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nomsfaultau · 8 months ago

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pro tip: make your other OCs so so so so stupid and gullible and have very perfectly designed weak points to exploit with big glowing neon arrows pointing to them. So that you can show how evil gaslight gatekeep girlboss your villain OC is bc their schemes always bamboozle and devastate the other OCs every time 👌

the problem with having an evil mastermind manipulator oc is that i am not particularly good at being any of those things

#Literally Dr Blake and scp Tommy not even joking #actual advice: you do have to pair up villains and heroes very carefully #Where one villain’s strat would run circles around one protag another might have different experience and abilities that make them useless #So a villain that is manipulative and escalates everything is very effective against a character with anxiety/insecurities thatre exploitab #Causing the hero to catastrophize into a despair spiral with well placed manipulations #(Aforementioned Dr Blake and my man toms. She sees only the bad in him and forces him to see the same)#buuuut. Some heroes might be level headed/clever/emotionally stable where they don’t tolerate baddie bs #Like Phil would just murder Dr. Blake and move on. So he needs a different antangonist #Say one that can twist a character’s good traits into weaknesses like Webb does #Force a patient analytical character into acting only when it’s too late. Or turning loyalties into liabilities. Stability to be stagnation #Minimizing/downplaying/gaslighting so that the hero doesn’t act in time or think there isn’t enough of a threat #it really does come down to pairing villains up to be in a position to uniquely be a challenge for other characters #fault analysis #fault au #writing advice #writeblr #writblr #something to nom on

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