How do I show through action that a character is insane with rage, revenge, and has a death-wish?

Question

I'm writing a new chapter about a young girl who just finds out that she is an activated Vampire Slayer after watching her parents ripped apart by werewolves. She has the strength to get the job done, but is so grief stricken that she really wants to die by taking out as many of them as she can.

Thank You, to all who gave me some solid answers!!!
-Kevin82

Answer 1

The quick and simple way to express suicidal rage is to do something foolishly vicious... Say, she would launch herself screaming into the midst of the pack of werewolves as they turned to make their escape.

Who knows how she survives it, depends on the setting.

"While running for her life, she became aware in her panic fight that first one, then the other of her parents were no longer running beside her. She turned to look, and saw morsels of their dismembered carcasses flying out of the pack which had stopped chasing her to feed on her beloved parents.

She no longer saw the river in the golden moolight - she saw red! Red as blood! She turned and ran toward them, she dove into the pack howling louder than any of them, grappling with the largest of those demon hounds; her momentum carried her and it backward, and together sudddenly they were falling over the railing of the bridge choking, biting and slashing at each other as they tumbled into the torrent below; she drowned him in the icy water, pushing his snarling hairy face under the surface repeatedly while the cold shocked her out of her blind rage, put her into a fight for her life against claws, teeth and the risk of hypothermia; she was fighting to strangle and rip apart an adversary who being furry, was,she realized, better able to wihstand the icy cold water... Finally she felt his neck crack, and his eyes stared lifelessly up at her. As his sodden carcass floated off downstream in the rippling waves illuminated by the full moon, she wearily struggled onto the snowy bank in the moolight, her wet and torn T-shirt clinging to her voloptuous heaving bosom, while the remaining creatures of Hell howled at her from the bridge far above... But they could smell death from there, and none dared follow after her and become next to suffer the same fate as their alpha male..."

Or maybe as she grapples with the "leader of the pack" a cloud obscures the moon and the troupe of wolves become naked humans who run away confused and all get run over by a transport truck...?

"She fought as good as she could, but even a motivated class-A vampyre slayer was no match for a pack of twenty-two snarling werewolves from Hell. The largest one, the leader, laid her flat with a viciously aimed blow to the side of her head, and her eyes blurred red with blood until she saw stars as her head hit the pavement, where she lay flat on her back and helpless. As she lay in the road confused and dazed, the great grey one stood to administer the killing blow, when suddenly he and the creatures around her vanished, replaced by a blur of lights, a mighty wind, a blaring air horn, and a spray of foul red blood; for during the deadly fight, with all the howling fury, nobody had noticed the 18-wheeler bearing down on them. She was lying flat on the ground, but she still felt the heat of its engine passing above her battered body, heard the tires singing by on either side of her, along with the hot spray of were-blood as it straddled her at 75 miles an hour, splattering all those hairy man-things into pulp with the force and speed of heavy machinery that only a loaded Mack Truck could deliver.

'Holy road-runner!', she thought as the fog of fury left her mind; she realized how close she had come to joining the hell-hounds in road kill heaven... 'Maybe I'll just use a silver bullet next time!' "

It's your story. You write it. I'm sure I could have fun with it too...

Answer 2

Having a battle with "low-level" werewolves where she can't contain her rage can do it.

Or show her in the gym punching and then having a breakdown.

Have her in a conversation with a friend who knows and have that friend ask how she is handling it. This does not have to be done cheesy. She can be so grief stricken that tears don't come .

You could also have a rumor in the werwolf community that there is this girl with so much rage killing off werewolves.

I wish you the best. Sounds good.

Answer 3

"The shredded werewolves are scattered around on the floor. Jina was sitting on top of the head of the last werewolf she ripped off, and sobbing uncontrollably. She was holding the little doll, a gift from her mum who is lying beside her, or what was left of her. Her mum laid awkwardly on the floor, with her spine fully exposed. One thing was obvious to Jina, her mum is not gonna sing her to sleep tonight. Looking down on the head, with tears flowing down the smooth cheek, her eyes remain emotionless..."

Answer 4

How about she punches a wall,and rips a wire out,the sparks
give her an idea as to exact her revenge.Sparks,natural gas,
boom.Incinerates all,but one,maybe three.

Answer 5

Skip over most of the details of her ripping the werewolves to pieces to indicate that she doesn't really remember doing it.

Answer 6

I don't know but thank you for protecting all of us and our country. By the way i also was in the 82nd many years ago

Answer 7

You roar with rage and beat your chest, then shake your fist, and curl up on the floor in a fetal position.

Answer 8

Wow umm...Dang thinker cramp! But good luck I hope it becomes a best seller!! =)

Answer 9

Let him join the army because of the death of his father or brother or loved one

Answer 10

Have her become a guy and try out for S.E.A.L. hahahahaahah82nd..hahahhaa...thanks for the points by the way.