for a man in a modern day setting.What I have so far. Killed his mom in childbirth. Born mute. Father hated and abused him, shoved a glass bottle into his knee severing his tendons and making him limp. Bullied in school. Father died and blamed him before passing on and said he was the worst thing to ever happen, went to orphanage but they threw him out, became homeless, was set on fire by some teenagers for laughs, suffered severe burns and the loss of his eye and partial blindness in the other. Got run over by a car and lost an arm. Was shot twice in the belly after trying to rescue a girl being raped who didn't come back to help him or call the police. Had to take the bus to the emergency room, which then caused him to get stuck with a bill he couldn't pay, went to jail for failing to pay, got stabbed and bullied in prison, and then finally got out and became homeless once again.Can you guys add anything to that to make it more depressing without giving him something and taking it away. Like you can't give him a dog which gets killed.
Wait is this his whole life or just his childhood?
>>20418781A terminal illness, maybe? AIDS or cancer.
He once dropped his ice cream and his dad wouldn't let him get a new one.
Tried to commit suicide. Succeeded but revived at the last minute.
>>20418781He's immortal, and everyone but he knows it.
>>20418842His dad once ate his fry.
He was raped.Put that in there somewhere.You just have to have it.
>>20418806Slower. Huntington's or Motor Neuron Disease. ALS.Also, prison rape. And a face tattoo, which to everyone in prison culture marks him as someone's bitch, and to normal people makes him look like a criminal.
This has been his life thus far.>>20418845I like this suggestion.ill add it to the mix
>>20418887What's that prion disease where you eventually die from not being able to sleep, at all ever.Or have him undergo ossification. Or both!
Whenever he talks, a trombone plays loudly over whatever he says.
Make him an optimist despite everything. Or like he always thinks he's about to catch a break.Is he supposed to be depressed as well, or just depressing?
>>20418915Stone Man Syndrome>>20418906So how old actually is he? Because first reading it, I was under the impression that he was still a kid despite all that.Or was I right and he still is a kid?
Hmm a slow acting long and painful disease. I like it. I'll consider the rape. Was honestly hoping to avoid it since its the GO TO topic when trying to add drama.
>>20418916That made me laugh much harder than I care to admit.
>>20418947A little kid that gets thrown into jail for failing to pay for medical treatment and possibly prison raped?Actually that's pretty bad. Nice addition.
OP, what the fuck? What kind of character are you making up here?
Despite everything he's morbidly obese.
>>20418967Hey, it could be like, Russia or something?OP never detailed a point where he said "Fast forward a few years" so I was never under the impression that he was not a young kid.Or maybe he did say that, but I didn't notice.
Well its more like hes just had enough. He gets down on himself because he thinks he deserves these things for whatever reason, and hes paranoid ontop of that. so he doesn't have time to be sad just scared and angry and hungry.Most of the stuff with his father happend till he reached pre teen, then the rest happened over the decade or so after where he became homeless. The prison part probably happened early after turning 18 or so.
God fucking dammit /tg/ this is laughably tragic. This is shaping up to be the funniest thread I've seen in weeks.
>>20418842He always drops his ice cream. No matter what kind of container it is in no matter what context. If there is ice cream in his hands, it ends up on the floor.
>>20418996Oh so he is actually an adult then.It's funnier if you keep him a kid.
His hair is falling out due to poor health.
Also he likes to play the Violin, but can't anymore since his hand got crushed.Now he can only play a one handed tiny violin. He saved up for a year and starved many nights instead of eating to get it. And its strings broke the first time he struck a note and he can't afford another string.
>>20419077It's also the world's smallest violin. He gets it lost nearly instantly after losing the string.
We need to give him a pet that died horrifically.
These are great suggestions. The hair, the violin, the ice cream, the possible obesity or something similar. >>20418982Unsure, the DM hasn't explained anything other than to make a character for a modernish setting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjNw75bJyuMDid someone say sad?
>>20419143No No, he thinks hes getting a pet, but the pet freaks out and bites him, and runs away. then latter gets caught and they put it to sleep because it bit him and then he blames himself.
>>20419187And then, he gets ANOTHER pet, but then he fears that it'll end like with the one before, so he kills it himself, it all the while innocently staring at him.And then it turns out, that pet had babies that will now die without their mother!
His father refused to buy him new violins.
He once went to a sermon, and as the priest was saying "Anyone can go to heaven," the priest saw him and corrected himself, "Almost anyone can go to heaven."
He's incontinent and very embarrassed about it.
When he committed suicide before being revived, he dreamed about being rejected from heaven, then went to hell, only to be rejected by hell too.
>>20419231Abused by his clergy man. Nice.
He was about to catch a lucky break, a rich philanthropist saw him on the street and was going to give him a nice and warm home with food and an on-site medical team, or maybe five dollars, but the philanthropist got a heart attack in the middle of the street and then got run over by a truck.
