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Miss_Desperado
Since: Sep, 2016
7th Jun, 2018 10:08:00 AM
Bumping to restart the search. I want to find this too. Try wiki-walking from Pummeling the Corpse.
If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
Gofastmike
Since: Mar, 2017
7th Jun, 2018 01:26:54 PM
I think an inverted At Arm's Length (with the person held back by a 3rd person instead of being long-armed by their target) might be a good place to start.
it's a trop where someone takes a weapon or simply just punches someone into a bloody pulp,usually to the person that either kidnapped them or caused them harm..so they give them a senseless beatdown.
But then someone else pulls them away from the beating to calm them down usually saying "Stop!, Stop!"
perfectexample was in the last of us, where joel pulled away ellie after smashing her attacker in the face with a mchete