Feb 23, 2025
I'm seeing writing advice about how great villains don't think they're evil, to use "antagonist" not villain, etc, and can see how that's good advice for certain types of drama but don't think it's necessarily better than the villain waking up and thinking "yep I'm the villain today," even if this just constitutes being consciously selfish, going to fuck something up for the hell of it, things like that. That's still a good villain (and a realistic person).