>>20419281Holy shit that's rich.
He suffers night terrors on a nightly basis without end. When he is not have nightmares that is.
Birds refuse to sing in his presence.
Babies spontaneously start bawling whenever they pass him in the street.He was once chased out of a city for being the most pathetic beggar in their streets.
Despite his horrible life, nobody sympathizes with him. They all consider him a waste of life.
The only friend he ever had/girl he ever loved killed themselves in front of him.He steals from black peopleHe's illiterateShouting causes him to panic due to prior abuse
He loves ice cream but he's extremely lactose intolerant.
He constantly tells himself that things are looking up and it'll only get better from here!It never does.
After being shot, he spent a year in a coma, at one point, they incorrectly identified him as dead, and only after beginning the autopsy did he awaken to find himself being cut open. The hospital covered it all up and injected him with morphine to make it seem that he was just a junkie making up stories to sue them if he was denied a fix. However the morphine was bad and caused complications.
He stubs his toe constantly.
>>20419421His last remaining toe. The others had to be amputated due to stub related injuries.
HE IS.... THE MOST MISERABLE MAN IN THE WORLD.I don't always drink beer, but when I do, its because I am an alcholic.
every time he touches a piece of paper he gets a papercut
>>20419375When there was a zombie-apocalypse, the zombies all ignored him, spontaneousely regained their ability to speak just to tell him that he was too much of a useless loser to join their club.Also that his mother sucks cock in hell.
He's inherently frustrating to be around. Something about him just annoys the shit out of everyone. Even an old Buddhist monk who hadn't spoken in forty years opened his mouth just to say "Be gone from my sight"
He once went on one of those talent finding shows like America's Got Talent or The X Factor and told his heart-rending story before singing his lungs out. Everyone laughed at his life story and horribly squeaky singing voice. He was booed off the stage.
No insurance will cover him.A girl once maced him so bad he lost sense of sight and smell and taste that only partially recovered and did permenant nerve damage to his face because she thought he was a rapist.
When people with steel toed boots get within five feet of him, something about him just spurs them to give him a good kick.
>>20419408Also he got brain damage from the operation and now he has not only lost language skills but he also cannot learn them, so reading and writing is impossible for him.
Holy shit this is sad. I have to add most of these into the story some how.
Mosquitoes refuse to bite at him.Doctors refuse to treat him. They're afraid they'll catch the "loseritis" from him.
>>20419480All he can taste and smell now is Mace.
He has always dreamed of being a veterinarian. This dream will never come true.
>>20419529Instead, he works at the local pound, gassing the puppies nobody wants
Every time he sneezes he poops a little.
At night, he always sleepwalks in front of puddles, and cars drive over them and splash him.
He was once beaten up by starving children for being so pathetic.
>>20419552It was his only job. And then he got fired for sexual harassment rumor filed by a 93 year old woman who put dog shit in his coffee.People refuse to hire him and will hire people with no experience in today's economy then him.
On one stormy night, he went out to the highest skyscraper in the city and shouted at the heavens about his cruel life and begged for a reason for it all.God responded by chuckling heartily at him, flipping the bird, and then throwing a lightning bolt at him. It didn't even hit, but that was because God didn't care enough to try.
He usually ends up sleeping in the classier parts of the city in hopes of being arrested so he can sleep in a warm and dry cell.The police avoid him, so he had to look at all the rich young pretty couples walk past him laughing and enjoying themselves.
He can not find matching socks. Ever.
He was once struck by a falling safe that was simultanously struck by lightning
>>20419574The woman was actually harassing him, and was mad when he couldn't get it up. She still stalks him, from her gopher.
>>20419629He doesn't have anything to get up. Was born without it.
>>20419620One of the girls put a hot dog on his crotch when he was sleeping, and then let loose her dog which bite into it. The injury has never fully recovered. She then called him an attempted rapist and he was almost convicted but managed to get off on a technical error, but now has a rep as a potential rapist on his record.
Mirrors crack whenever he looks in them.
Whenever he tries to buy something, he's always a few cents short, and no one will cut him slack with it.
>>20419684He was then beaten up by the girl's boyfriend.
Whenever he has extra change, it inevitably ends up in a drain somewhere before he can use it.
He was kicked out of a homeless shelter for making all of the other people look bad.
Whenever something happens that makes him happy, he has a seizure and forgets what ever just happened.
Any time he's trying to get to something with a limited time frame, he always just misses it.Ex: Gets to the subway/elevator just after the door closes. Gets to the crosswalk just after the "no walk" sign comes up. Loses something in a building, realizes it, but when he gets back, they just locked up.
When he tried to sell his soul to the devil, the devil consistently ignored him in favor of a friend of his called Old Man Henderson.
