#vilian

[maimai27art]

[takunwilliams]

oswald Cobb aka the penguin

[obsidianrot]

Another character I forgot to upload since Artfight and one I used for Artfight of course. Raymond one of my developing characters who is tied to mine and Thall's main headworld. He is some sort of digital deity of cyberspace.

Toyhou.se Profile: Link Artwork & Character (Raymond) © @greaserdemon

[absolutebl]

Who are your top BL antagonists? I'm getting tired of completely interchangeable crazy/evil exes. Of course a villain isn't necessary to put obstacles in the way of a romance, but it has to be possible to do a BL villain right, right?

Honestly my favorite BLs tend to be ones were there is no real villain (Light On Me, We Best Love, To My Star, Seven Days, 1000 Stars, Cherry Magic, Wish You, et al...) it just circumstances or they just idiots or both.

John (anyone else miss Nicky?) in SOTUS S is a great villain. Probubly my favorite. I found him realistic to the situation. There are always assholes like him in any cubical workplace. Maybe he’s a bit more one dimensional than IRL, but yeah, he was easy to hate. (I actually really like SOTUS S, sometimes better than the original.)

Good Baddies: Evil Crazy Exes & Crushes Who Won’t Back Down

AKA The Faen Fatal in Thai BL 

Of the two my preference (I guess you could say) is for the crush variant not the ex variant. (Maybe it’s because I am usually the one to leave a relationship but I do NOT get wanting to get back together with an ex. Here’s a motto for you: Always remember why you loved them and never forget why you left them.) 

I might be alone in this but I really like Non in Dark Blue Kiss. I think you can see why he is the way he is and acts the way he does. He wants Kao and goes after him even though he's just a spoiled high school kid. He handles his crush badly because he's a neglected child. His motivation is never in question. Maybe it’s just that I know people like him and so he felt very realistic to me. 

Aey in Lovely Writer is similar, but I think they should have portrayed his crush on Gene earlier and with more delicacy because that twist (narratively) came out of nowhere. 

I have a weird soft spot for Alex in UWMA, but he’s really just a plot devise. I don’t think he ranks faen fatal level. That said, he was the first out bisexual character I ever noticed in a Thai BL, so I forgive him a lot (including playing into the slutty predatory bi archetype). 

My least favorites are Long in TharnType (or most all of Mame’s baddies) and whats-her-face in Tonhon Chonlatee. 

Other antagonists I like that aren't faen fatals?

Well that tends to be parents. 

Bad Buddy would be the most extreme version but the parents are kind of the bad guys in UWMA, WBL, Oxygen, Lovely Writer and a number of other BLs. That’s the nature of the YA, coming of age, coming out, self actualization beast tho. Parents are required to be either: bad, evil, absent, or waft in as ultra supportive plot devices. (This last I like so much I chronicle it.) 

For me the grandfather character in He’s Coming to Me is the best version of this archetype. I like a truly evil greedy patriarch character. 

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[pandapinku]

The way Sunah is scary and devious af but damn girl has power and how she is just the perfect enemy for Yohan (since all the men around her are just stupid and useless in general sjfhjdk)

[kemetic-dreams]

Here’s another example “villain” Actually the word comes from the latin “villanus” meaning “farm worker”. In medieval french and later english it progressively started to mean someone “ugly” or “stupid” because farm workers were generally not the brightest people around and many had difformities or disabilities. Later in english it started to mean someone evil or monstrous because in the popular mind “ugly people” would do “ugly deeds”… And this is how through stereotype and bias a simple farm worker became an evil-doer. Not something “logical” but something deeply rooted in biases and stereotypes.

[gayzonesworld]

[umaficwriter]

Okay, but can you guys imagine those two conspiring together?