kranja:

fierceawakening:

I want villains who go against the stereotypical bullshit that “evil cannot love” or whatever.

I want villains who spend months in their creepy dark lab building the death ray with their best buddy and hug each other when the superweapon is finally complete.

I want villains who fall madly in love with the other evil prince or princess they married to consolidate their power.

I want villains who tell bedtime stories to the little clone they created to be the successor to their throne and order their minions to get the clone a cup of warm milk because she can’t sleep.

I want villains hanging out with their best friends and acting like dorks while they bowl with their enemies’ skulls.

I want villains who are both evil and real, and real people have friends and families and loved ones.

sorry to hijack this over to a specific fandom, but this is exactly why i find the heterodyne family in girl genius so damn fascinating, because they are evil like evil but by god they love their town and their families and their minions and all these things love them back fiercely and desperately and to the death.

i could really go for, like, side-stories of the bad old mechanicsburg days, because in the comic proper all the old heterodynes are dead and gone, and only Our Heroic Protagonist and the memory of her heroic adventuring father and uncle remain.  of course, the culture clash between agatha’s generally-heroic goals and the town and minions who love her because she is their heterodyne but affectionately think of her as “kinda boring” is golden