Does anybody else

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Does anybody else

Does anybody else have really, really cruel villians in their stories? I mean, villians beyond the normal evil, like Voldemort? I'm just wondering-'cause my cruelest villian is in my imaginary world, and he is CRUEL. Frighteningly ruthless, as a matter of fact. So I'm wondering if anyone else has really evil villians, or is it just me? Sometimes it makes me worry about myself...:S

 

If you'd like an example to compare your villian to, I'll be happy to give you one. Be warned, though-sometimes he even frightens me a little bit.

 

Andy P. C. says wkmf.

~Wolfgirl67 signing off.

P.S. OK, I realize that I already posted an entry in the Inkwell not too long ago, but when you've got a question...*shrugs*

P.P.S. For those of you who read my location: No, I didn't type this whole entry with the keyboard upside-down. Just the location.

 

submitted by Wolfgirl67, age ~13~, Typing with the
(March 6, 2011 - 2:09 pm)

back to the Inkwell

Well... Sort of? Depends on one's definition of "evil" really. Or "cruel" for that matter, because I personally like to blur the line between my villains and heroes for those delightful Not So Different moments. Which sometimes means my heroes cross the Moral Event Horizon. This might just be that I'm too incompetent to write honestly "nice" people properly, though.

I think my Worst Villain Ever in terms of evil-ness was a witch who was basically an experiment of mine to see how monstrously vile a character I could manage. 99.9% of her actions are too graphic for the CB; we'll just leave it that her goal throughout the story was to drive the protagonist completely insane by methodically killing everyone he knew in increasingly gruesome ways. Yeah.

And there's the Man in the White Car, who is less a character than a reaction to these reoccuring nightmares I had when I was a small child person thing (my earliest memory is, in fact, waking up from said nightmare, going to stare at my locked-from-the-outside bedroom door, listening to my parents talking in the living room [down the hall past the bathroom and to the right] and then going back to bed). I still have them occasionally now. Anyway, fiction!Man in the White Car is a hideously evil and disgustingly mysterious figure who inhabits the mind of a possibly psychic, possibly schizophrenic young girl named April, haunts her dreams and occasionally waking world, and tries his very hardest to kill her for some unknown nefarious purpose. Since he was originally dreamed up by my two-and-a-half year old self, he (a) is completely paper-white except for his dark sunglasses, (b) does not have a face, (c) has no discernible personality, and (d) has no backstory. Since my current self can not in good conscious use an actual character like that, he's been handwaved as either (a) a figment of April's deranged mind or (b) the personification of dread from which all other, more defined nightmares are formed. 

For the most part, though, my villains tend to be more... um... subtle? In that they have good streaks or humane tendencies which I think make their evil actions more frightening and also makes them more interesting for me to write. 

submitted by TNÖ, age 17, Deep Space
(March 10, 2011 - 9:52 pm)

@TNO: Your description of the MitWC cracked me up. XD You were a very imaginative two-year-old.

 

Although Giovanni doesn't have any humane impulses whatsoever--or if he appears to, they tend to be part of something even eviler--his sidekick does, occasionally. It does make for a more interesting story character, although I wish she would stop doing it and behave like an ordinary villian sidekick sometimes. If you need any examples to compare your villains to:

 

1. Giovanni tried to sell the family members of the heroes to other people. I doubt he would try this with humans, but as the main characters of my stories are almost all not human, he feels like he can do whatever he wants with them.

2. He tortured somebody with razor blades. *shudders* I scared myself with that one.

3. Electric shocks are his favorite form of physical torture, although he much prefers

4. Emotional torture. 'Nuff said.

Scared yet? ;)

 

@Thread: Go to the tooooop! *sings opera*

Andy P. C. says ckaa. I think I scared him.

~Wolfgirl67 signing off.

submitted by Wolfgirl67, age ~13~, Writing about v
(March 12, 2011 - 3:46 pm)