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Originally Posted by Neo
Since you're going the descriptive route I would add a little more detail with regards to the landscape, clothing, facial features, etc..
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This is something I've struggled with. What Hell looks like in this story is clearly defined in my mind, but then again my version of Hell may not be the same as other peoples'. I'm trying to be intentionally vague in my descriptions so that the reader can imprint their own ideas about Hell. I want to be more descriptive, but what people can imagine is almost always more terrible than what can be told to them.
As for sexual depravity and such, I may be writing this story in a tongue-in-cheek fashion, but I'm keeping my subject matter strictly based on versions of Hell and demons as written by the Catholic church and other clerical sources. Ronwe and Belphegor are both "real" demons. Ronwe is essentially the demon of knowledge and Belphegor was Hell's ambassador to France... No, I'm not kidding. Some Abbot actually wrote about a demon ambassador to France. BTW, the Abbots' descriptions of demons are by far the most entertaining. I still haven't gotten to Sammael and and Beelzebub, Satan's functionally retarded generals who rhyme in tandem speech.
Anyway, back to the point, putting sexual depavity in there would go against those writings. I'm centering Hell more around the traditional "absence of the light of God" theme, and I'm beginning with the lack of physical sensation to set the stage for that.
Coming:
Satan gets pissed
God gets loaded
All "Hell" breaks loose.