Story Showcase: Remi & Tori
Look, I’m a person who lives on disastrous stories. You’d be hard-pressed to find a time where my characters aren’t miserable and harder-pressed to find a time when I’m not cracking jokes about it. It’s not easy to construct a relationship so horrifically toxic that I beg the author to make it stop.
Which is what @donaeis managed to do with Remi (unintelligible, mumbled last name) and Victoria “Tori” Hoyt.
If you love hot-garbage characters, you’ll love the burning trash heap that is Remi. He’s a man of the hypothalamus, which is to say his hobbies are:
- murdering people,
- making babies, and
- whining.
Go to any later post in Pariah and you’ll see @donaeis asking the classic Hugonian question “can this man redeem himself?” and me in the comments saying “lmao, no, this mofo’s too far gone.”
For context, Death is one of Remi’s exes, but as soon as Remi laid his crazy bug-eyes on Tori, there was no competition for the story’s worst relationship (One False Pairing? OFP?). He was starting to transition from murder to whining before Tori vampire-fied him and got him back on track with the original murder plan.
Tori is abusive, controlling, and flings around her serial-killer partner like a ragdoll. The beginning of their relationship is a contest to see who’s the worst person---and Tori’s winning. Handily. She starts the relationship by manipulating Remi with her vampiric powers and forces him to do her dirty work. You almost feel bad for a character with no redeeming qualities.
But the real magic is how Remi and Tori, as a couple, are a whole lot more awful than the sum of their parts: the shitstorm they create taints the lives of everyone they meet and curses their descendants generations in advance. Halfway through Pariah, you realize their victims got off easy. You’ll put a chair through the wall screaming at these guys to stay on separate continents. Planets, if possible.
Don’t worry. Remi eventually stopped killing people and started whining full-time.
You can read the whole story here: Pariah by @donaeis
(Funfact: Remi’s son, Calo, carries on the family tradition of complaining about how the friends of people he killed/tortured don’t like him.)
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(Want your own toxic relationship Story-Showcased? Nominate it by messaging me! It would really help me out to include a draft of the blurb and some pictures---be sure to get the author’s permission if it’s not your own story. Or tag it Story Showcase, ping me, and I’ll reblog it.)
