#at least william as an antagonist

[variousqueerthings]

the thing about spike is that he's such a rat man, such a pathetic, horrible freak, but james marsters is so charismatic that even when he's at his worst, he's got something interesting to him, and then of course at some point spike's development is such that he'll say things like "made a promise to a lady" in order to explain why he's helping the good guys at high risk of death and it's so very casually heroic and chivalrous, and he'll collapse to the ground and sob into his hands when buffy dies, and you can see how that was there the whole time, but twisted by all his anger and a lifetime with drusilla (who herself was twisted into her shape by angel), so you just can't help but root for him to become a hero of some kind

[canisonicscrewyou]

Bit of WIP for Forgetting Rory Williams ch7 because I'm feeling a lot of feelings about Amy and absence and grief and her Time Lords being assholes

and also wish u were here by Boys Go To Jupiter generating a lot of thoughts about Amy trying to be friends with the Master while there's also a Rory-shaped hole next to him at all times (combined w/ the general sidelining by her best friend and her nothusband) because it will be there- they're gonna get close over the next few chapters.

Anyways at this point Amy Pond deserves to beat both the Doctor and the Master with a hammer for the way they treat her when they're both in a room together with her there.

[moonmargaritas]

I'm reading The Truth, and the way Terry portrays Vimes in this book almost feels like a test for those who have read previous City Watch books. A reader who has read the previous books knows and trusts Vimes. We love him, we know he's a good man, we want him to succeed.

But in this book, he's almost an antagonist to William, at least initially. He's resistant and hostile to William's journalistic efforts, it seems like William is making his job harder, and my instinct was to be irritated with William about this. But as I've progressed through the book, I've realized that I fell into the Protagonist Trap with Vimes.

I, the reader, love Vimes. I trust Vimes. I want Vimes to succeed. But Vimes doesn't get to do whatever he wants just because I love him. William isn't doing anything illegal and he isn't doing anything wrong. And Vimes, irritated as he is, recognizes this.

It almost feels like Terry is leaning over the reader's shoulder to see if you were paying attention to the message of the other City Watch books, not just enjoying the adventure stories.

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Writing Notes: Building & Revealing Characters

You’ve assembled a great deal of information about your characters: You can see them, you know what they’re thinking, and you know what they want.

But conveying this information to your reader is its own unique challenge.

Character-Building

Just as you can’t rely on mere exposition to explain what happened before your story, you can’t preface your story with an interview with your character.

Character is something you build throughout the course of your story.

Recall that major characters, like your protagonist, are ones that will change during the course of the story; who they are in the beginning is not who they’ll be in the end.

Revealing your Characters

That said, you’ll want to give the reader an impression of who the character is at the outset of the story.

Example: Fitzgerald uses the first-person narrator, Nick Carraway, to gradually reveal information about Gatsby; the reader learns more information about Gatsby as Nick learns about him.

You might use minor characters to reveal information about your character if you’re writing from a point-of-view that is not the protagonist.

Likeable

The protagonist must also be likeable (at least to an extent).

If your reader cannot identify with your character, cannot picture themselves in the character’s shoes, then they may not want to read on.

While fiction is plot-driven, the reader might not care about your plot unless they care about your protagonist.

Make the reader root for your character; we want them to succeed (most of the time) e.g., Gatsby.

Character Flaws

This doesn’t mean that your character should be perfect—quite the opposite, actually. We don’t want to read about perfect people; if a character is the most beautiful and talented person in the world, and if they have everything they want, there’s no story there.

Example: Every character in William Shakespeare’s plays has a “fatal flaw”: a personality flaw that will cause the character to fail, that Achilles’ heel that the antagonist will exploit.

When you are building your own characters, think about what sort of flaws they have. The flaw should make sense for the character — it should be related to their background/beliefs.

You can’t assign flaws arbitrarily—the flaw should arise from the circumstances of your character’s life, where they are, who they know, how they were raised and how they’ve been treated.

