I have no idea, all I know is that I have killed, tortured or hurt all of my characters this year. To name a few, I killed off my samurai Mitsuhide Kaden right before he helped win a war, killed off my immortal main character's mortal love interest time and time again (literally every chapter was another one of her deaths), had my goddess reincarnation destroy the world and herself after killing off her mortal (reincarnated) love for the nth time… Wow, I sound quite sadistic when I list it out like this actually, I'm kind of scary. : P But yeah, most of us are really, really mean to our characters whether we're just writing, or if we're RPGing.
Also…
Great! What should they work on? Weapons? Technology for the team? Maybe a system for something?