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The mountain between us
Katsuki is an ambitious pro hero determined to make it to the top of the hero billboard chart. Izuku lives in a rural mountain town, content with his place in the world. Their lives couldn't be any more different, but a blizzard and an injury brings them together.
Aka my version of a bakudeku Hallmark movie.
Read it here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/28316748/chapters/69381279
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Tropes: Evil Sorcerers and Sorceresses
Throughout my many years of reading historical fiction novels and consuming other forms of media that also play host to one evil sorceress or another, I’ve picked up on several things that I believe go a long way when writing said characters. This is by no means an official guide, but rather a culmination of ideas, tropes and themes that I’ve observed. Really this list could be used for villains that are not magical, but hey, I’m a sucker for a wicked sorceress!
So, what is an evil sorcerer? An evil sorceress is someone who causes chaos. They can be unpredictable. Horrible. Nasty. They usually work by understanding people, using manipulation as a tactic to get what they want. They offer you everything you’ve ever wanted, but of course, it always comes with strings.
Traits and Tropes:
Tricking people
Voldemort was a young, good looking and charming man who manipulated those around him. He was charismatic, able to play on peoples ego’s and emotions to get what he wanted from them.
Lady Oonagh from Daughter of the Forest (Juliet Marillier). She appears to be a nice woman who is in love with the king but is really manipulating him and others in the castle for her own benefit.
Their appearance changes:
Think the evil Queen from Snow White. She’s vain and envious of her stepdaughter’s beauty. When she finds out that Snow White is still alive, she transforms herself into an old hag.
They use dark magic, or have taken natural magic and twisted it into something hideous and terrible.
Their corrupt morals are given a physicality. They’re so far off the deep end, so into the darkness that even the pure magic they once practised is now malignant. Sometimes the twisting of their magic costs something.
The dark side of the force - Star Wars. The more someone uses the dark side the more it costs the user. Palpatine’s appearance changes drastically. It seems to take a toll on the mentality of the user, like Anikan, who’s emotions take ahold of him. His eyes change colour.
Voldemorts Horcruxes. Using magic to create Horcruxes required him to split his soul into pieces. The use of this magic and the creation of said items resulted in his human appearance fading away, replaced with snake-like features.
They’re very obviously evil.
Think classic Disney villains. They’re almost all colour coded in Black, green, purple or red to signify their villainy. Sometimes they have black, possessed eyes. Horrible, scary, pointy teeth. Sometimes they give an evil smirk when nobody is looking.
They have lackeys and henchmen/evil minions
Palpatine in Star Wars has a large number of henchmen. They might perceive themselves to be business partners, or as loyal followers. In reality, Palpatine punishes them cruelly for their failures and does not respect them as he does those whom he deems powerful.
The clone troopers are a good example of evil minions. They are expendable and are only being used as a tool to complete a task. Stormtroopers are raised and indoctrinated from a young age to serve ‘the cause’. They are dehumanised and expendable.
Their worship is cult-like:
Voldemort. Though not quite like a religion, Voldemorts following was large. There was a clear split between who followed him or not, who believed in his ideologies or not.
Grindelwald. Perhaps even more so than Voldemorts, Grindelwald’s following was cult-like. There are heavy themes from our own history (Hitler). A clear divide between those who follow him and those who don’t. People who do follow him believe that it is their right, that what they’re doing is right, and that anyone trying to stop them is being oppressive.
They want more power, prestige and stature
Ursula from The Little Mermaid. Ursula only agrees to make Ariel a human so she can use her as a form of ransom, to get King Tritons crown. She is the main villain, grows very large and powerful (controlling the ocean) towards the end of the movie.
Genvissa from Hades Daughter (Sara Douglass). She is beautiful and powerful, but still, she wants more. She needs a particular person to help her gain more power, and has no qualms tricking anyone she needs to. She loves the attention and praise from the people she rules over.
They’re Xenophobic
Lucifer from Supernatural. He is a very powerful Archangel who wants nothing more than to trigger the Apocolypse, thereby ending humanity. He views humans as maggots, along with demons and other creatures that are not celestial in nature.