Source ⚜ More: Notes & References ⚜ Plot ⚜ Character ⚜ Worldbuilding

[reccyls]

Hello I'm on my knees for spoilers, your favorite moments, and thoughts on Victor's route🙏 Did it meet your expectations?👀

Hello! Sure, I'd be happy to give my thoughts! But please keep in mind that this is my personal opinion and first impressions, based solely on the Blind Love ending, and I may have some different thoughts after some time to think and finishing the Mad Love too.

Big spoiler alert!

To be very blunt, I was quite disappointed with Victor's route. Part of it may be that I had set my expectations rather high, but I do think that the pacing and storytelling of the route itself felt subpar. Some parts felt shoehorned and didn't flow together very well as a cohesive story. There were definitely parts that I liked, though! Just, as an entire package it doesn't work for me and I'm very sad about that.

For things that I liked:

I think early on in the route, there were some good moments between Victor and Kate. There is that initial line-drawing and hesitation between Kate and Victor that comes across in their pre-route event stories that I do like.

Kate is shown to have PTSD (or at least a similar trauma response) to the explosions that occurred at the church in the past, as shown in the LINE campaign episode 0. I think that's a pretty neat touch.

Nice angst in chapter 14 when the first kiss occurs. Kate has already come to her feelings realization in chapter 10 and was about to confess to Victor, but Victor cuts her off with a kiss. After that, he pulls back and asks her quite coldly, "Is that enough to satisfy you?" Then he reminds her that there's only a week left before her 1 month period as the Fairytale Keeper is up, and she will go back to her normal life then. It's a rather harsh moment of Victor drawing another line between them and I did like the angst and the drama of it, haha.

William!!! William is such a gem. He is merciless towards Victor's patheticness and it is so funny. There's one conversation ("conversation") at one point that goes something like this:

Victor, brooding because he is pining and miserable about the consequences of his own actions upsetting Kate: ............. William, sitting next to him, drinking wine and having the time of his life: So you messed up, huh.

As for what I felt was lacking...

Vogel has essentially no role whatsoever in the story. Ring, Nica, and Darius each get 1 scene where they maybe have like 10 boxes of dialogue max, and then they never show up again. It's chapter 10 for Ring and Nica, and chapter 13 for Darius. They didn't do anything before this. They don't do anything after.

The emotional conflict/relationship development between Victor and Kate felt really repetitive for a while. Kate gets closer to Victor > Kate discovers one of Victor's secrets > Kate gets uncertain as she sorts out her thoughts and Victor pulls away > Kate makes up her mind and confronts Victor and tells him that she wants to stick with him > Kate gets closer to Victor > Kate discovers one of Victor's secrets > Kate gets uncertain as she sorts out her thoughts and Victor pulls away... I think this happens like 2 or 3 times. It just felt so dragged out.

BEN BROWN. OH MY GOD BEN BROWN. So one of the antagonists/masterminds in the Blind Love route is Ben Brown, a secret cousin of Victor's that is never referred to anywhere else in the story and ONLY appears in chapter 24, where he is introduced, goes on his evil motivation rant, we get his tragic backstory infodumped on us, and then he dies. All in one chapter. Like, what is that pacing???

The part where William explains Victor's past to Kate feels like it was cut and paste from a different draft. Although everything is William telling Kate what happened, it's narrated in first person. So it goes like "I was born in the royal family" even though this is William speaking. William does say something like "this is how he told the story to me" but idk, that still felt weird and disjointed to me.

Victor comes off as quite unsympathetic in some parts of his backstory to me, specifically in the part where he discovers and confirms his curse. So the royal family was having a succession crisis, and Victor thought he wouldn't have anything to do with it because he was so far down the line. However, all his relatives began dying one after another. After some research, Victor discovers that he has manifested a curse, and all the deaths seem to have been because of him as all the family members who died did so after Victor had spoken with them. To confirm this, Victor arranges to meet with his uncle, whom he later describes as being like a brother figure to him, and confirms that he can use his curse to make his uncle commit suicide. The nursemaid who helped Victor research the curse seems to have gone insane because of it and started basically worshipping Victor's powers letting him become the king, so Victor used his abilities to kill her too so that no one would know that he killed his uncle. I totally get that Victor would have been very traumatized by realizing that he killed everyone in his family and not in his right mind (he had attempted to kill himself after first theorizing this too) but this was just. Not a good look.

