Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-9041013-20170212184930/@comment-31288135-20170214142423

My point with the realism is that you shouldn't add things that aren't realistic into your story that aren't 100% crucial to your story. Also, with stories with human antagonists, going realistic is the best route.

The brain part didn't really make sense in Hannibal either. The problem is is that the brain bleeds a lot, and also all the vital things are right next to the nonvital things, and you can't tell them apart. A medical background would make more sense for that, but that kind of stuff would require him to be an advanced neurologist.

We know why Bundy did it because of what he did to his victims; he was a necrophile and rapist as well.

Unfortunately, if that's your intention from the story, the only people who are going to really enjoy it are people who are into guro or thought Cupcakes was an amazingly well written story, and those people aren't likely to feel bad about it. Personally, I'd recommend making it scary as a writer, but in universe that's the antagonist's intention, if that makes sense.