#CORRUPTION ARC
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The villain successfully corrupts the hero to their side and regrets it. Maybe the hero is releasing their repressed anger and they are far more brutal, sadistic and violent then the villain anticipated. The villain has to witness their new "partner" commit atrocities they wouldn't dream of. The line of who's the true leader of evil organization eventually gets very very blurred.
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Aka corruption arc, but we don't mind :)
#six of crows#kaz brekker#kanej#inej gafha#shadow and bone#nina dobrev#matthias#wesper#jesper fahey#wylan van eck#funny#character development#corruption arc
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Withering Beauty & Fractured Reflections
Hi, I have a lot of thoughts. I was just kinda sketching and had some angsty, villain arc Briar on the mind. Sheâs def giving some hardcore Evanescence vibes here? But I donât mind. I love that for her.
Honestly I donât think sheâs really evil here either, just bitter, angry and maybe a little cursed. Briar was pushed to this point, after all. Sheâs not inherently dark. Having the idea of destiny forced on her, and her feelings being constantly neglected by people she thought cared for her? It takes its toll. I think Thronecoming was the final straw. Something snapped. The pressure broke the mirror inside Briarâs mind and warped the way she saw herself. And because destiny is so very specific regarding fairytales, the Sleeping Beauty story became corrupted and actually changed its Princess into somethingâŚelse. Something dark. Briar was changed into whatever it was she saw in the shattered fractal pattern of her mind.
And, seeing as the last things she did was experience Ravenâs evil destiny, itâs safe to say the Storybook of Legends doesnât end up going down the well after Briar finds itâŚ
Let me know what you think of this or if you have any theories or thoughts. I just wanted to design something tbh so Iâm always open to suggestions.
#ever after high#eah#briar beauty#villain arc#ever after high fanart#digital art#concept art#character art#fanart#illustration#character design#art#corruption arc#alternate universe#canon divergence#Spotify
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characters who have to redeem themselves. Except âredemptionâ isnât what they expected. They begged for forgiveness and now their every action is monitored. They have to let everyone know that they messed upâ they canât go anywhere without the whispers and dark stares following them.
Once proud, they now walk with head bowed and never never make eye contact. Theyâve leaned that much. They have scars where everyone can see, purposefully placed there as a reminder of what happens when they mess up. It doesnât matter how much they swear theyâve changed, the blows come all the same. Casual nowâ just backhanded slaps and grabbing and quick orders to shut upâ
theyâve learned their lesson. They donât want redemption.
#whump#whump writing#whumpblr#whump prompt#whump community#whump ideas#whump prompts#whump scenario#whumpee tuned whumper#heehoo#enjoy#corruption arc#rather than redemption
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When a character goes through a corruption arc and now they are going to hurt their cinnamon roll ally/friend/partner/etc. and you just have to deal with the feeling that can only be described as watching someone about to kick a puppy and not being able to stop it.
#this is about the dragon prince#and a bit about she-ra#the dragon prince#character dynamics#my posts#corruption arc
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Hear me out.. an inside out au where Fear takes on the role of Anxiety
While this is more specific to me personally, I believe that Anxiety can be classified as a type of fear. So the opposite can work, letting yourself being ruled by fear.
It would be really good angsty corruption au. Much like Sadness being drawn to the happy memories to make them sad, imagine Fear being drawn to take over Rileyâs mind, still trying to make sure sheâs safe but stressed and anxious. The angst would be immaculate.
Anyone else agree?
#inside out#inside out fandom#inside out fear#inside out anxiety#inside out au#fear inside out#anxiety inside out#corruption au#corruption arc#I do like Anxiety. this isnât for hate or anything#I just think this can be a good story idea#Disclaimer fear and anxiety are not the same thing. But they are similar.
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Prompt #217
Supervillain slowly circled Hero's bound figure.
"Poor little Hero. All alone and no one to turn to. Abandoned by your team, kicked out of the agency..." Supervillain leaned in, the corner of their lip curled back in a wolfish smile. Hero's eyes widened. "What's your next mo--"
Hero surged up and kissed them.
Quick. Warm. Chaste.
Supervillain stumbled back, ears burning. "W-what..." They clapped both hands over their mouth, exclaiming muffled, "What are you doing?"
Hero cocked their head. "You leaned in. Weren't we leading up to the 'join me and I'll give you unimaginable power' speech anyway? I'm just speeding it up a little."
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The villain had never seen the hero like this. Twitchy. Vulnerable. Volatile. Wide-eyed and not quite present.
Of course, after the media outpour, after the merciless backlash, after the mess that had went down between them and their agency, the villain had expected some form of pain on the hero's face, but not...this. Some look like they'd gone through a revelation that had ruined their life.
They got the compulsion to take advantage.