I'm really sorry, I don't mean to be so negative. I was really happy with Azel's route in Ikepri so I think I set my expectations quite high for Victor, as I do like the relationship development he and Kate have in their events. But what we got (and what I experienced so far) was just disappointing to me. I really do hope his Mad Love route is better.

[elderly-scrolls]

tfw you pass your least favourite coworker on the stairs and he says "watch your step" in the most ominous voice imaginable and you're trying to figure out if that was a genuine threat...

my piece for Mirror Image, a zine focused on reimagining artworks in the Dimension 20 universe! 🎨 I was inspired by Frederic William Burton's "Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs".

sometimes you just gotta take an incredibly romantic painting and make it antagonistic! 😊

this zine was created for this year's @d20zinejam, a pay-what-you-want zine bundle with all proceeds going to the occupied Palestinian Territory Humanitarian Fund. please check it out! 🎉

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[a-deceptive-calling]

William Afton

Once regarded in life as an upstanding business owner, that is until a horrible string of tragedies shook all that was Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza to its foundations. In this rewrite of SaD, William is the main antagonist, or at least… his spirit is. See, William is still dead, but he is able to manifest himself inside the dreams of Delz and Nick. He battles with the child spirits trying to warn the pair, to dispel those nasty defunct rumors of HIM being The Fazbear Killer™️, when Henry Emily is the one who is currently sitting behind bars. Don’t you know that maniac killed William’s little boy too? He has no true interest in being friends with Delz. Perhaps he feels some level of sympathy seeing her in a similar state as his daughter many years ago, but he makes the choice to shove that all away so that he can drain her Remnant. ★ Bonus! William before he went insane ❤️

[fluffycreepynectarine]

I sketched creepypastas I haven’t drawn fully before! :D

I got Ben Drowned, Sally Plays/Williams, Smile Dog and Laughing Jack! All in my lil styleized art style >:3

Ben was the first one I did, I love how he came out. He’s just a mischievous little brat causing problems and then running away like a little gremlin. When reading about Ben, I was very confused. Because I didn’t know all the details about his story, I just thought he was a boy drowned by his bullies…WTF DO YOU MEAN THERE WAS A CULT?! Honestly he would be very interesting in the my AU…*Starts plotting*

Sally is honestly my comfort creepypasta, rereading her story made me sobbed uncontrollably and have at least two panic attacks. But it was worth it for this kid. I genuinely want her to have the happiest life in my AU. she gets all the best toys and she has the best bedroom in Slenderman’s mansion. She is a spoiled, but smart sweetheart and I would die for her. Also, yes, she matches with her dads, next sketch.

OKAY, I CAN EXPLAIN. So I remember in the original photo of Smile Dog, there was a human hand kind of visible in the photo. So my brain went. “Wait, what if that’s just Smile Dog’s hand? Wait-WHAT IF THE DOG HAD HUMAN ARMS?! HOLY SHIT I HAVE TO-“ and then I drew this. I have zero regrets.

And finally, we have Laughing Jack! When I first found out he was a guardian angel, I knew immediately what I had to do…I made him biblically accurate and gave him a ton of eyes. Although he’s kind of a fallen angel for…reasons….And he’s able to change his form whenever he wants. this is his less-angelic, more humanoid form. He actually has a significant role in my AU, because he’s one of the main antagonists :3

[spiders-hth-is-an-outlier]

The problem with "somehow, Palpatine returned" isn't that it's dumb to have a dead villain return for the finale. This is Star Wars, who gives a shit? It doesn't have to be grounded in anything, we're just playing Laser Space Wizards here.

