Okay, I am writing a story that's kind of based off the horror movie, The Ring and one of the main characters is a demon, which I have named Samantha Lilith Dawson. But my weird brain has given me the idea of giving Samantha an element, like Alessa in Silent Hill, fire, and Samara Morgan in The Ring, water. Okay, I know some of you guys might not care about elements and stuff like that, but I'm really interested in horror movies all of a sudden.
Anyways, if Samantha gets the fire ability:
~She can burn her victims through any part of her body, even her eyes.
~She can appear out of any form of fire or cause of fire, like gasoline.
~If she receives the fire ability/element, her history will be her being born a demon and being killed through fire.
~She can control animals, like ravens and tigers.
~Her weakness and fear is water.
If Samantha gets the water ability:
~She can drown her victims.
~She can appear out of any liquid. Even gasoline.
~Her history will be her drowning.
~She can control horses and other hooved animals.
~Her weakness is fire.
If Samantha gets the earth ability:
~She is like a ghost, but she's kind of close to a poltergist. An example is throwing objects around a room or maybe objects in nature, like a rock.
~She can receive great strength due to her throwing the objects.
~A trickster at heart.
~She died in the woods.
~She can control wolves and other forest animals.
~Her weakness is wind.
Last but not least, if she receives the wind ability:
~She can control wind and can often appear in a watery or clear form, like a demon of water could, but she'll still appear in a human-like form, unless she's in her demon form, which is human-like except she can crawl like a spider if she's climbing up something. Sometimes when she attacks something, she can turn into the animals she controls.
~She often appears during windy storms, like hurricanes.
~Her weakness is water, but fire is her strength and kind of her friend.
~She can control snow leopards, doves, ravens, spiders, and wind.
~She can usually kill or weaken her victims by turning into the animals she can control or by using her wind ability to levitate something into the air and then drop it onto her victim.
~Her history will be her dying in a windy storm.
So what do you guys think?
If you're going to write a horror novel I suggest the murders should be something original and mysterious, something that we as a general audience haven't heard before. Simply because this sustains your enigma within your story, it will get your audience thinking and questioning what they are really reading ^^
And I simply say that you need to have murders with the wow factor is because as an overall audience we are becoming desensitised to horror as a whole because we are exposed to so much violence in the real world, it's taking more horrific and devastating deaths/violent acts to actually scare us/make us uncomfortable with what we are reading/watching ^^
Hope this helps :)
You can tell i'm a media student lol I have theories and theorists popping out of my brain every day xD