"I always knew they would do something like this," they murmured pitifully. They brushed slow, careful fingers under their chin. "But not to someone like you. Never you. You were always so... good."
The hero's eyes snapped up, suddenly cognizant.
The villain flinched back from the rage they saw, and just as quickly it flickered out in the hero's face and they were back to sadly staring.
A moment passed.
The hero said nothing, so the villain continued.
"Would you like to exact revenge?" they asked, gentler this time. "I could help."
The hero looked up again, wide-eyed, but this time interested.
The villain slowly raised their hand, careful not to spook, and touched their fingers to the hero's cheek. "They hurt you," said the villain. "You. I think that warrants some retaliation." They dropped their hand and the hero didn't follow it. The villain wasn't sure if they were cognizant of anything at all.
"Do you know the details?"
"Of what happened? No."
Silently, the hero tilted their head to the side.
"I don't want to take advantage of you," the villain told them gently. "I just believe your rage has been suppressed and smothered and doused for far too long. It's unhealthy, you knowâ"
"They threw me away," the hero said flatly. "Like rubbish. Because I found things." They tilted their head to the other side. "They sent people to me afterwards. Tried to get me to kill myself. When that didn't work they sent a hero."
The villain buffered as they processed this information. Of course they knew the higher ups at the agency liked doing terrible things, but...
"Just them?"
"Not just them. And not just the people."
The villain opened their mouth, considered their next words. But they were not sure what would give another seething head tilt and what would give the weakness they'd prefer.
"Not just them," the villain repeated quietly. They eyed the hero's stray hairs, the blood and dirt and cuts on their face. All their time in this job they'd never seemed to fit a place like this; a gloomy room, a star-lit sky, tall, looming, spindle-shaped trees. They raised a careful hand to tuck hair behind the hero's ear. "What would you like to do?"
"A lot of things."
The villain trailed slow fingers down the line of the hero's jaw. Slightly, so slightly they could've imagined it, the hero leaned into their touch. Their chest swelled . "Bad things?"
They placed their fingers over the hero's throat to feel the inevitable swallow. "Yes."
"You'd be justified. All these years of overwork, crawling into your bed each thankless night, this constant persistence that you had to do better." The villain stepped close as the hero's expression twisted in pain. "I'd justify that. I think, anyone who isn't an idiot would justify that. Think about it." They cupped the hero's face with both hands, voice down to a whisper. "Think of what you could do to them with my help."
Something in the hero's eyes cleared. They leaned a fraction of an inch back, all the fog in their eyes disappearing.
The villain started to draw their hands back.
The hero caught their wrists in a vice-like grip. They were present. Their stare was fierce. "No. Not just revenge," they said. "I want them to feel helpless. Do you know how much I've contributed to their strategies? Their technological advancement? And yet they don't give me any weapon that's not years old. I want them wishing they could've been better, that this could've been prevented." They shook their head just slightly, and the hair the villain had carefully tucked back came loose to frame their face.
"I want them wailing for help," the hero said. They let go of the villain's wrists and touched their palms to their cheeks instead. "I want the city bending at my whims," they breathed, stepping close, "like I bent for theirs. I want them to resent me. I want them to fear me. I want them scared when night time comes, because they fear I'll pop out and steal them. Then they'll see. Then they'll see how great I am. How great I always was. How I was their fault."
For the first time the hero looked like they belonged in this gloom, like the night sky was rising behind them; a lethal backdrop. The trees behind them seemed to rise up, pitch-black silhouettes. A bloody, dirty face, angry, wide eyes, horrible words spewing out their mouthâoh, the villain didn't know how they never saw it.
They looked like they meant every word. The villain was aware of every inch of them, suddenly alight with fury, with potential, with the need to ruin and desecrate.
The hero pulled them closer, until they were breathing each other's air, and the villain wanted to see their mouth dripping with blood that didn't belong to either of them. Such wild teeth they had. Such a cruel tongue. Such eyes, such hands, such looks. "I want them," the hero said, "to forever regret me. I want to grow like festering mold in their memory. I want to be a parasite in their history."
"You're wonderful," the villain whispered dazedly.
The hero snapped out of whatever had overcome them. They let go of the villain's face and moved back.
The villain snapped out of their stupour, straightening. Back they looked, and the hero had returned to looking like a fawn, all traces of that destructive sadism gone. The villain clenched their fist to collect themselves, bit the tip of their tongue.
"It'll be a pleasure to help you exact your revenge," said the villain. They thought of new ways to take advantage of the hero. Thought, distantly, how they could amplify their terrible side. "But you have to trust me."
"That'll be work."
"I will have to trust you, too," they said. "Andâdon't wear these colours." They traced the collar of the hero's ruined shirt. "I've always thought black looked much better on you."