The problem is that *the movie itself* seems bored by it. We're taking our cues from the text, here! If the creators really thought this was an exciting twist that was going to gin people up because of our decades of investment in Palpatine as an iconic villain of the franchise, NAY, of the genre itself, they'd have played it up. Made a reveal out of it! Leave clues, build suspense, and just as we're going "no, but...but it can't be...can it?" then kapow, hit us with his face coming out of the shadows and a big John Williams crescendo. Get those gasps in the theater! BRO, NO WAYYYYY!

They didn't do that because they didn't give a shit. They laid it out like the laziest, least experienced high school Dungeon Master -- "okay, for this adventure you gotta know, Palpatine is back from the dead." Oh, okay. That guy's pretty bad. Let's go, I guess.

It's so emblematic of how, in spite of all the posturing about the brand-- I'm sorry, the *legacy* of Star Wars, there was no one involved creatively with Rise of Skywalker who cared about or believed in Star Wars, even enough to consider what the story impact of these choices would be. Not in terms of the narrative drive, and not even on the level of enabling them to generate *cool, memorable scenes.* They just chucked it in with no sense of meaning or drama, because it's the end of the trilogy and it's probably too late to get anyone interested in a new antagonist.

[hello-im-not-a-possum]

Who do you think is the most despicable?

Fnaf's william afton bendy's joey drew or mouthwashing's jimmy?

Jimmy hands down, without a single doubt, bastard's literally made to be despicable.

While despicable can be a synonym for evil, vile, villainous, etc. Its specific meaning of 'Deserving hatred and contempt' seals the deal for Jimmy winning the rusty dagger award.

William is the most evil of these men, but he's the least despicable because he's the most honest (to the audience) and charismatic out of the three. We meet him in series as a rotting corpse in an iron maiden fursuit trying to kill us, he's the reason why we were hunted down by every other spirit, we set him on fire multiple times, he goes to hell in canon, he may or may not have escaped hell to haunt the living once more, and it is both horrifying and hilarious.

Joey is more despicable because he's Walt Disney in all his best and worst traits amplified. we don't meet him as a corpse trying to kill us, we meet him as a dreamer, an artist, a man who wants to change the world, and later we find that he is a liar, a con artist, a man who had not changed the world in the grand scheme of things, but who had ruined the worlds of so many people.

Jimmy is the most despicable for a variety of reasons; Everything non-capitalism-hell related is his fault, he's a useless, cowardly, self-centered misogynist who directly and indirectly kills everyone on the Tulpar because he couldn't handle the responsibility that came with both the crime he had done and to a lesser extent the job he coveted. And what makes him even more hateable is that WE play as him whenever we don't play as Curly, so we have no choice but to sit in and stew on how horrible what he did and continues to do under our control.

We as audiences are used to likeable and good protagonists and expect our antagonists, especially our horror genre antagonists to be the ones bringing the horror, so the inflicting horror coming from the protagonist catches us off guard and makes even the pettiest reason to hate him so much more potent. And I think that's great. Good job Wrong Organ, you go take advantage of the lingering effects the Hays Code put on American literacy.

[cookie-de-baunilha]

OUTLANDER SPOILERS (episode 7x12, book 8, predictions)

Pushing the dubcon thing aside (wouldn’t be outlander without consent issues, would it?), I really liked the chemistry between William and Jane. It’s a shame that she is going to die. I feel like Diana really dropped the ball with that one because Jane would’ve been the perfect endgame for William, instead of just being a device to move William’s storyline forward and the object of his man pain.

