Ahh, that sounds fun. :-) A lot of fun actually.
My current favorite RP has been going on for four months, and it was extremely dark. There was rape, a couple of fingers chopped off, an eye that was cut and blinded, and at one point my character suffered sleep deprivation for two weeks straight, enabled by shocks going directly to her head, other smaller stuff as well. But she was a political prisoner, and all of this was sort of the catalyst for a lot of exploration into the morality of her terrorist actions, the personal fear and strange respect that the Emperor felt for her, despite hating her and thinking her race was inferior, of course PTSD and trying to avoid Stockholm syndrome, and the theme of what it means to be a hero and a leader. It's been a lot of fun.