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Want another way to help show what a [[Yandere]], [[Stalker ~~With~~ a Crush]], or how distressed/depressed a character is? Don't just have them hurt themselves or another person. Instead of having them create a random wound, make it a recognizable pattern. This could take the form of a word, letters, or a symbol. The mark chosen usually has some sort of symbolism, like the name of a crush, as way to show just how obsessive the person is. It may or may not leave a scar. Done to another person, then it is torture. If it is done to themselves, then it would be a subtrope of [[Self -Harm]], carrying a lot of the same ideas with added symbolism. Or they [[Couldn't Find a Pen]].

Want another way to help show what a [[Yandere]], [[Stalker with a Crush]], or how distressed/depressed a character is? Don't just have them hurt themselves or another person. Instead of having them create a random wound, make it a recognizable pattern. This could take the form of a word, letters, or a symbol. The mark chosen usually has some sort of symbolism, like the name of a crush, as way to show just how obsessive the person is. It may or may not leave a scar. Done to another person, then it is torture. If it is done to themselves, then it would be a subtrope of [[Self -Harm]], carrying a lot of the same ideas with added symbolism. Or they [[Couldn't Find a Pen]].

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* In ''[[Wolf Guy Wolfen Crest]]'' the [[Big Bad]] Haguro Dou becomes completely and crazily obsessed with protagonist (and werewolf) Inugami. He initially doesn't care about or even think twice about Inugami... until he pushes Inugami too far. Which results in Inugami showing him his true form and scaring the shit out of Haguro. Haguro goes insane from it, and obsesses and stalks Inugami after that, even cutting himself all over his arm and carving the word "Inu" onto his hand.

* ''[[~~Baccano (Light Novel)|~~Baccano]]'': Not the skin exactly, but [[Psycho for Hire|The Rail Tracer]] threatens [[Kids Are Cruel|Czeslaw]] [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|Mayer]] with torture involving "stripping away each individual arm muscle and doing intricate carvings on the exposed bone."

* ''[[Baccano]]'': Not the skin exactly, but [[Psycho for Hire|The Rail Tracer]] threatens [[Kids Are Cruel|Czeslaw]] [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|Mayer]] with torture involving "stripping away each individual arm muscle and doing intricate carvings on the exposed bone."

== [[Live Action TV]] ==