Now (because apparently the only character allowed to be chronically alone is the gay character, so yk, William who, unlike John, is straight, NEEDS to be paired up with someone 🙄) we are left with Amaranthus and… well, Frances. At least in the books. I’m sure they won’t push William/Frances in the show because they know how fucking weird and gross it is. But Jane is definitely dying in the show, which they could’ve changed if they wanted to. As for Amaranthus, we got to wait for s8 and see, but I think they will keep her as some kind of antagonist who is just using William, maybe spying for Richardson. I mean, slay. Queen behavior. But they have 0 chemistry in the book and they will probably keep that in the show. Or maybe I could be wrong and they will change everything, who knows.

Anyway. Diana fumbled it so bad. Jane deserved better.

[miyagi-hokarate]

Having watched all episodes of The Equalizer now, it's amazing that so many guest stars were such recognizable faces, either up-and-coming or already well-known, including:

Christian Slater

Dennis Christopher

Steve Buscemi

James Wong

Stanley Tucci

All of those, yet The Equalizer didn't have ONE episode where Ralph Macchio is the guest star. You're telling me they had William Zabka playing a reoccuring character and NOT include at least one appearance of Macchio alongside? You could even have him be the antagonist this time, task to target Robert McCall and/or Scott in some criminal cheme or something COME ON

[el-hijo-de-hernandez-27]

So I'm rewatching Taskmaster from the beginning and I just realized Greg was rather protective of Alex or at least wasn't that antagonistic to him like on current seasons.

What I'm getting at is that I cannot wait for Tom Gleeson and Jeremy Wells to evetually demean Tom Cashman and Paul Williams and put them down on the ground where they belong as personal assistents.

[redfoxdude07]

If Andrew was Spring Bonnie, that would be super narratively satisfying imo

Like, it would explain why Cassidy is so attached to his character. She's literally the Freddy to his Bonnie. Not to mention how Andrew's connections to alligators seem relevant to Monty and Freddy's relationship. Freddy sees him as a friend while Monty sees Freddy as an obstacle. Apply that to Andrew and Cassidy, and then you'll get an explanation for a lot of both of their behaviors. Hell, if they were both springlocked like some theories say, then it just makes the parallels between them make even more sense. Not to mention how Cassidy is shown to be kind and actively trying to free the spirits while Andrew is so focused on revenge that he actively keeps the children stuck just to torture Afton.

They're literally opposites in every way, but they're so interconnected that Cassidy wouldn't move on without Andrew, at least not until OMC told her to. The fact that Golden Freddy is shown to be shaking, refusing to die, tells me that Cassidy isn't stopping without trying.

Not to mention how the first game that actively depicted Andrew without any other red hearings is Into The Pit, the game where a monster that looks like Afton but very clearly is not, is the main antagonist.

Andrew is simultaneously the opposite of Cassidy but also the MCI version of William. He's not only torturing William in UCN, but the other children are stuck just the same. Stuck in between afterlife and purgatory, just like Afton has been doing to them for almost 60 years. Keeping them all stuck in a prison of never-ending hunting for the man behind the slaughter, even though they might have been able to move on ages ago if it wasn't for Andrew.

Andrew isn't a bad person. He's an angry child whose final moments were hell on earth. He was locked in the backroom for years on years without the others for comfort. The reason he's so separated from the others is because he literally was separated. He wasn't turned into remnant. He wasn't refurbished. He wasn't fused into Ennard in order to free roam the world once more. He was left with the cruel man who barely passed being human before he even died. He was left with his killer alone, and once he was finally freed from the backroom, he even wasn't in control of his new body. It was William yet again, taking his only chance at happiness, or at least contentment for his physical form. It only got worse once William started taking parts from the other animatronics for Scraptrap's body. He wasn't even alone in his torture anymore. He had everything taken from him since the beginning, and I don't think William even remembered he killed him. William thought he was in control, and he was, until he was hurt. Andrew wanted William to feel the pain he's felt for years, stuck in a hell hole while the others were able to walk into heaven.

I haven't read Fazbear’s Frights btw, I just think there's enough evidence for Andrew through other mediums that denying his existence is futile atp. Not to mention how him being Spring Bonnie just really fits his role as the forgotten one that was always there. That one that even the other MCI didn't know about until the end. I have evidence for Spring Bonnie possessed by a kid too btw I just didn't feel like sharing it here lmao.

