Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-25036236-20140616230141/@comment-25558572-20140618021931

Hm...

Maybe instead of going nuts, she kills parents who treat their kids like shit? So the kid doesn't have to suffer what she did?

Also, her mother was fine until the baby sister died. That's when the mother became a douchenipple. If it's at all possible, just don't use parental mistreatment at all. That's been done way too many times and you should think of something else. Like I said, there are many, many more things that can be used to alter your characters' pshyches.

And by the way, what you showed her isn't abuse. It's a mom and dad yelling at their daughter, that happens to many, many teenagers and they don't go insane.

How about nobody gets killed? How about something other than the fear of death motivates your protagonist- such as the love of a friend or a desire to suceed at something? Broaden your perspectives. Be original. The possibilities might seem limited, but they're only as narrow as your own imagination in the end.