They appeal to your fears
Valentine from The Mortal Instruments. He says things like “If you don’t listen to me / do what I say, the thing you’re most afraid of will happen!”. He convinces people to join him based on their fear of ‘downworlders’ (vampires, werewolves, warlocks etc) and what they might do. These fears are real, based on experience (eg. someone they know was attacked by a downworlder) or word of mouth. He convinces Jace that killing downworlders is the only way to stop innocent people from dying.
They’re beyond redemption, or simply don’t want it
Anikan Skywalker. He becomes evil, dark and lost in the ideologies of the dark side of the force. His mentor and friend, Obi-Wan, tries to bring him back to the light. Anikan does not want it.
They’re narcissistic
The Master from Doctor Who, who is completely and utterly obsessed with himself and his abilities. He shows off. He is smart, and he knows it.
They’re ‘mad’
The Queen of Hearts. They’re moody and don’t tolerate disagreement. They hate being told things they don’t want to hear. They punish, brutally. Their rule is absolute and strict to the point of insanity.
They view themselves as a ‘necessary evil’
Thanos. He sees a problem, the overpopulation of the universe and its lack of adequate resources, and tires to ‘fix’ that problem by wiping out 50% of all life. He has the sad back story to go with it, and ultimately, what he does was done in an attempt to prove to himself that he was right - that all the tragedy he experienced on his home planet could have been stopped by someone doing what he did.
They’re disgustingly dark
They eat rotten food, or worms or bugs. They’re into dead things. They love things that other people find disturbing. Maybe they kill for fun, to add a new person to their table of dead guests.
The mysterious one
Otherwise called the ‘unknown employer’. This character is pulling all the strings from behind a curtain. Only a small number of their loyal followers, the most devout and most trustworthy, may see them. The face or identity of This character is usually revealed as a plot twist, something that shocks the characters and the audience. This can be because it’s someone nobody suspected, their appearance is so gruesome, or maybe because they look nothing like a villain at all.
Annnnd that’s all! This is just a small list that I compiled and there are, of course, many other traits and tropes that sorcerers may embody, through all forms of media. Hope you found it insightful!
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best thing i learned today: “The Loud American” role in Japanese businesses
nobody asked but imma explain anyway
no idea how it came up, but my programming prof was talking about his friend who works for Nintendo Japan who’s secondary role is The Loud American, and my prof explained what that was and how it came about
see, in Japan you do not talk back to your boss. you just don’t, even if they have stupid ideas and want the company to act on them. Like Nissan did sometime back. But since the other employees couldn’t do anything about this terrible idea that would ruin the company, they called in an American who had no reservations about telling the boss that their stupid idea was a stupid idea
and that’s just become a role in Japanese businesses, where they keep an American on staff who plays up the American stereotype and tells the boss what the Japanese employees can’t or won’t out of societal norms
dream job.
How much do they pay per hour for me to sit around and every so often storm into the bosses office and call his ideas stupid as fuck?
modern day court jester
Me: halfway into a panic attack
Friend: Hey, can we talk? I'm not doing alright rn
Me, beating the panic attack back with a baseball bat: yea sure what's up?
writers:
break up your paragraphs. big paragraphs are scary, your readers will get scared
fuuuuck epithets. “the other man got up” “the taller woman sat down” “the blonde walked away” nahhh. call them by their names or rework the sentence. you can do so much better than this (exception: if the reader doesn’t know the character(s) you’re referring to yet, it’s a-okay to refer to them by an identifying trait)
blunette is not a thing
new speaker, new paragraph. please.
“said” is such a great word. use it. make sweet love to it. but don’t kill it
use “said” more than you use synonyms for it. that way the use of synonyms gets more exciting. getting a sudden description of how a character is saying something (screaming, mumbling, sighing) is more interesting that way.
if your summary says “I suck at summaries” or “story better than summary” you’re turning off the reader, my dude. your summary is supposed to be your hook. you gotta own it, just like you’re gonna own the story they’re about to read
follow long sentences w short ones and short ones w long ones. same goes for paragraphs
your writing is always better than you think it is. you just think it’s bad because the story’s always gonna be predicable to the one who’s writing it
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