[classicanalyzer]

What If Season 3 - What If... The Emergence destroyed the Earth? Thoughts

"Let's begin near the end. The final act of a tragic story. When you've seen as many wars as I have, you get used to it. The hard part is watching worlds fall that don't need to because a hero can no longer rise to meet their moment. But I swore an oath. And so I watch. In every variation of this universe, Riri Williams is its last best hope. But in every one I've watched, no matter how hard she fights, and how long she struggles, she always fails. Always... Welcome to Earth. What's left of it anyways." Uatu

This might be the most emotional episode of the entire season so far. Yet again, another peak episode and my personal favorite episode of the season so far. It’s a testament to the team this season and further shows how much of a shame it is to see What If end (for now). This episode's Riri Williams is a great focus character and I can't wait to see her in her own show in 2025. Even in the bleakest universes and situations destined to end in tragedy, all it takes is one bit of encouragement to break through and emerge to bring hope.

This is a pretty bleak setting and it's all because the Emergence just so happened to take place before Etenrals. The Iron Federation feels like a corrupted dream of Tony Stark with the Iron Legion suits around the world (or in this case the remnants of the world). There’s concept art released for What If S3’s promotional material which suggests Strange was able to save parts of Earth.

Riri Williams continues to fight even in a universe where everyone she knows and loves is dead. The fight is all she has left. It's hard for people to still try to hope and fight when even the few survivors you connect with perish. Even with her wit and sass in the episode (they did a great job of capturing that from her depiction in the movie), you can tell she's barely hanging onto hope for a better world. However, as Uatu will showcase himself, all it takes is to show someone they're not alone.

I hadn't expected Quentin Beck to be the main antagonist of a universe like this but man it was such a great idea. I really love how this episode really showcases how much of an egotistical narcissist asshole he really is to the point he would let himself die quicker by putting all those Nanites in his body. Peter and this universe's Riri really need to interact at some point and bond over dealing with Quentin Beck.

Also, I really hated Sharon Carter after she's been revealed to be the Power Broker, so it'll be nice to see that she got karma in at least one universe.

It's really nice to see Ying Nan again and I can't wait to see Shang-Chi once again in the next episode which hopefully will be a lot more lighthearted than this episode. I love this episode but I need a bit of lighthearted plot after the bleak story of this episode.

The Alliance mook deaths caused by White Vision are very brutal and disturbing to see. I was not expecting the disturbing and bloody imagery of the deaths of Riri's team at the end.

Tony Stark would be proud of Riri Williams for building a weapon in less than 7 minutes capable of killing White Vision. She built this in a broken-down ship... with a box of scraps!

Whoever came up with the idea of Riri Williams to go against Quentin Beck deserves a raise. It's a great idea to pair someone who has the intellect of Stark and creates Iron Man suits to go against Mysterio.

I really love how Riri's new suit is basically making her the Vision with Iron Man/Ironheart suit aspects of her universe.

They reused Infinity Ultron's theme (fittingly with Beck's monologue of how he controls the tech of White Vision and the specific track is Fascinating) and some footage of the Red Room Task Force in Episode 3 (They used the same models and animations but they changed the background with one shot at the very least). Brock Rumlow also appeared in the episode during White Vision's attack, so not sure if that's just reused footage or simply they reused his model.

The contrast of the Watcher between S1 Episode 8 and this episode is massive. Two equally similar bleak scenarios where no matter what the heroes do, it won't be enough to stop Ultron or in this case Quentin Beck both of which use and are made up of Stark tech. For Infinity Ultron, the Watcher treats it like yet another sad scenario but one he cannot intervene (until Infinity Ultron becomes a Multiversal threat). But here, he makes it clear how fucking tired he is of seeing the same outcome and is tired of not being able to do anything...so he intervenes by giving Riri encouragement to fight. The Watcher's character arc really presents itself here as a Multiversal cosmic being becoming so attached that no he can longer just simply stand and abide by bleak scenarios where they repeat endlessly.

