User blog comment:TheTwistedMangle/OC Adventures Ideas?/@comment-33026383-20170821012928/@comment-31165208-20170902141646

However, we should NOT make ALL backstories dark. I generally dislike dark backstories because they're cliche, unoriginal, and not worth reading or learning about. They should be ORIGINAL. These include:


 * losing parents/born an orphan


 * getting raped (no other way to put this, sorry)


 * being abused/bullied by family and/or others

And so on.

Ribbon's backstory has violent tones, but isn't neccescarily dark.