forum What turned your villain to the dark side?

Started February 09, 2018 by @andrew health_and_safety flash_onAdmin

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In a story, that I've yet to write, the king's adviser turns evil because women aren't supposed to be knights, but the best recruit at training camp has been discovered to be a woman. And, the rest of the recruits riot when the advisor tries to get rid of her. So, the king himself has to show up, and he rolls with it because the girl is cool. The adviser feels he was made a fool of, so he holds a grudge against her.

That was a really rough summary…

for neres (the dark prince in the first book), it was because he felt he had more claim to the throne of stars than nova, and wanted to destroy the rest of the family line to gain the throne.

for guin (in the second and third novel), it was because she'd grown up in a world without magic and when she suddenly gained magic, she had the power to fight back against the people who abused her, but she took it a little too far and decided humans had more right to magic than fairies and wanted to rule a powerless realm (fairies hadn't had magic for a few hundred years at this point, because the gods are jerks).

My antagonist (Jade) for Prism turned insane because of all the loss in her life.
She was bounced from family to family in the foster care system for a long time. She hated it, and desperately wanted control over her life. But at last found a loving family that fostered and eventually adopted her. For a while, her life seemed to have changed from awful to amazing. She was a genius, and won many awards from a young age. Her parents loved her, and treasured her. She found a passion for sewing, and made little rag-dolls as a hobby. She even met a boy and fell hopelessly in love with him.
But then, everything changed. Her boyfriend had to go overseas (for a reason I haven't decided yet), at first they kept in touch, but then for some reason he stopped communicating. Then her mother was shot dead right in front of her during a terrorist attack. Her father, out of grief, shut her out, barely spoke to her. She began to wish she had died in the attack as well. And no matter what she said, her boyfriend remained silent. Those same cravings for control came back to her. She wanted her father to talk to her. She wanted her boyfriend to at least send one message, promising he still loves her in return. She wanted her mother to be alive. She wanted control. Then she snapped.

My character is basically so in love with her love interest that she sets out to conquer the world for them and gets a little carried away.

Well, my villain is a ex goddess. She was once the caretaker of the ocean. When she was human, at about age 14 she had drowned and died saving her paralyzed brother from the ocean. She had been granted the job because of her love for the ocean and all things in it, and of course the one before her had died which left the position open. She had watched many of her loved ones, including her brother, nieces and nephews and their children and their children's children die and she was tired of not being able to speak to anyone about it. So eventually, her and the fire god started talking and soon, she fell in love with him. When she got the courage to confess, she was rejected because goddess and gods of different elements were forbidden from being in a relationship. She was angry at him but was able to keep her growing anger at bay for some time. It was when she found out that one of the other gods and killed her brother all that time ago that she snapped. She raged against the other goddesses and gods and their kingdoms. The others were not happy with her sudden change in behavior. She had cause much damage and their job was to protect their lands and watch over the people in them so she had to be exiled. She was replaced with the current caretaker of the ocean and she absolutely hates him. She wants revenge against the other gods and goddesses and want to become the caretaker of the ocean again, so she sabotages the current one. The main characters's jobs are to basically stop her from sabotaging the new caretaker and the defeat her so she can't get revenge on the other gods and goddesses.

I have multiple villains who are kind of against one another, and my MC is caught in between them. XD One villain in particular was influenced by bad company very slowly, and when his wife was murdered, he was thrown over the edge.

I have a family of evil, and basically the father just had a really crappy childhood (sold into slavery, ran away, turned to thievery to make a living) is offered a job to start assassinating people to start a war, and his daughter is like "Wow, that seems fun." and her brother is just like "Guys, I don't want you to die while doing this so I'm just gonna help." That's it in a nutshell.

Haha I like that, p3ncil

My villain developed a fear that one of his colleagues would grow too powerful to be stopped. When this person was actually made king of Malcera, the country where the story takes place, the villain saw his worst fears coming true. He didn't do anything for a while, until his son, trying to please him, attacked the royal treasury and was killed doing it. That was kind of the breaking point, and my villain went completely over the edge- on the inside, at least. He started a war and paid off a bunch of people to fight for him, imprisoned the king, and started his own government, which looks like a good system outwardly but has a lot of dark secrets within it.

In a story I'm writing, the main character is both the protagonist and the antagonist. When she was young, a group killed her family, and adopted her to do as they say. They later plant her as a spy in a school where people with powers go. However, she has been planning against the group that killed her family since she has been at the school, but she still needs to convince then that she is on their side, so for awhile she has to play the antagonist before she can help her friends take down the group.

I don't really have a villain. I guess my huge antagonistic force would be the dragons, which view humans as humans view, idk, fish. Something to enjoy catching on the weekends and then frying up and eating. They're not actively evil to themselves, but to humans they're pretty bad. My other antagonist is one of the leaders of their society. She just wants things to stay roughly the same, which causes her to clash with the protagonists. Nothing that villainous about her.

My favorite villain (Ben) ended up turning to the “dark side” after one of his closest friends, Jo, got into his personal life and found out some really private things about him (namely his struggle to control his magical powers and his mental illness). She started treating him like he was weak, something that angered him so much that they ended their friendship and, during a later battle, he turned against her. It’s one of Jo’s worst moments, seeing as she hurt her best friend enough to push him away. However, they both pay the price for -misbehaving- in the end (ahem they both die).

One of my main villains came from a poor society and pulled himself up by his bootstraps to found the richest and most successful business in the all the land: a postal service. Now he's an evil capitalist who fell in love with the convenience of having all the money, and is willing to kill anyone who gets in the way, including the protagonist who is trying to invent a viable way for everyone to have free telecommunications.