The imagery and cinematography in this episode go so hard, especially with Riri forming the Avengers symbol at the end becoming a literal light in the darkness that is the post-Emergence Earth. Bravo to the artists of this episode and the season.

The three Watchers, the Eminence, the Incarnate, and the Executioner have stacked voice casting: Jason Isaacs (Admiral Zhao and the Grand Inquisitor), D.C. Douglas (Rayvis), and Darin de Paul (Who also voiced Zeus last episode but also Ardyn of FF15) respectively. It's going to be interesting to see what finally causes the three to finally try to put an end to the Uatu's interventions.

This is definitely one of the best episodes and emotional ones as well. A peak episode in short. It really showcases how even in the darkest of settings, one person can truly still bring a little light back to the universe. It also showcases Riri's character in a new light given the change of settings and circumstances. It's a strength of What If: we get to see characters act or change with their different circumstances. It also showcases how the Multiverse Saga needs to spend more time with the characters it introduces rather than just introduce them and then not use them until years later as we learn more about the case in the episodes than in the main MCU right now. This episode is what Marvel Zombies should've been in my opinion. They also really need to release the score of every episode like S1. Laura Karpman and Nora deserve all the praise for their work in this episode, the season, and the show as a whole.

Note: Unfortunately, this episode does break the huge creature or person towers over someone trend of the last four episodes... however, we did get Tiamut's emergence so technically it might count.

"I see through your reality... And I'm shutting it down." Riri Williams

"I am the master of illusions! I can make it like your little victory never happened. The people will never know." Quentin Beck

"They will because I'm going to give them a vision of the future." Riri Williams

"With what?" Quentin Beck

"Hope." Riri Williams

[maskedjolo]

You know, Springtrap should REALLY be in Dead By Daylight. No, not because he’s popular with a certain fanbase and whatnot… just because he fits the bill perfectly to be a slasher killer.

What makes a good slasher killer can be easily defined by what we’ve seen already. They need to have an iconic design or a feature that we can easily identify them with such as Michael’s white Halloween mask or Freddy’s Fedora (etc.), they need to have killed people (obviously) but in gruesome/gory ways, they need to be the main antagonist of their respective franchise, they need to have at least some kind of implication of supernatural abilities and they need to never stay dead even after they’ve supposedly been killed. That’s 5 traits. If a character meets at least 4 of those things, then they can be considered some kind of slasher character.

So let’s see what Springtrap/Afton has going for him…

1 - Iconic design: Yeah, he’s iconic enough. His signature yellow rabbit design is fairly distinguishable as well as his colour association, that being purple, yellow and sometimes a more sickly green. He’s even got a mask to go with it.

2 - Murderer: Oh, you better believe it. He’s even decently gory, like other slasher killers. Like, Springtrap is arguably the most gore we see in FNAF ever, that being that his fleshy remains are visible.

3 - Main villain: Ask any FNAF fan ever and they will tell you that Springtrap/William Afton is the main antagonist of the franchise, at least in Scott’s game saga.

4 - Supernatural abilities: This guy is an immortal zombie trapped inside a mechanical suit. Whether he’s still slightly alive or if he’s haunting his own suit doesn’t matter, that stuff ain’t natural. Sooo… yeah! Supernatural is a check!

5 - Doesn’t die: … come on, do I even need to say it? Okay, but seriously though, look at almost every horror slasher ever. They NEVER DIE. You could say they ALWAYS COME BACK. I mean, look at Chucky the Doll and how many times he supposedly gets killed and then comes back every damn time one way or another. Springtrap definitely fits that trope of always being brought back.

Anyways, that’s all. Don’t take this post too seriously, I’m just making this for fun and pointing out to people that Springtrap does actually meet that requirement to get into Dead By Daylight. Hope you had fun reading this! :D