okogamashii said:
He is completely batshit, lives in L.A and basically mutilates just about anyone he can get his hands on. Any ideas?
EDIT: Like his serial killer name ie. Jack the Ripper, the Happy Face Killer, something that the news people call him.
EDIT EDIT: He's nuts, and he kills people because of it (yeah, I know most crazy people aren't actually violent). He only kills in LA, but he's not specific to one part of the city. There's really no link between his victims, but his MO is to cut their throats, then hack up the bodies. This is done really poorly, as he has no medical knowledge. He is pretty non-specific as to where he dumps the bodies.
Never mind the name, you need to flesh out the character a bit more. Everybody who kills does so for a reason, it's never as simple as "they are nuts". What sort of "nuts" is he, obviously he has a mental illness of some kind, what sort? Has he been diagnosed? Has he taken steps to control it? Is he on any medication, what effect does that have? If he is then it's obvious that his medication isn't working out that well for him - has he tried to change to other medication? Which type? What do the doctors say about his condition? They wouldn't know about the bodies but they'd know he's nuts, surely. And if he's not diagnosed, how can he be such a psycho yet hide his "batshit" condition from the general public? Obviously he doesn't kill literally everyone he can get his hands on or he wouldn't be able to even function in society (when buying food he'd kill someone before he reached the checkout, when leaving the house he'd kill the first person he'd see, couldn't possibly hold down a job and get income etc), so how does he select victims? How does he stop getting caught? Is he careful? If he's careful, then that suggests that his mental illness isn't omnipresent, because you have to think fairly clearly to cover your tracks. Why does he hack up the bodies, what purpose does that serve? What does he do with the bodies once he's hacked them up? How does he dispose of a hacked-up body - doesn't this make it more difficult in some ways (such as leaving a forensic trail)? How has he evaded capture? If his killing is truly random, surely then it
would be confined to a specific area, because why travel all over a big city like L.A. when you're an impulse type of killer who kills "anyone he can get his hands on"? And if he is travelling all over the city that suggests that he's smarter than the average cat and maybe not so "nuts" after all... sounds like he has real motivations. Also how does he feel about killing after the event? Is he aware that his killing poses a potential problem for his lifestyle? Has he taken steps to control his urges, given that they stem from mental illness? If he revels in it, why? What's in it for him? Why go to all that effort?
Why bother?
If you can answer all these questions then you're probably getting close to deciding on a name for this person.
