@Cassiopeia
Alright, everyone! I'm here and let us begin, shall we?
My name is L.C, as I'm sure many of you know. I'm here to ask for help with villain motivation! Now, let me explain to you very briefly the plot of my story. :)
A 13 year old from New York finds out that the people he's been living with are not his real family, and that he was taken from his home as a very young child. This is obviously a lot to take in, so he runs away to cool off and stumbles upon this alternate earth-like place where there are heaps of problems to deal with, the most notable of which being the genocide of magicians. With his position as the current queen's lost son, he decides that those problems now fall to him to solve. Lots of issues to follow.
Now! Let's talk villains.
My main bad guy, who is the one present throughout the story, is Rosemary. The current Queen.
Her primary motivation is to avenge herself and feel right with the gods, and the way she deems fit? Killing all the mages. More information here!
My more subtle bad guy is the one I need help with.
She's the mastermind behind everything Rosemary does, abusing the trust she's been given and subtly manipulating her into doing what she wants her to.
Her profile is here, but it's massively incomplete.
The only part that is worth looking at right now is the personality section under nature. :)
I've already decided that she is a woman who the main character's father thought to be dead, right? He used to be her friend and she was once like a little sister to him. (She had a massive crush on him, though… More on that later.) But what could possibly cause such massive change? What do you think would cause her to turn against her own kind?
Now, to explain a bit of the relationship between Azariah and May,
Azariah is my MC's father (not biologically, though.) I'm still working out all the details of how he came to acquire the queen's unwanted child, but the entire reason Azariah took this child was because he felt personally responsible for the deaths of May and two other children he had been travelling with. He viewed the baby as a second chance in some ways, and a punishment in others.
(For the record, though…. In reality, there was not much he could have done about their deaths. He did what most people would have done and ran from the danger he saw incoming, he would have likely died if he had done otherwise.)
I think that's…. pretty much every ounce of information I have.
I need some ideas, and maybe some critique if you can spare it? Is it interesting enough???? :'''D
Thanks so much in advance, everyone! <3
—L.C.
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