When Your Sith Lord Acts Like A Sith Lord: Learning Not So Great Things About Your OCs

Just remember, DotF... good villains never really die. He may well come back as a glowing red force ghost, and his poor apprentice will never get the spotlight...

I can empathize with a lot of this. One of my primary heroes was never intended to have center stage, and his Jedi Master was intended as a convenience in one story only. And they've just taken over! I SWEAR...

 

Just remember, DotF... good villains never really die. He may well come back as a glowing red force ghost, and his poor apprentice will never get the spotlight...

He would try something like that if he knew how.

 

One of the things that puts some people off their feed when a villian takes over and does the witing isn't so much the act that the villan commits but the fact that the author has a place within their mind that can think up such dark, sick and/or twisted thing. No one like sot admitt it and but it's tru for every single living human that we all carry a certain amoutn of drkaness, or evil as some will say, within ourselves. Normally you wouldn't tap into it during your day to day life, but when you're writing a particallary (sp) bas villain you tap into that well spring. And some times a little dip in the pool becomes a flood. Call it a twisted form of wish fullfiment. You might be Mary Poppins but sometimes we just get a little thrill out of writing about evil things. Of course we'd never act on such impulses and we sit back and go "Oh my god that's sick, why'd I write that" but for a brief moemt we enjoy writing it.

Just my two cents though.

 

[face_shocked]

Another character has spoken up. And he's...not what I expected him to be. I gave him enough of a flaw to get him sliding down the slippery slope just a little bit. But now, with two stories instead of one, he took that flaw and ran with it.

So much for best laid plans.