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What makes an effective villain? (Discussion encouraged)
53 votes
A connection to the protagonist. Perhaps the hero is prophesied to end the villain? Perhaps they are related?
A well-established motive. Nobody wakes up in the morning and wonders how evil they can be.
A powerful weapon. What better thread can a villain have than some weapon or tool that can lay many dead in a single stroke?
The command of a powerful army. By intimidation or charisma.
Other:
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How, in your opinion, should the topic of sexual assaul...
| 41 votes
- All the detail, all the emotional torment, in order to make a heavy impact and make the gravity of the situation ingrained in the reader.
- Keep it classy. When using it in a story, keep the focus less on the act and more on the aftermath. Avoid showing the act if at all possible.
- If it is involved, don't focus on the aftermath. It's only needed to shock the audience and demonstrate the character is vulnerable.
- Rape scenes should be heard, not seen. Keep it entirely past-tense and don't bring it up often since victims of it don't tend to talk about it after the fact.
- We've got enough rape and sexual assault in the real world. We don't need it in our stories.
- Other. (Comments!)
What is most important to you in a story?
| 48 votes
- Macro drama: Nations battling nations, heroes rising and falling to the ebb and tide of history.
- Micro drama: Individual characters dealing with their respective trials and tribulations as events beyond or far from their control carry on.
- Characterization: Exploring how characters evolve as the events of the story unfold.
- Comedy: Because everyone needs to laugh and smile sometime!
- Believability: If you don't like to suspend your disbelief. You want a story that could actually happen in the real world or at least be *close* to it.
- Fantasticality: For those who wish to leave their world behind! The stranger and more alien, the better.
- Suspense: Not knowing what's going to happen next, keeping you watching or turning the page, concerned for the events unfolding.
- Action: You don't like the drawn-out talkie scenes. You like seeing the hero kick ass and take names!
- Other: (Specify)
Hypothetically speaking, if Aries had a catch phrase, w...
| 19 votes
- "It's time..."
- "Save a good spot for me in Hell..."
- "You'll never steal another life again."
- "Your end has come."
- "Hellfire take you!"
- -Other, comment!-
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PLOT TWIST!
The bad guy is the good guy, and the good guy framed the badguy, and is actually bad!
The bad guy is the good guy, and the good guy framed the badguy, and is actually bad!