Munday: The Unspeakable Wrath of ... Me

Tell us some of the worst things you have done to a character to move a plot along.  (Remember to put them under a cut if they are TOO bad)   Alternatively, tell us about any time you showed mercy and spared a character from a horror that would have helped the story along. 
 
The go-to horrible things I've done to AU!Prue are mostly established in the exposition of BT: by the end of the second chapter, she knows that she is a pawn in a demonic plot to turn the twice-blessed child of wiccan prophecy to evil from before conception.  She's the mother of that child.  And its father is the half-mortal demon who was her nemesis and her sister's soulmate.  These are horrible things that get at the very soul of the character, literally and figuratively.  She's suffered. very much, already, and the pain and tensions have been used to turn her evil.  Evil! And played entirely straight and serious -- no farce here.

Thing is, the demonic plot structure -- and plot within plot -- allows me to pass this stuff off as the workings of the Source of All Evil, ruler of the realm of demons and the Big Bad of my canon.   Or as the machinations of other demons who want the power my muse will possess.



So, worst thus far in terms of emotional impact on her, really down the road, and on me and my readers?
My muse's family thinks she's dead.  One of her sisters was so full of suppressed anger in her grief that she turned into a demon herself.  From the Underworld, a lesser kingmaker baddie  I forced my muse to watch this sister's grief, show some residual anger, and then just not give a damn.  Which was difficult to write, because not only were the characters close, the actresses who played them were, too.  And the point was to a) indicate to what extent my muse had turned, and to b)  further the subplot of machinations to seize the power of the child, because the baddie was watching my muse, and her sister, trying to assess how equally matched they are, and through them, evil and good vis a vis this prophecy.  My muse thinks she'll never see her family again.  And, well, little does she know...