I don't want to spoil too much, but it involves bitterness, anger, a hunger for knowledge, and just a dash of madness. I personally really enjoy my villain, but then again I am his creator so I may just be a little biased.

(In a nutshell) SYCORE!

Sycore has anger management issues, and with his situation, who wouldn't? He was chosen by Kiranimi to become the Bengal Tiger owner. The power slowly consumed him and he started loving the chaos, that is, til his girlfriend called him out on it. Yeah, she's been cleaning up his mess with Birane and she's pissed.
Battles and more battles and Sycore wins killing his girlfriend because he thinks she's cheating on him. Oh no! Sycore died of blood loss! Oh no! The Amulets are a curse and he's stuck there till someone else dies and takes his place.

One thousand years later

Oh no! The keepers are evil and want to kill us blah, blah, blah, trust issues. Somehow a convenient phenomenon occurs and now Sycore is no longer a kitten and is a hot tiger boi- thing. (He's a homo-sapein with feline ears and tail.)

WEEEEEEEEEE
Isn't that plot just great!

Basically my villain (Mortem) was a recruit in the society and was forced to go undercover (as destiny) in the other tribe and observe the enemy's camp, but she set out her own plan, she went rogue and married the king of that tribe, eventually she realized her powers and sought out to leave and demolish both tribes, even her ex-master, she did kill her ex-master but she remained respectful to her ex-husband and saved his life in the end. She did find out that she had a strange connection all along with the lead protagonist, where she could feel the pain and mental state of her "enemy" and she actually began to bond and form an almost friendship with the protagonist, (who tried to turn her) Fate yet to be determined!

Prisma from AMJ became the cunning murderer she is because a Necrozma promised her that, if Prisma followed his orders, he'd revive her beloved mother, aunt, uncle, and cousins.

Alright, I really like the idea of a villain turning into one because of something minor so I came up with this.
(little bit long but hey, I had fun writing it and it probably is kinda bad compared to the other ;p)
(I quickly wrote it btw so I still really got to refine it… bye ;-;)

The villain. They turned like this only because of something simple, something minor. When they had been in danger, of course a hero saved them just in time. Thankful, they smiled sweetly, wanting to show their gratitude to the hero but the cold eyes that stared down at them. The words that left their mouth. 'disgusting'. Are those even human? They looked at them as if they were trash or even worse. But when the people ran to congratulate the 'hero', a smile appeared, plastered on their face. They took a picture for the newspapers, with a smile. They, the hero, put their arm around them, they smiled. They, not the hero, touched the smile on the newspaper. The heroes they looked up on… no, they must have seen it wrongly. But… now, every time they saw a hero, in person or on TV, the smiles they showed, the gestures they made… why did it all look so fake? Why did it look like they didn't like them one bit? Why did it look like every hero despised the citizens more than the… villains. Weren't they the heroes? Why did their disappointment grow stronger? Those were heroes, right? Maybe they really saw it wrongly. Maybe… but they didn't. They couldn't fool themselves any longer and before they knew it.. why? They looked at a fight between a hero and a villain. Why… and why are they rooting for the… villain?

My villains are an order of "Magical Cultists" one could say. They once worshiped their god peacefully, but as time went on, they began losing their original religious texts and started trying to remember what they could about them. It eventually got to the point where they were off the path completely, and instead of peacefully studying magic, they strove to summon their "god". The blasphemous god in question is a colossal dragon called the White Crow in hibernation in the Ethereal Plane.

So basically what drove them to evil was their own poor housekeeping and forgetfulness.

My villain was restrained and forced to watch as soldiers from one of the warring armies slaughtered his parents in cold blood. Over the years he grew to hate them, he knew not which side had killed them, but he hated every single one of them either way. He saw himself as a hero to his people, he found out how to control an ultimate power and used it to punish those that had taken so much from him.

My villain, was raised being told her kind wasn't accepted, only to be revealed to be that kind. So she begins to fight for their 'rights', at first it was okay, until slowly, her group, the 'Angelus Reprobi' began torturing and treating those who aren't her kind worse than they treated her. It slowly turns from a fight for justice, to becoming a group of mindless monsters.

I have like… four villains. The first, Huron, turns to the dark side in the pursuit of science. After getting The Opal she just goes completely off the wall testing its powers on people and then testing their powers, trying to find out the science behind the magic and what makes someone worthy of gaining the magic. Arcadia becomes a villain because of his love for Huron. He'd do anything for her, and that means kidnapping, overseeing experiments, and basically anything else she asked of him. In the second part, the villain is Pheonix, who goes mad with power. Seeking more power, he decides to take the opal to a so-called "sacred ground" for the stone, hoping it'll give him more powers. In doing so, however, he created the fourth villain, Algieba, a powerful spirit that was trapped inside The Opal. Algieba consumed the soul of Arcadia and Pheonix in order to manifest themself. Their time as a villain was fueled only by how humans had acted upon receiving their "Gifts" ( the powers The Opal gave them ), and how they abused each other and their powers for the sake of their own selfish pursuits. Both Algieba and Arcadia get little redemption arcs and become friends to the second main character.

My character Orion Lefu Oswin and his reason.
He lived with his grandfather on a farm after both of his parents were deceased in a car crash. After his grandfather died when he was 15 he slipped into a depression and started self-harm. He also has severe anxiety and PTSD. The only way for him to not kill himself is to inflict harm on others.

I have a bunch of villains with different reasons. One is a hero, but her rivalry with a main character conflicts with her job, and she actively tries to make her rival's life miserable whenever she sees him. Another took it upon herself to become a vigilante taking down abusive men after escaping her own abusive husband, but has clouded judgement and often kills innocent people. One's a sentient dimension that imprisons people and tortures them in order to continue growing, and one's a master thief who steals for both thrill and necessity (mostly thrill).