So I have read the rules and I can understand there are big NOs to depraved violent scenarios. I am writing a story based off the MC hunting supernatural beings and superpowered people. Where is the line drawn then? Am I allowed to write death by gunshots as the MC shoots their quarry? How about melee combat? And no: I am not going to do it in an overly gory manner i.e. guts and details of bodily mutilation etc. There is blood, and general mention of wounding.
Not moderator but here's how I understand it The no violence rule is mostly to prevent sexualizing extreme violence. Some people are turned on by stories in which their partners are hacked to pieces and stuff like that. Many more people like to write such stuff to get some attention. Action movie level of violence should not be a problem.
Not a mod either, but I want to reinforce what Hvast said. You can pretty much go all out with violence and gore as long as they don't mix with the sexual part of the story. I don't feel like going into details, but if you do a quick research you can find there are several fetishes involving death, gore, body mutilations of various types, and such. To my understanding, those are the things Chyoa rules want to keep out.
There's still a limit on non-sexual violence. You can describe someone being stabbed in the stomach, but you can't really describe their guts being pulled out and force-fed back to them.
Regarding non-sexual violence, it's mostly not about what you write but how you write it. E.g. stating that a character got a headshot would be fine but describing in vivid detail how the character's brain gets spread on the wall is not.
We do seem to be curtailed here in some ways a lot more than mainstream non-erotica. Violence isn't a kink of mine at all, but I was pleased to see Dexter back on TV, and he has made a celebration of his murder-addiction (one might even call it a kink), with every gruesome detail gone into. A fan-fiction erotica story about Dexter would be completely off-limits.
Hey, I'm writing a James Bond story (actually a Jamie Bond story, but James also appears), and I am concerned that someone may take the following scene the wrong way. For context, It's a flash-away to what the mysterious evil villains are doing at the moment, to basically establish them as evil, ruthless, threats. https://chyoa.com/chapter/Some-alone-time.639776 While I felt comfortable portraying this incredibly over-the-top death because I felt that in the James Bond world it's standard to have scenes like this (think of the classic scene in Goldfinger with the laser, which wouldn't be out of place in a horror film) and it's played as simply cartoonish, what worries me is that it's basically right nest to a sex scene. I really don't see it as the glorification/sexualization of violence, but what do you guys think?