Strangers come up to him to insult him randomly. They all think they're helping him by giving constructive criticism. What they think they're saying never match what they actually say.>also hmeanshYes, just like that captcha
Make him gay, and the only touch of a man he's ever known was the brutal prisons rape. And what hurts the most is he misses it, as it was the only "love" afforded to him.
If you are allowed magic in this setting, he actually has a magical field of depression and suckitude around him that he can't get off him and can't dispel.
"Is Keanu Reeves"
Flowers wilt when he's around.
His sheer patheticness created a god of patheticness.Said god proceeded to kick his ass shouting "THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE!"
He once had a winning lottery ticket. Not a huge amount though. Just a few hundred dollars. But he got mugged on his way to collect his winnings and the mugger got away with his winning ticket.
Whenever he finds a sandwich in the trash still wrapped up when he goes dumpster diving, not only does it fall apart as he tries to eat it on a bench, but the meat is actually bad and the bench he's sitting on has wet paint.Pic kind of related. Not miserable enough.
Whenever he manages to get his filthy clothes into a washing machine they end up shrinking and the stains don't go away.
>>20419801It then turned out that said mugger already had the 1.000.000 dollar winning ticket and just wanted another to improve his chances.
Op please tell me this poor dude will get a happy ending. Even if its just death and the promise of nothingness.
He once allowed someone to go before him in a cashier line, being a nice guy.That guy turned out to be the one millionth customer the store had and won a bunch of things.He of course was a few cents short and couldn't pay for whatever he was buying.
>>20419826Death and nothingness is all that this being can yet wish for.
>>20419850That's what I think too.
Alright OP, I really want to know what you need this guy for.
In b4 GM reveals all this planning is for a game of Promethean.
he looses his hair.
>>20419664He was born female but gender identifies as a man so has been trying to live as one despite lacking the equipment
>>20418781You don't go to jail for non payment any more so have him have gotten arrested for assaulting the rapist, because the girl he saved wouldn't testify that makes it a little more fucked up. Also have the one time in his life that he was happy be while he was in the hospital before jail where fell in love with a nurse who was kind to him and legitimately concerned for him, perhaps even romantically so. Have her have written to him while he was in jail comforting him and giving him the hope he needed to solder on through and not kill himself after being passed around for a carton of Marlboro reds. Then have her meet him after he gets out and that night they get into a front end collision and she dies in his arms because hes mute and can't scream for help. then after he has been crushed he wonders off into the night delirious and jumps off a bridge drowning finally the pain is gone, but then no, he awakes en route to a hospital with the EMT's saying your going to make it just hold on, and now all he feels is hate and sadness a broken bitter shell of a man who life has constantly dumped on.
>>20418781He could have been hella of molested by his priest as a kid or his uncle or both or maybe his uncle was the priest maybe once he tried to be kind to a dog and it mauled him all up his good arm and he got rabies for a bit. After ward hep c from prison rape. On top of all that hes got a heroin habit that he picked up because he was muleing heron and the bag ruptured and the dealer took a finger from him but he can't always get a fix because he doesn't want to spread hep c so he tries not to share needles but some times he can't help it and he knows he gave hep c to a kid he was trying to protect in his flop house and thats what caused him to get kicked out now hes on the street jonsing for his next fix his next bit of bliss but he doesn't want to rob any one so he whores him self out for change so he can ride the dragon and forget for a bit.
>25 years old>Juvenile diabetes from age two>Live with the injections, basically just another part of life>Develop an interest in computers>Lose interest in outside world>Hang around the Internet>Realize an innate talent with coding>Obtain GED at 17>Skip college>Move to California>Pick up a job in data entry for a freelance programming company>Also work as the company's gopher>Accidentally impress the right people with a program thrown together, designed to give a beep when typing gets too slow>Promoted to work with the other programmers>Learn tricks of the trade from people with vast experience>Late one night, pulling a twenty-eight hour marathon>Memory falls apart, identity and sense of self fades out >Six months pass>Consciousness resumes, memory and such fades back in>In a psych ward>Doctor explains that there was a massive diabetic episode, blood glucose levels dropped low enough for brain damage to ensue and the six months of unstable fluctuations didn't help>Six months of savage violence, unpredictable behavior, nigh-psychotic raving>Ask for a laptop>Doctor eventually approves it>Fearfully place hands on the keyboard>Attempt to pull the mental strings, the once-familiar keystrokes, and put together a simple Javascript to print the time>Can't>The lines don't make sense>The words don't make sense>The idea is there, but the mechanics of the language aren't fitting together in the brain>Jesus Christ, nononoNONONONONever overdo sad events.
>>20420388Dude...that's...just wow, man that is fucked up.
So, OP, what are you using this for?
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>>20419790... But... that makes him MORE pathetic than the God for losing the fight, thereby meaning he WINS at pathetic. Or he wins the fight and loses his chance at godhood? Wait...iamconfus.jpg
