OC (one of the new ones, only a couple of weeks old)
For several months I’d had the urge to create a total bastard character, I gathered all possible material to make a real jerk, an abuser, a manipulator, and just an absolute asshole, but of course beautiful and charming, so that I myself could love him
In my worlds with very gray morality and extremely ambiguous good and bad characters, having such a clear tilt is a rarity. That’s why I was so curious to see if I could manage at least something. And a couple of weeks ago, while engraving under the spell of Earthsea, I realized I’d found the kind of interaction through which I wanted to bring this character in. Something as simple and old as the world itself: take a more or less classic protagonist and give him an antagonist, undeniably bound to him, undeniably special for him. Make the hero search for him, make his destruction the central goal, and somewhere along the way let him meet the antagonist in human guise, and fail to recognize him. Make him a companion and best friend, add a romantic line (obvious or not) so that in the end both are faced with the terrible fact of resolution through the death of one of them. Naturally, my antagonist must understand everything that’s happening. Naturally, his goal becomes to win over the main character, to detach him from the rest of the world and focus him entirely on himself. His task is to survive and to force the plot to end in his favor. Isn’t that the perfect role for the bastard I’ve been so carefully putting together?
I’m not a writer, but I love entertaining myself by inventing plots, creating worlds, and fleshing out characters down to the smallest details. I love angst, hopelessness, and that note of bleak realism - even if the world I create is pure fantasy. I want to write a story built on the dynamic between two characters, kill one of them off at the end and cry about it, then resurrect them and write another eight seasons of their life afterwards. I want to dream up cozy AUs with them and never make any of it canon
I haven’t had the strength to share my previous stories here.. especially not in English… but this one is fresh and doesn’t yet have a decade-old tower of lore behind it. So I think I can try writing whatever comes to my mind, if this story does end up continuing
/and yeah, about the truly evil character - I lost that battle, and pretty quickly at that. I’ve already toned down his level of craziness, and even managed to explain it within the plot
