I’m not a huge fan of more realistic changes to be honest. The pleasure for me in these sorts of stories are the more horrific/fantastical elements. That said, I do occasionally have stories that rely more on isolation and torture, but very few.
Have you ever attempted writing a story(series) based on a more realistic approach to your style of ruining someone? Slowly breaking a character down through means available to anyone in real life and not using magic or hypnosis/mind control. Kind of like a Stockholm syndrome situation where the captive slowly bends and warps over time learning to love their captor and what they can realistically change in their body and mind?
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