Writing villains' points of view in fiction is so fun.
It's because it's an exercise in other-thinking. You dislike this person, but you imagine and understand how they got to their mindset.
Some of them in that mindset are kind of gross. But other ones are kind of hilarious.
Gaston may be toxicly hypermasculine and controlling, but at least he never kidnapped and imprisoned Belle. The only reason she fell for Beast was Stockholm Syndrome.
That's part of why they went their extra way to make Gaston bad. At first he was an asshole, and little more.
But in the fight vs Beast, Beast wins, and Gaston begs for his life. Beast in his mercy lets him live. And then Beast goes to Belle (who was on Beast's side by that point), and Gaston backstabs him, so Beast throws him off the castle.
Character development. Beast went from bad to good, Gaston went from bad to worse.
Step into them and write what you see. I find it rather cathartic to do this. I get to play with the variety from Austin Powers Mr Evil to Deliverance, Sci-fi to historical, tame to gore filled and worse.
I heard we're all villains in someone's story.
That’s the fun part. Write the villain with the view that they’re the hero of their story.
Those pesky interferences are their antagonists.
Villainification is also incredibly fun.
Steelmanning a soul.
I totally get what you're saying. One of my characters (the psychopath hunting my main character and satoshi) did things and felt things that made me wonder about my brain.
Definitely an interesting experience in 'other' thinking.
I found it very useful to draw from my clinical experience talking to patients and clients. This was very useful in thinking from behind someone else's eyes.
This may change you to the dark side Darth Alden