The hero looked at the villain. "Your colour."
The villain tugged lightly on their collar. Looked back at them. "My colour." They righted it and brushed off lint that wasn't there from their shoulder. "Now, to work."
The hero followed.
In ten months they brought despair to the city.
In twelve the hero had made the villain theirs.
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I love fictional relationships where they make eachother so much worse yes I am talking about 12 and Clara
#doctor who#twelfth doctor#peter capaldi#clara oswald#jenna louise coleman#new who#companion#fiction#relationship#corruption arc#whouffaldi
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How would you recommend writing a corruption arc? Like when you watch the protagonist get eviler what happens to the plot? Bc if the protagonist joins the antagonist then thereâs no more opposition right?
It depends what you want the ending to be/what the story is about. AKA, what IS the plot? What is the larger point of your story? What does your protagonist want?/what is their driving motivation?
Plot = goal + conflict
Plot = goal; conflict; climax; resolution
Your protagonist should have a good reason driving their corruption arc. People don't change just because.
The protagonist could join the antagonist at the end as a final mark of their absolute corruption. If the story was about how a person can become corrupted, then that would be the end because you have told the story you set out to tell.
However, the arc can also be part of a larger story, in which case that is not the end. A character arc is not the same as a plot. They often line up because that's a satisying story structure, with the character arc completing right before the climax of the story, but they don't have to.
if you wanted the story to continue, then the opposition would simply switch. E.g, it might be the protagonist's previous allies who now provide the obstacle to the protagonistâs goals. It might be that being on the antagonist's side resolves one conflict but leads to others. For example, the protagonist might ultimately decide that they don't want to share power with anyone, so they try a dark side coup. Whatever. This will be specific to the story.
What if joining the dark side doesn't give them what they want, though they thought it would? How would a darker protagonist strive to achieve their goal then? They've already sacrificed their morals and so much, they can't turn back now, right?
What if the protagonist got everything they wanted through succumbing to their flaws/corruption, but it is those same flaws that now threaten what they most want?
In many cases, a corruption arc/negative arc directly leads to the character's death/downfall. That's the tragedy. Or they get what they want...at massive cost/sacrifice of something else and must contend with that.
Either way, the key point here is that character arc and plot arc are not the same thing. Figure out what your protagonist wants. Everything else, including the arc, stems from that.
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Monsters and Ghosts
Monsters & Ghosts, the monstrous siblings
The Toudens Dungeon Meshi Ryoko Kui
Red song lyrics (both fonts & shades): Animal by The Living Tombstone // Black background song lyrics: This is Home by Cavetown // The two dialogue bubbles, flighted birds & swallowing: Shut Hell by Yu Ito // Blue quote: Susan Ee // White background quote: Numbers 13:32, the Bible // âBurning shadows of human handsâ song lyrics: Uncanny by GHOST //Â Brown-gold song lyrics: My Ordinary Life by The Living Tombstone // Orange quote: Mira Grant Last quote below: Stephen King // Last song lyrics below: Monster from Adventure Time.
#web weaving#dungeon meshi#laios touden#falin touden#touden siblings#CORRUPTION ARC#YAYYY#-clenches fist- itâs about empowerment and the tragedy of social ostracization#and security#this is literally my fav angst narrative ever#me when flighted birds have hollow bones đ#Canonically Laios has a monster motif while Falin has a ghot motif sorry I didn't show more of Falin being haunted#they are judged they are used they are scapegoated they are villified#they are tired.#this is more in line with what I was trying to do with the Poison Tree lyrics in my first web weaving#every new web weaving I pepe sylvia about Dunmeshi harder#THIS IS TOO BIG I FEEL LIKE IâM GOING INSANE#the target audience is me oops#i might make a more coherent remake of this one one day#cw gore#cw blood#next web weaving is either gonna be Laios corruption again or the dungeon being the demonâs digestive organ teehee#dungeon meshi spoilers#spoilers
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You know, I donât think the events of Legacies Undone ever leaves Appleâs mind. In her head, where destiny used to be this thing to look forward too, itâs now taken everything from her. Her best friend, her future true love, the respect and adoration of her peers, and (by the time Dragon Games rolls around), the approval of Snow White. Apple loses everything as her life spirals completely out of control.
I donât think she releases the Evil Queen on accident or in a fit of rage. Itâs purposeful. She does it with the goal of destroying destiny itself, pulling a complete 180 in a direction no one could expect. A piece of black magic from the false world has completely corrupted her mindset. Apple doesnât want to hurt anyone, just like Briar never meant to, but sheâs too far gone to stop her crusade. Apple takes up Briarâs mantle against happily ever after, convincing EQ to help her on her quest, but with plans to betray not just her, but everyone else to finish what Briar started.
