Catherine Wheel
torture inspired headcanons. || accepting.
catherine wheel: how much pain can your muse withstand?
honestly, a lot. more than i could, personally. i don’t mean to make her into some kind of mary-sue, but canonically, vanessa ives has been through a hell of a lot. ( don’t excuse that pun, that was a bad pun ). sure she’ll scream and shout and fight back when she’s attacked, but she’d gladly accept the pain if it would save the life of one of her friends. i’m not sure how far she’d go to protect them, though. i doubt she’d sit there and accept physically grueling torture, like having nails pulled or appendages chopped off. the kind of pain that she feels when there’s a demon inside her is more akin to searing from the inside out, which is why she can withstand the pain from fire better than anything else: she’s used to burning.
also, in one of my verses she’s a mother, so she’s been through all that giving birth malarky as well, which i hear is pretty gross. i used to work on the maternity ward and let me tell you something, those screams are not pleasant.
in terms of pain for pleasure, however, vanessa doesn’t really know her limits yet ( in my main/canon verse, anyway - other verses may vary ). she is aware that she enjoys pain when the mood strikes, but her experience in that area is a little lacking, so i wouldn’t imagine that she could withstand a great deal of pain before it was no longer pleasurable.











