Evilness

[Rhaps]

So I am cooking up a new series, three in fact, and all of the MCs are different flavors of evil. Currently with electric tho, can't move onto gas just yet.

One knows they are filling the Geneva Checklist, treating it like Bingo. In the name of the Law too.

One is evil in the Just following orders sense, like the end justified the means type of deal. They will absolutely shoot a kid in the face if its an order.

One doesn't even know they are working for an evil organization. Just going around doing odd jobs like destabilizing the local government.


This got me thinking, to all authors writing evil MC, what kind of evil do you find the most joyable while writing?

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Not edgy or cringe.

 

[Raymann]

I would love to write an evil MC like Ains Ooal Gown. Subconsciously evil. ?

 

[Kureous]

I like stories where the hero slowly turns into a villain. It's kinda cool, and it seems fun to write.

 

[SRB]

I like to write novels where the villain does terrible things just because they're evil. There are surprisingly few such stories.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

I like to write novels where the villain does terrible things just because they're evil.

based

 

[ThrillingHuman]

The main character is a foreign organism to society that operates on compeletely different principles of morality that may classify this character as evil and will certainly lead him to very despicable acts kind of evil.

These are fun.

But people act evil and they know it, a dive into what they think kind is nice too.

 

[Raymann]

 

[Rhaps]

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Sasuga Ainz-sama!!

 

[ThrillingHuman]

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he saved that village because Sebas was there. He wouldn't save it if Sebas didn't remind him of Touch Me, so...

 

[IshiharaNiaoka]

Reverend Insanity evil? That would be cool!!

 

[J_Chemist]

Not edgy or cringe.

This.

I prefer villains that don't care about the heroes or "good" side, but conduct business with class and smooth efficiency. A lack of monologuing is nice, too. Really hate when characters monologue.

 

[TheEldritchGod]

This got me thinking, to all authors writing evil MC, what kind of evil do you find the most joyable while writing?

I don't.

 

[BearlyAlive]

The self-aware Cartoonishly Evil kind. It's just fun having your MC actively work for situations where he can start his Evilish Long Monologue or goat the "Heroes" fully knowing what he's doing. It pretty much goes into the cunning and manipulative type of evil tho, but the MC is having fun while at it.

The lawful evil ones are also nice. Especially if they have a functioning moral compass.

 

[Succubiome]

I write about people who do some pretty horrible things at times... but I don't really think of them as "evil"?

I feel like once you start really thinking of someone as "good" or "evil", it can become harder to understand them with nuance.

Really hate when characters monologue.

Mind if I ask why?

 

[J_Chemist]

Mind if I ask why?

It's unrealistic unless you're in a setting befitting of it like a business meeting, a bar where they're telling a story, or something like that. If I'm in a fight with someone, I'm not going to stand there and listen to them talk. Certainly not some hero going on a spiel about how I'm doing bad things or how my actions hurt his feelings. Unless they have pertinent information that I don't already know and they're dumb enough to share it, or if I'm not waiting for someone to move into a better position for a more beneficial angle, I'm not waiting and any character who does deserves the punishment for doing so. Plus, if I'm fighting them, I really don't want to hear anything come out of their throat other than either begging or sounds of discomfort.

It's like giving your opponent time to power up or patch up a wound. Unnecessary and it only puts you in a worse spot.

 

[RepresentingPride]

So I am cooking up a new series, three in fact, and all of the MCs are different flavors of evil. Currently with electric tho, can't move onto gas just yet.

One knows they are filling the Geneva Checklist, treating it like Bingo. In the name of the Law too.

One is evil in the Just following orders sense, like the end justified the means type of deal. They will absolutely shoot a kid in the face if its an order.

One doesn't even know they are working for an evil organization. Just going around doing odd jobs like destabilizing the local government.


This got me thinking, to all authors writing evil MC, what kind of evil do you find the most joyable while writing?

I kind of like the one who become a villain because of the world she/he in, when the villain do everything they want without caring for anything except what they old dear to them, be it a person, a concept, a place or anything.

 

[Succubiome]

It's unrealistic unless you're in a setting befitting of it like a business meeting, a bar where they're telling a story, or something like that. If I'm in a fight with someone, I'm not going to stand there and listen to them talk. Certainly not some hero going on a spiel about how I'm doing bad things or how my actions hurt his feelings. Unless they have pertinent information that I don't already know and they're dumb enough to share it, or if I'm not waiting for someone to move into a better position for a more beneficial angle, I'm not waiting and any character who does deserves the punishment for doing so. Plus, if I'm fighting them, I really don't want to hear anything come out of their throat other than either begging or sounds of discomfort.

It's like giving your opponent time to power up or patch up a wound. Unnecessary and it only puts you in a worse spot.

Mmm, I guess I feel like a lot of pre-potential-fight stuff can be posturing and justifying yourself and threatening and negotiating and so forth, so depending on the situation can feel very realistic to me? And possibly even mid-fight or post-fight, especially if it's a dominance fight rather than a fight to the death.

Fights where everyone knows it's a fight to the death from the outset and have no previous social relationship can get quite a bit different, where talking would potentially feel weird... but also I just like listening to people talk so I can understand their mindsets on things, so I lean towards it.

Speaking of listening to people talk so I can understand their mindsets on things-- thank you for explaining your preference there!

(I hope you don't mind me babbling on about my own too much.)

 

[TheMonotonePuppet]

So I am cooking up a new series, three in fact, and all of the MCs are different flavors of evil. Currently with electric tho, can't move onto gas just yet.

One knows they are filling the Geneva Checklist, treating it like Bingo. In the name of the Law too.

One is evil in the Just following orders sense, like the end justified the means type of deal. They will absolutely shoot a kid in the face if its an order.

One doesn't even know they are working for an evil organization. Just going around doing odd jobs like destabilizing the local government.


This got me thinking, to all authors writing evil MC, what kind of evil do you find the most joyable while writing?

My all time favorite evil characters are Nagito Komaeda and his obsession with seeing hope triumph over despair, Kokichi Ouma and his compulsive lying (but ultimately, good goals) but he is evil in many aspects, and Astaroth from The Red Tapestry, who (like @TenderHuman said) is a foreign organism that operates on completely different principles of morality.