Might do a fallen angel/corrupted version of Apple from Dragon Games as itâs tickling the mind just so. Hm.
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A villain so powerful and brutal they drive the hero into villainy out of sheer desperation. A hero who's plans to stop the villain once and for all start resembling and then surpassing the villain's plans. A hero who dosen't want to hurt anyone except for the villain but who starts to justify more and more collateral damage as the years drag on.
For example, after years of the villain committing to many war crimes to count the hero is legitimately considering just nuking the Villains's capital city to get it over with. They can even justify it to themselves after all a lot of the capital cities population are the villain's rich supporters and henchmen (but far more are starving in the slums). Maybe the villain even finds out about this plan and is horrifed, They may be evil but even they are not foolish enough to resort to nukes.
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DID Mythland!Sausage
So listen-
We all know the corruption arc and eveything that went down with Xornoth and Corrupted!Sausage and all that, and how Sausage couldnât remember a thing or was very vague on what happened?
Well I have a Theory/Headcanon
Sausage and his corrupted self arenât two facets of the same person, theyâre two halves of a complete whole. Maybe he was singular before the whole corruption, but the infection of Xornoth and his greed and need for validation and power fighting against his loyalty and kindness created a split in his psyche, and thatâs where Corrupted!Sausage, or Supreme (like Sausage Supreme) as I call him, was born
Sausage himself didnât want to do evil, he says it multiple times- he just wanted the power and safety and magic, he wanted to be as good as Gem and as important as Fwhip
Aaand then Xornoth started using him for evil, and the disconnect between who he was and who Xornoth wanted him to be literally created a new self, fueled by the corruption and doing what he had to do so both he and Sausage could survive
And then Sausage got uncorrupted, and this is where I diverge from canon a bit-
I donât think Supreme is evil, as in devour-the-souls-of-the-innocent, murder wantonly and hurt everyone evil
Xornoth was an inherently traumatic experience, and Supreme would probably be whatâs called a protective alter, I think? He just does whatever he thinks would keep him and Sausage safest, whether or not thatâs actually the best route-
Bros extremely traumatized and needs help (both Sausage and Supreme) and also while Supreme might know of Sausageâs existence, Sausage clearly has no clue of Supreme
Heâs my newest blorbo I love him (and by newest I mean Iâve had this headcanon for well over 6 months now and just remembered that most people canât read minds and have no idea of his existence)
If youâre interested (not self-promo just letting yâall know for those who are also obsessed with esmp1!Sausage and his character arc) I do have a one host on ao3 about the two meeting and coming to terms with their plurality! Itâs called Sausage Supreme (predictably)
Im not dropping any labels on what type of system they are or anything because Iâm not plural myself and all of my knowledge of systems and such come from research and from my plural siblings but if anyone has any headcanons as to the specifics of them please reblog or message me I am feral about these two :D
#empires SMP#esmp1#mythical sausage#mythicalsausage#mythland#king sausage of mythland#DID#plurality#system#corruption arc#empires season 1
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hi! :)
a writeblr introduction
helllooo & welcome to this lil account of mine! so my name is osiris and i'm relatively new to tumblr (i've tried to ease my way into the community multiple times to no avail), and as a writer i thought i'd try my hand at making some friends in the community as a way to grow and improve my writing!
about me
i'm an computer science and english student
I'm 18, and a gemini
he/him
marvel & game of thrones lover
fantasy, sci-fi, & romance writer
lover of lana del rey and autumn
some goals
use tumblr as way of sticking to a wip đ
write more regularly and frequently
dip my toes into screenwriting & filmmaking
interact with the amazing people of this community and make friends <3
to learn how to engage in fantasy roleplay and learn how to play dungeons & dragons
writing
my current wip is a political war fantasy with sci-fi elements and it's currently in the outline stage
i would like to get better at worldbuilding and creating more expansive and fleshed out worlds like asoiaf and cosmere
i write fantasy & sci-fi but i also have a soft spot for romance, psychological thrillers, and spy stories.
one of my main goals is to write one of the most heart-wrenching, angsty corruption arcs
I've never actually had a successful NaNoWriMo...
would love to do beta reading and critiquing to help improve both of our writing!
also a sucker for any epic fantasy, dark fantasy, sci-fi, corruption or redemption arcs, stories where the villains are the main character (especially this!!!), and an ACTUAL enemies to lovers trope
if your wips feature any of these ^^^ things, then reblog this with your wip details/page because i'd love to check it out!
and with all that being said.....
i am sooo looking forward to meeting you guys! <3
#corruption arc#writing#writeblr#writing wip#writing advice#writeblr intro#wip intro#writer things#writers corner#writers community#writers block#writer#novel writing#novel wip#fantasy novel#fantasy wip#fanfic#fantasy rp#asoiaf#dnd
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